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Emeraldegg posted...

So, can people give me the rundown on draft strategy? Particularly things like "how late is too late to pivot from a color(s), is it ever worth doing so for a single card, is 16 lands usually too few?"

I did my first neon draft last night and I ended up with 4 wins which for me is a good day, but during rd 1 I got the red shrine and white shrine so was like "okay I'll do r/w." Pack 2 I pulled U/B Kaito and was like "man do I switch?" So I started picking up some U/B cards here and there but just ended up going R/W anyway. Most of my cards were 3 or fewer mana, so I went with 16 lands, but every single game I opened with 2 land, my final game with 1. I also saw quite a few people going 3 colors so I'm wondering if they just got lucky getting the non-basic lands they needed or if it's usually fine to do? Granted this was like very bottom rank as well.

This is a really hard question.

I think a general safe rule is pick the best card for your first 4 picks, then try to stick to your most open color through pack 1, then commit to your second color by p2p3 or so.

Of course it's almost never that clean. Sometimes the open color isn't clear, sometimes your color dries up etc, but that's where I would aim