神河当時 - 過小評価されたカード

The skills you need to be a top limited player are many and varied but the skill of card evaluation is one that is often over-looked by a lot of players. You only need to wait a week or two after a set is released to find people like me writing articles about which cards are better than others and what cards you should be looking to draft from the new set. You might even think you don’t really need good card evaluation skills really, as long as there are other people around to tell you what cards are good.

The problem there is that other people aren’t always correct, particularly when a set is new. And other people don’t necessarily have the same play style as you. There are usually cards that are universally good but if you’re most comfortable as an aggressive rather than controlling sort of player then your card valuations might differ from those of other people.

If you know straight away what makes a card good in limited you get a jump-start on everyone else. Early in the life of a format there are some cards that are under-rated by the majority of players. Everyone can usually figure out that cards like Blind with Anger are quite good, but with cards like Soratami Savant or Devouring Greed it isn’t as immediately obvious how powerful they are. I’m sure in the early days of Champions several players looked at the Savant and thought “Just a 2/2 for 4… and I have to return THREE lands just for a Mana Leak? Okay, but not great”. Or perhaps looked at Devouring Greed and thought “It doesn’t do anything much by itself and I’d have to sacrifice a bunch of creatures to get a decent effect and I might not even have that many Spirits to sacrifice. Don’t think I’ll play this.”

If you know straight away what makes a card good in limited you get a jump-start on everyone else.
The same applies at the opposite end of the scale too. Cards like Kami of the Waning Moon or Kami of Fire’s Roar were definitely underrated at the start of this block. Now they’re played in people’s main-decks regularly and often drafted quite highly in the appropriate decks too. On the other hand there may be some cards which look playable initially but which later turn out to not be so great. If you can see which of the late picks in a draft help round out your deck and which should be ignored you’ll have a much better overall deck than the player who can’t.

While everyone else is still figuring out which card to draft you get a few weeks worth of nice late picks in your drafts and you get to spend time figuring out which archetype is best. Then, when everyone else has caught up on the card knowledge you’re hopefully still ahead of the game as you’ve had more time to actually practice drafting the best decks.

引用元
CARD EVALUATION Posted in Limited Information on January 17, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/limited-information/card-evaluation-2005-01-17

リミテッドの解説記事です。

リミテッドにおいて、カードの評価を適切に見極めることは重要です。ただ、初めから的確に見極められるとは限らず、プレイを重ねることによって、始めてその強さが分かることもあります。あるいは、カードプールによって、その相対的な価値が変わることもあります。

今回は、そんな過小評価されたカードとして、《空民の学者/Soratami Savant》や《貪る強欲/Devouring Greed》が挙げられます。特に後者は、環境にいるスピリットの数、さらに言えばプレイアブルなスピリットの質にもよるので、初見でその強さを的確に評価することは困難でしょう。

もっとも、だからこそリミテッドが面白いのだとも言えるのですが。最初から最後まで、思った通りというのは、新鮮さや驚き、発見に欠けています。

なお、この後、リミテッドにおいて優秀なクリーチャーやスペルの基準が語られているのですが、そこは省略します。