There is so much that you can get from this course. You definitely need to take advantage of this course. So much that you can get from it. Keep up the good work. Industrial Shredders
Its all about using the charts properly. You can definitely get some stock picks when you use the charts properly. So much great research goes into this. TESOL
My complaint about the video is not that it lacks some subject that I am particularly interested in, but that it fails at presentation (too slow and bored speech, constant pauses, "uhms", repetition of words etc.), that the content is rather poorly written/thought of, that you don't really provide much insight into the subject matter for which it would be worth listening, and overall the whole thing feels like a half-assed effort.
I'm a little sceptical that you're sincerely interested in improving your video. If you wanted to make it as best as possible, you would surely recognize on your own that presentation like this is not good:
"soooo ... there's a few things going on, and I am going to talk about them ... uhm the first thing is there are no ... uhm ... official wizards events either this most recent weekend or this coming weekend ... uhm ... the next wizards event is grand prix manila and that is going to be a standard event so its gonna be the first big wizards event uhm with the standard format since avacyn restored has been put in ahm... put in ... err ... since it's really been brought out ... uhm ... most of the other events have been innistrad block constructed aand uhm so it will be interesting to see what does well aand kind of what went on..."
Anyone with an interest of making a good podcast, would realize that this could certainly be improved by writing down the whole speech first, and then reading it instead of seemingly improvizing from a few key talking points. This would make your presentation tighter, faster and even the content would be better, since it's easer to produce good stuff by writing it than talking of the top of your head.
I wanted to make an article in this vein, because I too was a huge fan of ROE and don't particularly enjoy AVR. Your method of comparing limited removal seems very bizarre to me, however.
I would never classify Dawnglare Invoker as removal, she's more of an all-or-nothing win condition at 8 mana. Lightmine Field was unplayable, Eel-Umbra is more of a combat trick, and the Bone-Wand cost 7 if memory serves, and you still had to play spells to turn it on, not really what I classify as "removal".
You were spot on with the power level being high and mostly even across colors. While Black had the best removal, Blue had Narcolepsy, White had Smite and Guard Duty and Red had Staggershock and Heat Ray, and despite every other color having good removal, green was clearly the best place to be.
A lot of the problem with AVR is how the set is designed, and how you win or lose games. There are a number of nearly unbeatable bomb rares that are just not fun to play against. Entreat the Angels and Bonfire of the Damned are at mythic where they belong but, Wolfir Silverheart, Moonsilver Spear (perhaps the worst offender in limited) Dark Impostor, Demonic Rising are all bomb rares, and to a somewhat lesser extent Homicidal Seclusion/Druids Familiar are bomb uncommons.
That's just off the top of my head, cards that I already hate for being in this set. I can see not wanting to make Wolfir Silverheart mythic since I believe it is aimed at constructed, but every other one of those cards are only designed for limited and are abysmal.
Compare this to Rise of Eldrazi, which I drafted untold times and know, without a doubt, the best/worst and for limited play most poorly designed card was Drana Kalastria Bloodchief. You either had an Induce Despair when that hit the table or you lost. That was basically it, they remove that card or switch it to Mythic and the set is pretty much perfect.
They even compounded their mistakes in this set, because there is almost no good, universal removal. If you are going to print cards like Wolfir Silverheart, at least make it so short of a Bone Splinters people have a chance (good luck death winding that bad boy on turn 5).
I'd like to see a chart of your investment project with the cards and their price changes laid out.. Maybe as a javascript "click here to show" thing so it doesn't get confused with the regular price lists.
I'll have to do that, thanks. Actually I don't think it was elves or goblins that did me in, it was the tribal deck that included wastelands. At least elves and goblins kill you quickly so you can move onto the next game. Facing wastelands in the JFF room was demoralizing.
There is a fairly simple way to do this in notepad. Using the Find/Replace function search for "<a" and replace it with "<a target='_new' " the extra space is important.
I am sincerely sorry you did not enjoy the content, I would welcome feedback on how I can improve them as I am new to making videos like this. If you would like to hear about something specifically I will attempt to give you what you would like to see and/or hear.
I write the articles in MS word and convert. I'll find out if they can change the default conversion. It would be a pain to recreate all those links every week.
Talk to me in game sometime. I generally don't play tribal much anymore since my partner in crime started having access issues and then time issues. (AJ I'm looking at you.) I tend to stay away from the typical builds.
Cool, so now we have This week in MTG in addition to This week in Magic, with none of them really representing their name well. But I guess I still rather read c/p-ed drafts than listen to a resignated voice talking about his TurboFog deck (not that the other 2/3 of the show is any better).
It's fascinating that your podcast is only 12 minutes long, yet you manage to make so little content feel so over-stretched.
I always look forward to reading your articles on Friday. There is one thing I notice over and over, though: Your hyperlinks open the link on the same page as the article, causing the article to "go away".
When you highlight something and add a link in the article editor, there are three tabs on the top of the dialog box, the middle of which is labelled "Target". Click on that tab, and you will see a dropdown menu, and one of the options are "new window". If you select this option, when people click on the link, it will open in a new window or tab (depending on browser), leaving the article open instead of in the "history folder".
Nice article. However, two things jumped right out at me:
1) "If you paid 5 in ROE, you probably killed something. If you paid 5 in ROE, you may have to jump through another hoop to get any creature into a graveyard, let alone the creature of your choosing." <<< I'm pretty sure the second sentence is meant to say AVR. But reading it did derail my thought train, causing me to have to put it back on the rails and read that sentence a few times.
2) You start with talk of AVR limited, and how the drafts are weird, then jump right into the TPF draft with no segue, headline, or warning. Again, this caused a thought train derailment, as I was saying to myself "this is not AVR" after reading about AVR for paragraphs and paragraphs.
And they will ever be awesome. I don't play tribal any more more because of running into too many elf, goblin, etc... decks in the "Just For Fun" room. I still love my fungi deck even if it does need some updating.
Interesting article. I am curious, where you are getting your data from?
I have looked through charts for all of the cards in Avacyn Restored and Dark Ascension. Cavern of Souls, as well as almost all of the other cards in these sets, has leveled off or dropped in price.
I haven't been tracking this for long at all but the only card I can think of with a strong upward trend is Falkenrath Aristocrat. It has doubled in price over the course of two and a half weeks and looks to keep climbing. Tamiyo is gaining but there seems to be a resistance point around $20 that it can't get past. Bonfire seems to be leveling out around $25 as well.
(EDIT: I should mention that price references above are the buy prices from one bot so it may not be totally accurate in regards to the MTGO "market")
There is so much that you can get from this course. You definitely need to take advantage of this course. So much that you can get from it. Keep up the good work. Industrial Shredders
Its all about using the charts properly. You can definitely get some stock picks when you use the charts properly. So much great research goes into this. TESOL
would you mind giving some advice as far as matchups go and what cards you sideboard for each matchup. Great article!
My complaint about the video is not that it lacks some subject that I am particularly interested in, but that it fails at presentation (too slow and bored speech, constant pauses, "uhms", repetition of words etc.), that the content is rather poorly written/thought of, that you don't really provide much insight into the subject matter for which it would be worth listening, and overall the whole thing feels like a half-assed effort.
I'm a little sceptical that you're sincerely interested in improving your video. If you wanted to make it as best as possible, you would surely recognize on your own that presentation like this is not good:
"soooo ... there's a few things going on, and I am going to talk about them ... uhm the first thing is there are no ... uhm ... official wizards events either this most recent weekend or this coming weekend ... uhm ... the next wizards event is grand prix manila and that is going to be a standard event so its gonna be the first big wizards event uhm with the standard format since avacyn restored has been put in ahm... put in ... err ... since it's really been brought out ... uhm ... most of the other events have been innistrad block constructed aand uhm so it will be interesting to see what does well aand kind of what went on..."
Anyone with an interest of making a good podcast, would realize that this could certainly be improved by writing down the whole speech first, and then reading it instead of seemingly improvizing from a few key talking points. This would make your presentation tighter, faster and even the content would be better, since it's easer to produce good stuff by writing it than talking of the top of your head.
That's the obvious thing you can do.
I wanted to make an article in this vein, because I too was a huge fan of ROE and don't particularly enjoy AVR. Your method of comparing limited removal seems very bizarre to me, however.
I would never classify Dawnglare Invoker as removal, she's more of an all-or-nothing win condition at 8 mana. Lightmine Field was unplayable, Eel-Umbra is more of a combat trick, and the Bone-Wand cost 7 if memory serves, and you still had to play spells to turn it on, not really what I classify as "removal".
You were spot on with the power level being high and mostly even across colors. While Black had the best removal, Blue had Narcolepsy, White had Smite and Guard Duty and Red had Staggershock and Heat Ray, and despite every other color having good removal, green was clearly the best place to be.
A lot of the problem with AVR is how the set is designed, and how you win or lose games. There are a number of nearly unbeatable bomb rares that are just not fun to play against. Entreat the Angels and Bonfire of the Damned are at mythic where they belong but, Wolfir Silverheart, Moonsilver Spear (perhaps the worst offender in limited) Dark Impostor, Demonic Rising are all bomb rares, and to a somewhat lesser extent Homicidal Seclusion/Druids Familiar are bomb uncommons.
That's just off the top of my head, cards that I already hate for being in this set. I can see not wanting to make Wolfir Silverheart mythic since I believe it is aimed at constructed, but every other one of those cards are only designed for limited and are abysmal.
Compare this to Rise of Eldrazi, which I drafted untold times and know, without a doubt, the best/worst and for limited play most poorly designed card was Drana Kalastria Bloodchief. You either had an Induce Despair when that hit the table or you lost. That was basically it, they remove that card or switch it to Mythic and the set is pretty much perfect.
They even compounded their mistakes in this set, because there is almost no good, universal removal. If you are going to print cards like Wolfir Silverheart, at least make it so short of a Bone Splinters people have a chance (good luck death winding that bad boy on turn 5).
I'd like to see a chart of your investment project with the cards and their price changes laid out.. Maybe as a javascript "click here to show" thing so it doesn't get confused with the regular price lists.
I'll have to do that, thanks. Actually I don't think it was elves or goblins that did me in, it was the tribal deck that included wastelands. At least elves and goblins kill you quickly so you can move onto the next game. Facing wastelands in the JFF room was demoralizing.
my nitpick is that the priced cards are listed in some strange order... would prefer they all be most expensive to least expensive.
There is a fairly simple way to do this in notepad. Using the Find/Replace function search for "<a" and replace it with "<a target='_new' " the extra space is important.
I am sincerely sorry you did not enjoy the content, I would welcome feedback on how I can improve them as I am new to making videos like this. If you would like to hear about something specifically I will attempt to give you what you would like to see and/or hear.
I write the articles in MS word and convert. I'll find out if they can change the default conversion. It would be a pain to recreate all those links every week.
So reasonable. I will do that!
Ah, my memory said it was his and someone flipped it around with him. I was thinking of Miracle.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/190
What would help would be headings. (Bolded even.) And a proofer. :D
Soulbond wasn't Mark Rosewater's baby. It was Brian Tinsman's.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/195
Talk to me in game sometime. I generally don't play tribal much anymore since my partner in crime started having access issues and then time issues. (AJ I'm looking at you.) I tend to stay away from the typical builds.
Cool, so now we have This week in MTG in addition to This week in Magic, with none of them really representing their name well. But I guess I still rather read c/p-ed drafts than listen to a resignated voice talking about his TurboFog deck (not that the other 2/3 of the show is any better).
It's fascinating that your podcast is only 12 minutes long, yet you manage to make so little content feel so over-stretched.
Truth! Spellcheck is nice for visually scanning MTG articles, but brutal if I try to check everything... I guess I just have to start doing it though.
It's neat to see what cards people misspell before they've been exposed to them for very long.
I feel less dumb now that I see you've made two mistakes that I've made:
Holy Justicar -> Holy Justiciar
Dark Imposter -> Dark Impostor
To be fair, no one cares, but you might be in trouble if you were looking these up in a database.
Thanks Blippy, I will work on transitions (and making sure I don't swap the term I'm trying to compare with the one I'm trying to contrast with).
I always look forward to reading your articles on Friday. There is one thing I notice over and over, though: Your hyperlinks open the link on the same page as the article, causing the article to "go away".
When you highlight something and add a link in the article editor, there are three tabs on the top of the dialog box, the middle of which is labelled "Target". Click on that tab, and you will see a dropdown menu, and one of the options are "new window". If you select this option, when people click on the link, it will open in a new window or tab (depending on browser), leaving the article open instead of in the "history folder".
Nice article. However, two things jumped right out at me:
1) "If you paid 5 in ROE, you probably killed something. If you paid 5 in ROE, you may have to jump through another hoop to get any creature into a graveyard, let alone the creature of your choosing." <<< I'm pretty sure the second sentence is meant to say AVR. But reading it did derail my thought train, causing me to have to put it back on the rails and read that sentence a few times.
2) You start with talk of AVR limited, and how the drafts are weird, then jump right into the TPF draft with no segue, headline, or warning. Again, this caused a thought train derailment, as I was saying to myself "this is not AVR" after reading about AVR for paragraphs and paragraphs.
And they will ever be awesome. I don't play tribal any more more because of running into too many elf, goblin, etc... decks in the "Just For Fun" room. I still love my fungi deck even if it does need some updating.
Interesting article. I am curious, where you are getting your data from?
I have looked through charts for all of the cards in Avacyn Restored and Dark Ascension. Cavern of Souls, as well as almost all of the other cards in these sets, has leveled off or dropped in price.
I haven't been tracking this for long at all but the only card I can think of with a strong upward trend is Falkenrath Aristocrat. It has doubled in price over the course of two and a half weeks and looks to keep climbing. Tamiyo is gaining but there seems to be a resistance point around $20 that it can't get past. Bonfire seems to be leveling out around $25 as well.
(EDIT: I should mention that price references above are the buy prices from one bot so it may not be totally accurate in regards to the MTGO "market")
WHAT???!!! Fungi are still awesome. They just have to have the right backers to win.