Draft Deck Meta

Aetherdrift Draft Deck Metagame

Draft deck metagame only consists of decks with the maximum number of wins (3 wins in Traditional and 7 wins in Quick and Premier drafts).
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Orzhov card breakdown - 56 decks, 7.79% of meta

Creatures

3 It's a vanilla creature, but it's got good stats, it's good at crewing, and it's an artifact -- and those last two things really matter in this format. 3.4 1x in 25%

4.5 This effectively draws you a card for every creature that hits your opponent, while also giving you treasure. You do have to be wide enough or evasive enough to get in in the first place, but the effect tends to snowball, since the more cards you draw the more likely you can hit your opponent some more. 4.5 1x in 27%

1.5 This is a fairly sub-par creature, and while returning to your hand can be nice, it's also just an effect you use when you have nothing better to do. Typically, you don't want to spend 6 mana to put a 2/2 in play. 2.8 1x in 27%

2.5 The baseline is solid, and the max speed pay off is enough to make almost anything into a threat -- including the Pride itself. 3.3 1x in 27%

4 The baseline of three mana for a 1/2 and a 2/2 is a very good Magic card, and in the later game this can make combat impossible for your opponent. 2.6 1x in 29%

3 This enters trigger is an absolute beating. It'll virtually always gain you some life and get a free attack in. 2.3 1x in 30%

3.5 Starting your engines on turn one is big, and the baseline here is excellent -- you always play a one mana 1/1 that leaves behind a 1/1. 3.4 1x in 30%

2.5 This is a solid two-drop. It's never goign to be a great creature, but the surveil helps improve draws in a big way while helping with graveyard synergy, and the artifact typing certainly matters. 4.2 1x in 30%

4 This gets the engines started early, it has good stats, and a nice sacrifice ability -- and once you get to max speed it turns into an insane value engine. 4.3 1x in 34%

2.5 The buff effect helps gets this in on many boards, and the fact you can exile it from your graveyard means it has 2-for-1 potential. Alternatively, it can feel pretty good when it gets milled too. 2.2 1x in 34%

4 The efficiency is incredible. You'd play this even if it couldn't be saddled, and if you can even get one Plains out of this you come out way ahead. 4 1x in 34%

2.5 One mana 1/1s with death touch always punch above their weight-class, and this one even has some additional late game utility. 3.1 1x in 36%

3 A 4-mana 3/4 that drains 1 life when it enters is kind of passable, and this has a much higher ceiling than that thanks to being an artifact and draining life for every other artifact too. It's a good way to get max speed. 3.7 1x in 38%

3 This is hard to block for much of the game, which means it's good at building speed, and it often turns into a 2-for-1 in the late game. 2.5 1x in 39%
Instant, Sorcery

4 This is a great removal spell that scales all game long while also giving you some graveyard help. 4.4 1x in 5%

3 When this can kill something it feels great, and when it can't and you cycle it for a single Black mana, it's perfectly solid. 2.1 1x in 9%

4 Sweepers can be super awkward in Limited, since if you're at parity or ahead they aren't very good -- but there's really nothing else that can pull you ahead from behind the same way. You can always cycle this when you don't need it. 4.4 1x in 11%

1.0 / 2.0 The ceiling here is pretty high, and there is some graveyard stuff going on in this format -- including vehicles with Cycling. If you have enough of them, this can perform well. But it's also a dead card a little bit too often. 1.8 1x in 11%

2 This has some potential in this format, but the set up is a big deal and even with the Pilot tacked on you're not guaranteed to get your mana's worth. 2.9 1x in 11%

2.5 This kind of disruption is great early, but drops off late. You can just cycle it once it's useless, though. 2.2 1x in 12%

2.5 Making your opponent lose life while you draw cards is definitely a nice upgrade to this effect, and it helps with speed. 2.3 1x in 14%

2.5 This is a quality trick that blanks removal and wins virtually any creature combat against another creature. 2.2 1x in 20%

3 This has a target a decent chunk of the time, and when it does it's a great deal. When it doesn't, you can cycle it away. 4 1x in 20%

3 There are enough expendable bodies and artifacts in the format for this to feel pretty good. Even giving up a vehicle isn't bad since it gets replaced. 3.8 1x in 20%

2.5 This is never going to feel very efficient, and sometimes you have to trade down -- but it answers most things and the life gain can help offset the inefficiency. 2 1x in 21%

3 Paying 5 for this is not what you want to be doing, but paying two is great. If you're an aggressive deck it's far less good, but it pulls it's weight in many decks. 3.5 1x in 36%

3 It's a little expensive and a little hard to cast, but it answers most things in this format. 4.3 1x in 39%

3 There are enough artifacts in the set for that mode to be useful pretty often, and when it isn't, you have a mediocre removal spell you can use. 2.3 1x in 43%
Enchantment, Artifact

3 This buff offers you some very real value upfront, as lifelink is a great way to shift a race in your favor. Throw in the fact that this gives you a token, and you can overcome most of the downsides Auras have. 2 1x in 16%

3 "Crew" is an activated ability, so you'll often have something in play to name when you play this. Sometimes you won't, but it's a decent vehicle on it's own. 3.9 1x in 16%

4 Triggering this is very doable in Black and the baseline Vehicle is solid. 4.4 1x in 16%

5 If this were always 7 mana it would probably be a 3.5 at worst, but it will frequently cost less! It adds a real vehicle to the board, kills your opponent's best thing, and gives you the option of sacrificing something to add counters to it. It's insane. 4.6 1x in 16%

3 This feels best on turn two when you use it to kill your opponent's only creature and attack with your one drop to rapidly raise your speed, but it does have some pretty seriously diminishing returns thereafter. 3.4 1x in 18%

3.5 This is going to give you a 2-for-1 most of the time, and help with other graveyard and artifact synergies. 4.3 1x in 20%

4 This gives you so much for so little. Even without the ability I'd play this for one mana pretty happily, and the ability means it can remain relevant all game long by growing and going into the sky. 4.3 1x in 20%

2.5 The Scry trigger is pretty nice on turn two, and while this isn't the most intimidating vehicle, it's big enough to trade off for something. 1.5 1x in 21%

2.5 This is easy to crew and quite good on offense and defense. 2.2 1x in 21%

2 Three mana 2/2 is bad, but in the late game this can potentially tutor up your best card. 1.8 1x in 27%

3 This brings a long a way to crew it, and getting two artifacts with one card has some legit upside in the format. 2.2 1x in 29%

4 Adding a big vehicle to the board while exiling your opponent's best creature or vehicle is a big swing, and you can even cycle this early when you need to. It's even possible to bring it back ahead of schedule. 3.9 1x in 30%

3.5 This just gives you so much for only a single mana. It kills something up front and then provides all the artifact, sacrifice, and graveyard synergy you could ask for. 3.9 1x in 34%

2 It's hard to ever feel like you're getting a good deal with this, but by the mid-game it doesn't feel too bad. 2.3 1x in 36%
Planeswalkers
Lands

2.5 These will often enter untapped, and they give you a very real body in the mid-to-late-game. 1.8 1x in 9%

2.5 This style of land is always good for your mana base, and adding Cycling to a land is always nice because it gives you some flood insurance. 3 1x in 11%

2.5 These will often enter untapped, and they give you a very real body in the mid-to-late-game. 1.4 1x in 14%

1.5 Starting your engines as early as turn one can be nice, but it's not really worth damaging your mana base. 1.5 1x in 25%

2.5 Gaining a bit of life helps make up for the fact that these always enter tapped, and they are pretty good at fixing your mana. 3.1 1x in 38%
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4 This gives you so much for so little. Even without the ability I'd play this for one mana pretty happily, and the ability means it can remain relevant all game long by growing and going into the sky. 4.3 1x in 20%

4 The baseline of three mana for a 1/2 and a 2/2 is a very good Magic card, and in the later game this can make combat impossible for your opponent. 2.6 1x in 29%

4 Adding a big vehicle to the board while exiling your opponent's best creature or vehicle is a big swing, and you can even cycle this early when you need to. It's even possible to bring it back ahead of schedule. 3.9 1x in 30%

4 The efficiency is incredible. You'd play this even if it couldn't be saddled, and if you can even get one Plains out of this you come out way ahead. 4 1x in 34%

4 This gets the engines started early, it has good stats, and a nice sacrifice ability -- and once you get to max speed it turns into an insane value engine. 4.3 1x in 34%

4.5 Casting this can be challenging, but once you do you get a 5-mana 4/6 with Vigilance that either upgrades your most useless permanent, or downgrades your opponent's best permanent. And in this format getting an artifact or enchantment from the graveyard to your hand will be pretty easy. -0 1x in 2%

4.5 This can augment creatures and rapidly gain loyalty to draw you cards, and importantly -- it's pretty well protected any time it's equipped to a creature 5 1x in 4%

4.5 This is almost always going to net you cards, and if the game is stalled out you can just keep growing it and making into more of a threat as it becomes a more imposing creature on the board too. 4.7 1x in 5%

4.5 It's tough to Saddle, but attacking with this once gives you an excellent trigger, and Ward makes it hard for your opponent to ever deal with it efficiently. 4.7 1x in 11%

4.5 This is a great removal spell, and once you have Max Speed it also turns into a pretty amazing value engine. A free counter every turn is massive. 4.8 1x in 14%

4.5 This effectively draws you a card for every creature that hits your opponent, while also giving you treasure. You do have to be wide enough or evasive enough to get in in the first place, but the effect tends to snowball, since the more cards you draw the more likely you can hit your opponent some more. 4.5 1x in 27%

5 This is tough to beat when it's on the battlefield, and it gets around it's only downside -- it's expensive -- by having a powerful Cycling ability that can give you a bunch of bodies. -0 1x in 12%

5 There's a real chance this kills you if your speed is high enough, but between the cards he draws and the huge body, you're going to win before that happens most of the time. Valuing life gains a little more than normal is one way to offset this, too. 5 1x in 14%

5 If this were always 7 mana it would probably be a 3.5 at worst, but it will frequently cost less! It adds a real vehicle to the board, kills your opponent's best thing, and gives you the option of sacrificing something to add counters to it. It's insane. 4.6 1x in 16%

Selesnya	725 matches	89 decks
12.38% of Metagame
Golgari	702 matches	87 decks
12.10% of Metagame
Simic	686 matches	84 decks
11.68% of Metagame
Izzet	519 matches	62 decks
8.62% of Metagame
Orzhov	458 matches	56 decks
7.79% of Metagame
Gruul	468 matches	56 decks
7.79% of Metagame
Azorius	438 matches	53 decks
7.37% of Metagame
Rakdos	435 matches	53 decks
7.37% of Metagame
Dimir	423 matches	52 decks
7.23% of Metagame
Boros	418 matches	51 decks
7.09% of Metagame
Naya	115 matches	14 decks
1.95% of Metagame
Sultai	106 matches	13 decks
1.81% of Metagame
Bant	97 matches	12 decks
1.67% of Metagame
Abzan	60 matches	8 decks
1.11% of Metagame
Temur	68 matches	8 decks
1.11% of Metagame
Esper	54 matches	7 decks
0.97% of Metagame
Jund	28 matches	4 decks
0.56% of Metagame
Grixis	30 matches	4 decks
0.56% of Metagame
Mardu	18 matches	2 decks
0.28% of Metagame
Mono White	9 matches	1 decks
0.14% of Metagame
Mono Green	9 matches	1 decks
0.14% of Metagame
Mono Blue	9 matches	1 decks
0.14% of Metagame
Jeskai	9 matches	1 decks
0.14% of Metagame

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Aetherdrift Draft Deck Metagame

Orzhov card breakdown - 56 decks, 7.79% of meta

Creatures

Instant, Sorcery

Enchantment, Artifact

Planeswalkers

Lands

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