I could draft this set 100 times and never get a chance to make either of those plays, let alone with the same deck. 5-color is really stupid sometimes. I want to slap the other guys at the table like "Gee thanks for letting this guy have all the bombs, and all the fixing, and all the removal, how nice of you."
I had the singularly best sealed pool I have ever had tonight. I won't go into details, but it featured a strong core of amazing warriors, plus a small blue splash for some awesomeness. I went 2-0, 2-0 in a flash, beating my first two opponents in 10 minutes each. Actually made for some really boring waiting between rounds.
Round 3, game 1, I have superior board position, my opponent has 1 card in hand. I think, what are the odds it's Duneblast? So I play my last two guys out. It was Duneblast. But I was at 15 and all he had on board was a 3/3. I had EIGHTEEN freaking creatures in my deck and already had 9 out of 18 lands on board. So I figure, I can still win this, I just have to draw one of my remaining 10 creatures instead of any of my 9 lands - and it'll be even better if I managed to draw one of my remaining 6 warriors since I have Raiders' Spoils already on board. I draw 3 lands in a row, and lose.
Game 2, I trounce my opponent so hard it's not funny. My opponent is playing 5 color OK stuff - not even good stuff, most of it.
OK, I'm thinking, it's time for my deck to come through for me in game 3.
So I open a 5 lander. Mulligan. A 5 lander. Mulligan. Lose.
So frustrating. If you cannot get the best pull you'll ever get and 3-0 the event, then what is the point, really? I mean I've 3-0'd plenty of events with just decent decks. I guess the point is that there is so much luck in this game that I can 3-0 with decent decks but 2-1 with literally the best sealed deck I have ever pulled. I suppose that's a good thing right? Everyone gets to win sometimes, regardless of circumstance. But it really, really makes the whole thing feel even more like a crapshoot.
So frustrating. If you cannot get the best pull you'll ever get and 3-0 the event, then what is the point, really? I mean I've 3-0'd plenty of events with just decent decks. I guess the point is that there is so much luck in this game that I can 3-0 with decent decks but 2-1 with literally the best sealed deck I have ever pulled. I suppose that's a good thing right? Everyone gets to win sometimes, regardless of circumstance. But it really, really makes the whole thing feel even more like a crapshoot.
It's a good thing, or there would be no reason to continue a sealed deck tournament unless you open a superb pool.
Nothing feels bad like watching your opponent play horribly but crush you anyway because you drew 12 lands, then seeing your rating drop 12+ points. (I know rating is a very flawed tool in a relatively high-variance game like Magic, but it is somewhat indicative of skill nonetheless.)
Part of the game. Part of the game. Part of the game.
Well I did even better. I played 17 lands in my relatively aggressive Golgari deck and I drew 16 of them. While the opponent kept beating down with Rotting Mastodon.
Yesterday was playing Modern Masters draft, round 2 I'm playing against a BW deck, game 3 as soon as I'm throwing down creatures he throws down sword of fire and ice which I didn't see before.
I lost in the Finals of a Draft to a guy running Brave the Sands and 2x Firehoof Cavalry...alongside a bunch of rare bombs. In the one game I didn't mulligan to 5, I defeated him easily.
Just out of curiosity, how did you lose? I mean, a deck like that definitely shouldn't 0-3. Was it remarkably bad shuffler luck? And if so, I don't think you can blame the format.
I lost in the Finals of a Draft to a guy running Brave the Sands and 2x Firehoof Cavalry...alongside a bunch of rare bombs. In the one game I didn't mulligan to 5, I defeated him easily.
Just out of curiosity, how did you lose? I mean, a deck like that definitely shouldn't 0-3. Was it remarkably bad shuffler luck? And if so, I don't think you can blame the format.
Foil Ugin's Nexus is bought by bots for around 7 tickets, which is easily 2 packs worth, and almost 3 at the going rate.
Since he said he opened one pack and got two mythics, I made the logical assumption that one was foil.
Since he said he opened one pack and got two mythics, I made the logical assumption that one was foil.
My mistake. I thought he meant he had 2 mythics in his Sealed pool, not one Sealed pack, and was disappointed that both were garbage. Foil Nexus is being bought as high as 11 right now!
Mastery of the Unseen is stupid. I was playing Mardu and I don't think I had a single card in my pool to deal with it. I tried playing the "ignore it" game until my opponent was gaining like 4 life every turn.
2 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon and 4 Aven Skirmishers. Only removal spell in 6 packs was the Jeskai Charm from the clan pack. I hate sealed sometimes. Ah well, +6 hours of sleep for the next go. Maybe I can open more than $2 worth of cards in the next failpool.
lost 4 straight games mana or colour screwed every time and each time it was a different colour, and everytime i cast something decent my opponent had removal.
Reach of Shadows is a freaking trap card. i got stuck with it so often against a morph or ugin's construct. (you realise if they don't have a coloured permanent on the field it's a 4/5 for four colourless) so turn 3 morph turn 4 that guy and I couldn't touch him.)
What really annoyed me though is the store was being a real stickler for those achievements so i had to wait an extra 40 minutes for the ugin's fate it would have been longer, but then someone finally realised that letting a quarter of the people leave instead of making them play on would mean they would get to go home sooner too.
Stuff like this is fine for the regular prereleases, but if you're doing a midnight one let people go home.
Ugin is as close to unbeatable in Sealed as they have ever printed. Boardwipe + removal, ticking himself up out of range of creatue threats every turn? I had one game where an opponent played nothing but Ugin and removal, and he won easily. There was simply nothing in FRF that can deal with him once he hits the table.
From what I saw tonight, Blue has hands-down the best removal in the set, so far the best removal in the block. I'm very wary of drafting this set now, because of how unbalanced blue is again: good creatures, best removal, and great stalls.
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Cards are game pieces, and should be treated as such, easily replaceable.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
I opened my first ever Mythic-Mythic pack from one of my KTK pre-release prize packs. It was Pearl Lake Ancient and foil Ugin's Nexus. At the time, they were the two least valuable Mythics in KTK (PLA took a jump shortly thereafter though has long since settled back down to dollar-mythic status).
Not quite as impressive as the Theros draft where the guy drafting before me cracked a god-god pack and had to pass me Purphoros to keep his foil Erebos.
Wow I'd hate to pull all those bomb rares in a sealed pool. It would mean I was 100% set up to mana flood/screw into a 1-3 record. Fate only gives me a pool like that when it wants me to fall extra hard.
Ugin is as close to unbeatable in Sealed as they have ever printed. Boardwipe + removal, ticking himself up out of range of creatue threats every turn? I had one game where an opponent played nothing but Ugin and removal, and he won easily. There was simply nothing in FRF that can deal with him once he hits the table.
That's somewhat surprising - Ugin is powerful, but in 4 rounds I'm pretty sure there were only 1 or 2 games where a player got to 8 mana. Especially since 8 mana usually means turn 10 or later, I would think you could punish Ugin with an aggressive start.
Game 1: Turn 3 Mantis Rider, Turn 4 Clever Impersonator of Mantis Rider
Game 2: After a prolonged board stall, Villainous Wealth for X=10
I could draft this set 100 times and never get a chance to make either of those plays, let alone with the same deck. 5-color is really stupid sometimes. I want to slap the other guys at the table like "Gee thanks for letting this guy have all the bombs, and all the fixing, and all the removal, how nice of you."
Round 3, game 1, I have superior board position, my opponent has 1 card in hand. I think, what are the odds it's Duneblast? So I play my last two guys out. It was Duneblast. But I was at 15 and all he had on board was a 3/3. I had EIGHTEEN freaking creatures in my deck and already had 9 out of 18 lands on board. So I figure, I can still win this, I just have to draw one of my remaining 10 creatures instead of any of my 9 lands - and it'll be even better if I managed to draw one of my remaining 6 warriors since I have Raiders' Spoils already on board. I draw 3 lands in a row, and lose.
Game 2, I trounce my opponent so hard it's not funny. My opponent is playing 5 color OK stuff - not even good stuff, most of it.
OK, I'm thinking, it's time for my deck to come through for me in game 3.
So I open a 5 lander. Mulligan. A 5 lander. Mulligan. Lose.
So frustrating. If you cannot get the best pull you'll ever get and 3-0 the event, then what is the point, really? I mean I've 3-0'd plenty of events with just decent decks. I guess the point is that there is so much luck in this game that I can 3-0 with decent decks but 2-1 with literally the best sealed deck I have ever pulled. I suppose that's a good thing right? Everyone gets to win sometimes, regardless of circumstance. But it really, really makes the whole thing feel even more like a crapshoot.
A really frustrating crapshoot.
It's a good thing, or there would be no reason to continue a sealed deck tournament unless you open a superb pool.
Part of the game. Part of the game. Part of the game.
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Two mythics.
Ugin Nexus x2
Well if you're talking online, at least that's some money. You can sell that to a bot for a couple packs' worth of tickets.
Phantom event =(
Run those along 15 decent creatures
I 0-3 and do not win a single round
I ******* hate this format, it's so unbelievable
Doesn't really matter. The going rate for Ugin's Nexus is about 50 cents. A far cry from "a couple of packs' worth of tickets."
Just out of curiosity, how did you lose? I mean, a deck like that definitely shouldn't 0-3. Was it remarkably bad shuffler luck? And if so, I don't think you can blame the format.
Foil Ugin's Nexus is bought by bots for around 7 tickets, which is easily 2 packs worth, and almost 3 at the going rate.
Since he said he opened one pack and got two mythics, I made the logical assumption that one was foil.
My mistake. I thought he meant he had 2 mythics in his Sealed pool, not one Sealed pack, and was disappointed that both were garbage. Foil Nexus is being bought as high as 11 right now!
http://mtgowikiprice.com/card/ktk/227/ugins-nexus?foil=1
Reach of Shadows is a freaking trap card. i got stuck with it so often against a morph or ugin's construct. (you realise if they don't have a coloured permanent on the field it's a 4/5 for four colourless) so turn 3 morph turn 4 that guy and I couldn't touch him.)
What really annoyed me though is the store was being a real stickler for those achievements so i had to wait an extra 40 minutes for the ugin's fate it would have been longer, but then someone finally realised that letting a quarter of the people leave instead of making them play on would mean they would get to go home sooner too.
Stuff like this is fine for the regular prereleases, but if you're doing a midnight one let people go home.
From what I saw tonight, Blue has hands-down the best removal in the set, so far the best removal in the block. I'm very wary of drafting this set now, because of how unbalanced blue is again: good creatures, best removal, and great stalls.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
I opened my first ever Mythic-Mythic pack from one of my KTK pre-release prize packs. It was Pearl Lake Ancient and foil Ugin's Nexus. At the time, they were the two least valuable Mythics in KTK (PLA took a jump shortly thereafter though has long since settled back down to dollar-mythic status).
Not quite as impressive as the Theros draft where the guy drafting before me cracked a god-god pack and had to pass me Purphoros to keep his foil Erebos.
I lost match 2 at the midnight prerelease to a guy who's rares were:
wingmate roc
warden of the first tree
torrent elemental
ugin, the spirit dragon
daghatar the adamant
not sure what his 6th was...and also 2 fetchlands.
There is a god, and he hates my filthy guts.
/thread.
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Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
Wow I'd hate to pull all those bomb rares in a sealed pool. It would mean I was 100% set up to mana flood/screw into a 1-3 record. Fate only gives me a pool like that when it wants me to fall extra hard.
That's somewhat surprising - Ugin is powerful, but in 4 rounds I'm pretty sure there were only 1 or 2 games where a player got to 8 mana. Especially since 8 mana usually means turn 10 or later, I would think you could punish Ugin with an aggressive start.
T2: Whisperer of the Wilds
T3: Vaultbreaker
T4: Sage-Eye Avengers thanks to Vaultbreaker triggering whisperer's ferocious trigger.
He went on to bounce all my creatures and completely dominate me in about 6 turns. Just a great curve for a limited match.