Time to bring the cows home! We’ve got the second half of our new episode format, where we check out all the draft archetypes of a set. This is focused on the gold cards and on Wizard’s description of the pairs. Our categories are:
- Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us?
- Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy?
- Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck?
- Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair?
Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | Raw Strength | |
BW | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5/4 |
UR | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
BG | 1/2 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
RW | 3/4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
UG | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
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