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What's the pick? - Coggle Diagram
What's the pick?
What's the best card given my previous picks?
How likely is it to wheel, and how much is the second best making it worth the risk?
How likely am I to get a card in my colours on the wheel?
How to evaluate the influence of my previous picks on my current pick?
How flexible is this card for my deck?
How likely is it that I can splash it, or have a splash at all?
Do I have fixing in my pool already for a splash?
How much flexibility am I likely to have with my mana base?
How much fixing am I likely to get in the remaining picks, and at what opportunity cost?
What are the benefits of going for the risky pick compared to going for the safe one?
How much do I care about my 23rd card vs. a much better card in another archetype?
How much better is this pick making other cards of my pool? How is my pool making this pick better?
What is the in-game probability of the current pick to combo with a particular card from my current pool?
What other cards make this pick better?
How likely am I to get these cards?
How is my curve?
What is my curve for creatures only?
What is the balance creatures / spells / removals in my pool currently?
What are the quadrants I need to focus on? (development, behind, at parity, ahead)
How committed to my previous picks vs. open to switch should I be?
How much of a pivot can I afford? How many cards, and of which quality, am I going to get if I switch archetype given how many picks I have left?
What strategy is my deck following?
To which archetype of the set can I affiliate it?
What's my own specific game plan?
What do I lose to?
What are my different paths to victory?
How fast is my game plan?
Do I need to plan for a sideboard?
How replaceable is it?
How much do I need a scarce effect/characteristic (e.g. colour) vs. power?
How are archetypes specifics influencing my chances of getting a good pool?
How are archetypes power ranking influencing my chances of getting a good pool?
How good is my deck going to be if I persist in this under-drafted archetype?
How likely am I to get a good deck if I persist on a sought-after archetype?
On which specific cards does each archetype depend to work well?
What are the must-have commons?
What are the must-have uncommons, if any?
What type of cards does it depend on?
What is the pool of commons like?
How does this archetype usually win?
How high is the power density of each archetype?
How well defined are the archetypes?
(e.g. chaos draft, vintage cube)
How fast is the set overall?
What am I supposed to draft at this specific seat of the table?
How does the direction this draft is taking compares with me forcing another one?
What is the likelihood of getting the best cards going forward given my current direction?
What does the set have to offer to enhance my current pool?
What is the common cards base offering to support the current deck plan?
Amongst these commons, which ones are the most adapted to my current game plan?
Amongst these commons, which ones are key to the standard game plan for the archetype I'm currently in?
What uncommons would the deck plan need to succeed?
What cards / colours the neighbour who will be passing to me next pack will likely cut vs. let go?
How much can I influence how this draft is going?
What is open vs. what is closed?
In the past few packs, what cards can I see that are signals?
In the past few packs, what cards have I not seen which would have been signals, and now are indicating by their absence that a lane is closed?
How long has it been with or without signals?
How risky is it for me to persevere in this lane?
What have I let go/not let go to my left in pack 1 that will influence what I get in pack 2?
What colour have I cut in pack 1 that should put my left neighbour off in pack 2?
What noticeable cards did I pass? What signals did they give?
Am I going to play against the players I drafted with? (tabletop/MTGO vs. MTGA)
How many archetypes are there in the set vs. overlaps between them vs. number of players at the table?
What are this pack's top 3 or 4 best cards in a vacuum?
What's the top one?
Do I want to test run some cards to play-test them?