


The tempo swing from being able to bounce a soulbond that was preventing you from attacking or bouncing their powerful 5+ mana card that they were depending on to swing the game was extremely valuable. Games were mostly decided by individual powerful cards. In Avacyn, however, the cheap cards were horrible. In that format, the 2/4 would have been better than Mist Raven. It was a format where the cheap cards like Werewolves and Travel Preparations hit hard and prevented late games, or were still good in the late game. Avacyn Restored was neither of those things, but the format directly before, Innistrad– Dark Ascension, was both. In an aggressive format, the 2/4 would be much better, and in a format where the cheap cards were more powerful, the 2/4 would also be much better. I remember when we started our testing for PT Avacyn Restored, most people thought Seraph of Dawn was better than Mist Raven. Is this a format where drawing cards is a little bit more profitable than usual ( Modern Masters)? Or is this a format where a lower mana cost is of extra value ( Gatecrash). So at the start of a new format, I’m mostly trying to identify whether flying is a little better ( Return to Ravnica). Instead I spend more time watching how the commons interact with each other and trying to pick up on how the games and format plays out.ĭifferent things are a little more or a little less important in each new format. I generally prefer these days to watch the draft so that I don’t get as caught up in trying to win. I don’t even like doing our house practice drafts, because they bias me into thinking you should go certain directions more than you should, because certain strategies are either open or would work well against what the others in the group are doing. Every draft format is different and every draft is different. It requires allowing your decks to go different directions in each draft and not predetermining where you are going to go. It means not sticking to the strategy or strategies that you think are best but weighting the cards that are important for those correctly, and then still being willing to draft completely different decks if that’s what is open. Always being willing to drop early picks if you realize something else is open. Forgetting about what was working for you in the last format and starting to evaluate everything from scratch all over again.

Sound great? What’s the problem? Well, the hard way is hard.ĭrafting the hard way means analyzing each new format and being willing to forget about whether you like control or beat down, white or black. If you draft the hard way you can have a good deck in 90% of your drafts. If you draft the easy way all the time, you can spike when things line up your way and you are perfectly live to 3-0 and draft good decks when they do, but around half the time you will not end up with a good deck at all and will be liable to 0-3 or 1-2 your draft. The best way I can describe it is that there are two ways: The easy way and the hard way. Booster drafting well is incredibly complex.
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