So with the end of THS on demand sealeds, and with Mutavaults at 25 and likely to stay somewhere around there coupled with M14 packs at 3.06, M14 sealed looks pretty decent if you're a limited player. Any thoughts on this? The price list in general from M14 doesn't look too bad.
I have almost 6x of every rare from Theros for almost no investment as a result of the sealed queues that just went away, and it would be nice if I could do the same with M14. Only problem is the queues aren't on demand.
They are good value, but I'd be surprised if they fire. The M14 sealed dailies weren't firing before they were taken down in November - I tried to burn my leftover packs in one, and was the only person queueing for them for the whole week in my time zone at least - and I imagine there's even less interest in the format now. It's a pretty depressingly bad format, I doubt people are just going to play it due to value (which as you say is quite good).
I admit the 2-tix tuesdays did fire pretty well, but they were crazy cheap entry and I expect that that's reduced people's appetite for the format even more, if anything.
I think people are actually picking up on this, they all fired yesterday on time with decent turnout. I 3-1d the 10am one (home sick with the flu). On top of that I noticed some familiar names of high level 8-4 drafters and standard grinders in the M14 queues as well. I even was able to play a M14 4 pack sealed that fired, which is really rare (not as good value, but didn't have time to do another DE). Pulled a Chandra and some above bulk rares in the first sealed, and a Phoenix in the 4 pack. So on the day, a profit of around 16 tickets or so. Without Chandra I would've broke even and played for free regardless.
I don't like M14 sealed as much as other formats, but its not horrible, you really need to know the format though. People know the format is very slow, and they will build decks to account for that. The best success in M14 limited I have had is either building the grindiest deck I can possibly put together, or go the opposite route and build a tempo deck, basically sticking 1-2 solid threats early and keeping their board nerfed. Straight aggro decks are very difficult to pull off because efficient blockers and removal is so plentiful.
I have almost 6x of every rare from Theros for almost no investment as a result of the sealed queues that just went away, and it would be nice if I could do the same with M14. Only problem is the queues aren't on demand.
Standard:
RW Boros devotion/Purphoros combo
RGB Jund Midrange
Modern:
WB Martyr.proc
I admit the 2-tix tuesdays did fire pretty well, but they were crazy cheap entry and I expect that that's reduced people's appetite for the format even more, if anything.
I don't like M14 sealed as much as other formats, but its not horrible, you really need to know the format though. People know the format is very slow, and they will build decks to account for that. The best success in M14 limited I have had is either building the grindiest deck I can possibly put together, or go the opposite route and build a tempo deck, basically sticking 1-2 solid threats early and keeping their board nerfed. Straight aggro decks are very difficult to pull off because efficient blockers and removal is so plentiful.
Standard:
RW Boros devotion/Purphoros combo
RGB Jund Midrange
Modern:
WB Martyr.proc