Gatecrash Draft Video #4

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Marlon Egolf (merl2pearl)

– February 21, 2013Posted in: Return to Ravnica Block, Videos

Marlon Egolf (merl2pearl) rocks you like a hurricane in his first ever Gatecrash draft.

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About Marlon Egolf (merl2pearl)

Marlon is notable for being one of the site’s most profilic drafters, with an MTGO account that seems to never turn off. ‘Merl2Pearl’ makes it a regular habit to stomp his way through 8-4s, often showing off unique plays worth keeping in mind.

19 Comments

1. Kyle B

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:48 AM

   Dude this card is so good.

2. electricgrendel

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM

   oh – beh – DYE – unce, huh?

3. xcver

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:31 AM

   Dimir seems really strong to me currently, which could be that is is a bit under-drafted. Wight and Lazav are both super strong in Dimir, especially since Lazav works also on creatures you mill, which is quite strong last time I checked :) Unfortunately you don’t have much mill and are more of the unblockable cipher deck :)

   I guess you got convinced by the strength of Wight in games 2 and 3 :)

4. Maeths

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:10 AM

   So my record so far with Dimir is 2-1, 3-0, 3-0. The 2-1 deck was kinda crazy, but I got mana screwed out of a 3-0. Shit happens. The 3-0:s were with quite average decks, which leads me to believe the guild is quite strong. A lot stronger than I initially thought.

   Anyways, an Egolf draft is always a candy bar so cheers! Hope you like this set more than you did RtR so we get a couple more of these.

5. tsunamishadow

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:52 AM

   The timing of the always inevitable “Do you want to change the color scheme?” couldn’t have been better.

   Does anyone else think Dimir is getting a little too popular now?

6. nolander

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 1:28 PM

   Just a guess, but I think the end of the last video was your opponent reading skull crack for the first time.

7. Espenhein

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 2:08 PM

   Great draft as usual Marlon, wtg!

   I think I like mortus strider more than most people, especially in a deck like this. It is good against the giant green creatures, and decent against aggressive decks since it trades with a few early drops from boros or gruul and blocks any bigger threat.

   The real value however is in the synergies with cards such as corpse blockade i.e. block your 5/5 with mortus strider, block your 2/2 with corpse blockade, sac mortus strider to return it to hand, kill the 2/2 and take 0 damage which makes it really hard to attack for your opponent.

   It works well with extort, especially with a sac outlet such a corpse blockade, which makes it an infinate drain life for 1 for 4 mana (or drain for 2 for 5 mana if you have 2 extort triggers and enough colored mana).

   Usually you won’t have a sac outlet, but in lategame you can easily get in a situation where people can’t block it because if they do it just dies and you get to use extort again which potentially make it both a solid blocker and a semi evasive attacking creature.

   Keep up the good work. )

8. Sean

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 4:27 PM

   Blind Obedience IS good. A 2 mana, can’t block turn it comes in extort is good. The 1 drop extort is good and it’s basically worse than blind obedience because it never gets in, like ever.

   Extort is good in any form!! AHHHH!!

9. tsunamishadow

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 6:51 PM

   @Espenheim I like Strider too, but I’ve never had or seen a deck where it’s been useful. Reusing extort triggers again is nice but expesive, I like it mostly for SageDenizen, ShadowDenizen, SlateStreetRuffian

   @Sean I would imagine that another 2-mana ready to go hard to kill extort trigger would be good in the extort deck, and the whole not blocking part would be better in white-aggression. The two together is just a little weird though, and probably wasn’t good in the deck Marlon was playing.

10. mince

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:15 PM

    The only real wrong pick I saw was something that was not Cloudfin Raptor over the second Cloudfin Raptor, because there were several points where you had to trade a ciphered creature because it lacked evasion. Furthermore, the keymaster rogues seem *much* better when returning a creature can re-trigger the raptor’s evolution.

    That said, amazing draft, and thanks for moving Wight of Precinct Six several picks up in my order.

11. patronize

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:17 PM

    Marlon, you’re awesome and a great drafter. Put up some more videos, we all love them.

12. Chris Winelnd

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:47 PM

    Good to see you posting again Mr. Egolf!

13. itisme

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:38 PM

    you and soulbush ARE draftmagic.com!! You 2 should start a podcast or somthing.. w/e more content!!

14. Touko Hujanen

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Thank you so much! Love your drafts. Very entertaining and good drafting.

15. KingofTown

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    Let’s just hope you don’t hate this set as much as RTR and put out some more videos!

16. Hopeless Johnny

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:55 PM

    Nice draft!

17. Apricio

    Posted February 23, 2013 at 2:30 AM

    “We drafted wrong but we won the draft which is better than losing the draft”

    lol, epic words… and another epic modified art, “Egolf, Draftmagic mastermind”

18. zenlemming

    Posted February 27, 2013 at 11:42 AM

    Great job, I think you drafted a fine deck, and your plays were strong. The Wights were definitely all-stars, they’re a beating with the right mill.

19. orcishartillery

    Posted March 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM

    (Late comment – catching up on videos)

    During the draft portion, I was amused that you had to decide whether to play the Wight or the white!