Mtgo 4322 : Mythics and Draft.

I first started playing MTGO at the end of Time Sprial all the way through Lorwyn block. I had such a blast drafting. I was average to below average but I was having fun. To mitigate my losses I would rare draft like a champ. The tournament would cost $14.00 but with all the money rares and no mythics (Planeswalkers were regular old rares) it was very common to come away with at least 5-6 dollars in money rares or uncommons on top of winning packs. That draft style helped fuel many more drafts.

When I first rejoined MTGO two months ago, I figured I could do the same thing. I could spend a couple hundred dollars. Pick up some rares and then resell them for more drafts. I just never realized that Mythic has effected the value of the regular rare so much. This in turn hurts the average drafter. Every draft I played in now had negative expected value. Let’s look at this in depth.

A SOM 4-3-2-2 draft costs 3 packs of SOM and 2 event tickets for a real world cost of $14.00. Right now in Scars there are 55 rares and 14 Mythics (rarity is 1 out of 8 packs). Out of those 68 cards only 19 have a value of $1.00 or more. Of those 19 cards 12 are mythic rarity. So only 7 “regular” rare cards are worth $1.00 or more and the high end is $2.25. 48 rares and 2 mythic rares are valued under $1.00. Of those 12 mythics only 4 go for more than $10.00 and none go for more than $20.00. 5 go for less than $5.00 and 3 go between $5.00 and $9.99. Now lets say in an average draft you don’t open one of the 19 $1.00 or more cards. You are left to building a deck and hopefully winning the tournament to break even. Lets look at some scenarios for a 4-3-2-2 draft.

Scenario A) You lose round one. No packs. You also have a pile of cards worth at most a tix. That is if you can find a buyer. The average drafter is out $14.00.

Scenario B) You win round one and lose round two. You get two packs. In a perfect world they would be worth 4 tix. Right now you can sell those 2 packs for 7 tix. So right now the average drafter is out $7.00.

Scenario C) You win round one, win round two, but lose round three. You get 3 packs worth a value of $11.00. The player is at a loss of $3.00 and they went 2-1.

Scenario D) You win round one, win round two, and win round three. You get four packs worth a value of $14-$15. You are breaking even or making a tix for winning an eight man tournament.

That is absolutely horrendous. Welcome to the world of Mythic. Average drafter be damn! The average drafter is going to have more scenario A’s and B’s than C’s and D’s. That player is losing large amounts of money of MTGO. All of a sudden a player could spend $200.00 on drafts and have no real value in their collection. When I realized that it hit me like a ton of bricks. A format that I truly loved to play was financially unfeasible. What happened in the two years I was gone? Mythics happened. Mythics are killing the average drafter.

Swap a écrit:Pr jouer construit encore faut-il avoir les cartes ..

Ben a écrit:

Nico Truc a écrit:

Ben a écrit:

je pense que tu pourrais utiliser ce smiley directement en signature

neoatomium a écrit:Mirage est de retour ^^ On peut toujours tenter de chopper des LED ^^ En plus il y a quelques communes (genre quirion ranger, impulse) qui valent des tix

neoatomium a écrit:Urza est plus safe (plus de cartes valant des tix) mais drafter Mirage c'est comme drafter ZZW (Jace) ou MEMEME (FoW) on peut toujours toucher la rare à 80-100 tix