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[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Mono u devotion was so good. I regret not playing more standard during the time.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Mono B was better. It turns out Pack Rat was a gigantic mistake to print. Who knew?

Spoiler

Get ready to open Mythic rarity Pack Rats in MM17.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Purphoros was good with Hordeling Outburst.

 

[The Technomancer]

I wonder if white and green characters and races will be getting oppressed in Amonkhet

If I remember correctly, Thassa saw a ton of play; Heliod and Nylea saw a healty amount of play, and I think the rest, save Kruphix, saw some play as well.

I want to say I saw every mono-colored god in at least one deck. Not sure who from the gold gods saw play though

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Keranos has seen a lot of Eternal play; I don't recall him being played in Standard that much though. Am I wrong about that?

 

[Firemind]

Keranos has seen a lot of Eternal play; I don't recall him being played in Standard that much though. Am I wrong about that?

I played him in Izzet devotion.

 

[Royal_Flush]

I recall seeing some Abzan Rally decks with Pharika.

 

[SigmasonicX]

I recall seeing some Abzan Rally decks with Pharika.

I remember when she was unveiled, people thought she was by far the worst god. Then she ended up seeing the most Standard play out of the two-colored gods. (IIRC)

 

[Santiako]

The new WC trophy:

:| That is some ugly shit

 

[bigkrev]

I remember when she was unveiled, people thought she was by far the worst god. Then she ended up seeing the most Standard play out of the two-colored gods. (IIRC)

Remember the W/B one preordering for $20+ and it never even saw play at an SCG Open?

 

[ultron87]

Pharika was fun in the Constellation decks that at least tried to be a thing Standard. Make Snakes + Draw Cards + -1/-1 creatures was a good time.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

The new WC trophy:



:| That is some ugly shit

Looks like some tower of sauron shit.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Direct quote from State of Design 2014

That surprising to me. Everyone I knew hated them because you'd open them in limited and they wouldn't do anything and get passed around.

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

That surprising to me. Everyone I knew hated them because you'd open them in limited and they wouldn't do anything and get passed around.

I think people liked them as a concept but not in the implementation.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

The new WC trophy:

That looks like the Infinity Guantlet.

 

[A Serious Man]

Worlds starts in an hour.

That trophy looks like something I could go buy in a Wal-Mart toy section.

 

[y2dvd]

That looks like the Infinity Guantlet.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Stream is up:

http://twitch.tv/magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUFg_KgMI6Q

 

[Santiako]

I hope they sneak a preview card today, even though I doubt it.

 

[SigmasonicX]

I hope they sneak a preview card today, even though I doubt it.

I'd prefer not, so there can be more of a clean break between this thread and the next, but I imagine we'll see Chandra revealed today.

 

[Matriox]

Remember the W/B one preordering for $20+ and it never even saw play at an SCG Open?

Still the most expensive one lol.

 

[A Serious Man]

So ChannelFireball bought some Broncos jerseys and replaced the logos. I guess that's better than that Metagame Gurus abomination.

 

[Santiako]

Everyone fighting over blue, what a change from 3xSOI hah

 

[Etrian Oddity]

I feel like |OT9| deserves a more snazzy title for an event like Kaladesh.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Well this draft is really mediocre (bad) so far for Owen.

 

[A Serious Man]

I feel like |OT9| deserves a more snazzy title for an event like Kaladesh.

We're all on OT naming duty once the mechanics get revealed.

 

[OnPoint]

So ChannelFireball bought some Broncos jerseys and replaced the logos. I guess that's better than that Metagame Gurus abomination.

It really is a terrible jersey. What were they thinking

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Ugh. Owen's deck is like a 5/10 at best.

I wonder what the other decks at the table look like.

 

[Santiako]

Yeah, I wouldn't be happy with that deck, but the boosters looked kinda weak so maybe it will be average for the table.

 

[Firemind]

why are y'all rooting for turtenwald?

 

[Santiako]

why are y'all rooting for turtenwald?

Wha? It's just the person they followed for the draft.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

why are y'all rooting for turtenwald?

I just like him.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

I just always feel bad watching a draft trainwreck.

 

[Santiako]

Yuuya is picking all the best black cards and yet it's still bad. Black is so garbage in EMN.

 

[Firemind]

Wha? It's just the person they followed for the draft.

I just always feel bad watching a draft trainwreck.

I would laugh.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Okay, apparently all the packs at this table are full of garbage.

 

[Santiako]

Okay, apparently all the packs at this table are full of garbage.

Yeah, the card pool looks very weak.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Okay, apparently all the packs at this table are full of garbage.

But providence!

PT had like 3 in a single pool.

 

[Firemind]

sometimes the worst draft decks are the most entertaining

 

[Santiako]

Tamada absolutely wrecked Owen, goddamn.

EDIT: When you have to board in Runaway Carriage, you know your deck has gone wrong.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

They're trying to spin it as best as possible, but that outcome is exactly what I expected from Owen's draft (and I'm sure it's exactly what he expected as well).

 

[SigmasonicX]

I feel like |OT9| deserves a more snazzy title for an event like Kaladesh.

The title will change on Monday.
1. I wanted to emphasize that the topic would focus on a livestream.
2. I feel we could come up with a better title once we know more about the mechanics and world. Like if E Mechanic turns out to be really boring, the title could reflect that.

 

["God's Beard!"]

I wasn't playing during Theros, did any of the Gods see standard play?

• Erebos - early mono-black devotion maindeck play(which maintained dominance throughout the format), sideboard against control decks and decks with lifegain(archangel of thune, etc)
• Thassa - 4-of maindeck the entire season in mono blue devotion, one of the three best decks.
• Purphoros - saw play in tier two tokens decks
• Nylea - occassional green devotion play
• Xenagos - saw some play in combo aggro decks
• Pharika - engine/win con in GB constellation, sideboard tech in sidisi/whip of erebos decks, eventually the last remaining competitive God in Standard after rotation
• Ephara - minor UW humans play when the format began
• Phenax - FNM 0-2 bracket
• Athreos - three pages of disappointed speculator's binders

Notable mention for Keranos as a Modern all-star in the sideboard of Twin decks and basically every god as fantastic EDH cards.

 

[Santiako]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";215647672]

• Erebos - early mono-black devotion maindeck play(which maintained dominance throughout the format), sideboard against control decks and decks with lifegain(archangel of thune, etc)
• Thassa - 4-of maindeck the entire season in mono blue devotion, one of the three best decks.
• Purphoros - saw play in tier two tokens decks
• Nylea - occassional green devotion play
• Xenagos - saw some play in combo aggro decks
• Pharika - engine/win con in GB constellation, sideboard tech in sidisi/whip of erebos decks, eventually the last remaining competitive God in Standard after rotation
• Ephara - minor UW humans play when the format began
• Phenax - FNM 0-2 bracket
• Athreos - three pages of disappointed speculator's binders

Notable mention for Keranos as a Modern all-star in the sideboard of Twin decks and basically every god as fantastic EDH cards.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the detailed response, I love Gods for EDH but I didn't know of their Standard history. Seems like it would be safe to do a smaller cycle this time, like 1 for each color or 1 for each shard or whatever the five gods of nonEgypt are.

 

[charlequin]

Also Drana is the dumbest bomb ever. I was playing U/W and I had literally no outs.

ROE is still the objective best draft environment ever but the Wikipedia entry for "draft bomb" should have a giant picture of Drana right at the top.

That surprising to me. Everyone I knew hated them because you'd open them in limited and they wouldn't do anything and get passed around.

3+ of them were strong Standard cards, 8+ of them were useful and interesting in EDH, one saw fringe play in Vintage, and all the monocolor ones are pretty easy to turn on in non-format casual decks. They definitely make sense as popular cards to me.

 

[SigmasonicX]

By the way, charlequin, should we try again at splitting off my posts in this thread to form the new thread? Or should I just make the thread myself like usual?

 

["God's Beard!"]

ROE is still the objective best draft environment ever but the Wikipedia entry for "draft bomb" should have a giant picture of Drana right at the top.

I don't disagree with you, but triple KTK definitely gives it a run for its money and I've slowly been moving my opinion over. We've had this conversation before I believe but if you include sealed then KTK is definitely the best limited format. ROE and INN are both high-synergy sets while KTK is more free form and the higher synergy your draft format the worse your sealed pools tend to be. One of the reasons I couldn't stand SOI sealed.

Thanks for the detailed response, I love Gods for EDH but I didn't know of their Standard history. Seems like it would be safe to do a smaller cycle this time, like 1 for each color or 1 for each shard or whatever the five gods of nonEgypt are.

Yeah, going from 3 to 2 sets per block makes 15 gods a stretch. With Nicol Bolas being in the set I also would not be surprised to see some level of a shard theme.

 

[charlequin]

By the way, charlequin, should we try again at splitting off my posts in this thread to form the new thread? Or should I just make the thread myself like usual?

I'll split, give me more than five minutes this time.

 

[Crocodile]

ROE is still the objective best draft environment ever but the Wikipedia entry for "draft bomb" should have a giant picture of Drana right at the top.

That's an odd way of spelling Jitte or Pack Rat

Spoiler

Drana is fucking stupid though

Funny Story: I remember when I was birding a draft at a store some of my friends and the locals were doing. I saw someone pass a P1P1 Drana. The next person did not keep this secret to themselves. The entire store had a good laugh.

Spoiler

Before you go all "don't laugh at newbies and be exclusive!" note that the guy who passed the Drana wasn't a new player or new to the store. He was just bad LOL

 

[charlequin]

That's an odd way of spelling Jitte or Pack Rat

Jitte was just broken straight up so it's kind of not as significant that it's broken in draft. Pack Rat I would claim is less (not a TON less) of a bomb relative to its environment than Drana was, although I'm not sure how I'd establish that more concretely.