5 Comments For This Post

1. srsbsns Says:
   October 6th, 2008 at 5:43 am

   ya my store just ran drafts and we had a pretty good time.

   great show!

2. ChrisTJs Says:
   October 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

   Be careful no one snitches on your store. They could lose all ability to sanction events consider no one was allowed to run drafts during the Pre-release. Which ultimately is part of the problem, not the solution. Not running drafts is a TERRIBLE idea. No why they didn’t? Because enough retail stores complained that their local players already have all the cards they need. Why? Because of the Pre-release. Lame. I don’t know about you, but I NEVER have enough cards.

3. Crusader11 Says:
   October 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

   I really enjoyed having a prerelease at my local store. It was better than having to drive over three hours to one. I really enjoyed playing in the tournament itself, went 3-3, but I like sealed anyways. I was sad that there was no booster draft. Overall I pleased.

4. Adrien Says:
   October 8th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

   Hi Tom,

   You mentioned a podcast tutorial in the last show…I would be greatly interested as I inted to make one in the upcomming months.

   Thanks
   Adrien

5. K-Staks Says:
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:28 am

   Hey there, I’ve had a chance to draft this set and I gotta say, exalted completely ruins this draft. All ur guys cost practically regular cost of a creature of their p/t and they stick exalted right on em, combine that with the fact that the exalted on the creature goes online the turn you play it, its almost like your guy gets haste. If you let it get out of control, it turns into an edict every turn, which is impossible to deal with. In my opinion, the exalted mechanic is not broken, and I think it’s a fine idea for limited, but the problem is that way too many creatures have the exalted ability built in, so 5 people at an 8 man table can all draft the exalted deck, and all come out just fine. On top of the big advantage aggro/exalted already has, its kind of a slap in the face when you put naturalize and the cycling artifact/land d red spell in common slots, so it makes it even harder for the slower esper themed decks to deal with it since ur aggro opponent sides in a couple of hard removal spells. I think if they wouldn’t have put exalted on so many guys, I think it would have been pretty cool, I still force myself into esper and grixis because I’m like Gavin and love to draw cards, especially in limited, and I am truly in love with the Kiss of the Amesha spell. I will have to see how the format pans out overtime as people find out new strategies and ways to getaround the current dominant exalted. As a side note, being artifacts as the theme of esper is practically a sub ability compared to all the others, infact it works against you in terms of giving other cards like naturalize even more use.

   thanks, I love your show ___ K-Staks out

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