The Proffessors Summer Series: Episode 33b: Shadowmoor Draft

In Pack 1 Pick 1 I get a solid first pick Shield of the Oversoul, White Green anybody?
My second Pick however was a bit less exciting and a bit less obvious. However, I saw my picks with a future in base Green so, I picked out a Tattermunge Duo.
Noticing that no red-black cards had been plucked out of the pack I decided on picking out a Fist of the Demigod, with a much admirable Traitor's Roar still in the pack, and decide to lean towards a base-red strategy.
In Pack 4, as a back-up and seeing nothing to hate-draft nor anything that could help me out I resort to picking up the artifact in the pack, Scuttlemutt.
Pack 5 came by and, with a Tattermunge Duo, Morselhoarder and a Fist of the Demigod made me decide here that base-Red was the way to go, and, hey a 5th pick common aura ain't that bad either.
Seeing Pack 6 also offered me base-Red cards I was happy to pick up an Emberstrike Duo and pass.
For the sake of the Archetype a 7th pick Scar seemed to be telling me my archetype would be set and while, not exactly a Blowfly Infestation deck, could cause some pretty crazy combos.
There's that Traitor's Roar. While many, I believe underestimate the card I was able to find out later in the game that tapping two blockers and dealing 10 damage to an opponent would come in quite handy.
Seeing nothing much else in my colors I 9th picked an Ashenmoor Cohort.
Knowing now that I was just about the only one in the shop not trying to force Blue-White I 10th picked an Emberstrike Duo.
In later picks of this Pack I didn't find anything quite that exciting other than a 13th pick Traitor's Roar.
My first Pick of this Pack was ridiculously tempting seeing a Steel of the Godhead, however with a Murderous Redcap also in the Pack, I had to go towards my archetype.
With a Pack 2 Pick 2 Burn Trail things began looking up more so than just with a couple of duos.
Nothing was worth Hate-drafting or using in this Pack, so a Tattermunge Duo seemed just fine.
In Pack 4 I took the mostly undervalued Red Initiate as I believe without any blockers my games were good match, especially teamed with the Auras.
Yet again I took ANOTHER Traitor's Roar. I didn't really plan to use all of them at this point, as if I did so my mana curve would be messed up, but, that was pretty tempting.
My next pick was a bit more difficult as I faced the concept of ditching base-Red and switching to base-Black. However, I also had the chance of taking a Sootwalkers to which I decided...yes.
Still afraid of a manacost issue, but seeing nothing else I decided to pick the Sootwalkers.
With the exception of a 10th pick Smolder Initiate the rest of this pack, believe it or not, was further still, pretty bad.
Still, after collecting a Burn Trail two common Auras and the Duos I can't say I was entirely displeased.
In this 3rd Pack I was faced with the difficult choice between Burn Trail and Dusk Urchins. However, knowing it would serve me well later on, I picked the card draw.
In Pick 2 it was clear Hate-drafting a Steel of the Godhead was necessary.
In this Pick, now knowing that I could pull off Red and Black I saw no harm in picking out a Tattermunge Maniac.
Fourth Pick Burn Trail! Wow! A pretty easy pick.
Seeing nothing else for myself I hate-drafted a Runes of Deus.
A fifth pick Duo should close off my set for the deck and hey, it's not that bad for fixing mana curve either.
Knowing there was enough red in my deck a 6th pick Morselhoarder could definetly be arranged.
Seeing nothing else in this next pack worth picking I take a Manaforge Cinder partially just for the fact that it was in my colors and partially for color fixing.
A second Blistering Dieflyn for my next pick seemed to be in order for the sake of the later game, and those annoying flying blue and white creatures.
Unfortunately the rest of my picks were pretty down, but after deckbuilding I was pretty excited and ready to go.
Until next time this is the cardproffessor tapped out for now, but we'll be back soon.

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[proffessors]

I also understand that I should start working on making a time machine that can be transferred through the internet and should only operate for bringing you back 4:34 seconds back in time.

[proffessors]

O.K. so what I've gathered from your guys's 'constructive' criticism is that I shouldn't have passed Puca's Mischief (but keep in mind 3 people before me did), I should show the cards in the pack (this was a first try so I expected some screw ups), I shouldn't value the auras so highly (which I still disagree with (Shield/Steel in 40 card deck=7/40 first hand with an average 1.1 (according to most limited players)cards per turn resulting in you getting 5/5s (and beating down your op. pretty easy

[yugiohknight]

hey my friend gave me some magic cards two decks in a box called portal are they anygood?

[proffessors]

Lol portal is a really old (but also supposedly really bad) set, but nonetheless I'm sure it's fun to play with.

[Amanisawesome]

i like the draft picks but i would have taken 1R/G that draws u a cards and adds 2 of any color over the manaforge cinder

[proffessors]

I would have knowing I was going base-red. But I think at that point I was expecting to go base-black (or something)

[polkadotedfish]

i think lorwyn was leaps and bounds better than shadowmoor...but!...i think shadowmoor is actually not that bad...eventide mabey a little weak

[hsktoadftw]

why did you type everything

[crashbuddy]

Maniac over power of Fire you are crazy

[ExplosPlankton]

You overrate emberstrike duo. This card is rly only playable when you are base black, not red. Note that he only gets +1/+1 when you cast black spells. Giving a 1/1 first strike isnt so good.

[Lightyagami121]

YEAH 9TH PICK ASHENMOOR COHORT!!! im collecting them, i already have 567 and 26 are foil. this is the first episode of the professors i've watched since before shadowmoor pre-release. I'm glad you guys took my advice and made the show better :]

[fakedout]

p3p3, you passed power of fire?

[TheWhiteMages]

also if you are set in one clean color base (r/b,r/g,u/w,other types of hybrid in shadowmoor i agree with the professor pick the auras highly they dominate limited

[TheWhiteMages]

i saw in oack three pick 7 i might have picked the manamaphose over the cinder but that was a decent pick i would like to see what u built think about including that in further drafts i give it 5 stars good video

[LLJKmikec81]

Its kind of hard to tell whether first pick oversoul is as bad as everyone says because we don't know what else was in the pack.

While it is insane if you can slap it on a creature, you need a large set of targets for it. So the moment you took Oversoul, it forces you to try hard to commit to Green White without even a clue as to what the two people on your right are doing.

If you don't get any G/W cards you just wasted a first pick. In any case its not the no brainer decision you claim.

[yugiohknight]

thnx