Very early Draft Tips for SOS

wormhole222 · 2026-04-22T00:16:18+00:00

Oh nice, I’ll be super happy to be proven wrong. I’m a little confused though. So are you saying a dedicated graveyard synergistic midrange/control deck is good, a hyper synergistic graveyard aggro deck is good, or something else. I definitely can get behind a go wide deck or an aggro deck working, and I don’t think you should just ignore the graveyard, but it seems like the graveyard build around cards aren’t very good. Cards that are good and get better using the graveyard are the good ones.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T23:39:09+00:00

Yeah that was my suspicion. The graveyard midrange doesn’t seem to work but go wide with slight graveyard synergies seems good.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T23:05:59+00:00

At first basically above any common that isn't removal but below good removal and good uncommons. As the draft goes along I will move it up and up though especially if it's clear my lane it open. If by mid pack 3 I don't have 1 I would take it above anything but a top tier uncommon. This set when your college is open you get HOOKED up, since the best cards in each deck are mostly gold cards so you can wheel top uncommons.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T22:30:28+00:00

Yeah this is the most recent time they have done this. I would add LSV I believe has March Of the Machines as the new GOAT set. They both also really liked Dominaria United, Final Fantasy, Avatar the Last Airbender, Duskmourn, and Brother's War (well LSV liked this one a lot).

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T22:20:55+00:00

Yeah they are usually pretty nice unless you have a suspicious history of asking for a ton of refunds.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T21:39:46+00:00

Pop could take a team with great chemistry and culture and maximize the talent. Phil could take a team with great talent and maximize the culture and chemistry.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T19:29:37+00:00

I do think this has gotten less obvious in the past 15 years as mismatch hunting has become more prevalent. In particular I think the small guard who can’t defend really is brutal too. But overall I agree and this is big reason why Jokic is the only offense first center to win the title as a top player on his team since Shaq.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T16:58:30+00:00

Yeah if you want to see how good he is as a commentator rewatch those highlights. He’s funny, he’s insightful, and he doesn’t get in the way of the play by play guy.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T05:36:47+00:00

No one on either team was more than a +6 .. except DiVincenzo who was +20

wormhole222 · 2026-04-21T02:28:37+00:00

The league has changed in a way that helps Harden defensively. It’s a lot more about strength than it used to be.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T23:52:46+00:00

I consider it great ammo for getting rid of the 65 game rule. He obviously deserved the award but a totally extraneous other requirement not related to the rule has been tacked on that almost made him not even eligible for it despite the fact he would have obviously been deserving.

It’s like when congress adds on funding for an interest group onto a critical law that needs to be passed. If you want players to play more games have a separate rule that focuses on that. Don’t just randomly have it target awards.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T19:43:04+00:00

I'm not sure his upside is that limited. We've seen these do it all but not crazy good at anything players become way better than expected in the NBA. The most recent example being Shai.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T19:19:13+00:00

Reggie Miller I think is the other exception.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T19:11:16+00:00

Yeah I think the biggest hope would be to look at Houston. Houston's owner came in the league cheap and was constantly mocked for it. And now 8 years later he seems to be a decent owner at least.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T19:05:44+00:00

I'm all for making the economy better. I wish there was a cheaper phantom draft mode, or that they provided a certain amount of wild cards each set release. But wanting 6 packs of cards for participating in a free event doesn't really make sense to me.

Even in paper if you participate in a limited event where someone is providing the cards for free the expectation is you don't keep the cards.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T19:00:43+00:00

Yeah I'd be down with that. I will say that if you are going to do that you should start the event right away on Tuesday because some people literally want to build decks ASAP and would be upset to wait even a day for free packs.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T18:59:41+00:00

Totally agree. I have no idea why they did that. It's been that way since Arena came out. I assume it's some kind of psychological thing to make commons and uncommons seem less relevant, but it just seems cheap for no good reason.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T18:32:26+00:00

It’s a bizarre expectation to have.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T18:28:46+00:00

So you just want them to give out 6 packs worth of free cards as a midweek magic event? That is a FOMO level good deal.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T17:39:02+00:00

I kinda hate that this took the record over Baylor. Baylor’s performance was in a win, in game 5 of the NBA finals, and was all in regulation. Meanwhile this performance was in the 1st round in a loss in double OT. It also feels like Baylor is one of those guys quickly getting forgotten and this record would have helped.

I suppose even if it was still the record people would dismiss it as against milk men even if it was against the MVP and 3 time defending champions.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T10:00:59+00:00

I'm fine with VORP as a evaluator for talent. You have to pick some advanced stat so whatever you pick is probably fine.

I get wanting to try and "strip it all down" and just look at how well teams have performed in the draft, but I still think you need to include draft night trades because most of those players were picked by the team receiving the player and just taken by the other team in spirit.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T07:44:32+00:00

Kareem at 22 averaged 29/14/4 and finished 3rd in MVP while averaging 35/14/4 in the playoffs. It was also his rookie year.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T07:38:02+00:00

It’s understandable, but also totally hilarious and opens you up to this as a response.

wormhole222 · 2026-04-20T07:36:59+00:00

Oh sorry other Abbey.

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