Wow! Just found your channel after searching "Kaldheim Draft Guide," this is a super professional vibe you've got! Loved the messages of safety and support for local games stores too. Can't offer much beyond some kind words and a subscribe, but congrats! You should be proud of the work you've done.
Please don't use this as a guide! There are lots of issues with the information here. I'm not sure how it reached the publishing step. Look up some dedicated drafting resources, maybe, or check a limited streamer/their discord server.
@@untitled6087 How so? What misexamples are there? I thought this guide was really good but if you could give me pointers away from some problems that would be great.
@@simonchoi7141 I may have been too hasty. The video has a lot of factual information, but there's a lot of sketchy opinions. I made my remark as someone who has played a lot of limited, and a good amount of this set before it was out online. I realise that for a more casual player the video demonstrates exactly what the set is in a very straightforward way, my issue is when it gives information on how to draft it - that's the stuff I came to the video for. 1:50 Return upon the tide is not an early pick in this pack. It's not a great card in general, a 5 mana reanimate effect here just isn't very good, you're more likely to recur a cheaper creature than something worth the 5 mana. most 5 drops will be more consistent, and the tribal payoff that it's used as an example of is exemplified much better in the card next to it - Basalt Ravager. 2:13 This is completely incorrect. This is just a good card on its own. it's a serra angel for 1 mana less that gets better and better. The tribal payoff makes it an even _better_ card, yes, but you will run this in every single BW draft where you get your hands on it regardless. 7:34 I wouldn't really call that a secondary archetype, that hypes it up a bit more than there is actually support for in the set. Flying cards are still just flying cards, There's text on that rare, yes, that makes a neat synergy deck - but that's one card. You can't expect to open it so you shouldn't overreach and take worse cards for synergy reasons because they have flying. Additionally, disagree with the run ashore reccomendation. Bit expensive for an agressive deck, and doesn't particularly back it up with much of a punch. Leading in to Rakdos from here, way too much weight is put on specific tribal synergy. This is not Zendikar rising. The set is much weaker on this, and the text on this rare talking about berserkers does _not_ imply a big berserker theme. These are rares. You try to build around them, but you are incredibly unlikely to see the specific one you want. They inform your decisions, and sometimes you might hope to see one, but you can't plan for them like this. there's no budget version uncommon that also gives you payoff this time. As a more general rule for sets, signpost uncommons are great for telling what you're trying to get together in limited. Rares are not, they're sporadic, special and add spice to the format. 9:23 Green white is _not_ humans here, this is just incorrect! The video itself proceeds to show an array of cards whose common creature type is warrior, with a more marginal human representation. 11:43 Black green is not pretty straight forward: Elves. It _has_ elves. You can draft an elves deck - but perhaps more importantly, black green is within the snow part of the set. Black, green and blue all have great snow payoffs, and it's good here to think about the 3 colours as a set - don't draft all 3 at once, but it's very easy to move around within them, and splashing the one you're not high on for a powerful threat is more likely to be impactful, especially if one of your main colours is green. Yes, they have subthemes, but not mentioning snow here is a mistake. Black may be a bit weaker than blue and green for snow cards, but the deck still comes together nicely with all the great common support. It's not the afterthought it's presented as, I think the video as a whole is overrating the tribal synergies. 12:46 The reasoning here is backwards, cheap splashes are more dangerous for your mana curve, as you're less likely to have the fixing online to make them work. This would be fine, but the secondary casting cost option that _lets_ you cast the spell later on curve costs an additional mana of the base colour of the spell, which makes splashing with treasure much harder, Sketchy and inconsistent, not a good recommendation for new players. Tiny card evaluations like that are much harder to make on the fly when there's pressure to pass your pack. Red is absolutely splash enabling in this set - but the tie-in with red white and equipments made here just isn't really true. There's things you can do splashing in a red green deck, mentioned earlier. This is where it's at for red splashing, as both it and green have good support. 13:50 this is such a strange selection of cards to splash here, the power level and feasibility is all over the place. Skemfar shadowsage _really isn't_ Gray merchant, and calamity bearer costs 2 red pips to cast. 14:10 More under repping snow and overrepping zombies I think. They deserve equal mention here. Using rares as examples is still iffy, and the general selection of cards used as examples popping up on screen throughout the video are just kinda off. They don't reflect what you see popping up in good decks well enough. Clear the first 3 were picked just because they're zombies. 2 paths: mill and reanimator, again, framing is wrong. Snow is a big part of the set. More rares as examples, misleading. 15:20 Path to the world tree is a bad card. The payoff is incredibly hard to hit, 7 mana with WUBRG. And it's not even worth it. You pick this card up when you're in a mad 4-5 colour deck late in the draft, maybe, if you already have the support for it and it compliments well. It's a genuinely atrocious early pick. You can't pick it up and expect to be in a mad fixing deck, there will almost definitely be something more likely to be useful in a pack, if you're not hitting its ability you're paying something that fetches snow for an entire card and 2 mana, and that's just too low impact to be playable. take replicating ring instead. Not an _amazing_ card, but does what you'd want this card to do infinitely better, simply by being a snow mana rock. 16:24 I assume he misspoke? This 3/3 doesn't come out turn 2, it comes out turn 3. fortell t2, cast t3. Barely worth mentioning, but it perplexed me. 17:06 withercrown is a joke. That's most of what I picked up. Again, this is what I saw out of what I came to the video for, there's still good info here for new players. Just a bunch of misleading/incorrect strategy.
👍👍👍 The information in this video ramps quite smoothly in the beginning, and carries through to a really great midrange state of comprehension assistance. The win-con at the end could quite possibly destabilize you via excessive mirth so, beforehand, make sure your center of gravity is low to the ground (if possible) by bending your knees and centering your mass above your feet, which are both best positioned shoulder-width apart. Alternatively, a nice chair with at least three legs may also be used, as it can be used to provide support when the solar plexus starts to involuntarily palpitate 👍👍👍
Thank god subscribing on youtube is so simple! And thank god for you prof. You are the only Magic podcaster that I have heard who pronounces 'Harbinger' correctly.
Wonderfully laid out video! I loved the equivalent one for M21 and I'm glad to see it return... hopefully again in the future too? As a note - a couple cards appeared in there that aren't in the draft environment, because they're the theme exclusives: I noticed Valkyrie Harbinger (in the GW tokens), Renegade Reaper (UB mill) and Cleaving Reaper (somewhere in the UB section?).
Stopped playing for 2-3 years, but I just got back into the game and am building a Koll, Combo Commander deck. Your videos got re-recommended to me and have fueled my drive to play the game again. . .that is once the game stores reopen ;)
Just found your channel, totally helped me with my first draft in years! Went 6-3 in Arena with it and it felt great! Thank you for the insight, instant subscribe from me!
Hi Prof, I enjoyed the video as always but I had some grievances with a few of your points in this video. One is that the main tribe for G/W seems to actually be warriors and not humans as you claim it is, which would be relevant to know if you are drafting around an early pick Rally the Ranks or Realmwalker for instance. Another is that you included a number of the set/theme booster exclusive cards like Elven Ambush in your guide, which will not be showing up in draft boosters.
I appreciate the feedback. One of the great things about Magic is that we can often see strategies like these differently. I wish so much you and I could be standing in a card shop, prerelease kits in hand, having this debate in person, but until such time thank you for chatting with me here. :)
I just did my first draft of the set on Arena, got a couple of the good black removal spells, then settled on dimir reanimator since I got the utility land twice, then opened A Koma second pack. I'm having a blast :)
Excellent video. I watched this as a refresher before Magic Arena Open this weekend. Very helpful, thanks 😊 I honestly had forgotten half the cards and synergies. This was so professional and informative I’d highly recommend this even to experienced players …it’s a great warm-up to a draft, especially if it’s a set or format you haven’t played with in awhile. 👍
Hi professor! I am a new player who just started playing a few weeks ago, and I attended my first pre-release event today. I had a ton of fun! I have watched a lot of your videos and there is so much great information! I did feel bewildered though, and although that has largely subsided, there is so much to take in for a new player that I don't think my experience was unique. I think a great video idea would be a 'primer' targeted specifically for brand new players looking to spend their money wisely.
Thank you for sharing! Can't wait for pre-release to be in person again. Favorite time(s) of the year! You got me back into Magic and followed your guidance for my 1st pre-release (Kaladesh). Went 3-1!
Hey prof, unfortunately you have used a lot of theme boosters/set boosters exclusive cards as examples. Sadly, those cards can't be opened in draft boosters hence cannot be played in limited.
Playing at your lgs? Aah yes I remember doing that like 10 years ago (ikoria was the last one) I miss playing there. Hope it's still there when we are allowed to go back. Have ordered the prerelease kit, bundle and the commander decks
Smaller tabletop hubs were hit less by quarantine measures, but they suffer player loss due to WotC's bad decisions. You are lucky having that, a lot of newer players out here abandoned Magic, lack of regular tournaments also didn't help.
@@ferdithetank7535 I might say active but that is compared to what it was before and we don't have problem losing new people because we don't really get many since cards games are really uncommon here we only have active magic communities and even those we only have 2 consisting of under 20 people for the entire country of over a million people
Some of the cards that you were mentioning are only part of the theme boosters and would not be in the draft packs/sealed decks (Elven Ambush and the Elf Lord). The overall information is the same though.
Wow Proff! That was fantastic to watch - with so much of the cards addressed I feel very enthusiastic about doing an in house draft - the production and narration is beautiful
Coming to this a few years after the fact (because of cube), it is an incredibly useful video still! Hoping for similar guides in the future for new sets.
Honestly, I wasn't planning on mentioning anything about you including the theme booster cards in the video, but then you mentioned Elven Ambush as a good pick in draft while that card doesn't appear in draft boosters. Also, I feel you could have included how changeling works so that all are aware that blue shapeshifters make good Giants and additional Zombies and green shapeshifters are an easy way to increase your count of Elves. Other than that and your desire to mispronounce at least one thing without correcting yourself this was a great video.
It would be great if WOC released sets less frequently. We would have time to appreciate and experience the product, and you'd have time to make more draft videos such as this. I couldn't image you making such a detailed video of each set, at the rate WOC is pumping out product.
I hadn't kept up on the spoilers for Kaldheim, but this guide helped me have a pretty good idea of what was going on at my local prerelease. Lucky enough to live somewhere unaffected by covid :D
Was watching before going to bed and the 12:28 sound effect was a bit startling. Did a few drafts today on Arena. I think I made the mistake of not picking up snow lands because a part of me just thought of them as lands. Also, learned that foretell is good for both less 2-drops and counterspell dodging in a late-game deck. Rune cards seemed to go really well with low cmc equipment.
Fjira's retribution is one of the strongest cards in the set with or without angels. A 4 mana serrra angel that often gets to kill a thing on your next turn is insanely powerful on its own. I have no idea why you think you need other angels.
3:10 - Foretell is Reverse-Echo, you pay up front and then you MIGHT pay later to get the effect. Morph leaves you with a 2/2 for 3; Foretell leaves you with esoteric discard hate. Make no mistake; Echo is a cost reduction mechanic... and so is foretell (usually); but while Echo gives you a reward you often don't need to pay the 2nd cost for; Foretell will just as easily give cost you 2 mana and give you no reward.
Did you really just say not to take Firja’s Retribution if you don’t have other Angel support? The card is a massive bomb by itself, making a 4/4 with flying and vigilance for only 4 mana immediately and then potentially destroying a creature later. If you can cast Firja’s Retribution you 100% should take it and play it- the card is INSANE.
2:14 o_O uhhh....as long as you can reasonably cast it, you should never ever ever EVER pass Firja’s Retribution. You absolutely don’t need other angels. That card would be amazing even with just chapter 1, and the other two chapters are both insane too!
When I pressed Subscribe, I had to submit 3 forms of ID, proof of insurance, and 3 months worth of pay stubs to prove I wanted to subscribe. I was visited by a very short man in a turtle neck who asked me 3 security questions my psychiatrist drafted up based on my last several years of therapy, so only I would know the answers. I got one wrong, and now I have to go back to therapy.
Another really interesting and accessible video! I'm relatively new to MTG and currently just play Jumpstart. I love the look of this set and I'm seriously considering getting a booster box to really kickstart my time with the game. Would you say this is a wise decision Professor, or would I be better off taking another approach to getting a large number of cards to deck build & generally learn and have fun with?
I did my first ever 3 sealed drafts in Arena. Won the first at 7-2 despite my nerves, was actually shocked that I pulled it off. I won with blue green changeling synergy, won the final game with a huge combo utilizing Alrund's Epiphany with a bunch of elves and shapeshifters on board, finishing it off with the Elvish Warmaster's ability, it was blissful. My 2nd playthrough was, way worse. Couldn't find my identity, ended up going 0-3 lol. 3rd playthrough was once again blue green despite having better rares and mythics in red black. Went 5-3 which is good enough for me. Either way, WotC/Hasbro/Xsolla has got me hooked and i'll probably continue to dump money into these gems although i've only bought the 2 best value packs so far. Part of me wonders how much of the game's algorithms are designed to make people keep buying gem packs.
Wow! Just found your channel after searching "Kaldheim Draft Guide," this is a super professional vibe you've got! Loved the messages of safety and support for local games stores too. Can't offer much beyond some kind words and a subscribe, but congrats! You should be proud of the work you've done.
Thank you and welcome!!!
You’re the lifeblood of this community. Welcome and enjoy your stay
He is the biggest mtg channel
Thank you for making this Prof, I bought a box and trying to do a draft with a few friends, and we found this is extremely helpful.
Very welcome!
Please don't use this as a guide! There are lots of issues with the information here. I'm not sure how it reached the publishing step. Look up some dedicated drafting resources, maybe, or check a limited streamer/their discord server.
@@untitled6087 How so? What misexamples are there? I thought this guide was really good but if you could give me pointers away from some problems that would be great.
@@simonchoi7141 I may have been too hasty. The video has a lot of factual information, but there's a lot of sketchy opinions. I made my remark as someone who has played a lot of limited, and a good amount of this set before it was out online. I realise that for a more casual player the video demonstrates exactly what the set is in a very straightforward way, my issue is when it gives information on how to draft it - that's the stuff I came to the video for.
1:50 Return upon the tide is not an early pick in this pack. It's not a great card in general, a 5 mana reanimate effect here just isn't very good, you're more likely to recur a cheaper creature than something worth the 5 mana. most 5 drops will be more consistent, and the tribal payoff that it's used as an example of is exemplified much better in the card next to it - Basalt Ravager.
2:13 This is completely incorrect. This is just a good card on its own. it's a serra angel for 1 mana less that gets better and better. The tribal payoff makes it an even _better_ card, yes, but you will run this in every single BW draft where you get your hands on it regardless.
7:34 I wouldn't really call that a secondary archetype, that hypes it up a bit more than there is actually support for in the set. Flying cards are still just flying cards, There's text on that rare, yes, that makes a neat synergy deck - but that's one card. You can't expect to open it so you shouldn't overreach and take worse cards for synergy reasons because they have flying. Additionally, disagree with the run ashore reccomendation. Bit expensive for an agressive deck, and doesn't particularly back it up with much of a punch.
Leading in to Rakdos from here, way too much weight is put on specific tribal synergy. This is not Zendikar rising. The set is much weaker on this, and the text on this rare talking about berserkers does _not_ imply a big berserker theme. These are rares. You try to build around them, but you are incredibly unlikely to see the specific one you want. They inform your decisions, and sometimes you might hope to see one, but you can't plan for them like this. there's no budget version uncommon that also gives you payoff this time.
As a more general rule for sets, signpost uncommons are great for telling what you're trying to get together in limited. Rares are not, they're sporadic, special and add spice to the format.
9:23 Green white is _not_ humans here, this is just incorrect! The video itself proceeds to show an array of cards whose common creature type is warrior, with a more marginal human representation.
11:43 Black green is not pretty straight forward: Elves. It _has_ elves. You can draft an elves deck - but perhaps more importantly, black green is within the snow part of the set. Black, green and blue all have great snow payoffs, and it's good here to think about the 3 colours as a set - don't draft all 3 at once, but it's very easy to move around within them, and splashing the one you're not high on for a powerful threat is more likely to be impactful, especially if one of your main colours is green. Yes, they have subthemes, but not mentioning snow here is a mistake. Black may be a bit weaker than blue and green for snow cards, but the deck still comes together nicely with all the great common support. It's not the afterthought it's presented as, I think the video as a whole is overrating the tribal synergies.
12:46 The reasoning here is backwards, cheap splashes are more dangerous for your mana curve, as you're less likely to have the fixing online to make them work. This would be fine, but the secondary casting cost option that _lets_ you cast the spell later on curve costs an additional mana of the base colour of the spell, which makes splashing with treasure much harder, Sketchy and inconsistent, not a good recommendation for new players. Tiny card evaluations like that are much harder to make on the fly when there's pressure to pass your pack. Red is absolutely splash enabling in this set - but the tie-in with red white and equipments made here just isn't really true. There's things you can do splashing in a red green deck, mentioned earlier. This is where it's at for red splashing, as both it and green have good support.
13:50 this is such a strange selection of cards to splash here, the power level and feasibility is all over the place. Skemfar shadowsage _really isn't_ Gray merchant, and calamity bearer costs 2 red pips to cast.
14:10 More under repping snow and overrepping zombies I think. They deserve equal mention here. Using rares as examples is still iffy, and the general selection of cards used as examples popping up on screen throughout the video are just kinda off. They don't reflect what you see popping up in good decks well enough. Clear the first 3 were picked just because they're zombies. 2 paths: mill and reanimator, again, framing is wrong. Snow is a big part of the set. More rares as examples, misleading.
15:20 Path to the world tree is a bad card. The payoff is incredibly hard to hit, 7 mana with WUBRG. And it's not even worth it. You pick this card up when you're in a mad 4-5 colour deck late in the draft, maybe, if you already have the support for it and it compliments well. It's a genuinely atrocious early pick. You can't pick it up and expect to be in a mad fixing deck, there will almost definitely be something more likely to be useful in a pack, if you're not hitting its ability you're paying something that fetches snow for an entire card and 2 mana, and that's just too low impact to be playable. take replicating ring instead. Not an _amazing_ card, but does what you'd want this card to do infinitely better, simply by being a snow mana rock.
16:24 I assume he misspoke? This 3/3 doesn't come out turn 2, it comes out turn 3. fortell t2, cast t3. Barely worth mentioning, but it perplexed me.
17:06 withercrown is a joke.
That's most of what I picked up. Again, this is what I saw out of what I came to the video for, there's still good info here for new players. Just a bunch of misleading/incorrect strategy.
Duuude slugterra was the shit!
The notifications ending is priceless!😂
As always, thanks for the concise information, Professor!
My pleasure!
I'm a little lost, I got to the essay part, but even though it has already been 2 weeks I haven't heard back from YT. What am I doing wrong?!
👍👍👍 The information in this video ramps quite smoothly in the beginning, and carries through to a really great midrange state of comprehension assistance. The win-con at the end could quite possibly destabilize you via excessive mirth so, beforehand, make sure your center of gravity is low to the ground (if possible) by bending your knees and centering your mass above your feet, which are both best positioned shoulder-width apart. Alternatively, a nice chair with at least three legs may also be used, as it can be used to provide support when the solar plexus starts to involuntarily palpitate 👍👍👍
The professionalism and editing quality on these really is incredible
Thank god subscribing on youtube is so simple! And thank god for you prof. You are the only Magic podcaster that I have heard who pronounces 'Harbinger' correctly.
Don't worry, I mispronounce A LOT of things, just not that. ;)
I really enjoyed this video. Very useful for new drafts on Arena. Please keep up with this series for new sets if you can. Hopefully it does well.
Wonderfully laid out video! I loved the equivalent one for M21 and I'm glad to see it return... hopefully again in the future too?
As a note - a couple cards appeared in there that aren't in the draft environment, because they're the theme exclusives: I noticed Valkyrie Harbinger (in the GW tokens), Renegade Reaper (UB mill) and Cleaving Reaper (somewhere in the UB section?).
Glad you enjoyed it!
Also Canopy Tactician, Elven ambush and Calamity Bearer in the UG part
The last bit of the video is a life-saver. So glad for it.
omg!! I love your closing statments about the emails!!! you just kept getting better and better
Best outro ever... can't wait to write that essay
Stopped playing for 2-3 years, but I just got back into the game and am building a Koll, Combo Commander deck. Your videos got re-recommended to me and have fueled my drive to play the game again. . .that is once the game stores reopen ;)
Prof, you really got me with that cut off. 🤣🤣
You're so right about the notifications though. Ridiculous.
That ending bit with the notification bell rambling just sold me on clicking it xD
Very comprehensive prof! Thankies muchly 👌
Just found your channel, totally helped me with my first draft in years! Went 6-3 in Arena with it and it felt great! Thank you for the insight, instant subscribe from me!
Hi Prof, I enjoyed the video as always but I had some grievances with a few of your points in this video. One is that the main tribe for G/W seems to actually be warriors and not humans as you claim it is, which would be relevant to know if you are drafting around an early pick Rally the Ranks or Realmwalker for instance. Another is that you included a number of the set/theme booster exclusive cards like Elven Ambush in your guide, which will not be showing up in draft boosters.
I appreciate the feedback. One of the great things about Magic is that we can often see strategies like these differently. I wish so much you and I could be standing in a card shop, prerelease kits in hand, having this debate in person, but until such time thank you for chatting with me here. :)
I just did my first draft of the set on Arena, got a couple of the good black removal spells, then settled on dimir reanimator since I got the utility land twice, then opened A Koma second pack. I'm having a blast :)
Your video has been shared w/ my Commander pod discord. We love your videos Prof!
You're the best!
Excellent video. I watched this as a refresher before Magic Arena Open this weekend. Very helpful, thanks 😊
I honestly had forgotten half the cards and synergies. This was so professional and informative I’d highly recommend this even to experienced players …it’s a great warm-up to a draft, especially if it’s a set or format you haven’t played with in awhile. 👍
Great video! But as TheManaLeek says, drafting is more about picking good cards than just blindly following signposts
Hi professor! I am a new player who just started playing a few weeks ago, and I attended my first pre-release event today. I had a ton of fun! I have watched a lot of your videos and there is so much great information! I did feel bewildered though, and although that has largely subsided, there is so much to take in for a new player that I don't think my experience was unique. I think a great video idea would be a 'primer' targeted specifically for brand new players looking to spend their money wisely.
Im watching this at my studio desk and man.. that intro jingle has some SERIOUS bass
Thank you for sharing! Can't wait for pre-release to be in person again. Favorite time(s) of the year! You got me back into Magic and followed your guidance for my 1st pre-release (Kaladesh). Went 3-1!
Really appreciated your "top commons" list, they helped me go 3-0 at my prerelease!!
i love the ending bit
i hope i can go to the seminar and finally get notifications, this dude is awesome
Well that closing segment is just brilliant.
@Tolarian Community College, you truly are the epitome of MTG! More power to you
Thank you for this! Now i will certainly win my prerelease at home with myself.
Been awhile since I've seen any draft content here. Pretty cool
Hey prof, unfortunately you have used a lot of theme boosters/set boosters exclusive cards as examples. Sadly, those cards can't be opened in draft boosters hence cannot be played in limited.
Yeah but his examples are largely of mechanics and interactions not exclusive to the specific cards so I think it’s fine
Playing at your lgs? Aah yes I remember doing that like 10 years ago (ikoria was the last one) I miss playing there. Hope it's still there when we are allowed to go back. Have ordered the prerelease kit, bundle and the commander decks
Draft? What's draft? I haven't seen a booster pack in almost a year.
It's interesting my countries magic community is really small compared to others but it seems we are the most active community during these times
Smaller tabletop hubs were hit less by quarantine measures, but they suffer player loss due to WotC's bad decisions.
You are lucky having that, a lot of newer players out here abandoned Magic, lack of regular tournaments also didn't help.
@@ferdithetank7535 I might say active but that is compared to what it was before and we don't have problem losing new people because we don't really get many since cards games are really uncommon here we only have active magic communities and even those we only have 2 consisting of under 20 people for the entire country of over a million people
I think its some sort of beer ?
Draft is alive and well on Arena.
Very nice format! Would like to see it for each new standard set to know whats up with it :)
Noted!
Some of the cards that you were mentioning are only part of the theme boosters and would not be in the draft packs/sealed decks (Elven Ambush and the Elf Lord).
The overall information is the same though.
Wow Proff! That was fantastic to watch - with so much of the cards addressed I feel very enthusiastic about doing an in house draft - the production and narration is beautiful
Coming to this a few years after the fact (because of cube), it is an incredibly useful video still! Hoping for similar guides in the future for new sets.
Honestly, I wasn't planning on mentioning anything about you including the theme booster cards in the video, but then you mentioned Elven Ambush as a good pick in draft while that card doesn't appear in draft boosters. Also, I feel you could have included how changeling works so that all are aware that blue shapeshifters make good Giants and additional Zombies and green shapeshifters are an easy way to increase your count of Elves. Other than that and your desire to mispronounce at least one thing without correcting yourself this was a great video.
How screwed up is it that the "how to subscribe" skit at the end sounds like something TH-cam would actually do?
Oh thank God that was just a skit, I wasn't sure!!
LMFAO
That was a knee jerker for sure 😂
I wouldn't put it past youtube. They certainly wanna make it hard for channels to thrive.
@@Telsun78 yep and that will lead to collapse so let go and see what happens
Much appreciated sir. This might be the best guide for drafting i have seen yet. 👍😊
That closing, soooo good.
I loved the well-deserved mockery at the end.
Looking forward to trying Kaldheim quick draft and this has been very helpful, as always, thanks Professor!
Yo! Thanks for this! Was actively looking for resources.
Sure thing!
Came on to post on computer just to comment on the amazingly accurate description of how to be notified of new videos.
Getting ready to do a prerelease event at my local game store this weekend! Already opened a draft set booster box!
I could listen to Prof pronounce Firja all day.
Fur'ja
Thanks prof, great vidéo as per usual !! Happy kaldheim to you from France !!
Just firing up My Arena quick drafts, so this is great help between picks
I love the ending of this video. Made My day.
It would be great if WOC released sets less frequently. We would have time to appreciate and experience the product, and you'd have time to make more draft videos such as this. I couldn't image you making such a detailed video of each set, at the rate WOC is pumping out product.
I hadn't kept up on the spoilers for Kaldheim, but this guide helped me have a pretty good idea of what was going on at my local prerelease. Lucky enough to live somewhere unaffected by covid :D
Thanks for the tips.
Omg, i started to believe the end.
Very nice! Thanks Prof. More of this kind of content please!
Amazing content, well edited. No idea why you're not working with wizzards yet to make better content to magic guides on the official channel. Thanks!
Thanks, that came in handy. Gonna do Sealed on Arena.
Now I can imagine what prerelease would be like
Was watching before going to bed and the 12:28 sound effect was a bit startling.
Did a few drafts today on Arena. I think I made the mistake of not picking up snow lands because a part of me just thought of them as lands. Also, learned that foretell is good for both less 2-drops and counterspell dodging in a late-game deck. Rune cards seemed to go really well with low cmc equipment.
Thank you Prof and Crew!!!!
This will be really useful for the webcam prerelease at my lgs
Great work. Nice ending!
i love ur vids man good job
Thank you.
Fjira's retribution is one of the strongest cards in the set with or without angels. A 4 mana serrra angel that often gets to kill a thing on your next turn is insanely powerful on its own. I have no idea why you think you need other angels.
Instructions unclear, tried to receive notifications and instead was somehow contacted by Nicol Bolas trying to escape the Meditation Plane
I was contacted by Niko Bellic asking if I wanted to go bowling!
3:10 - Foretell is Reverse-Echo, you pay up front and then you MIGHT pay later to get the effect. Morph leaves you with a 2/2 for 3; Foretell leaves you with esoteric discard hate. Make no mistake; Echo is a cost reduction mechanic... and so is foretell (usually); but while Echo gives you a reward you often don't need to pay the 2nd cost for; Foretell will just as easily give cost you 2 mana and give you no reward.
This was so helpful! Thanks, prof :D
Glad it was helpful!
will there be a continental breakfast service at the seminar?
Had to drop a like for telling me what happens when I hit the notification bell
I love this type of video so much!
I'm so happy that they're making actual birds again because it's so tough to find birds that are actual birds in magic.
Did you really just say not to take Firja’s Retribution if you don’t have other Angel support? The card is a massive bomb by itself, making a 4/4 with flying and vigilance for only 4 mana immediately and then potentially destroying a creature later. If you can cast Firja’s Retribution you 100% should take it and play it- the card is INSANE.
short essay on what??? OMG your video cut off before I could get the last step to finally being notified of your videos? WHYYYYY
2:14 o_O uhhh....as long as you can reasonably cast it, you should never ever ever EVER pass Firja’s Retribution. You absolutely don’t need other angels. That card would be amazing even with just chapter 1, and the other two chapters are both insane too!
Great vid prof. Cheers for the tips.
Any time!
Thanks, Prof!
Firjas Retribution is good enough to take even if you have no other angels.
That card is the biggest bomb in the set. With 0 angels
It's fucking great, confirmed
Amazing video! Your Kaldheim guides have been very useful!
When I pressed Subscribe, I had to submit 3 forms of ID, proof of insurance, and 3 months worth of pay stubs to prove I wanted to subscribe. I was visited by a very short man in a turtle neck who asked me 3 security questions my psychiatrist drafted up based on my last several years of therapy, so only I would know the answers. I got one wrong, and now I have to go back to therapy.
This helped, my color combo was simic and It was great, i got orwar and the better saga
Extra tip for anyone drafting tribal!
U/R Giants
B/G Elves
U/G Changelings
These are the only tribes with enough support to make a strong draft deck.
Loved the "outro" prof
Such a great set to draft with... same with strixhaven, yet low power level to hold value in the future.
Wait! I wanted to hear more about the essay.
Hey Prof! Remaking my Tribal God Deck all because of Kaldheim. Thinking about making Esika God of the Tree the new commander
This is so incredibly well done, thank you prof!
Glad you liked it!
Your dope man! Thanks for the video. Big thumbs up
Elven Ambush is NOT in the set proper - it's part of the Theme boosters (same for Canopy Tactician)
nice visuals :) thanks for the tips
Another really interesting and accessible video! I'm relatively new to MTG and currently just play Jumpstart. I love the look of this set and I'm seriously considering getting a booster box to really kickstart my time with the game. Would you say this is a wise decision Professor, or would I be better off taking another approach to getting a large number of cards to deck build & generally learn and have fun with?
Thank you for another amazing video!
Thanks for watching!
I would actually go through the process and attend the meeting and write that short essay just to subscribe to you and receive notifications lol
"Elven Ambush" is not in Draft boosters, so it shouldn't appear in Draft and Sealed.
Great content as always!! Thank you again.
I like that you can basically draft EDH with this set, as your mostly likely to get a legendary in each pack. Same for Strixhaven.
I'm gonna ace this essay
Please submit one. I'd like to see the prof grade it.
Would pay solid money for a Tolarian Textbook full of good base and beginners knowledge. CMON TOLARIAN TEXTBOOKS 🤘🤘🤘
I did my first ever 3 sealed drafts in Arena. Won the first at 7-2 despite my nerves, was actually shocked that I pulled it off. I won with blue green changeling synergy, won the final game with a huge combo utilizing Alrund's Epiphany with a bunch of elves and shapeshifters on board, finishing it off with the Elvish Warmaster's ability, it was blissful.
My 2nd playthrough was, way worse. Couldn't find my identity, ended up going 0-3 lol.
3rd playthrough was once again blue green despite having better rares and mythics in red black. Went 5-3 which is good enough for me.
Either way, WotC/Hasbro/Xsolla has got me hooked and i'll probably continue to dump money into these gems although i've only bought the 2 best value packs so far. Part of me wonders how much of the game's algorithms are designed to make people keep buying gem packs.
Loved the ending😂😂
Thanks for the vid Prof, I'm not super confident in draft but this definitely helps