Comments on: Gamed Out http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/25/gamed-out/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Subrata Sircar http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/25/gamed-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4214 Subrata Sircar Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:19:55 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/07/25/gamed-out/#comment-4214 I'm not sure loosening your standards is necessarily better - don't you want people to play low cards against you, up to a point? On the other hand, bluffing more often might work; not playing more hands, but playing utter crap every so often. One of the other considerations is that playing against casual players for amounts of money they don't take seriously can end up frustrating any strategy, since many close decisions come down to "bet, it's more fun". The Ravnica guildmages are very strong, particularly if you're playing both their colors. I tend to pick the ones in my colors whenever they get to me, above everything else. (I first-picked a foil Guildmage and third-picked the second in the last pack Monday, for example, passing up an Assault Zepplid and some strong red-green cards to do it.) I've never seen an <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=96921" rel="nofollow">Orzhov Guildmage</a>, but I'll bet it's just brutal in draft/sealed. I’m not sure loosening your standards is necessarily better – don’t you want people to play low cards against you, up to a point? On the other hand, bluffing more often might work; not playing more hands, but playing utter crap every so often.

One of the other considerations is that playing against casual players for amounts of money they don’t take seriously can end up frustrating any strategy, since many close decisions come down to “bet, it’s more fun”.

The Ravnica guildmages are very strong, particularly if you’re playing both their colors. I tend to pick the ones in my colors whenever they get to me, above everything else. (I first-picked a foil Guildmage and third-picked the second in the last pack Monday, for example, passing up an Assault Zepplid and some strong red-green cards to do it.) I’ve never seen an Orzhov Guildmage, but I’ll bet it’s just brutal in draft/sealed.

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