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This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis try something new with a full draft walkthrough for War of the Spark as well as Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated for WAR!  Sign up for the CFB Newsletter here: https://info.channelfireball.com/sign-up-for-our-cfb-newsletter Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis go over the best archetypes in War of the Spark! They also touch in again on the London Mulligan rule; is it here to stay?  Sign up for the CFB Newsletter here: https://info.channelfireball.com/sign-up-for-our-cfb-newsletter Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis go over a bunch of interesting topics including War of the Spark updates, is WAR like Cube, is it ok to just ban all the rares in WAR, is Magic really the most complex game, and Arena bots and how we should approach them!  Article that Marshall found fascinating but Luis did not: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613489/magic-the-gathering-is-officially-the-worlds-most-complex-game/ Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis give you their initial impressions of War of the Spark Limited! Insanely, Luis comes up with a new category for this set; not prince, not pauper, but a something even crazier... This set sets new bars left and right, will it be remembered well or as a set too far? Join the discussion in this episode of LR! Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis walk you through every single rare and mythic rare in War of the Spark! War of the Spark feels like the most bomb-laden set we've had in a long time, and that of course means you'll want to know which rares are bombs and which to avoid. The guys may have set the record for number of A grades given out with this one...    Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis walk you through every single common and uncommon in War of the Spark! This is a supercharged set featuring planeswalkers in every pack including planeswalkers at uncommon. Quite the set to go through, but if you do, you'll be all set for your prerelease, release, and ongoing events! Timestamps by Color:   White: 00:08:39 Blue: 00:53:16 Black: 01:38:58 Red: 02:20:54 Green: 02:53:46 Gold: 03:22:14 Colorless/Land: 03:57:03 Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis look back on a really good set, Ravnica Allegiance! It's time to bid it farewell, but before we do we have to figure out which card was the biggest groan test, which had the best artwork, and all the other points of recognition shall we say, for the set. And yes, Luis has his soundboard for this one... Brian Hacker's "The New Pool Halls" article about money drafting at the Pro Tour in the late 90's/early 2000's: http://web.archive.org/web/20010515014151/magic.mindripper.com/Index.cfm?ArticleID=43&SectionID=1&Show=All Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis touch on a bevy of topics including a refresher on M19 as it's the ranked draft format on Arena this season, CABS Theory and how you can use it to reset your Magic brain, and they talk about their exclusive War of the Spark preview card! www.twitch.tv/goingoptimal for Ryan Spain's stream centered around Limited leaning players looking to get as many drafts per dollar on Arena.  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis hang out in the hotel room at PAX East directly after finishing the Mythic Invitational! This one is pretty relaxed and features a conversation between the two about the future of Magic, the Mythic Invitational, Duo Standard, the future of Draft at the professional level, some nonsense, and a lot of your questions!  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall welcomes Hall of Famer, World Champion, Super Streamer and sneakily one of the GOAT Limited players William "Huey" Jensen on the show to talk all things Magic. You'll get Huey's take on Limited, current sets vs older sets, the struggle of being a professional player as well as the great sides of it. You'll love this one! Huey's Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/hueywj Huey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hueyjensen Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis do a crack-a-draft for Ravnica Allegiance, talk about Modern Horizons as a Limited format, and give you their hottest of takes about the news that there will be a planeswalker in every pack of War of the Spark. Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis tackle one of the most often-cited tools for Limited players: BREAD. Bombs, Removal, Evasion, and some other words that nobody quite seems to know are often used as a heuristic for drafting well. Marshall and Luis do not subscribe to this school of thought and give you the reasoning why. But it wouldn't be LR unless they DID give you their approach and you'll get to hear that this week on LR!  Also Let's Stump Vargas returns :)  Thanks to Ryan Spain and Brian David-Marshall for their contributions to the notes on this one!  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis answer your questions! The guys go deep on a variety of topics including the best basic lands, the best flavor of chips, how decisions are made in game, and a lot more! The ranking list from the Team CFB Limited meeting discussed on the episode:  Top Ethereal Absolution Ooze Angel of Grace Domri Hydroid Krasis Judith Mass Manipulation Lumbering Battlement* Ravager Wurm Seraph Hellkite Spawn Sphinx of Foresight Theater of Horrors * Zegana, Utopian Speaker   Tier 2 - below Sharktocrab / Troll-Bred Guardian / Consume   Biomancer’s Familiar Bedeck Dovin Guardian Project Gruul Spellbreaker * (maybe worse - Gruul gold is awk first pick) Growth-Chamber Guardian Incubation Druid Kaya’s Wrath ^ (better but not splashable) Mesmerizing Benthid ^ (maybe top top because it’s single colored - best in Azorius) Pestilent Spirit Rakdos ^ (maybe top top) Thrash / Threat Warrant / Warden (Around Summary Judgment if Orzhov)   Tier 3 - Below Ram / Mortify   Precognitive Perception

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis bring you the show live from Cleveland, Ohio on the eve of Mythic Championship 1! Luis is all set to play in the event and he gives you the inside track on MC Testing for the event. Then the guys take patron questions about RNA specifically and answer them for you!  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis do a mini-Level-Up topic on duplicates in Limited. When do you take or play the 3rd copy of a card? How do you decide which cards to just run as many of as you can get vs. cards that have diminishing returns?  Also the guys talk Ravnica Allegiance best commons and touch on how they interact with each guild!  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall welcomes Owen Turtenwald on the show to talk Ravnica Allegiance and answer questions from LR Patrons!  Owen's Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/owentmagic Owen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/owentweetenwald Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis talk Ravnica Allegiance First Impressions! Five color gates, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, and a whole bunch of other hot topics are covered in this episode!  Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall welcomes Ryan Spain on the show to sub in for the ailing Luis Scott-Vargas for the Ravnica Allegiance Set Review: Rare and Mythic Rare! Every one of these cards is dissected and graded for your listening convenience! And there are some nice ones in this set, no doubt!  Ryan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanspain Ryan's Going Optimal Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/goingoptimal    Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis walk you through every common and uncommon in the Ravnica Allegiance Set Review: Commons and Uncommons! Every single card is picked apart for all the juicy value it could produce, and so that you'll feel good going into your prerelease, release, and subsequent events!  Azorius: 0:05:40 White: 00:20:03 Orzhov: 00:47:40 Black: 00:58:32 Rakdos: 01:24:46 Red: 01:37:54 Gruul: 02:01:50 Green: 2:12:55 Simic: 02:35:03 Blue: 02:46:46 Colorless/Land: 03:10:00 Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast

This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis go over the new mechanics and rules for Ravinca Allegiance so that you can get set for the set review next week! All 5 guilds have their own signature mechanic and the guys go over all of them as well as getting into the initial predictions on each guild in the set! Limited Resources is proudly sponsored by ChannelFireball.com You can support Limited Resources on the LR Patreon page here: LR Patreon Page Your Hosts: Marshall Sutcliffe and Luis Scott-Vargas Marshall’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marshall_LR Luis’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsv Email: lr@lrcast.com LR Community Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast