Alright. I'm at camp, which is rather boring. Tonight however, is a triple darksteel draft, mainly because the girl who bought the box likes darksteel. Now, I've gotten all the players together, and I know all but one are really not very good, so this should be easy enough, just from my limited experience. Still, anyone here done a triple D draft before? Any suggestions for archetypes would be nice, colors, whatever. Just drop me a comment and a bit of advice so I save face.:tongue2:
as for a specific color, just make sure you have ways to deal with artifacts. so splashing red for echoing ruin or green for Oxidize are good ideas. its also very possible to play 3-4 colors since there are heavy artifacts and Darksteel Ingot. usually i focus on blue cause i just really like Spire Golem.
Modular is pretty good in limited too, especially the Arcbound Crusher
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Alright. I'm at camp, which is rather boring. Tonight however, is a triple darksteel draft, mainly because the girl who bought the box likes darksteel. Now, I've gotten all the players together, and I know all but one are really not very good, so this should be easy enough, just from my limited experience. Still, anyone here done a triple D draft before? Any suggestions for archetypes would be nice, colors, whatever. Just drop me a comment and a bit of advice so I save face.:tongue2:
First of all Aether Vial is amazing. Don't pass it.
Arcbound Ravager and Skullclamp are also bombs. Draft removal if you can. That would be Echoing Ruin, Oxidize, Barbed Lightning, Purge etc.
All of the golems are worth picking up but the white and blue are amazing.
Be prepared though. DDD drafts suuuuuuUUUuuuuck! Nowhere near as fun as Triple Betrayers.. though those were very bad. Just be glad it isn't triple Legions.
Be prepared though. DDD drafts suuuuuuUUUuuuuck! Nowhere near as fun as Triple Betrayers.. though those were very bad. Just be glad it isn't triple Legions.
Yeah... I wanted to do triple SOK, which we'll probably do next week. And yeah, part of why I'm sure I can win anyway is some of the comments on the way to the shop. "Phage is the greatest card ever!" "I miss Legions, that was a good set."
I'm of the opinion that triple small sets = crappy
The fundamentals of MR draft are gone in triple DS, no mana myrs, no artifact lands, a ditinct shortage of "cogs" and on top of that a lot of stuff in DS is stupidly expensive because of the mana fixing that showed up in MR and of course due to affinity.
I'll go over some of the bombs....
Skullclamp - This will be a hard pass, as it's often with a print run beside Murderous Spoils, one of the few forms of removal black has in the set. Regardless though this is an insant pick.
Leonin Bola - Second only to skullclamp, and IMO much better in triple DS, as you're both lacking cheap cogs to fuel artifact decks and removal. This was always awesome in mirrordin draft.
Golems - As everyone said, all of them are pretty good, I actually like dross golem alot as well, since he'll often be a 3/2 for 3 mana and fear is a little more relevant with the weaker artifact crearures in the set.
Arcbound Ravager and Arcbound Crusher - These were much better in block draft, but nonetheless prove their point here as well. They can get big, fast and have modular so them dying it's a big deal.
Archetypes: The problem with triple small sets is archetypes don't really exist, as they're designed to work in conjuction in main sets to either stregthen existing archetypes or make new ones from cards in those sets. That said I think you should be looking out for
In triple Darksteel you are playing black.
We played triple darksteel at the prerelease and I ended up with a deck that was almost completely Chittering Rats, Dross Golems and Echoing Decay. Sure there are bombs.. there always are.. but IMO black is the strongest colour in DDD.
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Hmm....Never pass on Vial, Clamp and Bola. And get a few Golems for your color. I personally like the blue and red ones.
P.S.: Legions sucks? I've done that many times before and I always like it better than BoK, and I always seem to end up playing mainly Green or White in Legions. All-creature set IS THE BEST!!!
Hmm....Never pass on Vial, Clamp and Bola. And get a few Golems for your color. I personally like the blue and red ones.
P.S.: Legions sucks? I've done that many times before and I always like it better than BoK, and I always seem to end up playing mainly Green or White in Legions. All-creature set IS THE BEST!!!
See Vial = teh good.
But ew barf vomit on nothing but creatures!
I still suggest taking a look at the spoiler for the set. You should be able to gague what the most powerful color is by looking at the average casting cost, which has the most removal, and the deepest commons
Well, thanks all. The whole thing kinda sucked, as the girl who bought the box decided it was best out of 2 for matches... wtf? So I ended up with three wins, 1 tie (lucky topdeck), And a loss, because I had to concede to meet an appointment. Whatever, won anyway, prize being stealing one of someone else's rares, thia being a ravager because there was crap opened up. Ah well, kill an afternoon. My deck though:
In triple Darksteel you are playing black.
We played triple darksteel at the prerelease and I ended up with a deck that was almost completely Chittering Rats, Dross Golems and Echoing Decay. Sure there are bombs.. there always are.. but IMO black is the strongest colour in DDD.
Oddly enough I did the same thing in the only time I ever drafted DS. I opened Greater harvester, and Black just kept getting passed to me. I only got 2 Decays, but I ended up with like 5 Rats and 4 Golems.
Squeaks: Nice deck. Thats the kind of thing you wish you could get at major events. I never do though.
So yeah, black is teh sexy in DS.
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Holy ****! I didn't even see his 5 Lightnings! That's just stupid! Now I really wish I could get this kind of deck in an important event.
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Well, thanks all. The whole thing kinda sucked, as the girl who bought the box decided it was best out of 2 for matches... wtf? So I ended up with three wins, 1 tie (lucky topdeck), And a loss, because I had to concede to meet an appointment. Whatever, won anyway, prize being stealing one of someone else's rares, thia being a ravager because there was crap opened up. Ah well, kill an afternoon. My deck though:
as for a specific color, just make sure you have ways to deal with artifacts. so splashing red for echoing ruin or green for Oxidize are good ideas. its also very possible to play 3-4 colors since there are heavy artifacts and Darksteel Ingot. usually i focus on blue cause i just really like Spire Golem.
Modular is pretty good in limited too, especially the Arcbound Crusher
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First we need to look at Darksteel:
First of all Aether Vial is amazing. Don't pass it.
Arcbound Ravager and Skullclamp are also bombs. Draft removal if you can. That would be Echoing Ruin, Oxidize, Barbed Lightning, Purge etc.
All of the golems are worth picking up but the white and blue are amazing.
Be prepared though. DDD drafts suuuuuuUUUuuuuck! Nowhere near as fun as Triple Betrayers.. though those were very bad. Just be glad it isn't triple Legions.
Yeah... I wanted to do triple SOK, which we'll probably do next week. And yeah, part of why I'm sure I can win anyway is some of the comments on the way to the shop. "Phage is the greatest card ever!" "I miss Legions, that was a good set."
I felt like crying.
I'm of the opinion that triple small sets = crappy
The fundamentals of MR draft are gone in triple DS, no mana myrs, no artifact lands, a ditinct shortage of "cogs" and on top of that a lot of stuff in DS is stupidly expensive because of the mana fixing that showed up in MR and of course due to affinity.
I'll go over some of the bombs....
Skullclamp - This will be a hard pass, as it's often with a print run beside Murderous Spoils, one of the few forms of removal black has in the set. Regardless though this is an insant pick.
Leonin Bola - Second only to skullclamp, and IMO much better in triple DS, as you're both lacking cheap cogs to fuel artifact decks and removal. This was always awesome in mirrordin draft.
Golems - As everyone said, all of them are pretty good, I actually like dross golem alot as well, since he'll often be a 3/2 for 3 mana and fear is a little more relevant with the weaker artifact crearures in the set.
Arcbound Ravager and Arcbound Crusher - These were much better in block draft, but nonetheless prove their point here as well. They can get big, fast and have modular so them dying it's a big deal.
Pristine Angel - Big hard to kill fliers = bomb
Juggernaut - Hard to deal with in block, even harder now with no Electrostatic Bolts.
Archetypes: The problem with triple small sets is archetypes don't really exist, as they're designed to work in conjuction in main sets to either stregthen existing archetypes or make new ones from cards in those sets. That said I think you should be looking out for
U/W Control
R/G Aggro
U/B Affinity
Mono R
Green seems to be the weakest color, with its only strengths being Oxidize (easily splashable) Karstoderm and Viridian Zealot. Tel-Jilad Outrider is ok, but I was never a huge fan of it.
We played triple darksteel at the prerelease and I ended up with a deck that was almost completely Chittering Rats, Dross Golems and Echoing Decay. Sure there are bombs.. there always are.. but IMO black is the strongest colour in DDD.
Yeah it has already been covered. Actully twice:
MDD
Maybe search the forum, eh? But yeah all the info you could ever want can be found there. My ideas are there as well.
P.S.: Legions sucks? I've done that many times before and I always like it better than BoK, and I always seem to end up playing mainly Green or White in Legions. All-creature set IS THE BEST!!!
See Vial = teh good.
But ew barf vomit on nothing but creatures!
I still suggest taking a look at the spoiler for the set. You should be able to gague what the most powerful color is by looking at the average casting cost, which has the most removal, and the deepest commons
7 Mountain
2 Chittering Rats
2 Dross Golem
2 Oxidda Golem
5 Grimclaw Bats
1 Pulse of the Forge
1 Darksteel Ingot
2 Echoing Decay
2 Echoing Ruin
5 Barbed Lightning
I liked it, even kept a 1 Swamp,4 Bats hand. That was fun, especiall on the draw. BATS! And you just gotta love the burn.
Oddly enough I did the same thing in the only time I ever drafted DS. I opened Greater harvester, and Black just kept getting passed to me. I only got 2 Decays, but I ended up with like 5 Rats and 4 Golems.
Squeaks: Nice deck. Thats the kind of thing you wish you could get at major events. I never do though.
So yeah, black is teh sexy in DS.
of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits"
-Karl Heinrich Marx
Cube
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-Karl Heinrich Marx
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