Generic Draft Archetypes?

Lady Mapi
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Generic Draft Archetypes? Jul 3, 2020 16:33:19 GMT

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Post by Lady Mapi on Jul 3, 2020 16:33:19 GMT

OK, so I have a very dumb idea for a set.

I want to take the most generic draft archetypes for every color pair, and color shift them. It'd look kinda like...

: Something

. Spellslinger, definitely.

: Something

. Maybe Graveyard Matters?

: Something

. I'm thinking Mill.

: Something

. My current plan is Power 4+ Matters.

: Something

My problem, however, is that I'm actually having a hard time picking archetypes that are iconic for a given color pair while fitting uncomfortably in a different one. As you can see, there are a lot of holes. Anyone have any ideas?

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Generic Draft Archetypes? Jul 3, 2020 18:53:20 GMT

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Post by Schwa77 on Jul 3, 2020 18:53:20 GMT

Off the top of my head ~~and totally not because these are almost all archetypes for my current project~~

: Fliers, flicker
: Evasion, control, mill
: Sacrifice
: Aggro, "Ferocious," Ramp
: Midrange, Tokens
: Lifegain, aristocrats
: Spellslinger
: Graveyard recursion, "Morbid"
: Go-wide, combat-tricks
: +1/+1 counters, card draw

Be excellent to each other.

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Generic Draft Archetypes? Jul 5, 2020 17:49:12 GMT

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Post by Giraculum on Jul 5, 2020 17:49:12 GMT

Here are some of the more reasonable shifts I can imagine:

: Equipment (

). Focused on putting equipment on evasive creatures.

: Flash (

). I guess WotC is already doing this, but it's still an interesting shift.

: ETB Effects (

). Black can use reanimation/disentomb as a new avenue for recursion. Or,

Fliers, which we kind of saw in RNA with Afterlife.

: Direct Damage (

). Think M20's Ogre Siegebreaker. Green can lean on fight effects and direct damage to flyers.

: Tokens (

). I'm thinking specifically of Populate -- copying creatures is a Blue effect, after all!

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Generic Draft Archetypes? Jul 6, 2020 6:28:08 GMT

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Post by gamma3 on Jul 6, 2020 6:28:08 GMT

For

, maybe lifegain/life-as-a-resource? I know red doesn't do lifegain, but it has seen some triggers based on gaining life (granted, those are

multicolor cards), and red's reckless self-damage stuff would pair well with black's lifegain.

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Post by Lady Mapi on Jul 3, 2020 16:33:19 GMT

Post by thaneofglamis on Jul 3, 2020 16:38:07 GMT

Post by Schwa77 on Jul 3, 2020 18:53:20 GMT

Post by Giraculum on Jul 5, 2020 17:49:12 GMT

Post by gamma3 on Jul 6, 2020 6:28:08 GMT