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Reminder about Mystical Archives pull rates (mtgzone.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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Since they revealed most of the Mystical Archive bonus sheet, it's a good time for a reality check of how often all those chase mythics will show up.

7/8 packs will have an Uncommon SOA card In that 1/8th pack you have slightly less than 1/4 of a chance of a mythic and the rest are rare

Compare this to the original Strixhaven Draft Boosters:

Where Mythics were over twice as common and Rares almost 3 times as common

So the pull rates of the best cards have been heavily nerfed

Sourced from the bottom of the collecting article for SOS and the one for original Strixhaven

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[–] fr0g@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"I am a draft player and I approve this message"

[–] MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mark Rosewater noted it as a positive for Draft in his State of Design article, but that may have been only for less-experienced drafters. Was it disliked among more competitive drafters?

[–] fr0g@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't remember that well how they were received back then, even though I drafted/watched draft streams quite a bit during Strixhaven.

But it's always a very fine line imo. Sometimes having these extra cards can be good for variety and make you draft interesting deck archetypes the format usually wouldn't support. But the more powerful cards the higher the risk the format is defined by bombs.

Strixhaven did have the advantage that the extra cards were instants/sorceries which both meshed well with the theme and a lot of the cards were just efficient removal, which is much better for draft than big bomby creatures or enchantments.

[–] fr0g@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

I also think it's reasonable to assume the decision for lower drop rates had very little to do with concerns about draft.

[–] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ohh so these are reprints from some select list?

[–] MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com 0 points 4 months ago

Yes, all regular boosters contain 1 Instant or Sorcery card from the Mystical Archive, at the above pull rates. If you check the Spoilers community you can see the current revealed cards under [SOA] (whereas the main set is [SOS])