Aug 20, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 12 segments
This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis, well Marshall really, gives you a format overview for The Hobbit so you can get pointed in the right direction for your drafts and sealed tournaments…
Luis Scott-VargasHostMarshall SutcliffeHostBut it is interesting, um, you know, this experiment with these small sets.
This is the, the last of the ones that we know about, uh, 'cause I don't think Star Trek's gonna be a, a small one, or, um, whatever, Reality Fracture.
So, you know, uh, I don't know if there's more of these coming in the future, but this does kind of put the final chapter on the Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and now the Hobbit being these pick two draft format or however you wanna frame them.
And, uh, it's really interesting because it forces us limited players to kind of put the gavel down.
And I think, you know, uh, I mean, from Luis's perspective, that's two out of three that you're more or less sitting out.
You played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that isn't, like, an all-timer for you or anything, right?
Yeah, I think part of it is fatigue, where, like, Spider-Man w- This Hobbit's better than Spider-Man.
Like, after Spider-Man, after Ninja Turtles, like, these small sets are really unappealing to me, and I've had a lot less fun playing them than-
... a lot of the, you know, other, than, than basically the average other set.
I think if I were to rate them, like, small set versus small set, Spider-Man, I think, still is the worst.
Part of that is, like, the omen path stuff, but that is part of the experience.
Uh, Hobbit was better than Spider-Man, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was better than Hobbit, but none of them...
Like, all of them were worse than, like, you know, a lot of the sets that you could imagine.
Yeah, and it challenges us to think of in terms of, well, if we're getting four big sets, and then they just threw three small sets at us additionally, well, who cares, right? Then it, it's just like we can just choose whether to play each one of those or not.
I think the downside of it is, what's on arena? What, what, what are people...
Where, where's the critical mass of people aiming at any given point, you know, to figure out what I'm gonna be playing? Because I tend to go where the winds take me when it comes to limited, and if, if Hobbit's the thing right now, then that's what I'm playing.
But it is interesting, um, you know, this experiment with these small sets.
This is the, the last of the ones that we know about, uh, 'cause I don't think Star Trek's gonna be a, a small one, or, um, whatever, Reality Fracture.
So, you know, uh, I don't know if there's more of these coming in the future, but this does kind of put the final chapter on the Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and now the Hobbit being these pick two draft format or however you wanna frame them.
And, uh, it's really interesting because it forces us limited players to kind of put the gavel down.
And I think, you know, uh, I mean, from Luis's perspective, that's two out of three that you're more or less sitting out.
You played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that isn't, like, an all-timer for you or anything, right?
Yeah, I think part of it is fatigue, where, like, Spider-Man w- This Hobbit's better than Spider-Man.
Like, after Spider-Man, after Ninja Turtles, like, these small sets are really unappealing to me, and I've had a lot less fun playing them than-
... a lot of the, you know, other, than, than basically the average other set.
I think if I were to rate them, like, small set versus small set, Spider-Man, I think, still is the worst.
Part of that is, like, the omen path stuff, but that is part of the experience.
Uh, Hobbit was better than Spider-Man, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was better than Hobbit, but none of them...
Like, all of them were worse than, like, you know, a lot of the sets that you could imagine.
Yeah, and it challenges us to think of in terms of, well, if we're getting four big sets, and then they just threw three small sets at us additionally, well, who cares, right? Then it, it's just like we can just choose whether to play each one of those or not.
I think the downside of it is, what's on arena? What, what, what are people...
Where, where's the critical mass of people aiming at any given point, you know, to figure out what I'm gonna be playing? Because I tend to go where the winds take me when it comes to limited, and if, if Hobbit's the thing right now, then that's what I'm playing.
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