blue is so bad at common
Nice 0-3 ROFL. Does mill work in this format? Poison counters will fuck you up so you can't stall. Now you got another factor to try to stall for besides combat damage. Idk I haven't really paid attention to blue so maybe they got some nice tools but blue feels weak in this format.
I made a bunch of different accounts and recycle between those for draft runs so they all stay at bronze.
I think it's dumb how MTG matches you up based on rank in limited format to get people to spend more money. Also feels shitty to draft a cheese deck and not be able to execute because you're always matched up with tryhards who will draft to force blue white fliers every opportunity they can.
blue is really shallow at common the only consistent performer i can think of is gitaxian raptor. the format is too fast for low value proliferate nonsense, most good decks get under even the two mana counterspells, and your common removal slot is pretty bad against 1-3 mana toxic dorks or etb/haste red green beatsticks. w/u can be solid and i've seen a good u/b deck with higher rarity payoffs but u/r and u/g are the absolute pits. rip quicksilver fisher you could be so good in a different format, sadly volt charge got your ass
this set has a lot of hidden gold cards that go into one archetype and proliferate seemed to be r&d's way to bridge the gaps but it just doesn't really pay off, not in time at least
What do you mean by "hidden" gold cards?
Infect and oil have no crossover so those two types of cards usually want seperate archetypes (ie oil troll loves rg pretty useless in gw, crawling chorus very important in wb/gw useless in rw/uw). Seems like they tried to make proliferate a glue that worked with both but it's too slow in the format, both to get started and to finish.
I actually saw a solid ug draft deck at the pt but this probably has more to do with high level players slamming red and white cards over everything
Just here to echo that sentiment.
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