Learning to Spell | Approaching Drafts in PIO and Preparing for the Bonus Sheet Rotation

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In today’s episode, we’re checking out the draft log review to end all draft log reviews. These first few picks foster a TON of discussion between Ben and Ethan and get them talking about a variety of cards and archetypes in Pioneer Masters!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:
-An In-Depth Draft Log Review
-How to off-ramp to Tier 2 Strategies
-Winners and Losers from the Bonus Sheet Rotation

With the bonus sheet changing over for the next two weeks, what can you expect from Pioneer Masters draft? We’re here to break down all the changes as well as our current approaches to the format!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Housekeeping
4:20 P1p1
28:16 P1p2 and beyond
50:11 Spells Bonus Sheet

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Pack Your Briefcase | Winning with 5-Color Gates in Pioneer Masters

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In today’s episode, we’re talking all about our week 1 impressions of Pioneer Masters! Green is great (to no one’s surprise except for maybe ours) and the Gates deck is in the lead as our pick for best way to win in PIO. But there’s more to the format than just soup, and we’ve got a ton of thoughts about what works and what doesn’t!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:
-Week 1 Impressions
-Colors and Archetypes Re-Ranked
-Card Spotlights and Top Commons

Get ahead of the competition on MTG Arena with our in-depth discussion on the cards and strategies to steer into and steer clear of in Pioneer Masters!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Housekeeping
5:11 Week 1 Impressions
24:25 Approaching Drafts in PIO
48:18 Colors and Archetypes Re-Ranked
53:07 Card Spotlights
104:38 Top Commons

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Pioneer Masters Crash Course | High Powered Reprint Set Comes to Arena!

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In Today’s episode, we’re getting you ready for your first drafts of Pioneer Masters coming to Arena! We had a chance to play with these cards thanks to the Early Access event last week and are excited to share our findings and predictions for what this new format has to offer!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:

• Archetype and Mechanics Overview
• Big Picture Takeaways from Early Access
• Top Commons and Uncommons Ranked

This Crash Course is jam packed with fantastic information to make sure you’ll know what to do when you crack open your first digital packs of Pioneer Masters online!

Timestamps: 
0:00 Intro and Housekeeping
8:01 Archetypes
27:16 Bonus Sheets and Rankings
33:54 Early Format Overview
44:34 Archetype Buckets
52:11 Top Uncommons
1:07:10 Top Commons

Be sure to check out the Mana Pool for all your card buying and selling needs! Go to manapool.com/lol for 10,000 Extra Mana that you can use to get $10 in discounts on your orders!

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Lost and Foundations Mini Takes | Saying Goodbye to Foundations

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In Today’s episode, we’re saying Goodbye to Foundations draft! It may be around in Standard for 5 years, but we only got to draft it for a few weeks before getting ready for Pioneer Masters. Join us for a couple of tricky draft logs to frame a discussion about the format, and then a mini 25 Takes to send off the set in Lords of Limited style!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:
-25 Takes in 25 Minutes on Foundations
-Two Tricky Draft Logs Reviewed
-More Love for Green in Foundations

Foundations was an excellent core set and a return to the fundamentals and ABC’s of limited game play. We recap the big picture takeaways along with our usual awards for Golden Eggs, Imperial Oaths, and more in our mini 25 Takes!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Patreon
6:18 Draft Log 1
22:25 Draft Log 2
37:04 Takes 1-10
52:22 Takes 11-25

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It’s Not Easy Being Green | How To Win With The “Worst” Color in Foundations

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In Today’s Episode we’re talking all about the worst color in Foundations: Green! It may be the worst, but you can still win with it, and we’re going through what this color does best and how to take advantage of it if you’re forced into drafting it.

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:

• Key Cards and Strategies for Drafting Green
• Draft Log Review with Multiple Paths
• Format Check-In and Sealed Strategies

The Arena Open is coming up this weekend and you’ll want to have every weapon in your Foundations arsenal at your disposal in your pursuit of the top cash prize. If you find yourself drafting Green, you’ll want to know how to win with it and this is the episode for you!

Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro & Patreon
6:53 Storytime
12:44 Foundations Check-In
23:45 Draft Log
39:55 Green in Foundations

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Taking a Stab at Foundations | Our Week 1 Impressions of This New Set!

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. In Today’s Episode we’re giving you our first impressions of the newest draft format Foundations! We’re back to basics with this core-set style format, which is a great opportunity to practice good draft fundamentals!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:
-Big Picture Overview of Foundations Week 1
-Color and Archetype Rankings
-Individual Overperformers and Underperformers

Whether you’re grinding online or getting ready to take down your next draft event at your local game store, this episode is packed with all the information you’ll need to going into the second week of Foundations!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Patreon
5:07 Foundations Week 1
22:12 Colors and Archetype Tiers
47:44 Overperformers
104:39 Underperformers

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50 DSK Takes in 50 Minutes | Sending Off A Great Format In Style!

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. Today’s episode has us saying goodbye to one of our favorite sets in recent memory, Duskmourn! Get 50 minutes on the clock and join us as we summarize, theorize, and (rarely) criticize the highlights of this draft format!

🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode:
-50 Rapid Fire Takes about Duskmourn
-TONS of LOL-official Power Rankings
-Golden Egg and Imperial Oath Award Winners

Whether you’re saying goodbye with us or coming back to this episode to prepare for a flashback draft, these 50 takes are just the ticket for remembering this great format!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Storytime
8:07 Takes 1-10
22:56 Takes 11-20
36:35 Takes 21-30
48:15 Takes 31-40
58:17 Takes 41-50

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Our second bonus episode is here! As a companion to this week's Crash Course, we're each coming to this episode with a list of 10 rares to look out for in your first drafts (or sealed events) of Foundations!

Don't miss a second of this bonus content! Head on over to patreon.com/lordsoflimited for more information!

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Foundations Crash Course | Getting You Ready For Your First Drafts

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Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. Today’s episode is all about the brand new draft format, Foundations, and what cards and strategies we expect to be the best going into pre-release weekend and your first drafts online.

🎙️ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The 10 Archetypes, their signposts, and their support
• What to expect from Foundations in broad strokes
• Key Cards That are Tricky to Evaluate
• Top Commons and Uncommons to look out for

Hit the ground running at your local game store and online with this crash course into everything you need to know about Foundations before it goes live!

Grading Spreadsheet

Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro & Patreon Revamp
12:15 Signpost Uncommons
31:55 Big Picture predictions and Grading Scale
44:04 Grade Differences
1:17:59 Top Commons and Uncommons

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We're launching a brand new spin off podcast exclusively over on our patreon page and want to give our audience a chance to hear it! Tune in to find out what it's all about and then dive in with us as we continue the conversation from earlier this week by taking a look at the entirety of Jean-Emmanuel Depraz's Day 2 Draft from the World Championship!

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World’s Draft Debrief | Getting Inside the Mind of the Best Players in the World!

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. Today’s episode is all about drafting Duskmourn at the World Championship! Play along with us as we come up with pick orders of commons and uncommons for World’s and then see how we’d navigate Simon’s difficult draft seat!

🎙️ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

-A pick-by-pick discussion of Simon Nielson’s Day 1 Draft at Worlds
-Our own pick orders for drafting on the highest stage of the game
-Our takes on Universes Beyond and the Blocking Rules Change

Whether you’re a limited grinder or a casual FNM drafter, this episode will be a fun exercise in what it might be like to draft with the best in the business under the most pressure this game has to offer!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Universes Beyond
6:14 Blocking Rules Change & Patreon
10:37 Worlds Prep
36:27 Simon's Draft Review

Sponsored by MiracleMade

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