OUTLAWS OF THUNDER JUNCTION DRAFT GUIDE!!! Top Commons, Archetype Overviews, and MORE!!!
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- Welcome to an Outlaws of Thunder Junction Draft Guide! In this Outlaws of Thunder Junction Draft Guide I discuss the Top Commons for each Color, I rank each Color based on its power level, I give an overview of every Archetype, I show you all the relevant Combat Tricks, I discuss cards that are Traps, some powerful Combos you can assemble with just Commons and Uncommons, and I provide you with all the information you need to succeed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction Draft! If you are trying to get ready for your Prerelease or your first Draft of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, this Draft Guide has all the information you need to crush your competition! Remember to Like, Share, and Subscribe to support the channel! Feel free to discuss any element of the Draft Guide in the Comments and I will gladly respond with my thoughts or answers!
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UPDATE: My Color Rankings should have Green at #1 and then shift down the other colors accordingly. I did not factor in how the consistently powerful Rares in Green would impact things, as I usually focus on Commons and Uncommons for my Draft Guides. Hopefully that clarifies things!
I'm so thankful for these videos. I don't really want to watch an entire set review (with two bonus sheets!), so this is perfect for getting a feel for the environment. And they way you present the info is so organized and concise.
One thing that might be a nice addition is just a small section on build-around bombs. Cards that are worth pivoting for based on how insane they can be in draft.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying my guides! I think the bombs section is not super necessary for two reasons. First, individual rares do not come up as much so they are not as important to know. Second, players are often inclined to take rares anyway and it can be pretty clear when a rare is very good. I have to be careful not to include too many sections in my guide because (as you said) one of the benefits is that it is pretty quick and straightforward. I hope that clarifies things and I appreciate your kind comment!
@@NicolaiBolas That totally makes sense. I think I get too irrationally excited when I see a rare and pivot my whole draft plan to shoehorn it in, even when it's not that good lol
Green looks pretty insane in this format. I would put blue as the lowest.
I actually really like a lot of Blue’s cards, even ones I wasn’t able to highlight in the guide, and I think it has a lot of powerful options (and instant speed strategies can be very good and challenging to play against when done well). Green has lots of good cards too, but I worry playing big creatures won’t be as impactful as it might normally be, since this is a set where players will prioritize removal and interaction a bit higher thanks to Crimes. I also think color rankings are basically always very close and can shift based on a player’s inherent strategy preferences or skill level to some degree. Green can be one of the trickier colors to play because it almost always relies on creatures for its interaction, which can make it harder to remove opposing threats. Blue can also struggle with interaction sometimes, but I think it has some good options in this set. Hopefully this provides some more insight into my thought process.
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this is the only guide i watch before each draft set don't even bother looking at spoilers or set list 😁. Pro guides
That is high praise indeed. Thank you for the kind words!
@@NicolaiBolas No problem man keep up the great work :)
We’ve been drafting this set for a few days now on tapped out/tts and I’ve been cooking my buddy playing Boros and he’s been doing the same on Gruel. BW control has done me in too, but any type of green mounts deck is insanely strong, and Selesnya netted me a win at 51 life with two hippogriffs. And other mount buff cards.
Be on the lookout for bushwack, the value on it is insane.
I wasn't really keen on this set, but love draft and prerelease play. This video helped my interest in this set. Thanks!
I’m so glad to hear I helped you get excited for your Prerelease and for drafting!
Really, really interesting, and very helpful, thank you !!
I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Thanks as always Nicolai for the streamlined guides! The mercenary plus bristleback sentry combo is genius and am excited to give that a shot.
I’m so glad you enjoyed my guide and I’m glad you liked the combo! I appreciate the kind comment.
Amazing video, as usual. Thank you very much. You rock !!
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Amazing guide, just decided to go to a prerelease aprx one hour from now and I feel a bit more confident, I'd at least create a semi-successful deck - haven't played for years now already, thank you for this!
I’m so glad you liked the video and found it helpful!
As a new player getting into Magic, I joined the local league and bought this set as my starter pack. I can’t express how incredibly helpful this video has been for me understanding what to play for and how to play the cards I have so far. Thank you!
I’m glad you liked it!
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Thank you for these videos! I am new to drafting and your channel has helped me learn and grow!
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awesome draft guide as always, thanks! \m/
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Nice work! Thanks
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I feel like they missed an easy card “crime spree” would have been fun. A spree card where every single mode is a crime
I feel like on one hand that would be cool, but on the other it could be confusing to have a card with a mechanic be in the same set as that mechanic. “I cast Crime Spree with this Spree chosen and committing a Crime. Trigger.” Is kinda a funny sentence.
Great video! I'm doing a prerelease on Friday, so I'll try to remember some of the synergies
I’m glad you enjoyed my video! Good luck at your event!
Just found this channel! Prepping for pre release at my LGS. You got a new sub here. Good luck on 30k you are so close!
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I got to 30K two days ago which is super exciting!
I watched your Murders at Karlov Manor prerelease video before my first ever prerelease and placed 3rd. Thanks for all the info and hopefully I’ll do just as well this time around!
That is awesome! Thank you for sharing that because it feels great to know I was able to help!
Ok time to draft this. I like the blue and white cards for a few decks i have. Great video
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Nice video. Now I can prepare for my prerelease
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Nice work
Thanks!
I did a rakdos draft of this and it was pretty sick. I had some outlaws and they did some crimes. Beefy stuff and it was fun!
I'm going to pre-release today! Thanks for the video, as always #OutlawDrafter
I’m so glad you liked it!
#OutlawDrafter Thanks a lot for this excellent quality and complete guide! This will surely help me this week-end for the Prerealease ;)
I’m so glad you found it helpful! Good luck at your event!
#outlawdrafter keep up the great guides I love these!
Thank you for the kind comment! I appreciate it and I'm so glad you're enjoying my guides!
#outlawdrafter Great video brother, I had been feeling the same about a lot of cards and you actually pointed out a few new ones I hadn't considered :-) Good luck in your drafts everybody
I'm glad you found my guide helpful! Good luck to you too!
#outlaw drafter. Thank you for all your hard work these are always super valuable and well-produced
You are welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the kind words.
#outlawdrafter really looking forward to this set!
I’m glad to hear it!
#outlawdrafter I’m looking forward to a chance to giddy up with this set. Lots of fun fire to play with for sure! Thanks again
I'm so glad you liked my guide! I agree that this set looks like a blast!
Nice video!
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Trying to get back into Magic after 17 years ish prepping for my first draft ever. This has helped so much, thank you!
That’s awesome to hear! I’m so glad you enjoyed my guide, and welcome back!
#outlawdrafter big chad Nicolai as always :) ty for the video!
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Thanks for the great overview! #OutlawDrafter
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#outlawdrafter As someone who hasn't played magic in probably 3 years this video was very helpful. I'm going to my first draft sense probably 6 years and I'm excited. Thank you!
I’m so glad to hear you found it helpful! Thank you for the kind comment, and I hope you had fun at your event!
8:30 Just went 2-1 with Boros Aggro. Didn't get prosperity, did get posse and signpost. The white 1/3 with lifeline put in work in the late game with huge pumps, and the lack of board clear makes late game full sweeps a problem. It may be a bug on arena, but the white spree card doesn't duplicate the +1/+1 counter mode if you only target yourself as a player, but it's still a good card to buff the mercs. Be on the lookout for Outlaws Merriment as a Yellow Card; it'll probably wheel cause it's very boros at 1,2W,R. You can get away with very little mana if you draft your dual land and as many of the mana dork scarecrows, also good for two life etb. 11 or 12 lands is fine, one more white source. Avoid all slow effect; you need to go fast. The only plot effects you go for are those that benefit after casting a big Posse; the +1/+1 and Vig. and the +1/+1 on self for each creature come to mind. Note, if you draft the mono red 4 mana 3/4 that grants 2r when ever you cast, you reverse the order, casting both for two to get +4 on the Posse cast. Very powerful colors cause of how contested black will be, how slow the other strategies in white are, and honestly how busted the signpost is; players do not expect to see her swing for 4 on the next turn so they will almost always leave up too little too block.
#outlawdrafter Hoping to beat up my friends and roomie with this extra intel :) Thanks for the great info as usual, Nicolai!
I’m glad you enjoyed my guide!
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As I've come to expect from your top commons, you really give me something to think about.
What I really want to do with Rooftop Assassin as a combat trick is combine it with Reckless Lackey's natural first strike, given that the opponent might think that what you're holding open is the Lackey's ability.
Similarly I really want to use Lively Dirge to bring back Ruthless Lawbringer and Nezumi Linkbreaker, since I feel that this combination of cards would justify using 5 mana to search up either creature that is not in your graveyard yet.
Granted that only one copy of Ruthless Lawbringer is not a justifaction for Lively Dirge having a slot, but if it is also another copy of Rictus Robber and/or Baron Bertram Graywater as well as able to bring back(/forth) a combo piece like Treasure Dredger with a value piece such as an Outlaw Medic I'm thinking that it stops being a trap.
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I’m glad you liked the video! I usually pick trap cards if they are misleading, have a downside that people might misjudge, or if they are effects that are easy to overrate. Someone new to the set might see a mill card and assume the archetype is supported, or a Commander player might be used to playing cards like Beast Within without realizing that they are bad in draft. Some cards have a time or place where they still fit in, but I still list them as traps if I think people will frequently misevaluate them or put them into decks where they don’t belong. Hopefully that clarifies things! Also, I like the combos you pointed out!
#OutlawDrafter …. Thank you for the guide…
I’m so glad you liked it!
Awesome and thank you! Does this apply to sealed, too?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think it applies to sealed because the color pairs will generally have similar plans and the good cards are generally good in both formats. The main difference is that sealed tends to be a bit slower and a little less focused on synergy, so keep that in mind when building your decks and evaluating cards that require a specific gameplan.
Thanks for the video #OutlawDrafter
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#OutlawDrafter thanks for the guide!
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#outlawdrafter so excited wow
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#outlawdrafter. Thanks Nic!!!
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Awesome! #outlawdrafter
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#OutlawDrafter, Thank you!
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Very nice!
It would be possible to have a tier list on 17lands?
I’m glad you liked my guide! I’m going to post my tier list on the NicolaiBolas Patreon before Prereleases start.
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Great guide Nicolai - May your bullets strike true and the sun only hit your opponents in the eye ;)
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Lively Dirge with rusco combooo
What would you say is the best for a new player?
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Always good to get other opinions. I am curious for the black commons if you overlooked Desperate Bloodseeker, or believe Mourner's Surprise is a better common. 2/2 lifelink for 2 is always good in limited, and it can support green with self-mill and other colors by committing a crime with its etb trigger.
Desperate Bloodseeker was right on the cusp of being on the list and when I first saw it I was definitely very impressed! The card is definitely good and I think it’s pretty comparable in power level to the #2 and #3 commons I picked in Black, especially if you can benefit from graveyard synergies or Crime synergies. I didn’t overlook it, and it was in contention, but I only had room for 3 on that list and I wanted to highlight some of the cards that are inherent 2 for 1s (though I definitely think it is pretty much equal to those cards as I said). Basically, I love the card and think it’s great! One of the reasons I put Black as the number one color is because of cards like Desperate Bloodseeker that I didn’t discuss directly but that I still really like! Hopefully that clarifies my perspective a bit. I’m glad you liked the video!
Interesting, I had Green as the best
Green has lots of good cards for sure and definitely has powerful options. I just worry playing big creatures won’t be as impactful as it might normally be, since this is a set where players will prioritize removal and interaction a bit higher thanks to Crimes. I also think color rankings are basically always very close and can shift based on a player’s inherent strategy preferences or skill level to some degree. Green can be one of the trickier colors to play because it almost always relies on creatures for its interaction, which can make it harder to remove opposing threats. Hopefully that provides some more insight into my thought process.
@@NicolaiBolas ya that's fair, the power levels between the colors is pretty tight. And yes green with it's typical buffing and fight spell type removals are mediocre compared to black and red as usual. But the creature power levels are insane for green, especially used with plotting! But I'm not sure how plot will fold out yet, looks good though.
@@Troy_34 You were right lol
broo a little suggestion to help newbees, put a little yellow light border of the cards you speaking when you show it on video :)
I’ve done that sort of thing in other videos before, but I don’t know how much it adds to clarity when I’m already talking about a card, and sometimes I like to bounce back and forth between cards I’m discussing, so highlighting in those situations would just get difficult and confusing. I try to follow a pattern in the order of cards I discuss such as left to right in the Top Commons or middle to left to right in the Archetype Overviews, which I think helps viewers follow along successfully. I’m glad you liked my guide!
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I was thinking of making a green white +1/+1 counter beatdown deck. Is that the move or nah?
Not exactly how draft works. You want to adjust on the fly to what you see.
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Hey! You said you can choose “all 3 modes” on Unfortunate accident, but there is only 2 modes. Did you perhaps mean to say pick both if you pay the combined mana cost for each of the 2 modes? Thanks!
Yeah. You can play it as just a removal spell, just a 1/1 Mercenary creature, or you can do both of those things. Basically you have 3 different options of what you can do. Hopefully that clarifies things!
just the condensed version I'm looking for.
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Cards that reduces costs does affect the additional costs of spree? for example the interaction with the 2 blue first common cards you showcased at 3:26 does the additional costs be 2 and 0 or you need to pay that mana?
It will be applied once as a reduction to the total cost. So you figure out how much you’re playing the spell for, factoring all of your Spree additions, and then subtract 1 from that. Hopefully that clarifies things!
@@NicolaiBolas Good to know, thanks a lot!
I won with a green white deck at my tourney surprised these two hit the bottom
Green ended up being the best color and Green White is a formidable deck. I think I personally draft White the least, but I know other players who like it a lot!
Azorius for some reason is the only color pair who didnt get a rare... don't get it...
It's probably because they wanted to balance things out considering they made a Bant rare and an Esper rare (which means there are already 2 rares that have blue and white in the identity). There is also an Azorius mythic which is not exactly the same but is in a similar vein (and also a Bant mythic). I don't really check whether all the rares line up into the same number per color pair since I feel like it's more fun if they focus on the individual designs rather than feeling like they have to make a rare in a certain color combo just to check a box (as long as it isn't too drastically skewed).
You Azorious nerds know exactly why you deserve this. Sincerely, the Simic Community 😈
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I guess it could be a trap, but lovely Dirge won me 3 games last night at my draft but idk
I actually had a deck in my Prerelease where I was happy playing 2 copies of Lively Dirge (I was basically playing a Reanimator deck). Currently, I think it has a home in the right shell, but I still think players will be prone to overvalue it because of its application in other formats like Commander where deck searching is more valuable. I think a deck needs to check a decent number of boxes before Dirge becomes worth it and many decks won’t meet those requirements.
Is Lively Dirge really a trap? The 4 mana mode seems pretty good if you can get two bodies back; its break even on mana but card advantage. And the 5 mana mode just makes it even more flexible.
I'm having a hard time evaluating this one in limited. In constructed, well commander at least, the card is bonkers, second best Entomb effect in the format imo.
I don’t really think about card advantage in that way. Spending 4 mana to get 4 mana of cards from your graveyard isn’t really providing a tremendous advantage, especially because 2 drops are almost always at their best on turn 2, so getting them back later is much less helpful. Usually recursion is nice to have because it can get you back the best things from your graveyard, and the fact that this is so limited in what it can do is a big knock against it. Also, many games you won’t be able to get the full 4 mana worth of cards back which is a disaster. Another reason I listed it as a trap is because players are very inclined to overrate cards that have the text, “search your library for a card,” because of cards like Entomb (as you mentioned) or other tutors that have homes in other formats. It’s not a complete blank if you play it, but I think it is bad and also at high risk of being overrated, which is why I listed it as a trap. Hopefully that clarifies things!
@@NicolaiBolasthanks for the additional insight into your thought process.
I'm hoping to try the card out in conjunction with Forsaken Miner in b/w where there are some decent sac outlets at common/uncommon; I feel like if I can ever Entomb the forsaken miner and reanimate two things in that archetype I'll be living my necromancer dreams lol
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Wouldn't a second Quick Draw actually end up doing nothing (besides the +1/+1) because it would be first on the stack and resolve last?
I guess if they had more than one creature with first/double strike it would be useful.
Well you wouldn’t cast it in response. Instead, you would let the opponent’s quick draw resolve, then you cast yours and their creature would lose First Strike. It makes no sense to cast a quick draw in response to a quick draw because of how the stack works as you said.
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Wouldn’t At Knifepoint go infinite with Vial smasher? Because once you commit a crime, you trigger at knifepoint, which then triggers vial smasher, which triggers at knifepoint etc.
They made it so At Knifepoint can only trigger once each turn because I think they wanted to make sure stuff like that didn’t happen.
@@NicolaiBolasoh i see now. I misread the “only once per turn” as being within the quotes of the token’s ability
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Crime is the way!
It looks like a cool mechanic for sure!
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If two Quick Draws are on the stack, wouldn't the first one played still trigger first strike and remove first strike from the Quick Draw played in response?
The second one played resolves first and removes first strike/double strike from creatures. Adds first strike to a creature.
Then the first one played resolves and adds first strike afterwards. This Quick Draw would also then remove the first strike triggered by the second Quick Draw played.
Quick Draw is better when played first which is cool flavor.
If you played both Quick Draws at the same time it would work that way on the stack, but no one would actually do that. Instead, you wait for the first Quick Draw to resolve and then play yours. That way the first one has already resolved and the one played second gets to remove First Strike and win the combat. Hopefully that clarifies things!
Am I crazy or is the audio sped up on this #OutlawDrafter?
The audio is just my normal voice, but sometimes when I get on a roll in a guide I start to speed up. I guess I’m a little like an auctioneer in that way. I’m glad you liked the video!
Try saying Slickshot Lockpicker a bunch of times.
Well played, that is quite tricky.
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@@NicolaiBolas You were a bit slow this time... The full set has been out for a couple of days already... 🙁