I am an MTGO junkie. Some days I draft more than I should. When the server goes down for maintenance, I itch to draft again.
There is nothing quite so bedazzling as the potential of a freshly opened pack. Filled with all sorts of possibilities and potential paths I could take.
Unlike constructed, which quickly becomes predictable and formulaic, draft maintains an ever present spice of the unknown. Anything can happen in a draft, occasionally epic things can happen.
Take for example one of my last 8-4 cube drafts on MTGO recently. Now I am one of those who argues for the cube being around 365 days a year. It is single handed the most fun you will have drafting magic, every card is good, you can literally do what you want, you can even force an archetype and it will work more often than not (due to the fact that all the cards are relatively good).
So I'm facing down this boros/zoo player and he's got a Mother of Runes in play, a Greater Gargadon, a silver knight and a Hero of Bladehold. It's the end of his turn, he just cast Hero. I am at 16 life, he's at 18 after one or two fetch land cracks.
I untap with a shelldock isle in play and draw the 21st card of my library, leaving it with exactly 20 cards. Under the isle: Animate Dead. In the yard, Griselbrand...
I untap.
I animate dead griselbrand. I draw seven cards going to 9. I draw the following: vedalken shackles, force of will, dissipate, snuff out, some lands and some other stuff I don't remember.
I play shackles and grab the hero of bladehold. He untaps and topdecks path to exile. He tries to path griselbrand, I force of will. He then activates mother of runes targeting gargadon and I snuff out in response...
I go to 4 life (9 - 1 (FOW) - 4 (Snuff out)).
He concedes.
That's cube for you.
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