We can grab it and full commit to play green and we can *probably* splash everything else we have some, at the very least, far no matter what else happens. Weird signals, and that doesn't help me decide what to do next.Ĭentaur Nurturer is a safe pick. This pack is missing a rare and two commons, and coming to us from a guy who's already foregone the premium green uncommon (and not for a rare) and a heartfire (and not for an uncommon or a first pickable rare). It's one of the better black uncommons, casting doubt on the theory that I'm being fed by a balck drafter. I waffle on this one for a while as I open MSPaint, but I ultimately pick Saheeli.ĭreadmawlkin sneaking through is odd. Her big saving grace is that the UR "all spells" deck is rumoured under-drafted by the Arena bots, so she should pay out more often than she would IRL. She'll be far less consistent than Jaya's Greeting - sometimes amazing, sometimes terrible - and I think averages out somewhere half a point behind. Saheeli is the least-committing card in the pack, given her hybrid mana cost. Really don't think I need to commit to that yet. You can't play it in aggro decks, and most white decks are aggro decks, so if I take this I'm committing to something like RXw control. Solar Blaze is a more powerful effect, obviously, but far more a commitment. It's a very small commitment and in my experience can easily be splashed in (for example) a BG deck. Jaya's greeting is probably the best red common just classic burn, always welcome. Still, I don't think this holds a candle to any of the other three cards. If your opponent doesn't notice the trample on your zombie army you can clear PWs and sneak in damage that you really don't deserve. Even pros have mentioned casting draw spells into Narset or lifegain into Tibalt.
There's so much to keep track of on the average WAR board state, and we're all failing to notice static abilities all the time. I'm glad I don't have to take arrow - I don't like white in WAR - but it wouldn't be an absolute tragedy.ĭreadhorde Twins is alright and, I think, particularly good against inexperienced opponents.
There are enough counters running around that I don't like Dovin's Veto until I'm *definitely* in UW and Sorrin's Thirst is both a weaker removal spell and an over commitment to black. If we were 100% committed to taking a non-red card here it would probably have to be Divine Arrow. Woof, I think maybe the four most powerful cards in this pack are red? Arena promises to do a heck of a lot better and if it delivers then that's awesome.īut if Arena doesn't last - if the game's initial shininess wears down and potential players like Keith are turned away in too-large numbers by an imperfect experience - then Magic is in trouble long term.
#Synergy of serra gameplay pro#
I might find it weirdly lovable, but pretty clearly no more than 40,000 people world wide had ever been concurrently following the pro magic scene in paper at point in the last 20 years. Broadly speaking, paper magic is a shitty spectator sport. At the current rate I would honestly be surprised if we saw more than three non-standard paper events ever officially broadcast by WotC again. Just the arena related parts of it.Įvery few days since there's been a piece of news either showing that WotC is deemphasizing paper results and the game's paper history or confirming that it's right to do so. The tournament format was Modern, which is non-Arena supported, but given the needle didn't move at all despite the previous record setting movements its easy to conclude that Arena isn't advancing the magic brand in general.
#Synergy of serra gameplay series#
Hope we get all human drafts soonĪfter a series of record breaking broadcasts WotC streamed mythic championship II from London on twitch at the end of April and attracted an audience of ~20k, which is pre-Arena numbers.
Which just really, really felt like the set delivering on all its promises.Ĭurrent talk is that Arena bots are undervaluing blue (which was already almost certainly the best colour in the set in a vacuum) and probably red as well and my experience today reflects that. My first ranked draft I played base-blue superfriends with this result: It's not perfect by any means - certain mythic rares invalidate games, white is underpowered (perhaps severely so), aggro is a little too weak, and the complexity level of the average boardstate probably makes this a bad intro point for newcomers - but it's certainly fundamentally fun and, given everything WotC was trying to accomplish, that's pretty sweet. Obviously we don't know if it worked yet buy it'll be pretty ridiculously impressive if it does.Īnd I'm certainly willing to say at this point that WAR *works*. Designing top-down from a theme or setting has proven hard enough: designing story set-piece by story set-piece is kind of ridiculously ambitious.
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