Comments on: She’ll Be Riding a Frost Titan When She Comes

By: Greg Robertson

Greg Robertson — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:07:57 +0000

Great article. A suggestion for you, especially as you go further… I have no idea how to found your previous articles. There's no "about the author" to track them down either.

Keep it up!

By: Kodanshi

Kodanshi — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:25 +0000

I’ll swap you my Celestial Colonnade for your Necrotic Ooze.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:53:42 +0000

Elves has a better MU against UW than UB. Consume the Meek >>>>>>> DoJ. That said, I do agree that Noah is underrating Elves, as it's easily one of the best decks in the format.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:20:26 +0000

Great article. Nice analysis of the Standard environment and well-presented trades. I very much prefer to get an analysis, why you'd sell out of one card and acquire another one based on your market evaluation than simply getting a "net: +$5" tag, that suggests that it was a heavily lopsided trade. Keep up the good work!

By: randomsyllable

randomsyllable — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:17:51 +0000

Much improved over last week – the analysis, while similar in content to other articles, is appreciated. I'm personally less interested in forcing the authors to have cutting edge price info than having a basis to explain trade valuations (being bullish on a card prompting you to trade aggressively for it).

Also, I am a huge fan of removing pricing info altogether as it reinforces the notion that a good trade is any in which both parties leave satisfied. Obsessing over the exactly dollar value winner at the time of a trade is suspect (if you are moving product on speculated future value).

Thoughts for the future: you take criticism and apply it – this makes you better than many/most writers. Go you.

One thing that might be interesting is to establish where/how trades are taking place. Are you at your favourite store and flipping cards with a friend or are you butting heads with a fellow trade junkie at an out of state GP? Dynamics seems to be one of the least explored spaces in writing about trades properly. A few of the writers on this site and writers elsewhere have talked about branding and establishing rep, but I think more discussion of recognizing and drawing out wants of trading partners, especially new ones, is open territory to write about. I sell cars for a living and you live and die by your ability to dig the smallest details out of customers and find common ground – a principle applicable to any bartering.

TLDR: I liked it a lot more.

By: juggernaut1002

juggernaut1002 — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:58:08 +0000

Elves! just won the SCG Nashville. As control moves more towards UB instead of UW, the lack of Day of Judgement may lead to an increased presence of this deck. I agree though that WW Argentum deck does seem to have some consistency issues that keep it back.

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:39:57 +0000

Loved the article this week. Just to point out, you should all be following Noah on Twitter so he can talk to you about these trends before you miss the opportunity.