What is up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of limited resources. This episode, number 708. My name is Marshall. I'm on your limited resources and joining me on the line all the way from Denver, Colorado.

It's Luis, God, Vargas. Luis, how's the, how's the vintage cubes drafts been? Oh, been a lot of fun. People getting better at cube. We, because we have about, I don't know, six to eight people who are in almost all the cubes, you know, some number of them. And then we have like a couple of people who like float in and out. And then recently, some of the, the euros have started getting like Bondi, Andreas Peterson, like, I saw that. They started drafting. And everyone is just kind of getting better at cube. It's pretty fun to watch.

And it's been really fun to play. Those euros were watching the juicy cube drafts go in there. We want to be, and they couldn't resist. Yeah, mid-range Luis in the house. If you don't know what we're talking about, by the way, we're talking about the vintage cube drafts that Luis does on his YouTube channel, which you can find a link to in the show notes are over at lrcast.com. And they do off off of magic online drafts, you know, on the same site that we use like for the showdowns that we do with Lord's limited guys.

And then, and then they build the decks on magic online and play them out. And it's, it's been awesome. If you love vintage cube, and you want to see not only a lot of it, but also high level. And then in the hands of Luis, you got to check that out on his YouTube channel. Also, before we get into the show this week, by the way, we're going to do the draft walkthrough this time. So kind of the super crack a pack. We're instead of just talking about what we take for a pack one pick one. We're actually going to do a whole draft. So if you're watching on YouTube, you're going to

see the whole draft play out in front of you. And then if you're listening, we will be updating what's in the deck as we go so that you can follow along with the picks. Because, you know, after pack one pick one or pack one pick two. Maybe it can get a little bit sketchy things change really quickly. We always talk about this on the show. And, you know, we like to do one of these presets so that you can get an idea for how we approach those things. But like I said, before that, I wasn't here last week. And that was because I had kind of a family.

Medical emergency. My mom actually had a cardiac arrest at home last Saturday. So I got the phone calls for that and rushed up to the hospital. She ended up being on life support. It was, it was actually looking really bad. But she woke up two days later. And she's been on the road to recovery ever since she's in pretty bad shape. You know, she had CPR. Dunder. She had to have a procedure for a pacemaker, defibrillator put in. She had a blood clot in her arm. You know, so she, she had a really, really rough

week. But she's still with us. She's doing about as well as you could possibly expect. And, and I thank you for for allowing me, Louise, to, to attend to that last week. I don't like to miss the podcast. But of course, when things like this come up, it's necessary. But anyway, I just wanted to give that update because I had a few people ask, hey, I hope everything's all right. And that's what was going on. So for this week, again, we're going to do the draft walk through. I wanted to mention that the show course is brought to you by you via the Patreon. Maybe it's

you. Is it you? Patreon.com slash limited resources where you can go. It could be you. You can support the show directly. It's a, if you haven't been on Patreon, it's just a really great way to support the creators. Right. It allowed. It is one of the reasons YouTube is another big one as well. But it is one of the reasons that we've been able to have people list on their career content creator. Right. In the days before these things, you know, say 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 15 years ago.

You know, you weren't really able to do that because there wasn't a way to monetize you. You could be really good at what you did. You could write great articles or make great music or even in the early days of podcasts, make really good podcasts. But there wasn't really a steady avenue by which you could monetize it and make it part of your career or your whole career. Like how Luis and I have done. And Patreon came along and really kind of changed the game on that because it's so flexible. It allows you to sign up to support your favorite creators. And you can do it for kind of

any amount you want. It's fully flexible. You can leave. You can come back. There's no commitments or anything like that. And you get some cool bonuses as well. And we've been with Patreon since they very first opened up. And I'm a big fan. You know, I really view them as an integral part of how smaller content creators like us and and others are able to keep doing these things because the bottom line is, if you just look at how content creators work, if they can't, if they don't have the monetary incentive, it's not that it's all about the dollars.

Right? Like if you start doing podcasts for money, like you, you should be doing something else with your time, right? It's not a smart way to go. But if there's nothing there, it is really hard to keep putting your own money in and keep coming back week after week after week after week, where if there's something there where it can be part of your job or supplement your income or whatever, then you can say, you know what? Like this is worth it. And like, I don't feel like I'm wasting my time, right? And I don't feel like I'm spending it, you know, inefficiently, especially as you get older and have adult

responsibilities and stuff like that. So in any rate, we have a Patreon for this. We have for a long time. As I mentioned, it's patreon.com slash limited resources. And it's in the description. And, you know, even if it's not us, check it out. You probably your favorite, you know, smaller artists, podcaster, whatever is probably on there. And, you know, I support multiple things on Patreon myself, just because I think it's such a cool platform to be able to do that. In any rate, one of the perks that you get for being a patron is you get access to the Patreon feed

which is just where we can post stuff to everybody who's our patron. It's not that complicated, but it does mean that we get a direct line to our most dedicated listeners. And one of the things you get there too is you can ask questions on our Patreon question of the week thread, which I'll put up usually about once a set. I'll refresh it. This one comes from Raymond who says limited drafting seems to be very well supported these days. But is there anything you wish Wattsi would do differently? Definitely agree with that opening statement, right? Luis, like there's no

like I don't feel like drafters are limited is left behind or, or, you know, in some dark corner of wizards of the coast, like it does feel quite well supported. Definitely. I think that we're in a lot of ways a golden age of limited with these arena opens like that is a really strong kind of incentive to play and practice and be good at limited. You get these exciting tournaments. You can play from the comfort of your own home. But we also had no longer C

like the big in paper tournaments that are limited, like Grand Prix's are probably the biggest one. We do have now these hundred K tournaments. There's going to be one in Barcelona, one in Vegas. And if those do well, I expect to see more of them. And the one in Vegas, at least, is limited. Yeah. Yeah. I think they both are. I think the Barcelona. I didn't even know there was one in Barcelona. Everyone got so excited about the Vegas one. They just announced one in Barcelona as well. Oh, very cool. Yeah. So, man, yeah, we're stepping away from the

tournament play opportunities, because some people that's not what they're in for. We get a lot of sets. And I feel like the baseline quality of a set for limited these days is pretty high. I think they're pretty good. Like they know the best practices. The cycle of 10 to color on commons that are signposts. The land cycling or fixing or sort of mechanic that kind of helps without draws the fact that they have maybe a little bit too standardized of like a curve of things they have you can expect in each color.

But even even with that, I think the net effect of all this is they don't miss that often in limited. They do sometimes I think frexia all all be one was a pretty big mess. I think that format was truly bad. But most of the sets aren't like if you look at the past three years of sets, which is a lot of sets. How many of them do you think were like D level or worse? And it's just a couple. It's like two maybe and every, you know, there's a far frexia like and a lot of bees and A's is one or two more.

But a lot of these. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I think that I'm happy. Like I think that limited is a thing that in a corporate environment, it could be easy to lose track of because sometimes it doesn't pull the exact same numbers as what constructed could that type of thing.

But it is a really important part of the ecosystem to people that love it. Absolutely love it. Like me, you know, our listeners. And and I think that they get it. I really do like the effort that they put into getting those arena.

Opens up and running. And as we've seen them tweak them over time, they obviously take them seriously. I'm sure they're very profitable for them as well. And I, you know, that's to me all, all the better, you know, the other big one was when we went back to the pro tour. Right. We had the arena opens or their arena championships and stuff like that during the pandemic. But we went back and said, OK, pro tours back very critically. They kept the same structure that it had before with one draft on day one and one draft on day two.

I mean, that's six rounds, you know, that that end up being super, super important to how the top eight plays out. Like you cannot stroll into the pro tour and not understand limited and expect to do well. Like, you know, expect the top eight or do really, really well.

So I think that that's another sign, you know, that they that they understand how important limited is in the ecosystem. So yeah, I'm really, I have no complaints, which yeah, you know, normally I would use a question like this to try to like maybe get an idea.

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