In my opinion, premium removal spells are the most valuable cards after Rare/Legendary bomb cards. Keep your eye out for any 4.0 or higher rated Legendary or Rare cards as these can be some of the best cards to draft. Given these strategies, what are the most important things to target in the draft portion itself? #1: Bomb Legendary/Rare cards It is possible to draft a deck centered on card advantage, but they can be harder to win with than the above strategies. You can gain incremental card advantage with Echo cards,Words of Wisdom, or Entomb cards. The problem is that it is hard to count on this strategy because most repeated card draw effects are rare or higher in rarity. A card like Staff of Stories will definitely run away with most games if you can protect it. If you draw more cards than your opponent, and find the time to play all of your cards, you should end up ahead in the game. Thus, you will rarely get passed a bomb legendary card. One very interesting thing is that most people will rare draft any legendary they open because the shiftstone values are so high and people are often drafting to help build their collections. The strategy doesn’t rank higher because they are harder to come by than the first two strategies. Often they meet #1’s criteria all by themselves. If you have a few of these they can swing a game pretty hard. These are the 4.5 and 5.0 cards from my set review. It is a bit of a gambit because you need to focus your draft on these cheap units and the spells that go well with them, pump spells and cheap removal, but if you don’t get enough relevant cheap units your deck won’t function. This is not my preferred style to play, but it is possible to draft mostly one and two power cards, play fifteen total power, and try to run over your opponent in the early turns of the game. Sometimes you can just play a large number of fliers with little ground defense and race your opponent using stun effects or other removal. #2: Flying Unitsįlying units are generally hard to block, so if you can lock down the ground units with defensive ground units like Jotun Warrior, you can use a number of smaller fliers to win the game. Unconditional removal is hard to come by in draft and thus if you can build up a monster of a unit, it will often run away with the game. The most common way to have one of these units is to combine smaller units with weapons such as Vodakhan’s Staff or spells like Accelerated Evolution. Let’s begin by discussing what wins in draft, in order of most frequently occurring: #1: Large, preferably evasive, units. Mouse over any underlined card to see what it does. Time | Primal | Shadow | Fire | Justice | Elysian – Combrei | Feln – Stonescar | Rakano – Factionless Next time I will discuss some of the specific faction combinations and their strategies. Today I want to provide some big picture thoughts on the Eternal draft format – what wins generally, what you should be prioritizing in the draft itself, and some game play tips.

Given this, it is pretty important to be able to compete effectively in draft.

It is usually the best way to spend your gold in the game as you spend an extra 1000 gold (versus just buying four packs) for the ability to keep the cards you draft from the four packs and for the chance to win prizes: additional packs and gold. Draft is a fun and important format for Eternal.

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