Drafting RTR - Limited Discussion Thread

http://draft.bestiaire.org/

Let's Start with a Shot post with the site and let the people go on and share their Draft and Limited opinion on the set and the Limited enviroment...etc


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OH, BESTIARE ADDED RTR?

COOLNESS!

Just tried it out, and there's plenty of good decks to make. Managed to draft a really nice aggro-control Golgari deck with Necropolis Regent. Not sure on one of the decisions I made to pick Dreg Mangler over an Abrupt Decay, but it made sense at the time, since I was low on efficient beaters.

Looks even more fun than M13 draft, much more variance in the deck options, and plenty of chances to fix mana.

Although, I can see Green being primary colour choices for virtually anyone drafting, which... seems to be a recurring thing.

While Drafting I felt that Black is the Key color in the Set Giving you acces with the most consistent Decks (Golgari, Jund, Grixis)

I think Green's the best colour, as a given. It has the biggest creatures, and the only access to creature-based mana-fixing.

Black's much better than I first thought it would be, it has a lot of incredibly powerful limited cards, and even some of its worst cards are pretty solid. Rakdos cards seem very strong in limited too.

Personally I think Red's still ridiculously powerful when the right cards get picked, especially in combination with Green or Black (or both) since it just becomes a powerhouse deck.

Blue seems very good just for the massive amount of counterspells (well, Cancels and the one Izzet essence scatter with damage and Izzet Charm), and the fact that its creatures aren't stupidly poor.

White actually seems the worst colour to draft except for the Selesnya cards.

I did the draft using 5 boosters[has get 5 from pre-release not including the guild booster so using that to get idea ]

Ended up drafting an extremely low cast red-black[rakdos] deck:
4 Rakdos guildgates
5 swamps
8 mountains

for the land [using 40 deck count as that is what is recommended]
most of expensive card to play in it is a 3 mana cost.
everything esle is costs 2 or less mana to play to make it as quick as possible.

What exactly does Drafting mean?

Mirajane Strauss wrote:What exactly does Drafting mean?

A group of people open up 3 booster packs each, pick a card from them to keep then pass the booster pack to the person on their right. By the end of it, you will have 45 cards + any number of basic lands that will be provided (so you don't pick basic lands while drafting), and you make a deck from those cards.

So how does a Drafting site work?

Mirajane Strauss wrote:So how does a Drafting site work?

The drafting site basically shows you your card picks. Each other person's card picks are done for you.

I tried my hand at it and it is so much fun. Drafted Izzet.

3 Blistercoil Weird
1 Nivix Guildmage
1 Goblin Elecromancer
1 Judge's Familiar
1 Tenement Crasher
1 Stealer of Secrets
1 Gore-House Chainwalker
1 Skyline Predator

2 Explosive Impact
2 Dispel
2 Electrickery
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Annihilating Fire
1 Pursuit of Flight
1 Inaction Injunction
1 Syncopate
1 Chemister's Trick
1 Thoughtflare

1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Transguild Promenade
8 Mountain
7 Island

Yeah, this looks interesting to draft post-release.

Did a couple Selesnya drafts and did alright. Not posting results until I do it a third time for some other guild, like, say, Rakdos.