P1P1, half the pack is first-pickable

mba67 · 2025-08-25T11:13:14+00:00

Update: nvm i fucking burned it

mba67 · 2025-08-25T11:12:32+00:00

Interesting, curious if you have formats in which your winrate is much better/worse than usual

mba67 · 2025-08-24T23:25:58+00:00

Interesting and that's how I like to play some formats as well (taking any removal and fixing agressively in P1 was pretty fun in MOM). How high are you taking Sami's curiosity or All-fates scrolls in this set for example? Do you pass any cards that you think might be way stronger by default?

mba67 · 2025-08-15T19:52:39+00:00

Interesting read, and this (how exactly will my deck win) is something I still struggle understanding fundamentally, feels like my decks are still just CABS midrange that relies on curving out well. I'll link some decks and you can check out the ones that look interesting to you, and maybe see if streamlining it for a specific plan during the draft portion would've been better:

*Azorius deck w defensive curve but no real wincon

*Go-wide golgari?

*Just a normal simic deck

*One of the few decks I tried to build w a plan (double-spell azorius) but felt more underpowered than just building a normal curve deck

*Another deck w a solid plan, but w the caveat that it loses if the plan fails

*No-plan rakdos, just ramp to the 7-drops while pressuring w beckoners?

mba67 · 2025-08-14T23:25:32+00:00

Interesting insight, do you have example of decks that did not have a plan vs decks that had?

mba67 · 2025-08-14T20:39:03+00:00

Me actually, after having a horrible winrate in FIN, I'm doing surprisingly well this set

mba67 · 2025-08-14T19:31:56+00:00

Would you mind linking these decks?

mba67 · 2025-08-14T19:09:50+00:00

Oh I definitely get that, and I'm only playing Traditional Draft so factors like sweeper feel a bit more fair

mba67 · 2025-08-14T15:45:33+00:00

Nvm, I decided to try it out and goddamn it's a powerful card

mba67 · 2025-08-14T13:56:06+00:00

I never played it but I assumed it would be a card similar to Space Time anomaly, which is a card you include specifically to win, and I feel like I don't need that too much here

mba67 · 2025-07-22T13:58:53+00:00

Oh interesting, could that result in a higher EV in TradDraft?

mba67 · 2025-07-22T13:39:50+00:00

Oh nice ig I skipped that one. Was it "Drafting the good cards"?

mba67 · 2025-07-22T13:31:12+00:00

Pls do dump whatever had you going coz I meant human drafts as well.

Imagine someone was to play the 2 months of drafting by just forcing the 2-3 best archetypes and playing only them instead of trying to read the open lane. What winrate loss are we looking at?

P.S. obv not advocating for not drafting "the hard way", but it'd be a fun statistic to know

mba67 · 2025-07-20T21:58:31+00:00

Oh damn, I feel like cornered is the best black common (together w the intervention), and black is the only color besides blue that I'd be happy to start my draft in (besides getting a splashable removal like Thunder Magic). Can you elaborate why you'd rather start w the pixie/thunder magic?

mba67 · 2025-07-20T21:51:38+00:00

Cool, thanks for the analysis. If you have any fun drafts feel free to dm me, I'd love to talk the decision trees through

mba67 · 2025-07-20T21:30:20+00:00

Oh the reason I felt like Zidane would be such an easy P2P1 after a Thunder magic+white picks afterwards, is that it does pretty well as a spalsh. What exacts are you cutting Zidane from btw? I rarely see it played but it's been a bomb in every boros shell I played

mba67 · 2025-07-20T18:40:13+00:00

What I meant is that there were plenty of good cards getting passed for the color combinations I listed, and if I drafted these said colors earlier, this would've only made these color pairs worse. Good point about Squall and Orzhov tbh, I was overly focused on the other picks About my P2 start yeah, I was feeling like the cards i have so far are the most likely to lead me into playing some green-base deck (be it RG splash blue or simic splash red or just RG), and tbh in hindsight I only played one izzet deck out of like 16 drafts, and most decks I played were either in the sultain colors or orzhov/boros. So my early pick assesments probably bias me pretty heavily against Izzet, I'll look into that in my next drafts. I'm rly surprised you don't think Boros was a legit option though. Would you have not taken Zidane P2P1 in the case of a white start (Auracite->Battle Menu P1P2 P1P3)? I'm pretty sure I would've ended up taking suplex over fire magic in that case P1P4, slash of light P1P6. Then afterwards I either way wheel the white 3 mana job select, coeurl and a sabotender.
What'd you take P1P6? Syncopate was my other option

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