Tag: Draft

Becoming a Draft Master: Part 2 – Reading Signals

Hello and welcome back to my series on Eternal drafting strategy! This article will focus on reading signals. Since I will be drawing heavily on the concepts from the previous article on card evaluation, you may want to go read that one first before jumping into this one. So, in case you missed it two weeks…

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Full Force Draft | UG Merfolk

Full Force is a weekly draft series built around testing the latest formats and our skills by forcing archetypes. This week, we (try again) take a look at UG Merfolk in Ixalan! No more reveling for us this week. It was interesting to see how this draft supported a lot of what I talked about…

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Pondering MTG | Ixalan Draft #1

I covered Sealed last week and wanted to cover Draft this week. In one of the drafts I recorded I ended up with a really interesting and nonlinear deck that essentially tried to win by inducing submission/fatigue. Most Ixalan drafts will not produce decks like this, but I’m happy to present one that did. As…

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Full Force Draft – Revel in Riches

Ixalan is finally here and I’m very excited to sail the seas and fight some dinosaurs! Last week we tried a red/green Dinosaurs draft and this week, thanks to the vote, we’re diving deep into Merfolk! Well… That was interesting. No matter how much I pushed for it, Blue/Green Merfolk was not happening. This was an excellent…

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Becoming a Draft Master: Part 1 – Card Evaluation

Hello everyone and welcome to Part 1 of my guide to drafting. The intended audience for this guide is players without much of a drafting background or intermediate players striving to reach the next level. Maybe you played a few Magic: the Gathering drafts but lapsed and feel rusty. Maybe you’ve tried a few Eternal…

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Full Force Draft – Ixalan GR Dinos

Ixalan is finally here and I’m very excited to sail the seas and fight some dinosaurs! Last week we tried a red/black Pirate draft and this week, thanks to the vote, we’re ready to stomp on some opponents with Dinosaurs! I’ve run through a lot more drafts after last week and the format still feels pretty…

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Full Force Draft – Ixalan RB Pirates

Ixalan is finally here and I’m very excited to sail the seas and fight some dinosaurs! First up, I wanted to try a red/black Pirate draft: We just came off the blazing speed of Amonkhet block, so what better way to start Ixalan than by trying to speed our way through our opponent’s with the…

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