In post 6674, bv310 wrote:Apparently the company running it are really terrible. Capped a Modern GP at like 2500 players, which is really low. According to Twitter, people were scalping tickets to get in to the main event.
2500 is not "really low"; GP Pitt ended up as the 8th biggest GP of all-time and the only bigger ones were either Modern Masters limited or hosted by Star City who push insanely hard for huge attendance figures. That being said, their organization sucked and the cap should've been LOWER because they didn't have space for their side events; on Saturday the 10 AM side events weren't firing off until 12:30-1 and on demand events weren't available until late in the afternoon; and they didn't have enough judges/staff for the crowd.
And Wizards prohibited the sale of spots in the main event, so while people offered to both buy and sell spots in the main event at various points, I don't think it actually happened or if it did it only happened that first day and then the process was halted.
Turns out my brother was one of only two people to beat eventual GP champion Alex Bianchi (round 7) but he failed to cash losing to Reid Duke in the 15th round.
Watched bw, and its really good straight out of the box
That's the Meren deck, right? What did you do with it?
Daxos was the only other one I considered even though I don't really like white or black but you know.
currently on a hot streak of 5 even breaks in Legendary Cube Swiss (2-3 wins, which nets me enough play points for another draft)
I know it's Swiss but people really need to stop passing me Maelstrom Wanderer, that card is nuts. in two of those 5 drafts I picked up a tutor (Worldly once and Vampiric once) which is also amazing combined with Wanderer.
4-5color with roughly four 6/7 drop bombs, 4ish Signets/Diamonds/etc, 3+ pieces of removal, at least 2-3 card draw spells and just taking fixing whenever there's nothing above C+ quality in the pack has been working out great for me.
only games I lost super hard in those ~14 involved Rofellos and Mana Reflections. One deck Genesis Waved for 13, the other got a turn 5 Emrakul. not much you can do there
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In post 6687, bv310 wrote:Nice! I've come around a lot on Bloom, to the point that I'm probably buying it on MTGO in the next day or so. Shit's fun, yo.
Bloom Titan is great, I'm just worried that despite not posting any insane results it'll get nerfed with the next ban list update.
Yeah, that's what worries me. I'm not going to buy any paper parts of it until the January B&R, and will probably cash out of the MTGO one about two weeks before the B&R Update just to be safe. It seems like it's just visible enough that they're going to just shit on it for the January Pro Tour, which is Modern.
Been having a lot of trouble in BFZ draft. Can anyone who's had successful draft decks post pictures of them? I think I just don't have a good idea for "how much of the thing" my deck is doing I need to have for it to work - how all-in on my archetype do I need to be? etc.
In post 6690, theelkspeaks wrote:Been having a lot of trouble in BFZ draft. Can anyone who's had successful draft decks post pictures of them? I think I just don't have a good idea for "how much of the thing" my deck is doing I need to have for it to work - how all-in on my archetype do I need to be? etc.
It depends on what types of colors you're being passed and stuff, but green in general is a big no-no in Zendikar unless you're running it as a secondary color.
I just won a draft tournament this week so here's the decklist in case you're interested:
It also helps that red/black eldrazi is probably the strongest archetype in the current format but that's what I had.
Pedit - what chamber said. Green is pretty bad.
Green can be good, but you need to be the only one in it and for the right cards to have been opened. So knowing the signs that its an ok green time takes more experience than just knowing to avoid it completely.
Makes sense.
The only real success I've had when drafting green was when I had some ace card that should never really be relied upon in draft, a la Oblivion Sower or Ulamog.
Yeah, I'm pretty much taking Owen's advice on Green in the format. I'm a regular LR listener and have at least an idea of the archetypes and their varying power levels (my personal preference is the BW), it's just that it's not comnig together at the draft table for me, and I'm wondering if I'm taking too many "good cards in my colors that aren't part of my main idea", so I wanted to see what some successful draft decks had looked like to see the balance of synergy and power in them.
Had the most busted sealed pool I've ever opened this past week in an online PPTQ; I opened eight rares and played them all, 13/14 of my creatures were Allies for crazy synergy oh and then there was a Gideon, Ally of Zendikar in the pool. 10-2 in games for a slightly more difficult 5-0 than expected. Which of course rewards me with one of the worst sealed pools I can remember opening for the actual PTQ, three rare lands in colors I didn't want to play; three rares with converge (including a foil Prism Array, be still my beating heart), and Cancel with upside.
I'd ask you to send this to me if it were in paper, I'm missing a regular foil one for my collection. I have a prerelease promo foil, but not a regular foil
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