Magic Numbers #170: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Draft @Sierkovitz
Magic Numbers #170: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Draft  @Sierkovitz
Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
How often did you regret a draft pick after the draft? That lingering feeling you should have made a different choice in a 50:50 decision? Well, hopefully today I will convince you to worry less. We will look at the cost of abandoning the picks and I will make a semi-coherent case that if your card evaluation is OK, you will end up just fine. We are also going to learn why pack 1 picks are more important for finding a lane than for providing playables. We even venture (only for a bit) into constructed world.

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Magic Numbers #170: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love the Draft

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