![]() ![]() Redeeming aspect: A surfeit of activated abilities repelled new players, leading to the worst commercial downswing in Magic history.Ĭube lesson: Tribal(ism) is the cancer of Africa.īasically Magic 2014 without much removal. You were screwed if you didn’t get a tribe, not all the tribes were good, and the curve was often surprisingly high. If you drafted Alpha, there was some chance of getting value.ĭrafting tribal is about as uninteresting as you’d expect. Redeeming aspect: With all those white-bordered lands running around, you could just grab a stack and ghetto out your Constructed deck of choice. These sets were absolutely massive - up to 449 cards in Fifth Edition, which we looked down upon, as spoiled children - and filled with unplayable cards your chances of cracking a Birds of Paradise in one of those fin-de-siècle boxes was about as bad as that of getting a Liliana in a box of Innistrad. I imagine these drafts were as often dodged as those for Vietnam, but maybe (as in Israel or South Korea) there was no way of avoiding them. Some claim Limited begins with MVW, others with IPA - in the interests of not running out of terrible draft environments, I’m going to start with MVW and work my way down the list. ![]() Mirage-Visions-Weatherlight was the first block you could actually draft, but Invasion-Planeshift-Apocalypse was the first block where Limited was directing the design - the first Cube, if you will. “ I could design worse when I was seven.” Think of it this way: what are ninety percent of commons doing in every set, except as draft fodder? The lack of Limited in Magic ’s early history severely worsened its development. Take heart, though! It used to be that nobody drafted anything, ever. “ In the event of Constructed, I’m a hostage.” They’re worse! Sets like Modern Masters come out, and the draft aficionado wonders why the other sets aren’t as good as Modern Masters, and Modern Masters isn’t as good as it could be. “ M14 ’s weakness as a draft environment is at least partially due to a raging Staff infection.” It also doesn’t account for smash hits like Hindervines, Restore the Peace, or Showstopper, which depress the cracker of drafting packs. This neat dichotomy fails to explain away cards like Savageborn Hydra, Hoard-Smelter Dragon, or Pack Rat, which exist solely to ruin games of Limited and depress the cracker of prize packs. Here’s a sobering idea: With the rise of New World Order, the Modern Magic card, for the most part, is designed with either Limited or Constructed in mind. ![]() In Honor of Magic 2014 : The Eight Worst Draft Formats of All Time ![]()
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