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2 years ago ::
Dec 30, 2010 - 2:09AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 22, 2010
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Hi guys,
So I played my first SOM swiss draft tonight. Won 2-0 first round, but then 0-2 for the rest. Got mana screwed on the 2nd round, and the guy on the 3rd round was just too good.
It was very fun, but should I try sealed instead? Some people told me Sealed is easier, but is that really true?
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2 years ago ::
Jan 28, 2011 - 1:07AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 17, 2002
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Hi guys,
So I played my first SOM swiss draft tonight. Won 2-0 first round, but then 0-2 for the rest. Got mana screwed on the 2nd round, and the guy on the 3rd round was just too good.
It was very fun, but should I try sealed instead? Some people told me Sealed is easier, but is that really true?
Drafters will tell you Sealed is easier, because you don't have to create your own card pool first.
Sealed aficionados will tell you draft is easier, because you get to choose your own card pool.
"ForestDrake, CONNOISSEUR OF CRYPTIC WRITTINGS !"
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2 years ago ::
Feb 13, 2011 - 4:13PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 13, 2008
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it seems that a lot of people like draft beter due to the amount of "luck" involved in sealed.
im ny area the same 3 people win every week regardless of fromat.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 18, 2011 - 9:05AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 15, 2004
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Welcome to the most fun part of magic.... I play both sealed and draft a lot (estimating from packs won I've probably done on the order of 2500 drafts online, and sealed maybe 200). So I find that doing one format tweaks slightly different skills. With sealed, barring a god pool, you are trying to make do with the best you can do out of a static batch of cards. With draft you're trying to manipulate the card pool through picks and intuition to have the best chance possible at the chosen cards. And wow I'm really saying this more complicatedly than I ought to heheh. Let me put it to you this way, I recently went to a PTQ where I had a terrible card pool, but, I had 2 Heavy Arbalest (sorry don't know how to auto card feature) so at the last minute I added 2 Copperhorn Scouts to combo with my Arbalests. Is it a broken combo? certainly not, but it did win me a match and took a masticore out. So I find that Sealed tweaks my scrounging making the best out of nothing skill set.
Drafting on the other hand I find to be more strategic, each deck pick leads to the next. With the opening pack you're choosing a strategy, do you take the slightly weaker white card because if you take the black card, you're still sending two other 1st pick quality commons to the left, or are you going to try to muscle a color your way. I think this is why a lot of people suggest starting with sealed pools, because you use a lot of intuition and experience to figure out what is going on in a draft, its a big deal to know are you not getting a color because its thin or because its being overdrafted? Once you've developed a sense of what decks works it gives you more flexibility in draft since you have a wider comfort zone. And ultimately I think this is why I love limited. It's all about being creative and making quick decisions, and getting to see how it plays out. Plus there's that thrill of opening a big card.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 18, 2011 - 6:42PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 15, 2011
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Personally I think it is what part you like best about MTG is what will ultimately determine which format you will like better. Now we all love strategy, otherwise we wouldn't be playing MTG in the first place. Here's the thing:
Do you like the actual playing better than deck construction, then I think you will like draft better as you are playing from the moment the first booster opens. If you like deck construction the best, then I think you will like sealed better as it all comes down to skill in deck construction from a completely random cardpool.
Personally I like sealed deck better, as I personally find that that format requires greater deck building skills. Sure, that is just opinion, so do with it what you want. That btw doesn't mean that there is no skill involved in draft. It is just a very different kind of skill.
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