This set is super volatile for sealed. Only reason I went undefeated was because my fellow patrons weren't familiar with the top threats and I opened two slickshot showoffs. Every match was a nail biter with the number of early threats that dropped. WotC messed up badly with how they distributed the ratio of non Outlaws of thunder cards. It felt weird and wrong that I secured two match victories with a Crackle with Power (A card not even standard legal) after my opponent did their job and dealt with one or even sometimes both showoffs.
Some of it is just that this set doesn’t have its “boros aggro” type deck. Thats usually the remedy if you don’t pull bombs in sealed, but this time that’s not really an option. It’s hard to optimize everything for everyone , some people like bomb heavy formats, some like aggro formats.
I really appreciate those vids from u numot Cause.. it shows real strength of you. You also upload the bad days of drafting and not like other youtubers only faking to be professional and wins all in a row. Thats awesome
Somebody legitomately opened up bonnie, gitrog and the bristlebud? With the lands and powerful gold spells to go with them? Why do we still have sealed as a format?
First game, going second, kept a 2 lander with seize the secrets and gardener in hand. Proceeded to not draw land for 7 turns and die. (17 land deck including mana fixing and draw). Second game, opponent ramps perfectly into Bonny Pall and I land flood. 2000 coins down the drain, love magic.
My friend drafted Bonny Pall last night and in 8 games never got to play her. I milled him out with a grixis crimes mill deck once, and ate Bonny out of his graveyard with Lazav so he couldn’t bring her back
In game two when deciding who to chump with, is there validity to chumping with Wolverine? If you draw any land you can put a +1/+1 counter on armadillo, bill pump twice, use bill to saddle the grizzly and swing for 23 trample vs 12 toughness and 11 life (8+food). Didn’t pan out either way with the prickly pair draw of course but I’m just spitballing a line.
I got azz booted, nothing synergistic and bad mana, I really hate sealed with this plate booster crud. I wish they would go back to one rare per pack only but the fact that some people can get one and some people can get a bunch and extra stuff is total BS that just increases the luck factor and kills the skill factor. It’s total crap making it more like Pokémon card than a skill game, if they have to have more than one rare just standardize it. Every one of the rare has a chance of being a mythic or from the bonus sheet then uncommon and the rest. The fact that some people can get more than others is total bullshit. I think corporate greed is kicking in, but it’s definitely somewhat ruined the game of skill it used to be
Dust Animus is a great card, but I've won games I was 100% going to loose just from plotting it and people immediately conceding... People really overestimate it, heh..
I qualified on my 4th try. This Sealed is very nutty; one of my two losses in my last run was to someone that had Railway Brawler and OG Oko the Broko in their pool.
I played paper sealed with friends and my prerelease pack was absolute underwhelming. Had 10 rares including the promo rare. Most absolutely unplayable in limited.... My playable rares where vadmir, selvala, fblthp and outcaster trailblazer. But my green and white have been absolutely unplayable... Like around 7 green and 6 white cards in total. Had most cards in red and blue and almost no removal: had a thunder salvo, the red 3 mana - 4 damage spell and a stop cold. First Game I faced a dust animus into archangel of tithes. Next Game same match he dropped a stingerback terror. I stood absolutely no chance. Another friend pulled of terror of the peaks and had the jace as promo "rare". Sealed is absolute garbage with these formats
Sealed is VERY volatile with this set. 2, 3 and 4 mana bombs have dominance. Any and all decks needs to run either the best bomb with whatever way to enable or recure it or as much removal as you can manage. I forced white into my izzet deck to get access to fierce retribution and journey to nowhere. It's nutty.
Another bad thing about this much variance in sealed is the pressure you get when you're on the good side of it. Not everyone is a world class pro able to maximize any build, and you can also draw pretty badly or encounter even crazier pools, and go like 2-3 with insane rares, leaving you a sour taste in the mouth. Sure, much better have a great pool than a bad one, but still.
Going to comment before I see the rest of this. With that pool I would've been a greedy bastard and run the creosote heath and pylons to splash buried in the garden and fortune. This probably would've ended with a way worse record than he gets tho.
yeah ive noticed he just doesnt really like sealed in general, but hes kind of right about this format in particular. feels very hard to win with a pile of commons and uncommons when others managed to open like half a million of on color rares. the bombs are just insane in this set. play boosters introducing even more variance didnt help either.
32 minute 7-0 sealed video? Nice!
This comment actually made me watch till the end 😂. Idk why, but it stuck :)
Me too haha trapped
That's even faster than my 38 minute MOM speedrun of Day One!
Numot sucks at this
You burned us all and made Kenji some money. Bravo 👏 I honestly wouldn’t have stuck around for the first loss otherwise
Play Boosters have been really bad for Sealed.
This set is super volatile for sealed. Only reason I went undefeated was because my fellow patrons weren't familiar with the top threats and I opened two slickshot showoffs. Every match was a nail biter with the number of early threats that dropped. WotC messed up badly with how they distributed the ratio of non Outlaws of thunder cards. It felt weird and wrong that I secured two match victories with a Crackle with Power (A card not even standard legal) after my opponent did their job and dealt with one or even sometimes both showoffs.
Some of it is just that this set doesn’t have its “boros aggro” type deck. Thats usually the remedy if you don’t pull bombs in sealed, but this time that’s not really an option. It’s hard to optimize everything for everyone , some people like bomb heavy formats, some like aggro formats.
The hard truth: Sealed always sucked
Also power creep. Sealed has become unplayable for both those factors, and draft has also suffered a bit
@@EvilMagnitude Absolutely true, this has just been exacerbated now
i was pwned. no good rares, no end game. enough removal to prolong my suffering.
Yeah I've been having terrible luck this format compared to others, even though I've been enjoying OTJ a lot 😭
I really appreciate those vids from u numot Cause.. it shows real strength of you. You also upload the bad days of drafting and not like other youtubers only faking to be professional and wins all in a row. Thats awesome
Somebody legitomately opened up bonnie, gitrog and the bristlebud? With the lands and powerful gold spells to go with them? Why do we still have sealed as a format?
Are we descending into madness again? a whole week of arena open tries
First game, going second, kept a 2 lander with seize the secrets and gardener in hand. Proceeded to not draw land for 7 turns and die. (17 land deck including mana fixing and draw).
Second game, opponent ramps perfectly into Bonny Pall and I land flood.
2000 coins down the drain, love magic.
It's 25000 coins or 5000 gems 😂
My experience exactly
My friend drafted Bonny Pall last night and in 8 games never got to play her. I milled him out with a grixis crimes mill deck once, and ate Bonny out of his graveyard with Lazav so he couldn’t bring her back
In game two when deciding who to chump with, is there validity to chumping with Wolverine? If you draw any land you can put a +1/+1 counter on armadillo, bill pump twice, use bill to saddle the grizzly and swing for 23 trample vs 12 toughness and 11 life (8+food). Didn’t pan out either way with the prickly pair draw of course but I’m just spitballing a line.
I got azz booted, nothing synergistic and bad mana, I really hate sealed with this plate booster crud. I wish they would go back to one rare per pack only but the fact that some people can get one and some people can get a bunch and extra stuff is total BS that just increases the luck factor and kills the skill factor. It’s total crap making it more like Pokémon card than a skill game, if they have to have more than one rare just standardize it. Every one of the rare has a chance of being a mythic or from the bonus sheet then uncommon and the rest. The fact that some people can get more than others is total bullshit. I think corporate greed is kicking in, but it’s definitely somewhat ruined the game of skill it used to be
You’re awesome! Really enjoy watching your videos!
I hope you draw the nuts in the upcoming sealed attempt 💪👊
Dust Animus is a great card, but I've won games I was 100% going to loose just from plotting it and people immediately conceding... People really overestimate it, heh..
I qualified on my 4th try. This Sealed is very nutty; one of my two losses in my last run was to someone that had Railway Brawler and OG Oko the Broko in their pool.
4 rares will get you 1-3
good to know
the 3rd opp with the Bristley Bill curve + removal and wubrg turn 5 on the play was a treat!
11:20. So far so good! What could go wrong from here?
Kaizo time?
"everybody's deck looks better than mine" story of my life
I played paper sealed with friends and my prerelease pack was absolute underwhelming. Had 10 rares including the promo rare. Most absolutely unplayable in limited.... My playable rares where vadmir, selvala, fblthp and outcaster trailblazer. But my green and white have been absolutely unplayable... Like around 7 green and 6 white cards in total. Had most cards in red and blue and almost no removal: had a thunder salvo, the red 3 mana - 4 damage spell and a stop cold. First Game I faced a dust animus into archangel of tithes. Next Game same match he dropped a stingerback terror. I stood absolutely no chance. Another friend pulled of terror of the peaks and had the jace as promo "rare". Sealed is absolute garbage with these formats
Sealed is VERY volatile with this set. 2, 3 and 4 mana bombs have dominance. Any and all decks needs to run either the best bomb with whatever way to enable or recure it or as much removal as you can manage. I forced white into my izzet deck to get access to fierce retribution and journey to nowhere. It's nutty.
Sealed is wack ! See who gets lucky and has a huge advantage bc they got good pulls !
17:50 Bristly bill double pump seems better on board.
16:30 I'd pumped Bristly himself to leave wolverine as a chumper
Luck is beating skill on the latest sets...
need to change the title to “getting owned again by mtga algorithm “ 😂
I got there on try 4 today with GR/W beats and mounts. But this format is brutal with bombs and removal.
Another bad thing about this much variance in sealed is the pressure you get when you're on the good side of it. Not everyone is a world class pro able to maximize any build, and you can also draw pretty badly or encounter even crazier pools, and go like 2-3 with insane rares, leaving you a sour taste in the mouth.
Sure, much better have a great pool than a bad one, but still.
Shit happens man. I love the format but I don't think the new boosters make for a good sealed set. Thanks for the great content and dig the shades.
Sealed for OTJ, or maybe its gonna be playboosters in general, truly is so abyssmal. actual torture
32 min video? I'm going to guess that Nummy forgot to open bombs this time
Going to comment before I see the rest of this. With that pool I would've been a greedy bastard and run the creosote heath and pylons to splash buried in the garden and fortune. This probably would've ended with a way worse record than he gets tho.
Horny Humble-Brag was a mistake.
I hit my opponent for 28 tonight.
That should not be a thing.
Tbf 3 removals one of which costs 6 mana isn't optimal especially for such a bomb heavy format. Not anything you could do though, tough pool and games
Nummy lookin like Mr Worldwide in those Holzkern shades
I did a few sealed. Very swingy.
The shades are looking 🔥 big poppa
In a draft yesterday I opened a mythic and three rares in the same pack I had to take a screenshot because I couldn't believe it
Took me four bullets. Pretty rough sealed format yeah.
32 minutes and Nummy is mad in thumbnail?
Must be a record win
Sealed in general is fucking awful. Nothing to be done.
You say that each format, maybe its Time you face the truth
yeah ive noticed he just doesnt really like sealed in general, but hes kind of right about this format in particular. feels very hard to win with a pile of commons and uncommons when others managed to open like half a million of on color rares. the bombs are just insane in this set. play boosters introducing even more variance didnt help either.
Commenting for the algorithm
Form a posse seems like an obvious splash…
Brutal packs
This format sucks: how easy it is to 7-0 in in 32 minutes? I hope so. Let's watch
Time to go back to kaizo
Hahaha.
5000 gems for the right to play 7 pack standard. No thanks.
Another zero skill format.
All arena formats are horrible. 🤷♂️😂
Hey speedruns a speedrun
30 min video with a negative title, hmm.
I presume ez 7-0 with an aggro deck like that one time.
Yup f this game
Why is this guys always calling out for Luis Scott Vargas?