Hey I'm going to a draft tonight and I always do terribly.

Bump. I'm an op promising to deliver. Please

>>49378760

removal should be prioritized over big fancy creatures in many instances. do not just take the rare, look at he pack, it is not uncommon to get an UC better than your rare for draft purposes.

>>49378760
First, I don't really care about pictures and stuff, that's kind of irrelevant.

Second, I can help you out.

Build your deck based on the cards you're given, rather than going for a particular set up. Know the format you're drafting, the power cards, and the counters to the power cards. Skip battletricks unless they're particularly powerful, and, unless something is amazing based on the previous criteria, the hierarchy is:

>1) Creatures
>2) Removal
>3) Card Draw/Ramp
>4) Everything else

Now, in general, flying is awesome in draft. There are lots of cards that have flying that tend to last, and it might just destroy a person's entire strategy.

That being said, you can have bad luck. Everyone can and it sucks. Just try your best and have fun.

>>49379154
Oh, one last piece of advice, build on a low curve.

If you don't know what a curve is, it means having a distribution of cards that allows you to play something once per turn. Faster decks tend to do better than slower decks because slower decks are reliant on stupid shit to get their powerful cards.

>>49379186
>>49379154
>>49379099
Thank you.
What cards should I look for? It's the most recent set

BREAD

>Bombs
>Removal
>Efficiency
>Aggro
>Dregs

>>49378760
Easy way to not suck at drafts: BREAD!

Bombs
Removal
Evasion
Aggro
Duds

That's your priority list for picking cards.

>>49379186
Unless you are playing Conspiracy (and thus multiplayer).
Then you want to run midrange cards, since the game is likely to drag on for significantly longer.

What about mana balance?

You're not gonna get good at drafting in one hour.

Read Reid Duke's "level one" article column though, it'll make you improve.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/level-one/level-one-full-course-2015-10-05

>>49378760
In addition to BREAD know your archetypes. A deck with good synergy tends to beat a pile of good cards. In SOI EMN for instance the WG Humans weenie strategy is probably one of the best followed by UG Investigate/Emerge and RB Aggro.

>>49378760
Biggest advice I can give you is to not take advice from /tg/. Second advice? Watch draft videos.

>>49378760
Best advice: play real Magic, not a shitty excuse of game to sell packs of bad cards