We kick off Day 2 of Shadows over Innistrad with a draft featuring Hall of Fame Pro, pun aficionado, and all around all-world player Luis Scott-Vargas drafting in Pod 1.
+atheistfromnorway Yeah round 9 is him playing draft, and yesterday there were videos of him playing standard and draft. Just search Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad and his name.
I love LSV for forcing Fevered Visions at the PT in Pack 1 - very brave! That said this video shows why going with gold cards early can really backfire.
He's probably right with his picks because he is LSV, but going into black in the second pack seemed like a real option. 4/3 uncommon into dead weight into...
I'd like to say to Marshall and Ian that yesterday I drafted a blue red Trail of Evidence deck and won the final round by drawing through my entire deck and winning with one card left. It is definitely better than you guys think it is. Paired with 3 Press for Answers and a Jace's Scrutiny, I dug real hard for the bomb that would win me the game. (Rise from the Tides + Nephalia Moondrakes).
Am i the only person here who realized that there's nothing random about this game and it's all luck? I mean look at the very first part of the draft. LSV spreads the first pack and the judges are able to tell us what he's gonna pick and display it on screen before LSV even does "He should pick the lightning axe here" and he did. How is it random and skill based when the judges are telling us exactly which cards each person is gonna pick before he even picks it, doesn't that make it COMPLETELY predictable and based on luck? If the opponents knows the exact deck he's gonna use, and know's exactly what order he'd like to play that deck given the corrext draws, whats the point? Might aswell get a computer to do it in this case?
The people talking aren't judges, they're commentators. Ian Duke is part of the development team and Marshall Sutcliffe writes a lot of articles about the limited format. They are able to tell us what LSV is going to take because they are highly skilled themselves and the cards that he received didn't leave many realistic options.
