2009-09-02 -- Magic Moments ep. 3: Rare Pools and Rare Fools

[Jei]

Nice article Sir Butch.

It is nice to look back to the draft practice of the older days. I do agree that the rare-pool practice have been long gone, we have tried to push this practice at the store pero wala na talagang gusto.

Modern-day drafters; specially those who practice at MTGO, seem to have learned the art of balancing the rare-draft and decent deck drafting/construction. Most people also still find in them the strength to resist taking the money rare over a good playable card when playing in high-level events; which is a good indication that our drafters still have enough discipline in them to go for the bigger prize.

Di naman gone talaga. Dipende ata yan sa need to draft(or learn to). Nung nasa Bangkok kami we practiced using rare pool draft.

Sa spiral we usually set guidelines as to what is worth rare drafting. Di lahat ng me presyo dapat kunin. Of course kadalasan yung me presyo malalakas na cards talaga so nagagamit din sa limited. Usually we set it at P150(the price of the booster). Pag andun na yung card, and the draft isn't that serious, pick it.

[jigz]

Modern-day drafters; specially those who practice at MTGO, seem to have learned the art of balancing the rare-draft and decent deck drafting/construction. Most people also still find in them the strength to resist taking the money rare over a good playable card when playing in high-level events; which is a good indication that our drafters still have enough discipline in them to go for the bigger prize.

last nats, there was a 4th pick maelstrom pulse in my first pod and 14th pick progenitus in the second, kung di pa ba naman discipline yun 

problem kasi sa rare pool drafts, it won't necessarily reflect real high rel events where people still pick the money rares, it would not be unusual for someone to take say a dual land, pass you a mind control, then move into UW fliers, di lang sa pinoy yun, i've had experiences where even japanese and european players took a money rare over something mid playable, giving me mixed signals during the draft

kung gusto mo parin ipractice not taking the money rare, then you can consciously choose to do so on MTGO 8-4, but don't be surprised if your winning percentage doesn't improve dramatically

btw, nice article butch, keep them coming 

[tsoknut]

Modern-day drafters; specially those who practice at MTGO, seem to have learned the art of balancing the rare-draft and decent deck drafting/construction. Most people also still find in them the strength to resist taking the money rare over a good playable card when playing in high-level events; which is a good indication that our drafters still have enough discipline in them to go for the bigger prize.

last nats, there was a 4th pick maelstrom pulse in my first pod and 14th pick progenitus in the second, kung di pa ba naman discipline yun 

problem kasi sa rare pool drafts, it won't necessarily reflect real high rel events where people still pick the money rares, it would not be unusual for someone to take say a dual land, pass you a mind control, then move into UW fliers, di lang sa pinoy yun, i've had experiences where even japanese and european players took a money rare over something mid playable, giving me mixed signals during the draft

kung gusto mo parin ipractice not taking the money rare, then you can consciously choose to do so on MTGO 8-4, but don't be surprised if your winning percentage doesn't improve dramatically

btw, nice article butch, keep them coming 

Parang dumaan din sakin yung Maelstrom Pulse . . .  ^_^

Anyways sir BUTCH more power and more articles po ^_^

[Jei]

GP Bangkok meron ako dalawang M10 duals. Parehong 3rd pick ng first and 2nd pack. Rare drafter na ba ako?

[tsoknut]

GP Bangkok meron ako dalawang M10 duals. Parehong 3rd pick ng first and 2nd pack. Rare drafter na ba ako?

puwede . . . . 

[Nwalma]

GP Bangkok meron ako dalawang M10 duals. Parehong 3rd pick ng first and 2nd pack. Rare drafter na ba ako?

nagamit mo naman sa deck hehe