Lords of Limited

Fresh off the first weekend full of Crimson Vow Drafts, your hosts are here to give you as much up-to-date information on this new format as possible. We've got big picture takeaways, individual cards that have surprised us, common re-rankings, and what to do about the bombs in the format! Carl "TwoDuckCubed" Data Seminar: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1204553605

A new set is upon is and with that comes our Crash Course episode chock full everything you need to be prepared for your first drafts of this new format! Creatures vs. removal, blood tokens, tribal synergies, and more! Plus, we reveal our top 3 commons and top 2 uncommons for each color! Grading Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRSG24DA86ZseZLCc97T7GiKENwbYydYmtbQ2QbKfpfNao5ohO2ogwjNqiYRT1sWkfUvv_wtHt3jbgP/pubhtml

We're about halfway through preview season for Innistrad: Crimson Vow and there are a lot of commons and uncommons to talk about! We also look at the new and returning mechanics, the new twist on Disturb, return to "Great or Garbage," and much more!

We're sending off MID the only way we know how with 50 takes in 50 minutes! What were the highs and the lows of this format? How did the gold uncommons match up against each other? What made the gameplay so intricate? Plus, some rare Ethan salt stories from the Draft Challenge on Arena!

This week we're returning to Ben's concept of Synergy Theory and looking at MID limited under that lens! Drafting "decks not cards" is harder than it sounds, so we're here to help by looking at cards interacting with mechanics, their own color, other colors, and their strategy compatibility. Original Episode: https://www.lordsoflimited.com/episodes/synergy-theory-episode-174  Ethan's Survivor Podcast: https://comeoninsurvivors.libsyn.com/ 

High stakes limited play is back with the opening day drafts at the World Championship! Ben & Ethan break down the two featured drafters, PVDDR and Seth Manfield, and go pick by pick in their two difficult seats! PVDDR: https://magicprotools.com/draft/show?id=sN9NGcXduyr6zNYUKWrOIf9uH-w  Seth: https://magicprotools.com/draft/show?id=yRCun5IyEgAk_OPecwKQjSeffiQ  Between Packs: https://imgur.com/a/HekvYlC 

For the October Bonus Episode, your hosts are diving into the MID Team Draft vs Team Resources, where they went right, where they went wrong, and what the takeaways are for next time! Drafts and Decks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRlU_HNo44kWEMx0EyTWNXKUWuBRY3XoLXgGwwmVC_dC31FN9wxyNIHNS4eevhM7wMDYL_gX5biZSWj/pub

This week we're exploring all that MID's most misunderstood color has to offer. Even though Red is the worst color, it's nowhere near Blue in AFR, and actually has a lot of play to it if you unlock its secrets. Shout out to Ryan Saxe for his help with this episode! Draft Log 1: https://www.17lands.com/draft/c3d93a02bb6b43f6a03cbd89df0494f3  Draft Log 2: https://www.17lands.com/draft/18816aa58e6f4c47b9c855bf1a3e6067 

Ethan's return to the podcast has him trying his best to catch-up on the format and pick Ben's brain with a lot of questions. We then discuss a general approach to navigating drafts in MID and put that into practice with a couple of roundtable deep dives! Draft Log 1: https://www.17lands.com/draft/e065cca5d4bf40b6b807f704941c9145  Draft Log 2: https://www.17lands.com/draft/d3d3c43747354934820ccf205a9dde0b 

Episode 228 is here after the first weekend of playing with Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, and we've broken the format wide open. Dimir Zombies is the best deck in the format, and it is hungry for brains! We go over the big picture concepts of how to win in the format, overperforming cards, and rerank the top commons. Don't miss out on the opportunity to get a big edge on your competition this week!