M11 Drafting + newb Q's

[Margalis]

I don't know why I thought a return to Mirrodin would be any better than the last visit there. Set sucks. It feels like they mashed Fallen Empires and like, I don't know, The Dark together. It's terrible.

Ha ha, Fallen Empires and The Dark, yikes.

The idea of an artifact-centric block just seems dumb to me. Magic is 5 colors and a splash of artifacts, elevating artifacts to the main attraction is like an all-dessert restaurant.

[Ingmar]

I dunno, Zendikar was a land-centric block and that worked out fine.

[schild]

It's not the artifact part that's annoying. It's the poison counters and any other counter you can recur due to proliferate that makes it feel like Fallen Empires. Might as well be making spore and thallid crap.

I say The Dark just because it's full of dumb overcosted crap with a shining card here and there like Maze of Ith was way back when.

[Hoax]

Contagion Engine is even more rediculous then I thought. Fuck that card is stupid in limited.

By itself it doesn't seem that great to me, but I'm assuming the set has lots of counters to make it good?

You saw that it puts -1/-1 on every creature the opponent has for 6 and if you untap with it gives all those creatures -2/-2 for 4 next turn and if they have a poison counter on them gives your opponent +2 poison counters right? Its playable without playing an infect deck if only to eat up one of their artifact removal spells.

[Thrawn]

I was only talking about the card standing by itself which is nothing special then.  I wasn't aware how counter heavy scars was so I'm guessing its amazing in the set, possibly first pick good.

[Hoax]

Its not constructed material but its first pick in draft I'd say if you are going anything but rush down aggro/tempo. Schild overstates how many counters are in the set I'd say. Blue gets proliferate and Green and Black get infect and there are a few artifacts for both mechanics. Also at this point neither infect or proliferate are going to make standard though after the rest of the block comes out that will likely change.