Ok so we have an interesting problem. People seem to like the Featured Drafter sidebar, but it’s just too big if we put everybody in it. So, we have a solution! Fewer stupid pictures of ourselves!
But wait you’re saying. That picture of Marlon with Muscle & Fitness magazine behind him is what gets me through the day! Well thankfully, we’re going to have the full-sized “featured drafter” boxes available for your favorite three DraftMagic staff members, while everyone else gets suck with the little box.
How will we decide this you might ask? Well scroll down the page, keeping your eye on the sidebar and you’ll see a one-week only poll! Choose your favorite three drafters, hit submit, and in a week we’ll put the drafters in order top to bottom. That way, the featured drafters section will indicate who people like, and who we will end up firing when we find somebody better!
So vote damnit!
So it’s a poll for second and third I take it? Marlon is a lock barring he dies of alcohol poisoning tomorrow.
This just seams cruel. Surly there will be hurt feelings and like most votes it will just be who has had the most publicity that wins, regardless of worthiness :P
Maybe I’m dumb, but I’m not sure I understand what the other contributors will get. Will they have the little boxes that are shown here, without a photograph of them ? Or will they have a smaller photograph than those of the 3 favorite drafters ? The latter would be great, IMO, but I don’t know if that’s actually what is at stake here.
Anyways, I’d like to have some picture of Scott & Abbey one of these days !
As John said Egolf is an auto include, since he drafts sick decks and listening to him while he rages at modo is priceless. If Vito could post drafts more regulary here I would pick him next. But since that is not the case I picked Josh next over Sean although I like Seans drafts too. Scott & Abbey got my last vote because even though they make a lot of mistakes while playing the two of them are just very entertaining.
Scott/Abbey voters just want to see what Abbey looks like.
@Jashin
Go to facebook and search – you will shit bricks :D
Hmmmm lets see… people who post regular content even when it’s the crap base set (Marlon, Josh, Sean, Scott&Abbey) or a bunch of faces that don’t/barely post anything. Why is this even a vote. Just put the people up who actually contribute regularly and everyone else gets the boot until they step up their game.
i’m gonna go with a tie between Marlon Egolf and the Scott/Abby team. HOWEVER drunk marlon wins hands down :P
I”M WEARING A BIRTHDAY HAT THEREFORE I AM CORRECT
OMG I GET TO PICK A THIRD FAVORITE!!?!??!??!??!
ok enough trolling, in order Marlon (preferably drunk), Scott/Abby (their pick better be tibor an luna) and Vito (preferably high on acid…. just for the gigs)
Wait, it’s possible to get fired from here? I wonder what it takes, since not showing up for work for 3 months wasn’t enough to get me fired…
(Also, curse the timing on this! If this were done in July or August, I’d be gold, Jerry! Gold!)
^ this
This is so unfair. But I voted. Marlon has to be there, solebush also for the effort he puts in, and third was Vito as he is a truly a retarded one but doesn’t show up anymore so it was hard to pick him but he deserves it. Ryan Calfee is a honorable mention just couse of Christopher Walken.
You should make them all little boxes that expand to big boxes when you click on them.
Also, if Sean Bruce’s box isn’t Basking Rootwalla I call shenanigans.
voting is pretty hard considering some of these people (ryan calfee, andrew trontis, orion wilson, roberto mahoney) haven’t posted a draft for however long i cant really remember. it seems pretty obvious to me that marlon and josh are the top two considering they are the only guys that put up drafts consistently. this site would be pretty much non-existent the last several months or so without them. greg jolin is very hard to listen to, he has a very annoying way of talking, and just pisses me off in general…. scott & abbey dont post drafts.. so im guessing you meant for us to vote on content, not just drafts. tom woodward, sean bruce, and vito all are pretty close for third in my opinion.
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gross why are people voting for greg jolin
Shit, there should be 4 picks. Marlon for the rage and the right picks, Josh for consistency and great plays (playing around that rally the peasants was one of the best ones), Scott & Abbey because they are entertaining and their plays are not always the best but they are learning, just like me and Greg because he is ÜBER excited when he plays, and I like that a lot. The australian dude is good too, just hasn’t grabbed me as much as the others.
My two favorite contributing people/groups are Josh and then Scott and Abby. I use to really like Vito but reading the comments swayed me to vote for Marlon simply because of how much content he still puts out while Vito has decided to focus on other things. Though I am not too into the drunken drafting nor the super raging in a loss.
Voting don’t mean shit. People are just voting for whomever posts the most. Got nothing to do with who are the best drafters.
@itisme
Seems reasonable to have the most visible tabs for the people who offer the most content?
marlon
vito
josh
Yea I guess quality and skill don’t mean shit if you just do enough of it
This doesn’t affect me at all because I blocked the images from loading on the sidebar using AdBlock Plus when I became sick of seeing their faces. True story.
My gf made me vote for jolin…
Josh
Marlon
Greg
I enjoy Scott & Abbey’s content but I think that they should also draft. I NEVER see Roberto draft and rarely see the others draft. When Vito drafts, he makes horrible picks. Sean drafts fairly often and is pretty entertaining in his drafts, I like him a lot too. If we could get 5 votes, mine would be: Josh, Marlon, Greg, Sean, Scott & Abbey.
I like this voting thing, but I don’t think its enough. Whats needed here is for the top 2 to battle, a la Cable Guy and Medieval Times. Thats the obvious next step, the elephant in the room everyone is thinking about.
I voted Josh (best drafter here who doesn’t rage all the time), i mean you get tired of listening to Marlon after awhile, he makes watching videos NOT fun. after that, I think Sean Bruce is actually really good, but should post more. Finally, I put Vito in simply because i LOVE the extra content he’s been putting in; id actually rather he DIDN’T make more draft videos but send me every link of every convention he goes to and every partymonster playback mash he makes cause they’re the bomb.
I don’t deserve to be on Featured Drafters at all. Once I retire this bamboo computer then we might get some CONTENT (applause!)
@Random Scrub more like Norin the Wary
Ideally, it would go:
Marlon – for no apparent raisin, obv
Josh – has quickly become “the one I hope to see the day after Marlon puts up a draft”
Vito – don’t know why you get so much hate, you are funny as hell and not a bad drafter, your rage moments bring me to tears
BUT, since Vito’s a whore who abandoned his own children to the kessig wolves, 3rd place has to be:
Greg – while I do enjoy Scott & Abbey a lot (more than most it seems), this is a drafting site, and they don’t draft. Greg, while recently absent, is insightful and still the third most prolific drafter on the site by far.
My votes are for Marlon, Josh, and Scott & Abbey. These are the people I am the most excited to see content from.
Funny how the world works sometimes. My least favourite drafter is Marlon.
My votes: Josh for his consistency and dignity, Scott&Abi for their cool segment and unbeatable charms, and finally Vito for his rambunctious entertainment value.
To be fair, many of the guys on the list don’t draft enough that I have a distinct impression of them. Some I have never seen and I visit quite often. Maybe my list would have been different if all the people listed were actually represented posting.
Marlon for being badass, Josh for being consistently good and entertaining since back on mtgovideos.com, Scott & Abbey for being constantly creative and making me smile.
@itisme
Tell me about it. One of the best drafters on the site is broyks and he is just posting in community content section.
Obviously, my thee votes go to (in order):
1. Marlon, for both his skill and his entertainment value. I’ll never forget the Glissa + Birthing Pod draft, that one was just my favorite draft ever!
2. Josh, for both his skill and the educational value of his drafts. Describing him as consistent as several posters above did actually hits the point perfectly here.
3. This was a very tough one. I absolutely love watching Vito’s videos whenever he decides to put one up, whether it is a horribly bad draft, cracking packs without reason or just random podcast raging. However, I also have to give Greg credit for being undoubtebly among the top three drafters on this site in terms of skill. And he has a GP top 8 finish, after all.
abbey is my favorite. if there was an abbeymagic.com, i wouldn’t even visit this site.
outside of scott and abbey, my votes went for josh and merlon, with josh being the best player on the site. vito would have been 4th just because he’s sort of a figurehead (or used to be). honestly, the rest of the drafters vary from average to downright awful. i’m not sure if it’s lack of experience or what, but i would honestly be surprised if any of them had mtgo limited ratings of over 1800.
Marlon, Greg and Josh, no doubt about it.
Thanks DayInDaLife.
As for me, I’d have to say the rank is Marlon, Josh, then Vito if he posted more, otherwise Sean Bruce. Marlon and Josh just are good all around drafters and players. Vito was just fun to listen to because he plays like such a boss. Although I disagree with many of sean bruce’s draft choices, he can still play his deck fine so I guess he gets the next spot.
I had to go with
Marlon: He won a GP, and is the best drafter on this website. Granted, sometimes he goes on tilt, and his play goes down the shitter quick, but luckily for him, the pure awesomeness of his raging more than makes up for the decrease of play when tilting.
Greg Jolin: Despite beating my teammate in the finals of a ColdSnap limited PTQ, there’s not doubt he’s 2nd best drafter on the website. Top8ed a GP, and always solid player, even when his deck blows
Josh Frankel: Hit or miss as a drafter, but always explains his thinking process, even when his plays are wrong, and is well spoken.
1 marlon for sex appeal (your drunk when I’m sexy)
2 vito for same reason as marlon
3 scott and abbey because abbey is better than scott at magic I would suggest that abbey play instead of scott but we all know girls don’t play magic.
1. Josh Frankel because he has can barely pronounce the card names and when he does its in a funny accent.
2. and 3. Two next biggest lads – Obviously Greg and Vito
Marlon, Greg, and Josh. They’re solid drafters, through and through. As much as I like Scott & Abby, they’re not drafters, shouldn’t be featured.
@conebone–hahaha no way! I blocked those pictures too. I am sorry, their mugs staring right in my face was just too obnoxious when I was streaming drafts…AdBlock that shit.
Meanwhile, 10 votes for Abbey. I know she won’t be as hot as I always imagine her, but from an objective standpoint, it might make the whole site look better to have a female face somewhere. (Besides Liliana.)
This site needs no other drafters other than Egolf and Jizualdi. Those two fuckers rock. You guys should do a draft with both of you!
I think the aforementioned people who are posting now are great. Of those who have not had content up in a bit, I miss Orion most.
I NEED MORE VITO CONTENT TO GET ME THROUGH THE DAY
SO PUT THE MANS FACE ON THE SIDEBAR
I lost some liking after the rage quit from Egolf when he forgot to switch lands, that said he does evaluate more than others in the comments and his drunk drafts rock.
Josh is fun to watch. I like how he’s able to think out loud over all the trivial and minor things and let us fully experience his thought process.
Orion is a personal favorite. He keeps good momentum in his video’s and it’s never boring to watch.
Here’s a way better idea… Everytime someone makes a post on the site? They get moved to the top of the list. Only the top 3 people get full pics, the rest get just the name bars.
Also, yeah. Do name bars… BUT give them flavor text too!