mtg draft

Author: StrikingLoo

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+layout: post
+title: "Draft / Limited Play - Magic: the Gathering"
+date: 2024-12-07
+tags: mtg, games, fun
+description: ""
+language: English
+importance: 6
+---
+
+## CABS - Board Affecting Cards or Nothing
+
+Cards Affecting Board State (CABS) are, in order of descending importance, **creatures**, **removal**, **combat tricks**.
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+You should try to create a simple, well-curved, 2-color beatdown deck based on only these kinds of cards.
+
+Life gain, combos, gimmicks, nice uncommons that require gymnastics to trigger, powerful but complex enchantments, should not be prioritized and ideally completely avoided. Just play creatures ollowing a good curve, and use removal to control the board. It is not optimal but it is leaps beyond people not following this advice (including forcing them to mulligan too much).
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+> You want cards that are consistently good rather than cards that are sometimes very good but sometimes very bad.
+
+> You will avoid card-draw spells, build-around-me enchantments, counterspells, life gain spells, and the like.
+
+15\~18 creatures.
+
+[CABS Theory](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/cabs-theory-2015-08-19)
+
+## How to Build a Mana Base
+
+Platonic Ideal deck: follows a curve of {2, 7, 6, 4, 3, 1} (no more than 1 card with cost >5. 7 of cost 4 or 5). 17 land, 16 creatures, 7 spells. Note that this aligns pretty well to the CABS deck described above.
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+[How to Build a Mana Base](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/hdv5jz/limited_how_to_build_the_mana_base/) by /u/Reitsch_