21:38 Ben is spot on here, I’ve seen people complaint about bomb rares & mythics in this format, but the overall power level across colors and rarities makes it feel balanced to me regardless
@pdb189
5 ай бұрын
Ben's cacturantula blind spot is almost as big as his imodane's recruiter blind spot was
@JeremyHoffman
5 ай бұрын
My opponent plays a Cactarantula for 5 and you better believe I'm scrambling
@lynkios
5 ай бұрын
I'd say that WB has been picking up steam recently as people figure out what's the game plan: Good removal, flyers buffed by Mercenaries and small critters that hold the fort, it can splash blue too
@tedhand6237
5 ай бұрын
Steepest learning curve since MOM or DMU for me. Slowly improving. Definitely resonating with a lot of these points. Need to shake myself out of some habits the last few low drop formats trained up. I wonder if Ben is down on Cactarantula because not taking deserts highly enough.
@10freekie2
5 ай бұрын
Isnt there also a thing like “artisan” format where the uncommons define the format? I think MKM might have been that.
@kkplx
5 ай бұрын
reposting my opinion from the LR video: Impression so far: Pick white green and black, take every piece of removal you can, if you end up with less than 5 you will lose badly. Let bombs define your primary colour, if you have none, removal decides. Synergy is incidental based on your bombs and/or primary color uncommons. In essence, having enough removal means you won't lose on the spot vs the many boms, and lets you force 2for1s on stalled boards. It also lets you disrupt the synergy strategies, which is also why i saw little success with them - 1 removal on a key piece tends to break your back, especiqlly vs green's overwhelming board presence.
@marcozarantonello2180
5 ай бұрын
1:20:10 this is my problem with the format: I can't dedicate too much of my time to play magic, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this position. Which means I'm likely to only experience the bad parts of it
@demiurge2501
5 ай бұрын
green is for sure string but this format still hasn't felt too unbalanced for me, except sometimes with the izzet archetype which is pretty feast or famine(sick archetype tho)
@KineBuds
5 ай бұрын
great episode
@aminabutler
5 ай бұрын
I've never had such a bad record in a format before. I also can't remember a time I've had as much fun drafting.
@aosuibd
5 ай бұрын
smh y'all don't respect Take the fall
@LemonFlavoredTea
5 ай бұрын
Graphics from this episode are top notch, keep it up!
@zachbattles9762
5 ай бұрын
Surprisingly my best draft was with a UW Flash deck. Kept the skies clear with Failed Fordings, Eriette's Lullaby, and Fierce Retribution. Let Outlaw Medic and Ground Squirrel sit down early. Play many Holy Cows on opponents turns while holding up Phantom Interference, Repulse, & the rare Aven Interceptor (brutal creature!). Got both signpost uncommons and splashed juuuust enough for an Outlaws Merriment. And I got a UR, UW, WR desert for almost perfect fixing 🤷♂️ Also got to use Hindering Light to great effect, which brought back fond Shards of Alara memories. It did NOT feel powerful, but it was ruthlessly functional. Got ran over a couple of times, but more often it just skirmished & tempo-ed them down. A giant beaver isn't scary if they're forced to re-cast it two or three times before it sticks. This format is just crazy.
@demiurge2501
5 ай бұрын
cool to hear hindering light is working. the little draft assistant on untapped rated it really bad which i knew couldn't be right
@funsun870
5 ай бұрын
I am only a few minutes in, but I have to agree with the value/synergy statements. I feel like the couple of past sets have moved towards synergy rather than simply value. And this is most prominently the domain of (at least for me) Masters sets (Double Masters etc.). In a world of "every card is good", simply "good" cards, or value cards are not good enough, and a drafter needs value+synergy ideally to get ahead. This is something that I have struggled with and one of the reasons why I cannot seem to build optimal decks in DM set or so far not in OTJ. I wish we moved back to some "simpler" times, like DMU, where it did not need to be overly complicated to draft, build and play and still fun.
@jameshayes-barber9340
5 ай бұрын
What is DM set?
@funsun870
5 ай бұрын
@@jameshayes-barber9340 I meant double masters. I never remember what its proper code is :) (2xm?)
@aguyyouneverknew
5 ай бұрын
I MOSTLY agree with what ben is saying at about 35:00, with one exception. Bonny Pall. Whoever on design team that created that hellish card needs to be forced to play limited decks that all just have a copy of it in them for all of eternity. I've already faced that card at least 4 or 5 times in at best a dozen drafts and one sealed run, and every single time it makes the game feel like literally 0 skill was involved.
@kyleedwards3168
5 ай бұрын
This is my first episode to watch on the KZitem. I sure wish the card images were larger. You could certainly take up the whole screen with them and be more effective.
@Fanga1337
5 ай бұрын
On top of all the interesting insights given in this video (by Ethan 😅), I'd like to add that the format is still in a state where people are catching up on reality. Not realizing or not willing to accept that many of the synergistic 2 color underdog decks are not performing that great. Leaving us with half synergistic decks. And thats why it right now feels more like having a puzzle than it should. A deck that does the raven thing should have at least 4 ravens. Preferably on wheel. So you can prioritize value removal instead. But right now I see cards like prickly pair wheel instead. On top of that, it doesn't help that there are several bombs pulling people into these crime decks. Later in the format they would just contribute to 'good card decks' that will do crime anyway. But right now people are a bit over incentivized by them, I think.
@Glitterblossom
5 ай бұрын
“I’ve been playing a lot of Grixis this week. Not necessarily because I think it’s the best…” Story of a Grixis player’s life 😭
@mtgo9686
5 ай бұрын
metamorphic blast is not terrible
@ogolthorp
5 ай бұрын
The combat trick half isn’t as great as it looks because there’s a lot of random counters or buffs with mercenaries. But instant speed divination isn’t bad in a grindy format.
@Renseru
5 ай бұрын
If the set is 30% you win, and 30% you lose, that's 60% of games that aren't games.
@allengaible6436
5 ай бұрын
I think it is really important for commons to have importance and this set goes against that. You can end up with trainwreck drafts because you were attracted to bombs and then nothing to back it up and you can get steamrolled by bombs. Still having fun and figuring it out but blue and white will never be main colors.
@jacobisaacs4160
5 ай бұрын
Last episode, eh mopey creatures, this episode, mopey creatures tier 1 😂😂
@l0ey
5 ай бұрын
I'd say mourner's surprise is better than vault plunderer too
@DarkDefender1024
5 ай бұрын
Ben and Ignoring Real Information...
@eggwaffle
5 ай бұрын
Ben has some really questionable opinions, wtf
@demiurge2501
5 ай бұрын
loved the advice on knowing when your deck wants to win! had that exact scenario happen to me drafting RB, and the same deal with the trainwreck drafts. i think the fact that i;ve had 2 trainwreck drafts and i'm STILL in top 1000 mythic is very telling on format complexity
@bam3887
5 ай бұрын
One thing that I think a lot people forget about when they talk about deserts due is that it’s not just a removal spell, it’s also a combat trick. I was able to eat a 2/4 rare with my 2/2 by turning it into a 0/2 with deserts due before damage went through.
@blakem000
5 ай бұрын
I am all of 1 minute into the podcast, and I 100% agree, end of discussion .... :P
@nicholasmaddox5415
5 ай бұрын
The takes in this video and the prerelease video were pretty wild.
@martyrytlewski7081
5 ай бұрын
Green is mostly big creatures but other colors have more synergy to exploit
@martyrytlewski7081
5 ай бұрын
I think it was Ham or Loloman who trophied without abd rares
@moltenironphoenix215
5 ай бұрын
I pick 1'd a prickly pair and nearly got that draft pod
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