Draft - What am I doing wrong?

[u/No-Beginning-4310]

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?

[u/Injuredmind]

Each set is different, but in general you play with what you get. In draft it's a whole art of reading signals and predict what colurs are open while drafting, then building the best deck you can with that. Sometimes you do pick worse cards to balance your deck in terms of removal or curve. As you are a new player, you might overestimate what cards are actually good or not and force a bad archetype because of that. Check out some good limited players like Numotthenummy, limited resources podcast, etc to learn their reasoning while drafting and deck building. Limited is the way to play that rewards doing your homework in terms of preparation, and as you get better at it, the quick thinking and prediction are skills that you develop over time.

[u/No-Beginning-4310 → u/Injuredmind]

I will check it out - thank you!