If anyone has tips or resources for drafting I’d love to hear them!
I’ve been playing paper magic for a few years but never played any limited. I didn’t really understand the appeal. But my brother convinced me to try Arena and I had a draft or quick draft token and now I am hooked. But I also kinda suck at draft.
I think my goal is to be good enough to break even ish on gems so I can draft a lot without spending a lot. I’m okay spending while I learn ($60 so far… (probably only $25 towards drafting)).
I think I have most of the basics down. Stuff like 17 ish lands, 13 ish creatures, a good mana curve, prioritize removal and land fixings.
I find myself doing research online of people’s favorite sets to draft and wondering if I’ll ever get to draft it. I saw Neon Dynasty is coming up on the schedule and I’m very excited to draft it. I enjoyed Dragonstorm and am enjoying Ixalan. I feel like my first 3 or so drafts of a set go pretty terribly. They’re fun still, but it also stinks to lose $5 so fast…
I’m hesitant to do anything besides quick draft because of the stronger competition and bigger downside to losing quickly. But I don’t want to stay this way. Ideally I’d quick draft to learn a set and then switch to premier. But I also don’t want to miss out on what’s available - right now Mix-Up Draft and Core Set 2021. I’m tempted to try both, but feeling like maybe I should stick to a set I know until I develop skills?
In a pod of 8, Pick 9 in a pack will be your first pack wheeling. You’ll only get to see the first 5 packs wheel around (in 14-card play boosters), and a lot of the time those last 1-2 picks in a pack will be a basic land or something completely off-color for you. Don’t worry too much about it as you start out, but yeah, it can help indicate a color that’s very open.
Gotcha. Weird to me that Arena is different - 7 players in Premier Draft, and packs are 15 cards
Premier draft should be a full pod of 8. Older sets have 15 cards per pack in draft boosters, but I want to say it was around MKM when they switched to 14-card play boosters.
On Arena I probably misread “you and 7 other players” as just “7 players” or something 🙃 But knowing they should be the same, I’ll commit the numbers to memory!