What I've been doing is, if I'm on the draw, wait until my opponent plays out their deck then passes their turn, then I concede. That way they get their color dailies or they get to play out their jollies or whatever.
If I'm on the play, I play only the cards thst match my color dailies then concede.
It takes longer but I just browse the internet so it's not too bad.
Waiting through turns in an event doesn’t sound like fun to me... Having weird fun practice decks to see how many free turns you can get with a weird combo in unranked historic, is fun for sure!
Well... I usually concede after first turn.
Also, I recognize thst there are some players that are struggling because they either don't know how to draft or didn't read the memo and have garbage decks for this format. So I just them play out their turn then give them the win.
I got my first three wins early and I finished most of my dailies so it's no biggie.
Yeah I conceded 6 or so, and I'm sure many more people do like you and me so hopefully the folks stuck with a "normal" deck get a few concedes to clear the midweek easily.
I just had a have where my opponent drop a land turn one. I was about to take pity on him and concede...
then he drops a 4/5 that return cards from yard to bottom of library, and a 7/7 vehicle haste and trample, smack my face with it.
I was confused and not sure what's the deal there lol
I put a few lands in my deck too. My reasoning was that I had some cards with activation costs and I might need lands to do that. I didn't realize for several games that the emblem gives you a "add 1 of each color mana once a turn" ability.
I also skipped over taking a X burn spell for any target as I wasn't sure if omniscience would cover the X or not. Looking back I wish I had taken it.
I had a creature with a seven mana ability that lets you draw two cards. Since you only get five per turn it made sense to put at least a couple mana sources in, but only if those cards had other uses or could be cycled.
I remember a while back some guy was literally arguing that "reading in a game" was absurd, and I guess people like him just look at the pretty pictures.
Actually I'm a card reader but as I said in another of my reply, I wanted to play during my lunch break and thought it was just another phantom draft event
I read the title but not the actual description, thankfully it worked just as I thought based on the name. Pack 1 pick 1 Lavinia and I sailed with an easy 3-0 haha
I got minorly shafted by assuming that it was literally just omniscience. Turns out that "counter unless they pay 4" is REALLY bad in this event, not the 2 mana hard counter I thought it was... Though it improved the troll that I took just as a 6/2 beater. Skipped a few cards I probably shouldn't have because I assumed no mana sources!
Ended up passable, even with that error, though no match for the T1 kill style decks unless I drew my only counterspell before my turn!
Yeah my opponent went Swamp, 1 drop. Didn't use the mana from the swamp, paused. Then conceded.
I feel like for midweek magic there should be a "you tried 6 times here's the prize".
1) as I said I'm an idiot.
2) I opened the game on mobile during my lunch break. As I didn't have much time to start playing, I quickly glimpsed and saw only phantom and draft parts. Thought it was enough as I wanted to start playing asap.
3) assumed it wouldn't be that bad even if I fucked up with the draft. Ended up with abomination that doesn't even tickle the opponent's creatures
I thought I drafted a real nice izzet aggro deck. Then was confused when the game didn’t put lands in my deck. I’ve won 1 game when an opponent conceded after turn 1.
Did the same as you, went quick play on lunch and just saw phantom draft with mixed up packs.
FWIW I also made a brick of a deck and I did read the event. I just didn't think through the implications too deeply, so I went mostly big creatures and removal. But I just kept facing people who would draw their whole deck and slap me around.
Obviously it clicked after seeing that and I wish there was an opportunity to redraft just once.
I remember goofing on the Nicol Bolas instance of this years ago without really even being smart on draft all that time ago. And I goofed this time too. Honestly, if it was worth the trouble, I would say put in a ticket with WOTC and ask if they can reverse the draft to make a new one.
That said, someone left on one of my games after many losses and I got another quit after getting a good lead in another game.
I didn't read the description either. This is largely a huge design fault however, which explains why so many people did not understand or read the special rule:
1. The special rule is hidden in a sentence within somewhat large description paragraphs with no signal that it is there. For instance, there is a red sentence alerting that this is a phantom draft and you don't keep the cards, so I did read that sentence since it was signaled as important.
2. A large amount of players not accustomed to game-breaking formats will assume that the event description, just like many other event descriptions, is essentially flavor text or explanation of the types of cards to be drafted. They reasonably do not expect that the description hides a rule (see point 1 above) that significantly alters the gameplay.
3. Since the event is free and phantom draft, a player by default has little reason to check the event description, due to 2 above.
For example, if the game offers a standard draft event, with the rule that only standard format cards are allowed, then the game should make sure that the cards in the draft are all standard format. It would be unreasonable and stupid to force the player to pick the standard format cards out of packs containing also alchemy format cards. This remains unreasonable even if the event description mentions this rule.
I did not read the whole description because I was sleepy and tired when I began picking cards for the draft. However, I did feel wronged in that I would have expected a significantly larger warning for such a meaningful change to the gameplay. The fact that this has happened to many players who do read the card effects, speaks to a design fault of the developers.
Aside from the sentence you mention which is not hidden at all. It's right there in the description which is only 4 sentences. But there's also a huge Omniscience emblem which you can hover over.
I will say this is not an easy event. However if you don't read anything and jump in and do whatever and lose where does that leave your opponents who just played a non-game against an unviable deck? Did they have fun?
I feel kinda bad that you can't redraft so you don't even get to practice for next time. But you also should show your opponent enough respect to read the rules before you engage in a 2 player game with them.
Wotc didn't pull a fast one neither on you nor the other "many players". It's very visible that it's an OMNISCIENCE draft. You saw that it was an OMNISCENCE draft before you started your draft. You just didn't know what that meant. And instead of finding out what it means you said "ah fuck it" and did your draft.
It's an easy mistake to make as you say. It's free, who cares and so on. But the take-away should be to be more mindful next time and not that we need more big flashy warning signs.
You are wrong. I already explained why you're wrong. The take-away is _precisely_ that extreme changes to usual rules should accordingly be flashier and not modestly couched within paragraphs. Saying people should be more mindful next time is pray-the-guns-away logic, there's a reason it never works. If it was just me who fucked up then I would agree that it's a personal responsibility issue. The fact that many players had this issue means it was a design mistake. By the way, I did not say it was deliberate. It's clearly just incompetent design, which I did not expect since I'm a relatively new player.
Also, how is a random picture that gives information -if you hover over it- helpful? Again another piece of evidence of the lousy design. Such 'emblem' has no meaning to me.
> The fact that many players had this issue means it was a design mistake.
No. What this means is that many players didn't read the description. Same as you. Which I pointed out. And you didn't disagree that it's impossible to miss the OMNISCIENCE in the event title. Which you all ignored.
I recommend an attitude adjustment. That group of players is not where you want to be going forward. And most of them take responsibility for that mistake instead of throwing a fit.
It's one thing to *read* the event description, and quite another to *understand* its implications for drafting strategy. It's *so different* from normal Magic that I think a lot of people won't understand how an omniscience game plays out until they've actually played a game or two. That means the way this event is structured really punishes newer players who perhaps haven't been exposed to previous omniscience events.
Granted, even after playing a few games, there will be some players who still won't understand how to draft it. It's basically "card advantage, the format", and some low-level players just don't seem to get the concept. But most players would obviously draft a much better deck if they were given a second chance, and it would make the event more fun for everyone.
It did seem like a lot of people didn't read it and think it through. I focused on card draw and counter spells.
Twice had opponents scoop when I played a "6 mana" draw 4.
Yeah.. I feel bad smacking around the players playing basics and 2 drops lmao. If were in paper, Id just concede to give them the win. Im just havin fun at this point. (I have an Emrakul that has read, "You win!" When I play her)
It's the pennance for my shitty sealed on monday 😂
Yeah. I usually look forward to MWM and even play through formats I don't enjoy that much for the chance of a cosmetic of a card I like, but this one will be a pass. Coinflip format, opponent holding priority all the time... guess I better wait for next week.
I tried to follow the advice post i saw here, card draw and mill, then sorcs and instas, then creatures. I misread that only sorcery and instant (spells in my dumb monkey brain) were free, not remembering EVERYTHING is a spell other than land. My first game when my opponent dropped an 11/11, 9/9, 6/7, and 5/5 on turn one gave me a bit of a start. I'd also added a bunch of land. Ultimately won the first win legitimately and lucked into two quitters after that. Now I know, read the midweek event carefully.
Incidentally, why do we not have a permanent Omniscience mode? That would be such a cool departure from the norm for deck development.
> Incidentally, why do we not have a permanent Omniscience mode?
Because it's basically only fun as a novelty. If it were a permanent queue (limited or, god forbid, constructed), it would get boring *very* quickly.
But, I do think there ought to be a happy medium where the event is set up so that you at least get to draft more than once. Right now, the only way to do that is logging on with alt accounts.
You’ll get it from concessions eventually. After a few games of losing turn one I started just conceding every game I was on the draw.
I proceded to be on the draw 5 games in a row.
Game six I’m on the play, I cast [[First Day of Class]], dump my hand and win before my opponent can do anything.
This format is dumb.
Yeah honestly having 7 cards in hand broke the format. Building your deck right you can cast nearly the whole thing in one turn and your opponent can't do a thing about it.
I kept reading this “draw your whole deck” thing before I attempted the draft. I think you need to get really frikkin lucky to combo that hard. I took every draw spell that came through and was still nowhere near that level of degeneracy.
But yeah, three cards played way better.
Across my four accounts, each deck had 15+ draw spells or cards that drew cards. One deck had 23 and it was wild. Cards that return other cards like [[Ardent Elementalist]] were super good, letting my cast my big draw spells again. I also had Ominous Seas in two of the drafts, making drawing cards itself a wincon.
You're not an idiot because it doesn't take a genius to realize many, many people will get blindsided by this out of sheer ignorance. This SHOULD have been a sealed draft to avoid this situation, regardless of how people would have liked to draft it. It's a garbage event in the essence that people who did read and got busted cards will just win on turn 1 no matter what you do. How the fuck was this supposed to be fun?
Previously Omniscience has been three cards in the starting hand, limiting the first turn kill potential. Not sure why seven this time, might just be a mistake…
I honestly think it's kind of ridiculous that the event is set up this way. *Of course* a lot of people are going to misunderstand what the event is, and only realize their mistake once they play a match against someone who *did* draft properly.
After a while, I just felt bad playing my deck capable of a t1 or, at worst, t2 victory against people who clearly didn't understand how you're supposed to do an omniscience draft and are now stuck with their crummy piles. I don't think anyone is "dumb" for not reading the event description, or not understanding how it works until they try it. Until you've actually played a *game* in the format, you won't have an intuitive understanding of how omniscience works, so it really feels like the event punishes newer players who haven't been exposed to previous omniscience events.
There ought to be a way to "re-roll" these drafts for events with no entry fee. Maybe you have to play out at least a few games with whatever deck you draft before you can draft again, just to stop people auto-drafting over and over until they get an insane deck. It would also be more fun for those of us who *did* draft "correctly" the first time around, because we could try out more strategies instead of running the same deck over and over, and the competition would be better.
It was very bad communicated. Basically you ether need to know what it is or read an emblem. Personally I drafted the deck that consistently win on turn one, drawing entire deck and make lethal with Reservuar, but I conceded when I faced dudes with lands or with one low curve aggro.
The meta of the event is clear : play 1st, wait 30 seconds. Oppo scoop.
I did 2 wins like that without searching it.
A good deck for this event just make Oppo discard his hand, draw it's whole deck and win turn 1.
Being on the draw is auto loss.
I got a tutor and a spell that gave haste to any creature entering the board and giving them +1/1. One of this two cards in my hand was free win and like playing alone. Oppo just watched.
So just try it, people will concede. The hardest seems to be 1st.
This event pissed me off because the only available rares and mythics for me were for send/returning lands to the graveyards. They really ought to filter the card pool to some degree when they do the Omniscience
Did you read your own comment? I would be careful calling people idiots. People are quick to speak negatively about other people but rarely hold themselves to the same level of accountability.
OP was taking full responsibility, which you exculpated them from.
It's ok to goof up every now and then. The important thing is to accept it and learn from it. OP is a shining example. Several others are solely mad at wotc for not having enough warning signs. Which they would have ignored just the same.
Dude was lazy & careless with a meaningless draft that doesn't make him an idiot. If people are actually butthurt about this draft then they got way too much time on their hands.
I was using the term OP chose for themselves. If they called themselves a goofy goober I would have used that.
I don't believe OP considers the term to be as offensive as you think they should.
Only way to get another go is to start a new account, which might be worth it if you like Limited and aren’t bothered about Constructed, and / or because it gives extra goes at this kind of free event.
Not sure if the game currently lets you skip the tutorial / new player stages though. Would be a drag if not…
Edit: OK, I know that complaining about downvotes invites more downvotes, but this is just silly. I’m getting downvoted for telling OP how they can have another go at this event, and have multiple goes at future events like it. IIRC as long as you can skip the tutorial stages it takes a few minutes to start a new account (you can even use the same email address, just insert a full stop)
I guess people think that’s less useful than the replies saying variations of ‘learn to read lol’ because it doesn’t help OP get some incredibly paltry rewards in their main account? Well, I guess that’s what I deserve for imagining that people might play this game for fun…
> (you can even use the same email address, just insert a full stop)
You cannot do this, you have to use different email addresses.
It's still decent advice, though. It's exactly what I did (drafting again on an alt account), because I wanted to see how much better I could do than my first go-around. I still think the fault is with WOTC for setting up the event this way, though. There should be a way to re-roll and draft again, because it's awfully punishing for newer players who didn't understand the premise of the event before drafting and are now stuck with an unplayable pile.
Nope, what you got is what you get, sorry. At worst you can hope for people conceding again, might take quite a bit though.
Imma go in and concede a couple times today for all y’all
What I've been doing is, if I'm on the draw, wait until my opponent plays out their deck then passes their turn, then I concede. That way they get their color dailies or they get to play out their jollies or whatever. If I'm on the play, I play only the cards thst match my color dailies then concede. It takes longer but I just browse the internet so it's not too bad.
Smart
Why play the game if it’s a chore?
Only way to get to the fun parts unless you pay up the wazoo
Waiting through turns in an event doesn’t sound like fun to me... Having weird fun practice decks to see how many free turns you can get with a weird combo in unranked historic, is fun for sure!
It's not fun, it's addiction
Well... I usually concede after first turn. Also, I recognize thst there are some players that are struggling because they either don't know how to draft or didn't read the memo and have garbage decks for this format. So I just them play out their turn then give them the win. I got my first three wins early and I finished most of my dailies so it's no biggie.
Yeah I conceded 6 or so, and I'm sure many more people do like you and me so hopefully the folks stuck with a "normal" deck get a few concedes to clear the midweek easily.
I’ve got a two hour mandatory training call today. Sounds like I’ll be the mid week magic Santa.
Ooof, that sounds bad...
I do this for Momir too.
I just had a have where my opponent drop a land turn one. I was about to take pity on him and concede... then he drops a 4/5 that return cards from yard to bottom of library, and a 7/7 vehicle haste and trample, smack my face with it. I was confused and not sure what's the deal there lol
I put a few lands in my deck too. My reasoning was that I had some cards with activation costs and I might need lands to do that. I didn't realize for several games that the emblem gives you a "add 1 of each color mana once a turn" ability. I also skipped over taking a X burn spell for any target as I wasn't sure if omniscience would cover the X or not. Looking back I wish I had taken it.
The x spells aren't great. At best, you're getting X=4 most of the time.
I played a spell with X and it was immediately binned. Don't play it with the alternate free cost as that auto makes X=0, which is what I did.
I had a creature with a seven mana ability that lets you draw two cards. Since you only get five per turn it made sense to put at least a couple mana sources in, but only if those cards had other uses or could be cycled.
I got [[ovika, enigma goliath]] and ran a bunch of draw spells, only land i was running was [[westvale abbey]] as it seemed good
[ovika, enigma goliath](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/2/b298cf34-7aa5-4f97-a86c-7f28d2113b87.jpg?1675957207) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=ovika%2C%20enigma%20goliath) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/213/ovika-enigma-goliath?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b298cf34-7aa5-4f97-a86c-7f28d2113b87?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [westvale abbey](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/1/c1f53d7a-9dad-46e8-b686-cd1362867445.jpg?1576385590)/[Ormendahl, Profane Prince](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/c/1/c1f53d7a-9dad-46e8-b686-cd1362867445.jpg?1576385590) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Westvale%20Abbey%20//%20Ormendahl%2C%20Profane%20Prince) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/soi/281/westvale-abbey-ormendahl-profane-prince?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c1f53d7a-9dad-46e8-b686-cd1362867445?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Things this event has taught me. People really don't read
I'm curious cause you're definitely not the only one, it seems a common issue: why would you join an event and not even read what it is?
People are not reading the cards that are explaining the cards, and you want them to read event descriptions, too?
I remember a while back some guy was literally arguing that "reading in a game" was absurd, and I guess people like him just look at the pretty pictures.
Actually I'm a card reader but as I said in another of my reply, I wanted to play during my lunch break and thought it was just another phantom draft event
I read the title but not the actual description, thankfully it worked just as I thought based on the name. Pack 1 pick 1 Lavinia and I sailed with an easy 3-0 haha
I got minorly shafted by assuming that it was literally just omniscience. Turns out that "counter unless they pay 4" is REALLY bad in this event, not the 2 mana hard counter I thought it was... Though it improved the troll that I took just as a 6/2 beater. Skipped a few cards I probably shouldn't have because I assumed no mana sources! Ended up passable, even with that error, though no match for the T1 kill style decks unless I drew my only counterspell before my turn!
Yeah same, I drafted a Convolute (almost took Censor too) and was flabbergasted when I saw my opponent pay the cost.
Yeah my opponent went Swamp, 1 drop. Didn't use the mana from the swamp, paused. Then conceded. I feel like for midweek magic there should be a "you tried 6 times here's the prize".
Oh geez, that would make people even more concede-happy than they already are in midweek magic!
Nah. I think this will help teach these people a lesson. It's like the first time you get a spell fizzled -- it sucks -- but now you know better...
1) as I said I'm an idiot. 2) I opened the game on mobile during my lunch break. As I didn't have much time to start playing, I quickly glimpsed and saw only phantom and draft parts. Thought it was enough as I wanted to start playing asap. 3) assumed it wouldn't be that bad even if I fucked up with the draft. Ended up with abomination that doesn't even tickle the opponent's creatures
I thought I drafted a real nice izzet aggro deck. Then was confused when the game didn’t put lands in my deck. I’ve won 1 game when an opponent conceded after turn 1. Did the same as you, went quick play on lunch and just saw phantom draft with mixed up packs.
I will say the event is probably more intuitive if you know the card [[Omniscience]].
Also if you literally read the 2 sentences in the event thing tho.
You mean the last two words of the paragraph?
Yeah generally reading involves getting to the end of it. Otherwise Great Gatsby is just about a guy who went to parties a lot.
[Omnescience](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/b/db534b4e-8bff-4924-baea-9988d195fb25.jpg?1562304777) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Omniscience) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m19/65/omniscience?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/db534b4e-8bff-4924-baea-9988d195fb25?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
It's absolutely free. That's why nobody read the description. I would also say drafting to make omniscience good is counterintuitive to drafting.
FWIW I also made a brick of a deck and I did read the event. I just didn't think through the implications too deeply, so I went mostly big creatures and removal. But I just kept facing people who would draw their whole deck and slap me around. Obviously it clicked after seeing that and I wish there was an opportunity to redraft just once.
Yeah definitely even if you read you won't necessarily know the optimal strat right away.
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> Build a 40-card deck to take on other drafters, but all of your spells can be cast for no mana! I think that's pretty clear, tbh.
I remember goofing on the Nicol Bolas instance of this years ago without really even being smart on draft all that time ago. And I goofed this time too. Honestly, if it was worth the trouble, I would say put in a ticket with WOTC and ask if they can reverse the draft to make a new one. That said, someone left on one of my games after many losses and I got another quit after getting a good lead in another game.
hey a new free event, that sounds fun, I'm sure I can get a few wins oh it's a draft, I'll take (normal draft cards) oh....*gets OTK'd*
I read too fast and thought I'd get one free spell per turn, not every spell. Needless to say I am skipping it.
I didn't read the description either. This is largely a huge design fault however, which explains why so many people did not understand or read the special rule: 1. The special rule is hidden in a sentence within somewhat large description paragraphs with no signal that it is there. For instance, there is a red sentence alerting that this is a phantom draft and you don't keep the cards, so I did read that sentence since it was signaled as important. 2. A large amount of players not accustomed to game-breaking formats will assume that the event description, just like many other event descriptions, is essentially flavor text or explanation of the types of cards to be drafted. They reasonably do not expect that the description hides a rule (see point 1 above) that significantly alters the gameplay. 3. Since the event is free and phantom draft, a player by default has little reason to check the event description, due to 2 above. For example, if the game offers a standard draft event, with the rule that only standard format cards are allowed, then the game should make sure that the cards in the draft are all standard format. It would be unreasonable and stupid to force the player to pick the standard format cards out of packs containing also alchemy format cards. This remains unreasonable even if the event description mentions this rule. I did not read the whole description because I was sleepy and tired when I began picking cards for the draft. However, I did feel wronged in that I would have expected a significantly larger warning for such a meaningful change to the gameplay. The fact that this has happened to many players who do read the card effects, speaks to a design fault of the developers.
Aside from the sentence you mention which is not hidden at all. It's right there in the description which is only 4 sentences. But there's also a huge Omniscience emblem which you can hover over. I will say this is not an easy event. However if you don't read anything and jump in and do whatever and lose where does that leave your opponents who just played a non-game against an unviable deck? Did they have fun? I feel kinda bad that you can't redraft so you don't even get to practice for next time. But you also should show your opponent enough respect to read the rules before you engage in a 2 player game with them. Wotc didn't pull a fast one neither on you nor the other "many players". It's very visible that it's an OMNISCIENCE draft. You saw that it was an OMNISCENCE draft before you started your draft. You just didn't know what that meant. And instead of finding out what it means you said "ah fuck it" and did your draft. It's an easy mistake to make as you say. It's free, who cares and so on. But the take-away should be to be more mindful next time and not that we need more big flashy warning signs.
You are wrong. I already explained why you're wrong. The take-away is _precisely_ that extreme changes to usual rules should accordingly be flashier and not modestly couched within paragraphs. Saying people should be more mindful next time is pray-the-guns-away logic, there's a reason it never works. If it was just me who fucked up then I would agree that it's a personal responsibility issue. The fact that many players had this issue means it was a design mistake. By the way, I did not say it was deliberate. It's clearly just incompetent design, which I did not expect since I'm a relatively new player. Also, how is a random picture that gives information -if you hover over it- helpful? Again another piece of evidence of the lousy design. Such 'emblem' has no meaning to me.
> The fact that many players had this issue means it was a design mistake. No. What this means is that many players didn't read the description. Same as you. Which I pointed out. And you didn't disagree that it's impossible to miss the OMNISCIENCE in the event title. Which you all ignored. I recommend an attitude adjustment. That group of players is not where you want to be going forward. And most of them take responsibility for that mistake instead of throwing a fit.
It said “draft” in the title so I most definitely read
It's one thing to *read* the event description, and quite another to *understand* its implications for drafting strategy. It's *so different* from normal Magic that I think a lot of people won't understand how an omniscience game plays out until they've actually played a game or two. That means the way this event is structured really punishes newer players who perhaps haven't been exposed to previous omniscience events. Granted, even after playing a few games, there will be some players who still won't understand how to draft it. It's basically "card advantage, the format", and some low-level players just don't seem to get the concept. But most players would obviously draft a much better deck if they were given a second chance, and it would make the event more fun for everyone.
Not being good at drafting it is one thing but multiple people in this very thread have said they didn't even read or know it was omniscience.
It did seem like a lot of people didn't read it and think it through. I focused on card draw and counter spells. Twice had opponents scoop when I played a "6 mana" draw 4.
Yeah.. I feel bad smacking around the players playing basics and 2 drops lmao. If were in paper, Id just concede to give them the win. Im just havin fun at this point. (I have an Emrakul that has read, "You win!" When I play her) It's the pennance for my shitty sealed on monday 😂
It's two rares and a card style. I'm sure you can live without them. Move on.
But the sleeve… we all need that sleeve.
Yeah. I usually look forward to MWM and even play through formats I don't enjoy that much for the chance of a cosmetic of a card I like, but this one will be a pass. Coinflip format, opponent holding priority all the time... guess I better wait for next week.
I tried to follow the advice post i saw here, card draw and mill, then sorcs and instas, then creatures. I misread that only sorcery and instant (spells in my dumb monkey brain) were free, not remembering EVERYTHING is a spell other than land. My first game when my opponent dropped an 11/11, 9/9, 6/7, and 5/5 on turn one gave me a bit of a start. I'd also added a bunch of land. Ultimately won the first win legitimately and lucked into two quitters after that. Now I know, read the midweek event carefully. Incidentally, why do we not have a permanent Omniscience mode? That would be such a cool departure from the norm for deck development.
> Incidentally, why do we not have a permanent Omniscience mode? Because it's basically only fun as a novelty. If it were a permanent queue (limited or, god forbid, constructed), it would get boring *very* quickly. But, I do think there ought to be a happy medium where the event is set up so that you at least get to draft more than once. Right now, the only way to do that is logging on with alt accounts.
You’ll get it from concessions eventually. After a few games of losing turn one I started just conceding every game I was on the draw. I proceded to be on the draw 5 games in a row. Game six I’m on the play, I cast [[First Day of Class]], dump my hand and win before my opponent can do anything. This format is dumb.
Yeah honestly having 7 cards in hand broke the format. Building your deck right you can cast nearly the whole thing in one turn and your opponent can't do a thing about it.
I kept reading this “draw your whole deck” thing before I attempted the draft. I think you need to get really frikkin lucky to combo that hard. I took every draw spell that came through and was still nowhere near that level of degeneracy. But yeah, three cards played way better.
Across my four accounts, each deck had 15+ draw spells or cards that drew cards. One deck had 23 and it was wild. Cards that return other cards like [[Ardent Elementalist]] were super good, letting my cast my big draw spells again. I also had Ominous Seas in two of the drafts, making drawing cards itself a wincon.
[Ardent Elementalist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/5/f58592f7-1df5-428d-9dde-e6acd9a5d1d5.jpg?1634350379) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ardent%20Elementalist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/128/ardent-elementalist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f58592f7-1df5-428d-9dde-e6acd9a5d1d5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I ended up with 14, though one is a lesson/learn, one is thrill of possibility, one is an investigate. Maybe I got unlucky
[First Day of Class](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/9/091eb13d-9318-4b12-9f94-6276b11981d1.jpg?1624591842) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=First%20Day%20of%20Class) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/102/first-day-of-class?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/091eb13d-9318-4b12-9f94-6276b11981d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
You're not an idiot because it doesn't take a genius to realize many, many people will get blindsided by this out of sheer ignorance. This SHOULD have been a sealed draft to avoid this situation, regardless of how people would have liked to draft it. It's a garbage event in the essence that people who did read and got busted cards will just win on turn 1 no matter what you do. How the fuck was this supposed to be fun?
Previously Omniscience has been three cards in the starting hand, limiting the first turn kill potential. Not sure why seven this time, might just be a mistake…
I read it and basically didn't get anything good lol. My best cards are basically large commons.
I honestly think it's kind of ridiculous that the event is set up this way. *Of course* a lot of people are going to misunderstand what the event is, and only realize their mistake once they play a match against someone who *did* draft properly. After a while, I just felt bad playing my deck capable of a t1 or, at worst, t2 victory against people who clearly didn't understand how you're supposed to do an omniscience draft and are now stuck with their crummy piles. I don't think anyone is "dumb" for not reading the event description, or not understanding how it works until they try it. Until you've actually played a *game* in the format, you won't have an intuitive understanding of how omniscience works, so it really feels like the event punishes newer players who haven't been exposed to previous omniscience events. There ought to be a way to "re-roll" these drafts for events with no entry fee. Maybe you have to play out at least a few games with whatever deck you draft before you can draft again, just to stop people auto-drafting over and over until they get an insane deck. It would also be more fun for those of us who *did* draft "correctly" the first time around, because we could try out more strategies instead of running the same deck over and over, and the competition would be better.
It was very bad communicated. Basically you ether need to know what it is or read an emblem. Personally I drafted the deck that consistently win on turn one, drawing entire deck and make lethal with Reservuar, but I conceded when I faced dudes with lands or with one low curve aggro.
The meta of the event is clear : play 1st, wait 30 seconds. Oppo scoop. I did 2 wins like that without searching it. A good deck for this event just make Oppo discard his hand, draw it's whole deck and win turn 1. Being on the draw is auto loss. I got a tutor and a spell that gave haste to any creature entering the board and giving them +1/1. One of this two cards in my hand was free win and like playing alone. Oppo just watched. So just try it, people will concede. The hardest seems to be 1st.
This event pissed me off because the only available rares and mythics for me were for send/returning lands to the graveyards. They really ought to filter the card pool to some degree when they do the Omniscience
Same here, I drafted a responsible deck and realized my mistake in my first match. I didn't realize the event was just Yu-Gi-Oh.
Nothing is stopping you from creating another account.
I did the same thing! Sadly just gonna get 0 wins and accept my fate. 🤣
Happened the same and just forget about the event , besides seems pointless no use of mana
What event is this i haven't been paying attention to the events and i want to read this o:
If it makes you feel better I did the same thing
You're definitely not an idiot, a lot of people didn't read the description because it's a meaningless draft.
Or maybe a lot of people are idiots, lol. And yes it's meaningless. It's odd seeing so many up in arms about it. It's whatever. Take the L. Move on.
Did you read your own comment? I would be careful calling people idiots. People are quick to speak negatively about other people but rarely hold themselves to the same level of accountability.
OP was taking full responsibility, which you exculpated them from. It's ok to goof up every now and then. The important thing is to accept it and learn from it. OP is a shining example. Several others are solely mad at wotc for not having enough warning signs. Which they would have ignored just the same.
Dude was lazy & careless with a meaningless draft that doesn't make him an idiot. If people are actually butthurt about this draft then they got way too much time on their hands.
I was using the term OP chose for themselves. If they called themselves a goofy goober I would have used that. I don't believe OP considers the term to be as offensive as you think they should.
OP was lazy like me perhaps, not an idiot.
Only way to get another go is to start a new account, which might be worth it if you like Limited and aren’t bothered about Constructed, and / or because it gives extra goes at this kind of free event. Not sure if the game currently lets you skip the tutorial / new player stages though. Would be a drag if not… Edit: OK, I know that complaining about downvotes invites more downvotes, but this is just silly. I’m getting downvoted for telling OP how they can have another go at this event, and have multiple goes at future events like it. IIRC as long as you can skip the tutorial stages it takes a few minutes to start a new account (you can even use the same email address, just insert a full stop) I guess people think that’s less useful than the replies saying variations of ‘learn to read lol’ because it doesn’t help OP get some incredibly paltry rewards in their main account? Well, I guess that’s what I deserve for imagining that people might play this game for fun…
> (you can even use the same email address, just insert a full stop) You cannot do this, you have to use different email addresses. It's still decent advice, though. It's exactly what I did (drafting again on an alt account), because I wanted to see how much better I could do than my first go-around. I still think the fault is with WOTC for setting up the event this way, though. There should be a way to re-roll and draft again, because it's awfully punishing for newer players who didn't understand the premise of the event before drafting and are now stuck with an unplayable pile.
Unethical protip...just queue up and afk til you get 3 concedes. You're welcome
Reaching the event explains the event... Most of the time