Comments on: UNLOCKED: BFZ’s Low Impact on Standard – Two Weeks In https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/10/insider-bfzs-low-impact-on-standard-two-weeks-in/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:29:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: CorwinB https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/10/insider-bfzs-low-impact-on-standard-two-weeks-in/#comment-1402088 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:40:14 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=66577#comment-1402088 Great article, Douglas.
“It makes me wonder what R&D is thinking right now. Are they still proud of their work? Had they predicted this? ”

Considering they turned full Willy Wonka in order to sell the set (which, sadly, seems to be working so far), I suspect they knew the power level wasn’t quite there coming from the very strong Khan set. IIRC, MaRo even made a comment that designing BFZ had been very hard because it started as a 3-sets block before turning in a 2-sets block during development.

]]> By: Luca Ashok https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/10/insider-bfzs-low-impact-on-standard-two-weeks-in/#comment-1401299 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:55:25 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=66577#comment-1401299 evolutionary leap might go up a lot

]]> By: J.T. https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/10/insider-bfzs-low-impact-on-standard-two-weeks-in/#comment-1399791 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:01:20 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=66577#comment-1399791 Jacob Lively (this weekend’s SCG Open winner) stated that he was 6-0 in games against Esper, and called it practically a bye for GW in his Reddit AMA this morning.

Until the format moves away from GW, I would see no reason to sleeve up Esper unless I knew I could prey on a GW killer which would be over-represented at the top tables (and I could get to those same tables).

Should be noted that he specifically referenced a Naya Dragons (Dragonlord Atarka/Dromoka) build which absolutely crushed GW Megamorph. Might be something to keep an eye on for this coming weekend, and Dromoka specifically may be a nice spec target at its current price of ~ $8.

Moving from a 1-of in one SB to potential multiples in the SBs of the “best deck” and Maindeckable in a noted predator could move the needle nicely. I could easily see this come as we see a potential drop off in the value of Ojutai due to being somewhat weak against GW Megamorph.

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