I ended up getting streamlined into an almost mono-Red deck, branching out into Black and then picking up a Blue splash. This contrasted starkly to my previous DOM draft, which was quite bomb-heavy. Most of the packs in the first round of the draft had really disappointing rares…stuff that is garbage in limited. Here’s the deck I ended up playing: DOM Quick Draft R/B/u Removal and Stuff Creature (11)Īnd here’s the video of me playing it (going 2-3): Welcome back to Daily Arena! Today I’m going to go through my experience with the June 1 Quick Draft. I’m currently 4-2 with it and hopefully I can pick up my three wins tomorrow by simply finishing the event 7-2.Spoiler: Thought I’d pulled a decent deck out of a bad pool, but it wasn’t as decent as I thought. Lastly, here’s the really weird four-color mid-range deck I drafted. That said, if your goal is building specific decks then it’s likely not the right format for you. If your goal in MTG Arena however is to collect everything then you might want to draft because you’ll quickly complete sets of commons and uncommons.įrom the perspective of raw value in the number of cards opened, ranked drafting has a lot of value (when you spend 5,000 gold) compared to the other options for spending that resource. But even if you could, you’ll likely stick to the constructed queues and just open packs to get wildcards. If your goal in MTG Arena is to get specific cards in order to build constructed decks, then ranked drafting may not be the right format for you unless you can consistently get to five wins (7.6 packs). There are no wildcards in the packs and they don’t count towards the number of packs you need to open in order to get free wildcards. So purely in terms of pack value, if you can win at least twice every time you draft, you’re doing better than you would if you bought five packs from the store, with one caveat: The three packs you draft don’t build up wildcards. Thinking of it in terms of packs, here’s the value breakdown by result: If you can average four wins each time, you’ll get three 15-card packs, one 8-card pack (with a 30% chance for a bonus pack), and 450 gems (2.25 packs). At best, if you pick up seven wins, you’ll get three 15-card packs, two 8-card packs, and 950 gems (4.75 packs). So what’s the value of a 5,000 gold ranked draft? At a minimum you will get three 15-card packs, one 8-card pack, and 50 gems (1/4 of a pack). And for 5,000 gold you can do a ranked draft.Īside: That’s literally all you can do with gold in this game. For 4,000 gold you can get yourself some sweet Liliana artwork sleeves. For 3,000 gold apiece you can pick up the Huatli and Angrath avatars. You could buy packs for 1,000 gold a pop. What do you do with it? You can join a constructed event (500 gold for Best-of-One or 1,000 gold for Best-of-Three, a.k.a. So you’ve been grinding for a few days, finished a bunch of quests, and now you’ve got 5,000 gold in your pocket. Also, I’m a spike, so for me there’s no option other than ranked drafting. As soon as I get to 5,000 coins I pretty much pull the trigger on a ranked draft. So for me, it isn’t really a question of value. It is by far my favorite way to play Magic the Gathering and nothing else comes close except for Momir Basic which is a distant second. So today I want to talk a bit about the ranked drafts and whether or not you should spend time on them.īefore I get in to deep I’ll say this: I love to draft. It got me wondering if the ranked draft is really worth the investment (5,000 gold or 750 gems). Yesterday I decided to pick up my wins by jumping into a War of the Spark Ranked Draft event. Another day another three wins and another 200 experience points on our seemingly never-ending quest to discover the true value (and cost) of the Core Set 2020 Mastery Pass on MTG Arena.
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