I went 2-1 on my first, as it was a traditional draft, fighting the same opponent twice who had an absolutely wild 5-color all-the-bombs deck and drew the bombs and the mana every game. Right now 4-0 on my first Premiere Draft, but can't finish cause a man's gotta work : (
Don't sleep on Gila Courser, it's a monster in an aggressive deck. 3 mana for 4 power, saddle 1 is easy, and you can play the card until the end of your next turn. It's a lot of value.
As I saw Nummy drafting I slowly came to realize I played against him and didn't even realize. It was that first match, got destroyed by the rhino with my little stupid flyers. Ggs
Seems like a "masters" format. Kenji will adapt and leverage it like crazy. As a dude who doesn't love having to think this hard, I might be playing this set much less than previous ones...
Glad to see your more open to just drafting for fun! Hopefully OTJ is a lot different from MKM where you can draft for funsies/ memes and still have a good time without getting beat down early. I hope to see a p1p1 with Archive Trap and you just going 7-0 with a sweet blue/x control deck on a tuber video =)
The main thing I have noticed so far, and you can see this in your games too, is you really need hard removal or cards that do a lot more than two or three damage instance to take out the big threats. If you can make sure your opponent doesn’t have any bombs on the board then the game becomes grinding,that seems to be the main way my decks are losing games.
nah, i think ur pretty in the minority thinking this "screws" limited. i think it makes limited way WAAAAY more exiting to play. its just so much more fun and because all the uncommon and common got so much better this set, its all fine
I 100% agree its stupid this many rares around. It lowers the skill level and raises the luck factor. But that’s what wizards wants. They want to dumb the game down and make the games faster through no brain bombs. It’s all about squeezing extra dollars every day. It’s just the unfortunate reality. I would love to go back to one rare for drafting. It’s so much better. You see some of the decks with just 2-3 bomb rares in a row it’s just stupid.
@@CoL_Drake no it doesnt. It makes it way worse. it just makes it less skill and more luck, which really sucks. Makes it way less fun to play. Pretty sure more people would agree with this than you think that are serious players, they only did this for greed because it makes games faster and lowers the IQ needed to play
@@CoL_Drake these sets are kind of like if in call of duty everyone just had a bunch of nukes and were just blowing up the entire map every game. makes all the guns kinda pointless.
I would definitely take 3 for 1 card instead of Explosive derailment and on-color desert instead of Blazing salvo, there is too much removal in this set.
I actually suspect this format is worse than MaKM. Green seems very strong and it kind of seems like, due to the high power level of the rares, the player who can cram as many rares/mythics as possible into their deck tends to win. It felt like MaKM had a lot fewer cards that won on the spot and even low power decks could win if you identify your color identity early and draft reasonably. It's obviously very early to be making broad judgements but this is just what it seems like to me currently. Personally I was quite fond of the MaKM drafts.
Green does have some dope shit but had three draft tokens since i didnt play for a while and did three drafts today and went 5+ on all three using the LotR draft strategie of if its Grixis colors its bound to be good. I did splash green in my U/R deck though because I pulled the OG Oko and thought might as well. Had a couple games where that was dropped turn three and a snap concede followed.
@@ryantice1186 What/how many rares and mythics did you end up drafting? My current theory is that this format is mostly based on who slams the most bombs, which can probably be said of most limited formats tbf but maybe moreso this one.
Completely agree, format is hella bomby. My best run was 6W using G/W Mounts of all decks. First picked the 2 mana rare horse. Had the trojan horse rare. a dust animus that I played maybe twice lol. But mostly just 3-6 mana mounts, the vigilant 4/4 & the 4/7 that pumps the team, and the 4/2 that gives the team trample .... and 4 mana dorks ... No idea why this was my best deck lmao. Ima stick w/ it but it feels like bombs & removal are key to victory
@@Baldthazar let’s see that U/R deck I had like 6-8 rares/mythics in my deck because apparently no one wanted U/R. Had the elemental horse legendary(side note, that fucker is cracked with any army in a can etbs), the modal Counterspell/draw, Archmage charm, that XR removal spell where overkill damage is converted to treasures, OG Oko, that flash Sphinx, the outlaw that gives outlaws haste and makes two 1/1s, and that big score land that enters tapped and becomes color of your choice. Having typed that out feel like that was just lucky as all hell.
Hats off to everyone who 2-3 their first two OTJ drafts. Some of us have to make it possible for other people's 7 win runs.
RG would be so much better. A lot of goodies skipped.
I went 2-1 on my first, as it was a traditional draft, fighting the same opponent twice who had an absolutely wild 5-color all-the-bombs deck and drew the bombs and the mana every game. Right now 4-0 on my first Premiere Draft, but can't finish cause a man's gotta work : (
Brother, I've never felt more genuinely called out in my life before 😂😂
My first was 1-3. But the second was 7-2
Don't sleep on Gila Courser, it's a monster in an aggressive deck. 3 mana for 4 power, saddle 1 is easy, and you can play the card until the end of your next turn. It's a lot of value.
As I saw Nummy drafting I slowly came to realize I played against him and didn't even realize. It was that first match, got destroyed by the rhino with my little stupid flyers. Ggs
won't lie... I've been getting COOKED this format ... So many bombs
noone expects the UR railway brawler lol
fortunately, Brawler gave 2 wins !
Ayyy yummy keeping his promise to upload even if a little late 🙌
"I'm all in on this ultimatum". 4 picks later after passing good black cards... "I'm so conflicted".
Nummy going red / blue? Inconceivable!
I drafted Cruel and had a baller grixis crimes deck but the only time I casted cruel I milled myself lmao
Stonks
Still worth it
"Do I have any ways to make artifacts yet?"
*cries in Jolene*
You must construct additional pylons
Seems like a "masters" format. Kenji will adapt and leverage it like crazy. As a dude who doesn't love having to think this hard, I might be playing this set much less than previous ones...
Thanx for the bonus video 4 all the Tubers! Love your content
Glad to see your more open to just drafting for fun! Hopefully OTJ is a lot different from MKM where you can draft for funsies/ memes and still have a good time without getting beat down early.
I hope to see a p1p1 with Archive Trap and you just going 7-0 with a sweet blue/x control deck on a tuber video =)
Dudes like...
Imma start the hate draft early. 😂
The main thing I have noticed so far, and you can see this in your games too, is you really need hard removal or cards that do a lot more than two or three damage instance to take out the big threats. If you can make sure your opponent doesn’t have any bombs on the board then the game becomes grinding,that seems to be the main way my decks are losing games.
Went 2-3 in my first draft. But I got to plot of cruel ultimatum (with fblthp) and cast a second ultimatum the same turn. This format is fun so far
The cruel irony of cruel ultimatum lol
Does anyone know why the premier draft for OTJ on Arena are not ranked anymore?
This format may not be fast from turn 1 but it definitely looks snowbally!!
This is a prince format. Bombs dominate
bombs or super aggro. those are the only limited flavors nowadays. nothin in between.
This set is all about bombs
Just realized return the favor can get around hexproof if you change the target of their kill spell 😂
1-3 and 3-3 starts for me... the power level of this set is insane
7-2 and 5-3 for me. Yeah powelevel high u really need to take the efficient good removal
the fact you can open 4 rares in a pack kinda screw limited i think we should go back to 1 for pack
nah, i think ur pretty in the minority thinking this "screws" limited.
i think it makes limited way WAAAAY more exiting to play. its just so much more fun
and because all the uncommon and common got so much better this set, its all fine
I 100% agree its stupid this many rares around. It lowers the skill level and raises the luck factor. But that’s what wizards wants. They want to dumb the game down and make the games faster through no brain bombs. It’s all about squeezing extra dollars every day. It’s just the unfortunate reality. I would love to go back to one rare for drafting. It’s so much better. You see some of the decks with just 2-3 bomb rares in a row it’s just stupid.
@@CoL_Drake no it doesnt. It makes it way worse. it just makes it less skill and more luck, which really sucks. Makes it way less fun to play. Pretty sure more people would agree with this than you think that are serious players, they only did this for greed because it makes games faster and lowers the IQ needed to play
@@CoL_Drake after you lose to bagilion single rare bombs come back and tell me about it xD
@@CoL_Drake these sets are kind of like if in call of duty everyone just had a bunch of nukes and were just blowing up the entire map every game. makes all the guns kinda pointless.
Honestly, this format doesn't seem slower than MKM
Did anyone have issues with servers today? I got dropped from so many games.
All plots, hand empty
I would definitely take 3 for 1 card instead of Explosive derailment and on-color desert instead of Blazing salvo, there is too much removal in this set.
Prospector's Pan is a much better name than Gold Pan
Think you possibly needed to be green red in this draft?... what do you think in review...scratch that, you just said it in the draft section ha ha
THIS A NEW GAME???
Calamity is such a dumb card. Haste, and saddle 1, and they make 2 copies of another creature? Why
New set it’s fine
Easy format. SOLVED.
I actually suspect this format is worse than MaKM. Green seems very strong and it kind of seems like, due to the high power level of the rares, the player who can cram as many rares/mythics as possible into their deck tends to win. It felt like MaKM had a lot fewer cards that won on the spot and even low power decks could win if you identify your color identity early and draft reasonably.
It's obviously very early to be making broad judgements but this is just what it seems like to me currently. Personally I was quite fond of the MaKM drafts.
Green does have some dope shit but had three draft tokens since i didnt play for a while and did three drafts today and went 5+ on all three using the LotR draft strategie of if its Grixis colors its bound to be good. I did splash green in my U/R deck though because I pulled the OG Oko and thought might as well. Had a couple games where that was dropped turn three and a snap concede followed.
@@ryantice1186 What/how many rares and mythics did you end up drafting? My current theory is that this format is mostly based on who slams the most bombs, which can probably be said of most limited formats tbf but maybe moreso this one.
Completely agree, format is hella bomby. My best run was 6W using G/W Mounts of all decks. First picked the 2 mana rare horse. Had the trojan horse rare. a dust animus that I played maybe twice lol. But mostly just 3-6 mana mounts, the vigilant 4/4 & the 4/7 that pumps the team, and the 4/2 that gives the team trample .... and 4 mana dorks ... No idea why this was my best deck lmao.
Ima stick w/ it but it feels like bombs & removal are key to victory
@@Baldthazar let’s see that U/R deck I had like 6-8 rares/mythics in my deck because apparently no one wanted U/R. Had the elemental horse legendary(side note, that fucker is cracked with any army in a can etbs), the modal Counterspell/draw, Archmage charm, that XR removal spell where overkill damage is converted to treasures, OG Oko, that flash Sphinx, the outlaw that gives outlaws haste and makes two 1/1s, and that big score land that enters tapped and becomes color of your choice. Having typed that out feel like that was just lucky as all hell.
Early gang 😂