Limited Resources 705 - The Three Pillars of LOTR Draft

Limited Resources

Marshall Sutcliffe

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis give you the three pillars of LotR draft! This has the makings of a historically unbalanced format, but is that such a bad thing? They guys dive into this and also tell you what to go for and what to avoid in the format. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What is up, everybody? Welcome to the episode of limited resources. This episode, number 705.
0:20.7	My name is Marshall. I'm when you're limited resources and joining me on the line, all
0:24.7	the way from Denver, Colorado, the champs. It's Luis Cuff, Argus. Luis, welcome back to the show.
0:30.6	How goes, sir? Oh, things are going well. Really been jamming this format. I got to number five
0:37.2	mythic before we're taking a couple of hits. I mean, like, I'm between 10 and 15 now because I haven't
0:42.4	played for, you know, since last night or whatever. But we're going hard. We're talking at length
0:49.7	about this, about the format and color balance is obviously going to be one of people's big things.
0:54.0	But I'm going to beat the drum that I always beat. Balance and fun are just not as tightly correlated
0:58.7	as people think. It's just straight up that's just a fact. I think a lot of people
1:05.2	rightfully don't kind of fully understand because especially as competitive players were used to,
1:12.0	is that is the format balanced, you know? And, you know, and that has like, does that mean things
1:18.2	are fair? Does that mean things are even and does fun follow from that? Well, my opinion has
1:24.5	both a devoted magic player and a professional game designer is that balance is actually a lot lower
1:29.2	on the list, you know, than I think most people should think. And actually, I know a lot of games
1:35.6	are designed that way because it really fun is at the top, just 100%. And this format, despite being
1:43.3	actually horrendously color balanced, like, you know, green is just somewhere in the sewers
1:47.9	never to be seen. It's still fun. Like, it's still really fun. There's a lot of cool stuff going
1:53.2	on. And I'm not even like a huge like Lord of the Rings fan either. Like, I like Lord of the Rings.
1:58.2	I've read the books that obviously show some level of dedication. I mean, people are trying to
2:01.6	slog through those things. They're deep. Yeah. No small feet. Token cared a lot more about story
2:08.1	balance than did about fun. But the format overall, I have been enjoying it. So I'm excited to
2:17.6	give talk about it today. All right. Well, that's great. We're going to do the three pillars of Lord
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