That is to say, if you open some excellent cards to start your Draft, having more picks early makes the premium cards easier to build around or splash later if needed. This plus the set’s excellent mana fixing decreases the chance that your first couple of picks will end up in your sideboard based on my experience with the set so far. The strategic implications of this aren’t all that dramatic, but it does encourage rare drafting and picking cards that work well together. You won’t be doing this for every pick like in Commander Legends, but you have to for the first pick(s?) of each pack you open. The last thing I want to cover before we get into the meat of the set is Double Master 2022’ s namesake drafting gimmick: picking two cards instead of one. Using Phantom Leagues to cheaply practice the format is a fantastic idea if you have lots of local 2X2 events near you! It Takes Two Phantom Drafts are generally going to be much better to play because they cost less than half the entry of a Draft League while still having decent prizes for a good run. You have to absolutely crush Draft Leagues (or open nothing but Wrenn and Six) to get good value. You can see that the average opened value of three 2X2 boosters is actually less than three Streets of New Capennaboosters (3.18 vs 4.08) even though the former is more expensive to draft.īecause of this you want to avoid playing non-Phantom Draft Leagues if you can. Let’s refer to GoatBots EV calculator to illustrate this. Cards like Imperial Seal and Force of Negation are worth a fraction of their paper value since they’re much less scarce. The 2X2experience is a bit different on Magic Online. This steep price means that the 2X2 format isn’t a great place to learn the ropes of drafting, but it is an excellent fit for an experienced player looking for rewarding competition. As a paper experience, Double Masters 2022 is about as high stakes as FNM Drafts can get since entry prices for Drafts I’ve seen are $45 to $60 instead of the usual $12 to $15. You can draft it at your local LGS or on Magic Online. I’d like to note a couple of unique things about this set.

As Foretold | Illustration by Tommy Arnold

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