Article ChannelFireball: Utility Land Draft
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Chris Taylor
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That is a fair point, to be sure.
Maybe we can take the board game route and deal out 1-8 tokens to each player and they pick in that order
FlowerSunRain
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Then I'd have to sleeve my cards and that just isn't going to happen.
Chris Taylor
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I do not know how people can not sleave their cards. Makes my hair tingle.
I plan to keep my cube around for a long time, they aren't being treated like playing cards
I plan to keep my cube around for a long time, they aren't being treated like playing cards
Wow dude your cards are going to get wrecked
edit: which is cool. It's only stuff.
FlowerSunRain
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How else are you supposed to tell which ones the good ones are?
CML
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would you happen to have links to the art on these?
Chris Taylor
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Links, no. All the art I use on cards is taken from the respective artists' deviantart profile or personal gallery (usually kei kotaki, since he's so professional like that) which you can find in the artist credit of the card in question.
You'll have to do a bit of digging yourself I'm afraid, though Noah Bradley's deviant art page is a treat unto itself, so it's not all bad
I tried my proposed two-tier system for the first time tonight, and to my surprise, my group loved it. They consider it an improvement over the regular utility land draft. I'm not sure I'm as swayed as they are, but I'll probably stick with it for the time being.
Putting two stars on the inner sleeves of the A-Tier and one star on the B-Tier and just saying "you should have four stars' worth of lands" seemed to help.
Putting two stars on the inner sleeves of the A-Tier and one star on the B-Tier and just saying "you should have four stars' worth of lands" seemed to help.
Did you have multiple copies of each land, or are they still just out there to be fought for?
Still just one copy of each. Just introduces a bit more tension between taking fixing with all your picks and taking spell lands. This also lets me upgrade my fixing cycle in good conscience, from the admittedly underwhelming painlands to more palatable Scars fastlands + ISD buddy lands.
Chris Taylor
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Man, I love those scars lands
Needs to be a cycle of 10
Needs to be a cycle of 10
FlowerSunRain
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My cube has the full cycle, with the missing 5 sharpie onto guildgates.
Chris Taylor
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Yeah, I did the same a while back, but with Magic Set Editor style proxies.
I eventually took them out for less aggro slanted fixing, and I think my cube fixing is in a nice place, but those are some really satisfying lands, design wise.
Chris Taylor
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Basically even if control isn't often successful in my cube, I don't want to make the problem worse in obviously avoidable ways
CML
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HEY DOODZ XPOST
i'd preesh help with the following problem. my playgroup has turned against the "feeding frenzy" method of funsies land draft, which vexes me because i thought it was brilliant. if anyone's figured out how to get sweet lands into the hands and decks of my drafters with minimal disruption of the evening's arc, then please tell me, because i feel strongly the lands make the games and decks a lot sweeter, but the process of selecting them is just so awful.
i'd preesh help with the following problem. my playgroup has turned against the "feeding frenzy" method of funsies land draft, which vexes me because i thought it was brilliant. if anyone's figured out how to get sweet lands into the hands and decks of my drafters with minimal disruption of the evening's arc, then please tell me, because i feel strongly the lands make the games and decks a lot sweeter, but the process of selecting them is just so awful.
Dom Harvey
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Just do a draft with a 5-second shot clock
If someone starts taking too long, or leaves to go to the bathroom, I call out of the name of the next person and tell them it's their turn. Having a second person simultaneously looking over the lands puts enough pressure on the first person that they usually make their pick right quick after that.
I think Lucas missed two or three rounds of utility land draft this way once.
Was it taking too long when you did it all at the end but not in a "feeding frenzy"?
I think Lucas missed two or three rounds of utility land draft this way once.
Was it taking too long when you did it all at the end but not in a "feeding frenzy"?
Yeah, this is how I do it.
CML
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it was indeed taking too long. the appreciable downside of this method is the occasional casual who rolls by will hate it, as will the reg who didn't see yours truly had added, i dunno, Tabernacle or something stupid like that
I'm trying Tabernacle and Port next week
btw wtf is this shit art, it has the depth of the town in "Blazing Saddles"
I'm trying Tabernacle and Port next week
btw wtf is this shit art, it has the depth of the town in "Blazing Saddles"