This week is all about drift archetypes! We break down all ten from the new set along with their gold cards. Are they exciting? Believeable? Synergistic? This is a great way to get familiar with the components of the set’s limited design.
Watch “Cars” for Pete’s sake!
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Topics Discussed:
- category down
- archtypes that deliver every draft vs dream archetypes
- jazzed up
- archetypes don’t have to full hit to still be fun and good
- scared silly
- selling a player on a thing to lock into
- the werewolf flavor problem
- does your set’s theme have to directly map to archetypes?
- opposite juliet
- cute wall-e faces
- more robotic line reads
- single “artifact matters” archetypes in sets
- affinity but in a slow deck?
- larcent mentioned
- 3 mana 3/3 crew 1 “the ok vehicle”
- gary’s triumphant return
- 2/4 vs two 1/1 fliers
- late-breaking pun click
- 4 mana 6/5 crew 3 “the ok big vehicle”
- skipping to two
- only haste late game
- partial haste
- so awkward they might have been changed??
- deleted strength
- running out of gas irl and in-game
- do you want/need a discount on a late game mechanic?
- believing in exhaust vs cares-about-exhaust
- outlaws stealing thunder
- bat owl with beefy arms
- boring archetype? juice the cards
- do you know who won the big race?
- aetherdrift story is great
- dft paying for otj’s sins
- wrenchmar vehicle size theories
- skeleton grudges
- max speed on defense
- archetypes at common vs arcuns
- speaking of repeating ourselves
- spider wheel legs
- cycling talk in the golgari section
- green underperformer on excitement
- round of applause for road rage
- copying dwarven homework
- overcrewing
- can’t make every gold card 3 mana
- blue green vs green blue
- two two tim
Tim’s Ratings
| Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | |
| UW | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| UB | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| RB | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| RG | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| GW | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| BW | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| UR | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| BG | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| RW | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| UG | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Peter’s Ratings
| Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | |
| UW | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| UB | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| RB | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| RG | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| GW | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| BW | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| UR | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| BG | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| RW | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| UG | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Comparing the two
| Excitement | Accuracy | Synergy | ||
| UW | P+1 | T+1 | ||
| UB | P+1 | T+1 | ||
| RB | Tim Way Higher | T+2 | T+1 | T+2 |
| RG | Peter Way Higher | P+3 | P+3 | |
| GW | P+1 | |||
| BW | P+1 | |||
| UR | T+1 | P+2 | T+1 | |
| BG | Tim Higher | T+1 | T+1 | |
| RW | P+2 | |||
| UG | Peter Higher | P+2 | P+1 | P+1 |