Duskmourn: House of Horror Prerelease Guide | DSK Sealed 

@jnor Thank you.

Agreed! I only just stumbled upon this channel today, and instantly subscribed! I like the way she really breaks down WHY certain strategies work the way they do, rather than simply saying they do.

@brianlinden3042 thanks!

@mikej0012 Way to go! Depending on the pod you normally play with, breaking into that winner's spot of 3-0 for the first time can be an extremely difficult thing to do. That's wonderful. Many 3-0s will follow! Thanks for letting me know and I'm so glad I've helped grow your interest and knowledge in draft.

@SelfAwareWolfe Thanks

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@LilArquebus Thank you

Okay got 4th tonight. Not bad.

@PontificatingPanda Love the prerelease ritual! Top 5 again… that’s fantastic! I had a very interesting prerelease night. I did the worst I’ve done in who knows how long… My pool was just bad. They forgot to print 3 or 4 drops in any of the colors so I had the worst upside down U curve you've ever seen, 10 2 drops and then only 5-7 drops does not win games. Zero curve possible in any color in my pool tough. Just bad. No rooms in my pool for value, no card draw in my pool at all, no ramp at all, no synergies. Kind of worst case scenario. Just no good curve with a late game win con but no way to get there and even if I do, my op will probably out value me in some way with card advantage that they have or ramp to it faster because they have ramp. Nightmare pool, but I had no build possible other than the one I ran. Then, I had two terrible match ups and there was nothing I could do against their win cons. My pool just didn’t have answers, not even in my sideboard. I went 2-2 ouch!!! But my husband’s pool that was also not cracked actually had a good Boros curve out option with some good synergies, He took first place. (I always help him finalize his build. He’s a very casual mtg player and plays because I like the game. So I maybe made 5-6 card changes to his final build for him and made sure he was playing the best deck possible. Or at least what I thought was the best deck for his pool.) So him getting first kind of feels like a first place for me too. Or at least the deck I made can place first… so it was bitter sweet to know I can make a first place deck given the sealed pool I have to work with is cooperating. But, if the pool is bad there was little to be done in this format no matter how good you are.

@Jellyboy334 I'm honored to be part of your new set prep tradition. Thanks!

@croma86 Thank you for your continued support throughout the sets.

@Zap2x_93 I feel like I've waited so long for my channel to get huge that I've turned into a skeleton sitting on that park bench, doomed to be waiting forever. Even if it never explodes those who know, know. That's all that matters.

@vexytaylor Thanks

@mymarshlands thanks

@simpjuice9707 Thanks for making me part of your new set prep tradition.

@Mr_Dylll Awesome. Congrats!

@nicolasfernandez5572 This set offers more cross synergies and a more diverse range of win cons. It should be much better to draft than Bloomburrow was. I don’t think it will be as good as Outlaws of Thunder Junction was. It’ll probably fall somewhere in between as far as set quality goes.

@richarddueck1770 I’m just looking forward to moving on past Bloomburrow. This set looks like it has a lot more potential to brew and get creative. I’ve heard a lot of people say they aren’t excited about this set, and that it caters in set design too much for commander. I keep telling them there’s more here than meets the eye. I highly doubt it will be one of the best sets of all time, but won’t be a boring set to draft multiple times due to the diverse win cons and deck builds. That was my main issue with Bloomburrow. Every deck was the same. This set has more range within the archetypes and provides more space to do different things.

@@mtgmonster8755 interesting! You’re not the only streamer I follow with this opinion of Bloomburrow: Ethan saks said the same thing this morning, lol. I will admit that my skill isn’t high enough to be able to drill down on it that hard, but I value the opinion. I like hearing your initial takes on rooms, and I’m cautiously optimistic. On a side note, I often review old drafts (paper… I’m old), and notice how aggressively I attempted to draft 3+ colours as a result of taking in your content. Some results good, but most bad. It’s great to try new things. At any rate, I continue to encourage players from my LGS to look you up. Carry on

@richarddueck1770 I've heard of Ethan Saks but don't listen to his stuff (I think I played against him in the WOE early access LordTupperware, and he scooped to my Screampuff giving him the business). I've heard people like his stuff though. I think rooms are great value but it's the same question as how many bounce spells do you run in your deck? How many burn spells? How many recursion spells, or spells that put +1/+1 counters on your creatures? It reminds me somewhat of battle value, but the difference is that many of those battles flipped into creatures too. Rooms don't offer too many creature options, more support effects. So I do think there's a threshold where you can have too many rooms and not be impacting the board directly enough. Great value plays. I think almost every deck should run at least one room. Thanks for sharing about your 3+ color drafting experiences. It's something I work on all the time, and there are a lot of "hidden" nuances that make 3 colors work. More importantly, lots of hidden traps that make it fail. It's a very difficult draft skill to master with the confidence and flexibility it requires. Knowing when and how to alter your picks late pack 2 and pack 3 to bring what you have together correctly is not easy, because there are so many different 3 color plus deck. Each of them have different needs. It's a very situation and reactive drafting style. With 2 colors you can memorize what you like. I have these two cards in my 2 drop that are my favorite so I'll pick those first and I like to have these removal cards, and you can try and seek those out hoping you see what you want through cutting it hard enough at the table. Sometimes that works but sometimes that backfires hard. In a 3 color style you're saying, I'll take the best cards first, then I'll take the open lane late pack 1, then I'll figure out what combinations I have in front of me to work with early pack 2, and then you start to ask what am I still missing to make this work? Then you're usually confronted with options to expand or simplify in packs 2 and 3, and it takes a lot of practice to know when you go for that extra greed or you pull in and tighten it up to less. Always riding that line. Always having a safe out. It's a lot to keep track of all at once! Very difficult. I'll keep working hard being the 3+ color specialist that I am, and I am working on that simulation model to show the world I'm not as crazy as I seem. But most importantly I have fun no matter what when I play. That's what is most important. It's a game and you should play in a way that makes you happy. If that's 2 colors play 2. If that's 5 play 5. It's all valid and all beautiful. I try and show that message to everyone. Play what makes you smile. Thanks for all your support and good luck at Prerelease!

@richarddueck1770 I thought I'd update you that I was yet again matched against Ethan Saks (LordTuperware) yesterday in draft during the Early Access and I thought of you. Video will be out later this week. It isn't the 5 color draft, that one has Paul Cheon and some other big name ops. Ethan's match up is in the Bant draft that will be uploaded after the 5 color draft video.

@@mtgmonster8755 I plan to watch it tonight!! It takes me a while to get through content, but I will comment (im old). I’m a big fan, and love how you talk through your choices. I’ve learned a lot and I know others will too. Cheers

@AndyGU1TAR Thanks for the kind words. If the legendary creature is currently face down/ manifested you can flicker that and it will enter as the legendary creature side up at the beginning of the next end step. There are tons of ways to manifest and like I said I like Niko in a manifest deck best! But correct, if the legendary creature is on the battlefield face side up you can't flicker that. My favorite target has to be Fear of Burning Alive. It's just too strong with Niko.

@tg781 Thank you

@DeWillpower I appreciate your support as always.

@Nellanor Almost all of the Leylines are cards I would not play in limited. They are more for constructed. The only Leylines I would even remotely consider playing in limited are the white one and maybe…. Big maybe on the red or black ones. Most likely neither of those. And even the white one, Leyline of Hope, you’d have to have tons of life gain. Then you can play that one. Good question.

@madelineritchie It's a great question. If that's your 1, 2, 3 play, you'd have Scavenger and Glimmer in play, with 5 counters distributed, at least 2 on Scavenger and at least 1 on Glimmer. 2 counters for grand entryway etb, 3 counters for rotunda unlock, with an added 1/1 creature and 1/1 token = 7 total. Thanks for the question and I'm glad you found my channel!

@mtgmonster8755 Oh! I get it. Thanks for your effort

@roadkillrevenge5716 Thanks. I did not know Niko’s pronouns are they/them. If I’m completely honest I have never been interested in the storyline aspect of mtg, and I don’t read it. But thank you for letting me know, and I am deeply sorry if I offended you or anyone else. That was never my intention. I went ahead and edited out my misuse of the pronouns in this video. I do want to get pronouns right. This was an honest mistake and I appreciate you pointing it out to me so I can make it right. I'll be sure to use they/ them in the future.

@@mtgmonster8755 all good honest mistakes happen! Just wanted to point it out in case you didn't know.

@Gaming_Antics I love any time a set prints dual lands. But... I have many thoughts about Kaito, Bane of Nightmares. The foremost one being what a disappointment. Not because I don't like the card. I do like Kaito and think it's a strong mythic, but I'm disappointed that they only printed one other card in this set that's a ninja, Nashi, Searcher in the Dark at rare. Kaito is good enough on its own, but if you are only going to make one planeswalker per set, then make it have synergy in the set at least! Uptick an anthem for Ninjas with no other ninjas is so disappointing. I joked with my friends don't make me consider playing the unplayable, Leyline of Transformation just to get ninjas in this set. We all laughed and I said even with Kaito I still would NOT play Leyline of Transformation. They then joked back that now that I've said that I'm sure to open a sealed pool with both Leyline of Transformation and Kaito, Bane of Nightmares on stream. We laughed and I made a deal that if I opened both on stream I'd play both just for the lols even though Leyline of Transformation is not a card you should play in any deck in limited ever.