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How do we make them? Why do we make them? Everything you ever wanted to know about draft archetypes

today on Drive to Work.

Okay, so what are draft archetypes?

Let's begin there.

So a draft archetype, normally when we build a set in modern day magic design, we try to make sure, we try to make sure that there are at least 10 different possible themes for you to draft.

The default for the draft archetypes is the 10 two-color pairs.

So most sets, when we say draft archetypes, we are designing, normally when you draft,

if a set is not sort of set up

for you to draft something beyond the norm, normally what you do is you draft two colors.

Without support for a monocolor, there's not enough to draft just one color, and without support

for three color, it's hard to draft threecolor. So the default on most sets is drafting

two-color. So when we talk about draft archetypes, in most sets, what that means is what are

the two-color draft archetypes? Now, when I say there are 10 draft archetypes, there are a couple

different ways we can do. Like I said, the default is that we can do 10-2-color. There are a couple

other ways we can build them. One is we can make a set that has a monocolor theme. In order to do

that, we have to allow you to access to more colors. And sometimes when we say a monocolor, sometimes

that means truly a monololor, but often that means two-color, but the majority of what you're doing is one color and you're splashing the second color.

So sometimes when we say monolour, it means you're splashing just because it's really, really hard to play one color.

There are some environments where you can't play one color.

Like Shadamore was kind of famous for that because it had so many hybrid cars.

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