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Nov 9, 2022 14 tweets 8 min read Read on X
#MTGBRO #Limited Archetype Skeleton stream with @TaJoordan, @Sierkovitz and @JasonILTG is a wrap!

Thanks to everyone who joint us and interacted with us in chat!

VOD:
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

In case 2 hours is to much for you, here is a TL;DR 🧵
Retro Artifacts (RA) are going to be a real piece of the format. A specific RA will show up roughly as many times as a regular card of similar rarity.

Most RA's are better in certain archetypes, but all of them are colorless and can be used by multiple drafters. Image
Artifact removal looks main deckable and we would run more than 1 piece. Disenchant > Shoot Down > Raze to the Ground.

Enchantment based removal will be tricky due to this, but even more with sacrifice being a serious part of the format.

Sweepers are almost non-existent. Image
(Close to) mono colored decks will be a thing. Think 12+ basics of the same color. There are solid pay-offs for doing so and the amount of good (almost) colorless spells will allow you to make playables.

Green stompy, blue spells/control and black sacrifice/grind all look solid. ImageImageImage
Boulderbranch Golem is basically a colorless card.
For other colorless cards with a colored pip in the textbox, several colorless fixers are available to allow your mono colored deck to get full value out of these. Image
@JasonILTG created a slide for most of the colors, trying to identify in-color synergies. These will be important given that archetype synergies look weakly supported.
Below an example in which we theorize on how to break Warlord's Elite with Recommission (spoiler; we do not). Image
We dedicated a full slide to Assembly-workers. Big question was around the 3 workers and whether they are playable or not.
We landed on Mine Worker being a reasonable colorless 2 that can be a 23rd card in a deck, but none of us believed in the potential of the full 'set'. Image
Due to archetype synergies being weakly supported and white as a color feeling underpowered, we did not feel strong about the W-colorpairs GW, WB, WU and RW.

We explored the 'draw 2' theme in UB, but felt a combination of our mono-U and mono-B skeletons would simply be better.
RB looks great. Sacrifice is supported very well both in the regular set, but also within the Retro Artifact slot.

It looks like this deck can be both aggressive and grindy, dependent on what you build towards.

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RG seams like classic stompy, but might be able to generate enough powerstones to leverage some of the enormous large top-end beaters.

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UB Prowess is an archetype both @TaJoordan and I love and we obviously hope it works out here. Availability of instants/sorceries looks to be there, but the lack of a 1-mana cantrip might be problematic.

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BG does GY stuff and UG ramps. Wow, shocker.
The presence of Unearth and Power Stones most likely gives these decks a 'new' toy to play with.

The format looks AWESOME and we are HYPED, but that is the case for most sets😎.

GL&HF at your prerelease! Hope we were able to help.
@SealedDeckTech makes preparing for this so enormously convenient and I can not recommend using and supporting them enough!

patreon.com/sealeddecktech

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Just got back from an amazing time in Japan 🇯🇵. Went there primarily for work, but added quite some holidays to the trip given that it was my first time in the country.

Writing this 🧵to put it all together for myself. Hopefully it inspires, helps or simply entertains others.


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Day 1: After landing at Narita, Tokyo, I spent my first afternoon in nerds heaven (Akihabara). I got to buy some nice #MTG cards and Pokémon plushies (for the kids of course). Met early @17Lands dev @maxwindiff for dinner in the evening which was super nice!


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🏆🏆🏆I have found my personal lane/plan in #MTGNeon and am having succes thanks to it. Let me elaborate 🧵.

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Lets start with the logs of these 7-X decks so you get a feel for how I navigate:

BW: 17lands.com/draft/8726379f…

UBw: 17lands.com/draft/64edbe61…

UBr: 17lands.com/draft/5b068ded…
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