Comments on: Shards Draft Dilemma: Slow and Steady or All-in? http://www.top8magic.com/2008/11/shards-draft-dilemma-slow-and-steady-or-all-in/ Magic: the Gathering current trends, play tips, gossip Thu, 17 May 2012 23:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ReeceP http://www.top8magic.com/2008/11/shards-draft-dilemma-slow-and-steady-or-all-in/#comment-124 ReeceP Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:54:23 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=996#comment-124 Use trick, top card removal: boned Don't use trick, top card removal: game progresses, both players get to look at more cards Use trick, top card safe: WIN~! Don't use trick, top card safe: Either win, or he draws a (non sharuum) creature and we're back to square one. My assessment is probably wrong, but the way I see it - either way, not using the trick just gives what is apparently a superior deck more chances to outclass you. Are you ever going to out-draw this deck? It doesn't seem likely from your description. Make him have it NOW, or the loss seems inevitable. Use trick, top card removal: boned
Don’t use trick, top card removal: game progresses, both players get to look at more cards
Use trick, top card safe: WIN~!
Don’t use trick, top card safe: Either win, or he draws a (non sharuum) creature and we’re back to square one.

My assessment is probably wrong, but the way I see it - either way, not using the trick just gives what is apparently a superior deck more chances to outclass you. Are you ever going to out-draw this deck? It doesn’t seem likely from your description. Make him have it NOW, or the loss seems inevitable.

]]> By: Fergus http://www.top8magic.com/2008/11/shards-draft-dilemma-slow-and-steady-or-all-in/#comment-122 Fergus Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:34:48 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=996#comment-122 From what you're saying he hasn't been paying to give it vigilance at all until you got him to the point where he had to block correct? Because this seems to tell me (obviously looking at it from a hindsight type perspective) that he doesn't have anything else. He has changed his routine in the game because you've forced him to. He wouldn't have done this if he had another answer I suspect, so taking the chance is definitely what I would do. The other reasoning I'd be looking at is that if there's anything else left in your deck BDM. Were you all in on the Waveskimmer by this point or was there anything else you could draw to get the last points if your Waveskimmer died? From what you’re saying he hasn’t been paying to give it vigilance at all until you got him to the point where he had to block correct? Because this seems to tell me (obviously looking at it from a hindsight type perspective) that he doesn’t have anything else.

He has changed his routine in the game because you’ve forced him to. He wouldn’t have done this if he had another answer I suspect, so taking the chance is definitely what I would do.

The other reasoning I’d be looking at is that if there’s anything else left in your deck BDM. Were you all in on the Waveskimmer by this point or was there anything else you could draw to get the last points if your Waveskimmer died?

]]> By: Ben http://www.top8magic.com/2008/11/shards-draft-dilemma-slow-and-steady-or-all-in/#comment-115 Ben Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:02:17 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=996#comment-115 It depends on how much mana he had. He paid 2 in order to give his drake Vigilance so its unlikely he had any way to bounce your guy in hand. I think the odds of you winning based on bouncing his guy and giving him a single draw are a lot better then waiting a turn and giving him that same draw as the amount of instant speed bounce/removal is likely much lower then the bounce/removal/flying creatures that he can draw into. Essentially I'd go all in make him draw a instant and get my guy back down that turn assuming he didn't get killed. It depends on how much mana he had. He paid 2 in order to give his drake Vigilance so its unlikely he had any way to bounce your guy in hand. I think the odds of you winning based on bouncing his guy and giving him a single draw are a lot better then waiting a turn and giving him that same draw as the amount of instant speed bounce/removal is likely much lower then the bounce/removal/flying creatures that he can draw into.

Essentially I’d go all in make him draw a instant and get my guy back down that turn assuming he didn’t get killed.

]]> By: andy w http://www.top8magic.com/2008/11/shards-draft-dilemma-slow-and-steady-or-all-in/#comment-112 andy w Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:03:36 +0000 http://www.top8magic.com/?p=996#comment-112 I think playing it slow was the correct play, but of course in hindsight it ended up ending the game for you. How many cards did he have in hand, and how many instant removal spells had he already played? I assume he had 7+ mana open... I think playing it slow was the correct play, but of course in hindsight it ended up ending the game for you. How many cards did he have in hand, and how many instant removal spells had he already played? I assume he had 7+ mana open…

]]>