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Limited Resources 725 - Lost Caverns of Ixalan Format Overview

Limited Resources

Marshall Sutcliffe

Hobbies, Games, Leisure, Gathering, The, Value, Magic, Draft, Limited, Lr

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis give you their initial impressions of Caverns of Lost Ixalan! The guys break down what has been working (blue) and what hasn't (caves) so far in this new format. They also go over individual cards, archetypes, and do multiple crack-a-packs!

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Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up? What is up everybody? Welcome to another episode of limited resources. This episode number 725. My name is Marshall. I'm one of your limited resources and joining me on the line all the way from Denver, Colorado. It's Louis Scott Vargas.

0:28.0

Louise, you got your hands on the new set?

0:30.0

Oh yeah, I've been playing quite a bit and very much enjoying it. It's funny because I feel like the reviews of this set have been kind of mixed so far.

0:39.0

Like the word on the street, you know, mostly like kind of looking at Twitter and talking to my friends.

0:47.0

It's got a bit of the like, yeah, sometimes your opponent plays 3 1 drops because the best decks have like a ton of those.

0:54.0

Then not everyone is in for, but I actually have been liking the set.

0:58.4

It reminds me a little of Brothers were with a lot of trinkety artifacts and ways to use them.

1:04.2

Craft I've been enjoying trying to crack the descend in caves puzzles,

1:08.9

which I kind of have for descend.

1:11.0

I'm gonna talk about that as an archetype in the show,

1:14.0

caves yet to really figure out exactly what makes it tick. And maybe the answer is it doesn't. I'm not saying it, you know, it has to be good.

1:21.6

But right. So far this, yeah, this has been a lot of different kind of things to figure out and, you know, we're still somewhat early in the format and, you know, I like a lot of what would loss caverns has going on.

1:33.4

Yeah, me too.

1:34.4

That's been my experience as well,

1:36.6

is I've actually enjoyed it a fair bit.

1:38.4

And mainly I haven't felt super pushed away from anything yet, and that that feels good it makes it feel you know like it's still there's still room to explore and it's open and and you know we're still figuring out exactly what's good and what's not and how to draft these different

1:54.2

archetypes. We're going to talk about that. In our Lost Caverns of Exelon format overview show today,

2:00.7

we're going to talk about a couple of archetypes, the Descendeck that Louise mentioned and the caves deck in depth.

2:07.0

And we're also going to just talk about broad strokes.

2:09.0

This is when we really kind of start to dive in to the numbers to see what's here and how it informs how we draft and what we think and how it matches up with our experience actually, you know, at the draft table as well.

2:19.3

And certainly going to touch on like kind of the jest guy stuff too because that that is currently the best

2:23.7

thing to be doing. Okay so we're going to talk about all that stuff on the show before we do we

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