Yay, my deck got featured at 1:49 ! I did fairly good this month (69%, 4th place in Pod B) but I would have done better had I gone for the Blackmail Hexdrinker deck I considered during submission season. I think next month I should be in the high elo Pod, so it will be hard, but I gonna try my best.
I escaped this month with a 58% winrate, happy to go positive ELO but I’m surprised I didn’t get a bit higher. Really competitive, really diverse builds this month!
Neat this is still going. I used to moderate 3CB back on MTGN and MTGS. Maybe not too surprising how many of the strats (or entire decks) are the same. Lotus/Balance/Rack is certainly an old list.
Hey Naomi, you fell for a classic trap that new players to 3 Card Blind often get caught by. If The Rack is your win condition and you have no way to force your opponent to discard cards, they can choose to not play any cards to claim a guaranteed tie because you have no way to damage them. You are certainly not the first person to have made the mistake of submitting a deck with The Rack as its only win condition, and I am willing to bet you won't be the last either.
First time participating with a deck of Black Lotus, Boseiju, Who Endures and Lodestone Golem (under the name Plonk). I was expecting to see a lot of Barren Glories, so i was aiming to make something that could lock out opponents going first, while still being able to tie going second with Boseiju, which also helped me reach my goals of beating tabernacles and Depths in a world without wastelands. Looking at the actual results though, it turns out that while a lot of decks are either vulnerable to Lodestone or Boseiju, there aren't really any that are weak to both other than barren glory (which wan't even played at all in my pod). So i'd either have Golem games that i could only win going first, or Boseiju games, which would always end up in a tie. So i ended up with a mostly neutral set of games with the exception of Balance, which is cheap enough get through the Golem going second. I guess the lesson is that you shouldn't build a deck that only counters a single card. Even then, i did actually get a positive winrate in the end. Not because my deck had any particularly good Matchups, but because a few of my opponents' decks fizzled. I suppose the second lesson is that as long as your deck is capable of running even most of the time, you'll eventually run into some unlucky guy who didn't notice that Everglades and Spawning pool don't work together. Thanks for running this thing by the way. It was a lot of fun.
Ties deck didn’t do great this round, there was more fair creature decks then I thought. Still did better then last round though with a vast majority ties and it beat every top deck
Hey man. have a sugesstion. if black lotus is being played so much maybe you can create a subset of this format where mana is irrelevant? i mean this to a point. it seems like the limitation of mana is making 3 card blind into more of 2 card blind plus a mana source. so maybe you could have a different subformat where both players start the turn with 4 or 5 mana. what do you think?
In the discord there is a side events channel where people run all sorts of rules variants, and I think this could be a fun rules variant for a side event. I think this could be very fun, and there will probably be some extremely powerful and broken things you can do with that bonus mana. As far as the main format goes, Black Lotus is currently masking how many other mana sources are viable. Notably storage lands like Hollow Trees will play a much greater role in a post Lotus meta. Regardless of whether Lotus gets banned or not, I think it is mention worthy that Lotus got played around 40% less in August than it did in July, so it will be interesting where Lotus's metashare ends up as time moves on.
I just want to put out there that with each passing month it becomes increasingly more likely that black lotus will get banned. I predict it’ll happen this month even
I’ve only seen these videos starting last night. I have watched a fair few and it captured my imagination. I just kinda took a stab can you all let me know if I’m on a decent path here? Not 100% sure I understand the format but what stops me from going; Blue depletion land Mental misstep Thassa’s Oracle ?? Am I way off or is that a legit deck that will win turn 2 as often as I feel it will? (Seems like it would be hard for that to be below 50%?) Just stabbing here
You are right on the money with that one, so much so that Thassa's Oracle is one of the few cards featured on the permanently banned list. You can find the ban list on the Rules tab of the website linked in the video description
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@1:00 I made an error here. Only 7 our of 75 players played the deck. 9% was the correct metashare, but I got the number of players wrong.
Another great video for 3 card blind! Thank's for making these its so much nicer than reading through the table.
So happy right now ! Thank you for organysing such an awesome tournament !
Congrats on winning your pod! Looking forward to seeing what you will run next month
Yay, my deck got featured at 1:49 ! I did fairly good this month (69%, 4th place in Pod B) but I would have done better had I gone for the Blackmail Hexdrinker deck I considered during submission season. I think next month I should be in the high elo Pod, so it will be hard, but I gonna try my best.
I escaped this month with a 58% winrate, happy to go positive ELO but I’m surprised I didn’t get a bit higher. Really competitive, really diverse builds this month!
Very interesting to explore these videos now to uncover the history :)
Neat this is still going. I used to moderate 3CB back on MTGN and MTGS. Maybe not too surprising how many of the strats (or entire decks) are the same. Lotus/Balance/Rack is certainly an old list.
Oof, I didn't expect an amazing record for my first time out, but winning exactly zero games is pretty rough >_>
Hey Naomi, you fell for a classic trap that new players to 3 Card Blind often get caught by. If The Rack is your win condition and you have no way to force your opponent to discard cards, they can choose to not play any cards to claim a guaranteed tie because you have no way to damage them.
You are certainly not the first person to have made the mistake of submitting a deck with The Rack as its only win condition, and I am willing to bet you won't be the last either.
@@MTG3CardBlind Ooooh, that's embarrassing. Well, I guess I'll just have to try again in September, huh?
First time participating with a deck of Black Lotus, Boseiju, Who Endures and Lodestone Golem (under the name Plonk).
I was expecting to see a lot of Barren Glories, so i was aiming to make something that could lock out opponents going first, while still being able to tie going second with Boseiju, which also helped me reach my goals of beating tabernacles and Depths in a world without wastelands.
Looking at the actual results though, it turns out that while a lot of decks are either vulnerable to Lodestone or Boseiju, there aren't really any that are weak to both other than barren glory (which wan't even played at all in my pod).
So i'd either have Golem games that i could only win going first, or Boseiju games, which would always end up in a tie. So i ended up with a mostly neutral set of games with the exception of Balance, which is cheap enough get through the Golem going second.
I guess the lesson is that you shouldn't build a deck that only counters a single card.
Even then, i did actually get a positive winrate in the end. Not because my deck had any particularly good Matchups, but because a few of my opponents' decks fizzled.
I suppose the second lesson is that as long as your deck is capable of running even most of the time, you'll eventually run into some unlucky guy who didn't notice that Everglades and Spawning pool don't work together.
Thanks for running this thing by the way. It was a lot of fun.
Ties deck didn’t do great this round, there was more fair creature decks then I thought. Still did better then last round though with a vast majority ties and it beat every top deck
Hey man. have a sugesstion. if black lotus is being played so much maybe you can create a subset of this format where mana is irrelevant? i mean this to a point. it seems like the limitation of mana is making 3 card blind into more of 2 card blind plus a mana source. so maybe you could have a different subformat where both players start the turn with 4 or 5 mana. what do you think?
In the discord there is a side events channel where people run all sorts of rules variants, and I think this could be a fun rules variant for a side event. I think this could be very fun, and there will probably be some extremely powerful and broken things you can do with that bonus mana.
As far as the main format goes, Black Lotus is currently masking how many other mana sources are viable. Notably storage lands like Hollow Trees will play a much greater role in a post Lotus meta. Regardless of whether Lotus gets banned or not, I think it is mention worthy that Lotus got played around 40% less in August than it did in July, so it will be interesting where Lotus's metashare ends up as time moves on.
I just want to put out there that with each passing month it becomes increasingly more likely that black lotus will get banned. I predict it’ll happen this month even
Thought we'd have a lot more Pact/Foil decks T_T 29%
I’ve only seen these videos starting last night. I have watched a fair few and it captured my imagination. I just kinda took a stab can you all let me know if I’m on a decent path here? Not 100% sure I understand the format but what stops me from going;
Blue depletion land
Mental misstep
Thassa’s Oracle
??
Am I way off or is that a legit deck that will win turn 2 as often as I feel it will? (Seems like it would be hard for that to be below 50%?)
Just stabbing here
You are right on the money with that one, so much so that Thassa's Oracle is one of the few cards featured on the permanently banned list. You can find the ban list on the Rules tab of the website linked in the video description
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Gotcha
Well, right on. Maybe I’ll give this a try. Gonna try to think up my first legal “deck”.
Namaste🖖
9/75=12%
Yes, see the pinned comment. I noticed this mistake after uploading 👍