This week’s show is a topical grab bag, with an Extended PTQ tournament report, a crack-a-pack, some cube talk, and discussions of Magic ratings, Ryan’s recent heater, and R&D weighing in on the “Strictly Better” debate via Twitter.
Mirrodin Besieged has slowed down the Scars-Block Draft environment, providing some fantastic new tools for control decks in MSS Limited. This week on LR, Ryan and Marshall discuss some key cards and interactions in the archetype. Also, they respond to feedback from last week’s Magic Psychology episode, and take issue with one of Travis Woo’s Magic Myths.
Why does losing a spell to discard feel worse than losing a creature to removal? Why does losing because of an empty library feel worse than losing to creature damage? This week on Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan discuss how to keep your head on straight and play your A game when faced with some of the logic-defying aspects of Magic psychology.
Marshall and Ryan review their early attempts to crack the triple Besieged queue. Are there a couple of standout archetypes or is this a more nuanced format than we’ve seen in some previous triple-small-set environments?
Join us for a crackalishious episode with two live crack-a-packs and one virtual crack-a-pack taken straight from Patrick Chapin’s second draft at Pro Tour Paris. Also, Ryan describes the casual “bubble league” he started with his son and their friends, and we discuss the ramifications of a verified print run for Mirrodin Besieged commons.
This week on Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan welcome guest host Sam Stoddard to the fray. Sam gives a tournament report from the SCG Indy Open, we do our first Mirrodin Besieged Crack-a-Pack, and then discuss the impact of Mirrodin Besieged on Scars-block Limited.
It’s set-review time on LR and you know what that means: a more in-depth, card-by-card analysis of the Mirrodin Besieged Limited environment than you will find anywhere else. We also give you our answers to the question on everyone’s minds: Phyrexian or Mirran at the prerelease?
This week on Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan discuss some EDH brews, Marshall’s Extended PTQ run, playing against girls, the top 10 commons first-picked by SOM 8-4 Draft winners, and finally we review some compelling rares from Mirrodin Besieged!
This week on Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan break down the tail end of the infamous draft acronym. What do you do when there are no bombs, quality removal spells, or evasive, efficient creatures left in the pack? (For starters, you toss out silly acronyms and take a hard look at what your deck actually needs.)
Back from their holiday break, Marshall and Ryan take a fresh look at B.R.E.A.D., the classic baseline approach to Magic drafting. How is it useful, how is it dangerous, and how do you move beyond it?