<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>EOE on Bolt the Bird!</title><link>https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/tags/eoe/</link><description>Recent content in EOE on Bolt the Bird!</description><generator>Hugo 0.161.1</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/tags/eoe/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Ups and Downs in Marvel Drafts</title><link>https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/ups-and-downs-in-marvel-drafts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:23:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/posts/ups-and-downs-in-marvel-drafts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In these first few days of August I&amp;rsquo;ve already played more drafts than during the entire &lt;a href="https://www.bolt-the-bird.com/arena/seasons/2026-07/"&gt;July season&lt;/a&gt;. Mostly &lt;span class="set-name"&gt;
&lt;a href="https://scryfall.com/sets/msh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;i class="ss ss-msh" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)
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, although I also played one &lt;span class="set-name"&gt;
&lt;a href="https://scryfall.com/sets/eoe" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;i class="ss ss-eoe" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Edge of Eternities (EOE)
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draft that I found quite fun, despite a rather disappointing result.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;rsquo;m starting to get a pretty good handle on Marvel&amp;rsquo;s mechanics and the cards you simply can&amp;rsquo;t afford to pass. As the stats suggest, &lt;i class="ms ms-w ms-cost ms-shadow"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class="ms ms-u ms-cost ms-shadow"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Azorius seems to be the winning color combination, probably because those colors have the best &lt;em&gt;removal&lt;/em&gt; in the set: &lt;span class="cardname"&gt;
&lt;a class="cardname__link" href="https://scryfall.com/card/msh/41/web-up?utm_source=api" rel="noopener"&gt;Web Up&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;img class="cardname__face" src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/a/9a1b057b-229c-4f65-ba4e-12dd342238de.jpg?1783902964" alt="" loading="lazy" aria-hidden="true"&gt;
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&lt;a class="cardname__link" href="https://scryfall.com/card/msh/54/frozen-in-ice?utm_source=api" rel="noopener"&gt;Frozen in Ice&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;img class="cardname__face" src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/9/a990260b-39b7-4799-930a-bf9ac208d9ed.jpg?1783902959" alt="" loading="lazy" aria-hidden="true"&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;. Still, my best result came with a deck that splashed a touch of &lt;i class="ms ms-r ms-cost ms-shadow"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to include &lt;span class="cardname"&gt;
&lt;a class="cardname__link" href="https://scryfall.com/card/msh/234/thor-odinson?utm_source=api" rel="noopener"&gt;Thor Odinson&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;img class="cardname__face" src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/e/0e06f730-ae30-4ef2-88b1-073e02afdb25.jpg?1783902895" alt="" loading="lazy" aria-hidden="true"&gt;
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&lt;a class="cardname__link" href="https://scryfall.com/card/msh/231/the-super-hero-civil-war?utm_source=api" rel="noopener"&gt;The Super Hero Civil War&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;img class="cardname__face" src="https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/b/fbd1f333-5640-41f8-b9dd-1c322ac7724a.jpg?1783902897" alt="" loading="lazy" aria-hidden="true"&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;. The latter is one of those cards that can win games all by itself, so I suppose splashing red was justified—and the result certainly backs that up&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>