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We’re back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold “archetype” cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types of elements in a game with five colors and ten color pairs? We dive in and give our breakdown.
The twenty signpost cards discussed
Other cards mentioned in the episode
Topics and Tidbits
- one gold one hybrid card per color pair
- does using hybrid rob that signpost of it’s “reward value” to the loyal drafter?
- excitement, accuracy, and synergy
- a color pair doesn’t need to have high scores to be a useful part of the design of a set
- UW fliers is a classic
- fliers don’t fare well in a pure race
- how many fliers do you need to buff to make a flier anthem worth it?
- uncommon hybrid legends as a way to get fan favorites into limited games
- “draw two” is relatively new as an archetype but being used pretty often
- shadow keyword is back! sorta
- “Foggy swamp spirit keeper” as a cardname feels like yu gi oh
- this review was going smoothly… until the fire nation attacked
- if being big is an ok things to do
- always a saga person
- does this archetype work with the default strengths of the color pair
- 4 power gruul again…
- if you add “then draw a card” to a thing, I want to do that thing
- ways to save mana can matter with earthbend needing some lands untapped
- being more excited when an archetype doesn’t seem like it should work
- bringing Ally creature type to Avatar was inspired
- eerie art similarities…?
- eerie creature similarities…?
- part of a good gold card is making someone feel safe for taking it
- trust us, there’s plenty of clues here
- the synergy might be good enough to pull us into an unexciting deck
- tim struck by tragic flavor text
- ok time for black green graveya… wait a minute!
- this gold card is cool!
- the hybrid card is cool too! BG graveyard curse is over??
- not reading ahead has paid off
- when you’d rather have toughness than power on an attacker
Grades
Khord
| Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | |
| UW | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| UB | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| RB | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| RG | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| GW | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| BW | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| UR | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| BG | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| RW | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| UG | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Tim
| Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | |
| UW | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| UB | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| RB | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| RG | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| GW | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| BW | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| UR | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| BG | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| RW | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| UG | 2 | 3 | 4 |