My BEST Lord of the Rings Draft Yet!

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Welcome to a Lord of the Rings Draft on MTG Arena, and thanks to Wizards for giving me a free preview account in the early access event so I could get this recorded! In this Lord of the Rings Draft I do tons of analysis on each pick, discussing every relevant card so you know what to do in your own Lord of the Rings Drafts! I also talk through all of my plays, analyzing my different lines so you can improve your gameplay! If you are trying to get ready for your own Drafts of the format, this video has tons of information to help you crush your competition! Remember to Like, Share, and Subscribe to support the channel! Feel free to discuss any element of the draft or the gameplay in the Comments and I will gladly respond with my thoughts or answers!
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@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

"Loud and clear the Horn of Gondor sounds in the valleys of MTG Arena, and then let all the foes of NicolaiBolas flee." - Boromir probably

@dominicnzl Жыл бұрын

I'm very curious to know what Sam Black took over the Horn of Gondor

@daveeastwood1874 Жыл бұрын

I looked it up on twitch. He took Book of Mazarbul. He seemed to think that the horn would be too slow. But I think Nicolai proved it can be quite fast! :D

@dominicnzl Жыл бұрын

@@daveeastwood1874 thank you 👍

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Me too! Looks like Dave did some research and I think Book of Mazarbul is significantly worse than Horn of Gondor. I'm pretty surprised that was his pick honestly.

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this, the thought of looking it up crossed my mind because I was curious, so I'm grateful that you did the research to satisfy my curiosity. I'm honestly surprised that he made that evaluation. Horn of Gondor has looked great to me every time I've read it, but Sam is known for doing off the wall stuff (often with great results), so I guess it is probably just a difference in Draft style. I don't even think I would have taken Book of Mazarbul over Smite the Deathless in that pack, so he didn't even take the Red card I would have taken in his spot! I will say that Horn of Gondor definitely proved itself in the games, so I'm glad I got to take it and try it out!

@seant2432 Жыл бұрын

Love these draft vids. Since it's a new set, I'd like to request that in games, you leave the mouse hovered over the most recent card (or whatever card you're currently talking about) while we all learn what the cards do. #gondor

@sterbo3187 Жыл бұрын

I agree that would be lovely 🥰

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reminder! I'll do my best to implement that when I record my next draft. I try to remember to do that, but sometimes I get excited about the cards and forget.

@rorobear1940 Жыл бұрын

Keep these coming, can’t get enough, love the draft insight and gameplay

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to hear you are enjoying them!

@angrythomas6954 Жыл бұрын

Look forward to another informative entertaining draft by the best out there!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the kind comment!

@truemrfu9673 Жыл бұрын

I just got into MTG because of LOTR and this was very helpful. I’m gonna be running draft soon hopefully

@Splatersby Жыл бұрын

I drew 2 Horns of Gondor in prerelease but felt i just didn't have the humans to back it, watching your gameplay I think I should have just thrown them in anyway!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

It feels like a self supporting engine to me. In some situations it can just win by itself!

@tinykappasubaccount5943 Жыл бұрын

Great Video Nicolai keep it up brother

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@findingdemo Жыл бұрын

#thestrengthofmenshallnotfail Great run. Keep these videos coming please.

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and once again thanks for the kind comment!

@BackYardbiz Жыл бұрын

Once upon a time in #Gondor, elves orcs and powerful artifacts came to plunder. However, Pippin on the day of his birthday made an escape to find their own artifact to combat these foes. While away, Prince Imrahil the fair was able to stall the enemies advance by recruiting many warriors to the cause. Pippin meanwhile not only retrieved the famed #HornofGondor, but he also found Palantir buried in a marsh. Upon his arrival, he blew the Horn and shouted, #TheStrengthofMenShallnotFail ! They were able to rout the enemy and before the defeated foes could muster a counter offensive, Palantir foresaw and punished their generals plans to Victory. Keep up the vids NB

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

This is a brilliant comment! Well done Capo!

@hotbeefpolish Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable wheel.

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I was shocked when it happened!

@oneringtorulethemagicarp7199 Жыл бұрын

I love horn of gondor so much

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@brady3126 Жыл бұрын

Amazing deck. #gondor did work!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it!

@matthewcroger5810 Жыл бұрын

Treebeard was his name, but I think Gandalf referred to the Ents as 'The Shepherds of the Trees' at one point

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

The Ents are definitely called shepherds of the trees in the story, so the name is certainly fitting!

@FirstLast-dh8ks Жыл бұрын

dream draft for the most part

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@moonbreaker Жыл бұрын

#gondor for life! nice content!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@lukeschaming532 Жыл бұрын

Played against a Fall of Cair Andros with a handful of burn spells in my prerelease and it was pretty powerful. It got up to 8 mana once, and that ended the game. Still think they would have won without it though, but you do need a lot of bolting spells

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

Fall of Cair Andros was good against me at my Prerelease too. I'm going to have to try that card out I think, because it could have some potential in the right deck.

@dorianramirez4889 Жыл бұрын

I don't think there is an uncommon in this set better than horn of gondor, passing that was a big mistake.

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm inclined to agree with you after playing with the card! It just wins games by itself sometimes and its colorless so you can always play it.

@cjn0423 Жыл бұрын

That Horn of #Gondor, though!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

It's a great card!

@Whyaskstupid Жыл бұрын

the mana tap at 20:18 is tough

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I wasn't planning on casting Prince Imrahil anyway because I wanted to make sure I got the extra 1/1 and had the legendary for my Errand-Rider. Still not great tapping though.

@GreenDraak Жыл бұрын

Maybe could have used one wizards rockets to be able to turn of Frodos ult?

@dadsalwaysdoingsomething6087 Жыл бұрын

#TheStrengthOfMenShallNotFail

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it!

@scizo8882 Жыл бұрын

#Gondor Great game!!!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

@scizo8882 Жыл бұрын

@NicolaiBolas I've been binge watching your stuff for realese prep^^ I like your style of play in general 😉 thank you!!!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

@@scizo8882 That is very kind of you to say. I appreciate your nice comments!

@davidjones2921 Жыл бұрын

Boost

@salomar77 11 ай бұрын

It’s funny to watch this a month+ after the release. Getting torment of gollum as final pick lol. Passing a crebain geez. So many things that don’t make much sense now. In hindsight this deck was quite rubbish. It just had two insane artifact bombs which basically won you every game

@robleloup4334 Жыл бұрын

#thestrengthofmenshallnotfail !!

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the draft!

@robleloup4334 Жыл бұрын

@@NicolaiBolas I did! Also just trophied with the Orthanc artifact plus the blue creatures that get counters on them after you drew your second card each turn. That seemed so wrong. And that artifact seems so broken anyways. You inspired me haha

@NicolaiBolas Жыл бұрын

@@robleloup4334 I'm glad you found success with it!