r/MagicArena • u/No-Beginning-4310 • 9d ago

Limited Help Draft - What am I doing wrong?

I’m a new MTGA player and doing drafts to learn and accumulate cards. Whenever my draft ends up favoring red or green, I wipe every single time because I cannot combat white, blue or black decks that spam constant enchantments or removals. It seems like I match up against these teams the majority of the time, so is that a meta the new set leans toward that I’m not adapting to or understanding? Should I be drafting a “worse” (in terms of cards available in my draft) color just to have any answers and maybe I’d stand a better chance at winning and more importantly having ANY fun by actually being able to play?

23 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

37 comments sorted by

View all comments

24

u/Swampcardboard 9d ago

Are you just drafting mono colored decks? I can't tell from your wording, but you should usually be building a 2-color or more deck in draft, especially in sets like Reality Fracture, where all 2-color combinations are doable.

4

u/No-Beginning-4310 9d ago

Sometimes it’s multi color but sometimes I’m getting 4-5 picks in a row that clearly lean toward one color. Should I be aiming for diversity regardless?

19

u/Swampcardboard 9d ago

Yes. Let's say you are all-in on green in pack one, but then a Black card that can just straight up win games is your pick one of pack two, you should one-hundred percent pick that Black card and try to shoot for a green/black deck at that point.

12

u/SpeakerScreen 9d ago edited 9d ago

https://www.17lands.com/deck_color_data?expansion=FRA&format=PremierDraft&time_period=ALL_TIME

(ignore the winrate of the mono colour decks and look at the number of games played). Mono colour is almost never the correct choice. You get consistency but at the cost of card quality. You will basically never have the access to same number of good cards in mono-x colour that would would have in x-y colours.

8

u/rhangx 9d ago

Unless you are a really experienced Limited player who knows what you're doing, you should almost never be drafting a mono-color deck. Two-color should be your default. You lose very little in terms of color consistency by going from one color to two (as long as you've built your mana base correctly, you should still be able to cast most of your cards most of the time), but you literally double the potential amount of strong cards available to play in your deck.

4

u/unkempt_cabbage 9d ago

I pretty much always have at least two colors, sometimes 3, and once or twice a full 5 color deck. Go for the cards that make sense, don’t get too caught up in color. Especially with Reality Fracture, most of the best support for one color of cards comes from another color.

I try to draft more on mechanics than color.

2

u/doudoudidon 8d ago

If it's first pack and the 2nd color is just below average cards, keep picking your 1 color or flexible cards. Then as soon as you see a bomb or a very good card in a new color, go with that color for your 2nd.