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Topic: Drafting Tips
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Kujamune
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posted March 31, 2013 09:33 AM
      
Hey everyone,So I haven't played magic since the first Mirrodin block, and not since Prophecy/Invasion before that, so 7-8 years? A couple of my bandmates and I realized we've all played in the past and have gone to a couple of local drafts for Gatecrash the last few weeks just for fun. When playing before, I didn't draft much, coupled with the fact that I'm still super rusty in playing, I haven't done very well. I guess what I'm getting at is I'd love some tips for drafting. Both for the Gatecrash set, and just general common sense tips for limited. Thanks in advance guys,
Mike
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Link139232
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posted March 31, 2013 09:56 AM
 
I can walk you through some drafts if you would like.
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daner
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posted March 31, 2013 10:07 AM
In general...stick with the BREAD plan.B. Bombs
R. Removal
E. Evasion
A. Average
D. Dead Card Now, there will be varying opinions on what cards are classified as "bombs", because well, most people are bad at Magic and identifying/valuing card power. That's really just splitting hairs.... As far as Gatecrash goes. The set is HYPER-Aggresive. Extort is the best mechanic, and Orzhov is probably the best deck. All the decks can win, just some are have a lot better card pools and overall card quality to work with. The trick in Gatecrash, as explained in an article with Zvion SCG(which I've been saying since this set came out) is that you NEED to decide what your going to trade early creature for creature. Probably the single most important thing you can do is make sure you play a creature either turn 1 or turn 2. If you don't you're going to get run over in this format. To be honest it's VERY lame, very much the same thing over and over again. If you can get the packs draft ISD-ISD-DKA(Innistradx2, Dark Ascension). Also, if you are new you might want to start out with a m13 draft, it's a little less skill intensive but it will help you until you move on to a more advanced set. I'd classifiy GTC as a higer skilled set, only bc if you're new you can easily trainwreck your draft....sets that almost require a tri-color build can be tricky. It's also going to be a LOT harder for you to recognize drafting signals. I'm not suggesting you're terrible but if you say your very rusty you might want to give m13 a shot just to get back into the swing of things.
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Kujamune
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posted March 31, 2013 10:27 AM
At this point, I'm fairly terrible. The first draft I attended, I hadn't looked at the card list for GTC and ended up building a simic deck. I went 1-2, 0-2 and 2-0. At least I won a few games.But knowing the cards a little better this time, I felt a bit more prepared but just kept unwrapping garbage and did poorly. I went Dimir this time and played mostly against Boros, so before I could make much happen I was already overrun, like you mentioned is common in this format. My biggest mistake was lack of aggression, I'd like to try Orzhov in the future just to take advantage of extort, provided I get passed the right cards.
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Link139232
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posted March 31, 2013 10:31 AM
I drafted a midrange-y dimir deck that had something like:4 Unblockable Rogues
3 Guildgates
Lots of flyers with cipher cards to attach
Some removal
Consuming Aberration And some other stuff. ...and I got 0-3 rolled by aggressive decks. Orzhov is quite clearly the best deck, or boros splashing green/orzhov splashing red.
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Kujamune
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posted March 31, 2013 10:41 AM
My bassist drafted a Dimir mill deck and went 2-1 our first draft. I was way impressed. Had a mind grind, and landed the Undercity Informer/Mortis Strider combo go off a few times.
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dwiz
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posted March 31, 2013 12:00 PM
BREAD is good (funny how the A and D always mean different things) but you also need a good balance and a good curve. My pool at GP Pitt (sealed, but still) was so bad. I played a removal package of 13 spells, 8 creatures, Gideon and Holy Mantle and went 6-3. Obviously more creatures were needed, but I had no great splashables and no gates. You should have 13-17 creatures though, and a good curve.
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