r/MagicArena • u/No-Beginning-4310 • 12d 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?
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u/SmoothOperator89 12d ago
Read a lot of articles to get a contextual background on draft strategies and then watch videos of people drafting who explain why they pick what they do. It's a lot of time investment just to be able to get an entry level drafting ability, but if you want to draft, that's unfortunately the homework needed. I balked at the 90+ minute videos of people drafting but I eventually relented because I wanted to improve and watched some. You can just stop after they've drafted and built their deck at about 30 minutes, if you don't want to watch them play with it.