Hey everyone. New set, new 8-Way set up needs to be done.
This will be for the SOI-SOI-SOI format as well as the EMN-EMN-SOI format. Typically, we do 2 8-way drafts per format, so this would be a 4-draft commitment.
Other important considerations:
1) The 2nd OGW-OGW-BFZ 8-Way is scheduled to be done in 10-11 days, at which point the first SOI-SOI-SOI 8-Way will start shortly thereafter.
2) My current plan is to run this similarly to paper Magic rules, which means that every pack's DFCs will be announced to each team (and I will do my best to track them around the table).
3) All potential participants, including those who have done 8-Ways in the past, need to sign up.
4) If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in this thread. If you have any requests, please send them to me privately.
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My Decks: EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn Modern: Polytokes IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
Ambush Krotiq makes me laugh so much. I keep rereading the card and it keeps not having Flash. In what sense is this an ambush again? I just have visions of this huge Krotiq poorly concealed in some bushes, feeling slightly sad that his carefully planned ambushes never seem to work.
However, if you know that you cannot make once per day, but can make a slower pace, I can ensure that you are on a team of others that can meet more quickly.
This applies to anyone. I just am trying to avoid the situation that I'm in right now where two teams have been reduced to 1 person by staling because that's really not fair to the two troopers involved (props to you both).
i'm curious but hesitant to join because i do not know at all how this works!
it's telling that i, for example, don't understand your explanation -- it sounds counterintuitive that if someone cannot make once per day, that they are on a team that meets *more quickly*.
i'm happy to sit this one out, but is there a link someone can send to me that explains what an 8-way draft is on this forum and how it works?
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Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
the top post says that this is a four draft commitment.
could i instead just join for one draft, as a trial to see if i can manage it?
It's not that bad. Logging in once/day is all it takes...sometimes you don't have to log in at all assuming you and you're teammates are typically on the same wavelength.
@scottjhebert and silph: What about adding him to one of the teams that's shorthanded for the remainder of this draft? He can browse that team's forum for a few minutes to see what the discussions are like (there's not much to them silph) and then chime in on the remaining OGW/BFZ picks to see if it's a good fit for him.
sure!
but i really am afraid of making a commitment for four months. i'm a little commitment-phobic. even if i like the discussion and think i can manage it, i'm probably not going to want to make a four month commitment, so if it will mess things up to let me just do one draft i will most likely want to pass on signing up.
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Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul "no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
This will be for the SOI-SOI-SOI format as well as the EMN-EMN-SOI format. Typically, we do 2 8-way drafts per format, so this would be a 4-draft commitment.
Other important considerations:
1) The 2nd OGW-OGW-BFZ 8-Way is scheduled to be done in 10-11 days, at which point the first SOI-SOI-SOI 8-Way will start shortly thereafter.
2) My current plan is to run this similarly to paper Magic rules, which means that every pack's DFCs will be announced to each team (and I will do my best to track them around the table).
3) All potential participants, including those who have done 8-Ways in the past, need to sign up.
4) If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in this thread. If you have any requests, please send them to me privately.
My Decks:
EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn
Modern: Polytokes
IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
Just a friendly reminder that I will drive this car off a bridge
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
However, if you know that you cannot make once per day, but can make a slower pace, I can ensure that you are on a team of others that can meet more quickly.
This applies to anyone. I just am trying to avoid the situation that I'm in right now where two teams have been reduced to 1 person by staling because that's really not fair to the two troopers involved (props to you both).
it's telling that i, for example, don't understand your explanation -- it sounds counterintuitive that if someone cannot make once per day, that they are on a team that meets *more quickly*.
i'm happy to sit this one out, but is there a link someone can send to me that explains what an 8-way draft is on this forum and how it works?
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
AntiC7 did do a good job with his explanation.
could i instead just join for one draft, as a trial to see if i can manage it?
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
It's not that bad. Logging in once/day is all it takes...sometimes you don't have to log in at all assuming you and you're teammates are typically on the same wavelength.
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EDH Altered Cards by Galspanic (Seriously, this guy's awesome.)
My Pauper Cube
Tapped-Out Simulator
My Trade Thread
-Decks-
Commander:
GWR Rith, the Awakener RWG
U Kami of the Crescent Moon U (Flagship Deck)
BW Teysa, Orzhov Scion WB
Under Construction:
UBR Crosis, the Purger RBU
Cube:
WUBRGX Pauper XGRBUW
Also, while it's 4 drafts, it's also 4 months long. (Each 8-Way takes 30 calendar days.)
silph, would that be agreeable?
but i really am afraid of making a commitment for four months. i'm a little commitment-phobic. even if i like the discussion and think i can manage it, i'm probably not going to want to make a four month commitment, so if it will mess things up to let me just do one draft i will most likely want to pass on signing up.
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.