#MAGIC ARENA QUICK DRAFT M19 FULL#

Pour one out for the days of last picking Expressive Iteration and Mentor’s Guidance. Notable Gains: Pillardrop Warden (1.96), Explosive Welcome (1.33), Maelstrom Muse (1.3), Pigment Storm (1.53).Notable Losses: Rootha, Mercurial Artist (-1.66), Expressive Iteration (-1.5), Mentor’s Guidance (-1.47).Silverquill can handle the menace better but leave themselves open to big blowouts that leave them without the bodies they need to take advantage of their buffs.

Against slower Prismari and Quandrix decks, they can’t stabilize with a single body. My favorite builds lately revolve around making Blood Researchers that get out of hand quickly. Must have forgotten their permission slips.

#MAGIC ARENA QUICK DRAFT M19 FULL#

I’m all aboard the Field Trip bus, as the bots are still drafting it a full pick behind humans. Your key in drafting Witherbloom at this point is to shore up these numerous two-mana value losses with Hunt for Specimens and a robust set of Lessons. Also, who in their right mind decided Lessons needed to go later? The irony of Pest Summoning being more available is not lost on me. Overall, though, this is a gut punch to a middle-of-the-road college that could rely on getting late seshes to go to their lessonboard early and often. This is technically correct ( the best kind of correct). You can argue that of the losses, only Infuse with Vitality is a true Witherbloom staple. Notable Losses: Cram Session (-2.87), Leech Fanatic (-2.08), Specter of the Fens (-1.65), Scurried Colony (-1.6), Unwilling Ingredient (-1.47), Infuse with Vitality (-1.38) (there is no tier 3, Lorehold is just that undesirable) Witherbloom Just don’t blow a lot of equity trying it, okay? Tier 2 That being said, I don’t think there’s a better time to attempt cracking Lorehold Control than now. In this same range are colorless, college-less cards like Zephyr Boots and Team Pennant, replaceable effects from Mystical Archives like Defiant Strike and Village Rites, or cards where the archetype never really came together like Dueling Coach and Revitalize.

It would make sense if the bots liked key uncommons higher as you’d imagine AI trying to find a lane, but this seems to be a programming error. It’s hard to get a foot in Lorehold when they’re constantly stepping on your toes. When you look at the top three uncommons in Lorehold (Quintorius, Field Historian, Returned Pastcaller, Rip Apart) the bots take them 3.56, 2.88, and 1.77 picks higher than human drafters, respectively. This gets to the biggest issue with the college: the bots love Lorehold like a fat kid loves when you don’t use their weight as a punchline in a rap song because it’s 2021, and we don’t need to body shame people for cheap laughs. Am I supposed to be excited about a Stormbound Mentor at Pick 10? Premier drafters still have it at 11.63. Getting a Lorehold Apprentice three picks later does less than nothing for me. So why the paltry ranking? First, these gains are Bitcoin-a-month-ago levels of deception. Like Kumail Nanjiani training for a Marvel movie, this list is all gains. Notable Gains: Lorehold Apprentice (2.88), Blood Age General (2.7), Pillardrop Rescuer (2.21), Thrilling Discovery (1.69), Stonebound Mentor (1.54).Notable Losses: Academic Dispute (-2.89), Study Break (-1.6).I know it seems backward but think about it like golf scoring. It isn’t convoluted at all.īADBOT is (in parenthesis below) the number of picks a card has moved up (-) or down (+) based on the week before the format came to a close (5/14 – 5/21) versus the new bots (5/28 – 5/31). I’ve created a metric for this column called BADBOT: By Average, Deviation By Overall Taken for this column. So here I am, a brand new tattoo and a new number one. But the demanding thing about living the Quick Draft life is taking what the bots give you. I thought I’d be in love with Silverquill forever.

It would be my first. Then I googled “wave icon” and got the worst clip art the world has ever seen right where I shake hands. On the spot, I decided I would get a heart tattoo on my wrist. It was 2 AM when Sara told me she had bought a tattoo gun during quarantine after I pressed her about what she had been doing to keep herself sane. They’re both immuno-compromised, and I’m a giant ball of germs and two shots of a Pfizer vaccine, so it worked. This week, I was in Los Angeles visiting friends I hadn’t seen in almost two years because of the pandangit.

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