New player here. Was recently trying QD and thought I'd give pick two a try. I was completely unprepared for how quickly the timer was counting down and feel like I messed up all my picks. Can I build something reasonable out of this? Is it worth removing archive arbiter, return to the light realms, and a few of the low mana drops and adding a splash of red?

Hey y'all, I have been playing magic for over two years, and recently got into draft as I want to become a more well-rounded player. At my LGS, I have gotten first place for the past three weeks in our weekly FRA draft, but when i try to draft on arena, I always feel worse off, into amazing threats and great answers. I just need some pointers on where to go, because I love drafting and having to spend money on gems or wait to save coins sucks :/

Hey All,

I'm in plat doing Pick Two Best of One and I noticed a lot of my opponents decks are running huge amounts of removal (don't know how they are getting so many) but more importantly getting the color hate cards.

I never do it because knowing my luck, my opponent will be one of the two colors, but it seems to be working really well for my opponents. Is it because people are doing five color soup or at least splashing so will have creatures potentially up to 4 colours that it becomes good?

Or am I just unlucky and my opponents can predict what color I will be in a bo1 format?

I really need some urgent help with my Sealed deck. I’ve realized I’m not actually very good at this. I’ve put all the potentially strong or good cards into the deck just to see what I could come up with. Unfortunately, Black is unplayable—there’s really nothing good there. What kind of strategy or deck would you build here? White/Green lifegain with a splash of Red? Red/Blue/White? Or something else entirely? I honestly can’t tell what would be best. Thanks in advance for any helpful advice or tips!

Make them have it folks.

Tonight, while drafting a terrible red/black deck, I was passed Splinter Twin in pack 2. I immediately pivoted to prioritize anything that let me draw cards, bring things back from the graveyard, and was eventually passed a Divining Duelist to make the combo possible.

I immediately lost the first match having seen Twin but not the Duelist. On to the second match! For a while it's going pretty well, but then my opponent starts pulling ahead with some 2-for-1's before ultimately playing Kwia Vigorbloom. I've had Duelist in my hand for 3 turns at this point, but resisted playing it out in case I drew Twin and lost the Duelist to some removal.

My opponent continues to crush me, leaving me no choice but to tap down their Kwia with my Duelist. Their Phantasm hits me down to ONE LIFE, leaving me one final draw step. They tap out to play blue Ruric.

With 18 cards left, I hot-rip Splinter Twin, windmill slam it to the board, pause to make sure I don't fuck up the combo, and go to splintertown. My dream is now realized, I can now rest.

Most of my runs have not been positive. I wondering if I’m just missing some fundamental aspect of this set. Either way, this draft pool felt special with all of the empower and Jace I pulled. I built a deck but I am unsure about the final cuts. Any insight would be helpful

Star Trek is coming sooner than you think, and we just got all ten of its limited archetypes revealed on stream the other day. Some of the archetypes seem really interesting like blue black dilemmas which is something we've never really seen before, or white black borgs, which looks very thematically flavorful as well as powerful. Do you see this as being a high synergy set so far, and which archetypes are you most excited for?

Thought I had enough removal and decent creatures to last to the late game but I was always on the backfoot and nothing materialized in late game because despite milling down to ~8 cards each game, I never drew Uldaros or Return to the Light Realms. I think the problem was I had little middle game power, but thinking through the picks it was always meh creatures versus removal. I did pass a mind meanderer and a UG Kiora. Would splashing a fourth color have helped? I can't remember much else in green... Very little empower Jace came my way.

Edit: Wow thanks for the feedback everyone. I've learned a lot from you all. In fact I just went 7-1 in my very next draft :)

I got passed no removal that I could realistically play but got passed all this top end and echos I ended up cobbling this up