
Lots of different preferences, and we can only offer so many game modes. (Yes, I know there's plenty of players who would love it to be phantom, but there's also plenty of players who value the fact that they can build their collection this way. (BTW, that's another mode where we put controls in place to keep the gameplay from degenerating.) I don't think players would stop doing this unless we significantly raised the price of Quick Draft or made it phantom. However, it's how players are using the mode, and that affects the play experience, just like how players' choice of commanders affects the play experience of the Brawl queue. In a world of Quick Draft rare-bonanza, a player might face that every game, because the drafters who weren't getting all those rares don't actually show up to even out the queue, because they're bots.Īs to how Limited is "supposed" to work, I don't entirely disagree. The rest of the time, they play against normal decks with normal distributions of rarities. The 17Lands tracker automatically aggregates all your draft picks and the decks youve played into an easy-to-share format.

One or even two drafters at a Premier Draft table might get a lot of rares and then make for an unusual match, but a player will (on average) only face that once in a while as they play out their course. Nothing about any of this is the way Limited is supposed to work! Or Magic The Gathering is supposed to work. You basically said it yourself- the bot programming is literally just mitigating the efficiency of a game-economy strategy players are attempting. I know you guys know that, and it's honestly surprising to see you half-acknowledging it here. The only reason players would want to take these off-color, 'bad' rares, is to game the fifth-copy-protection in packs as a strategy toward set collection.

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You'll get cleaned up by players that actually know how to Draft, just like you would in any other draft. If you rare-draft every pack, what you're getting is a pile of off-color Rares, duds and Constructed cards. There are still only 8 rares opened at the table- it's not as if they're magically all on-color bombs. You're basically saying that: because players in Quick Draft (aggressively raredraft) then bots must also (aggressively raredraft) otherwise (bad play pattern) people will be facing off with bizarro world 6-8 rare decks.īut actually- there's nothing to stop players from doing this in Premiere Draft either.

Your point makes a lot of sense on first glace but I think you're really making a false equivalency here.
