thanks for the tips, my men! Poor man's Dimir Flash it is. Only 2 rare and a couple uncommon wildcards away.
Is it worth jumping into Limited? Or is it a surefire way for a noob to waste his precious gold?
I think it's actually a pretty good environment for a noob. The field should be level, cause it doesn't care about your collection.
It's also a very good way to get the feel of an expansion, you'll be playing with shit you'll probably never going to see in constructed.
Not to mention, it's quite rewarding when you can just get gems and buy mastery passes this way.
You keep all the cards you pick, so it's down to whether the baseline rewards are acceptable to you as opposed to just buying packs:
45 cards you picked, including 3-4 rares, a handful of gems and a pack.
IMO it's roughly equivalent to what you'd otherwise get from 5000 shekels.
Buying packs is only better if you want wildcards and specific cards, if you can manage at least 1-2 wins, I'd stick with the quick drafts.
Premium drafts have a better reward structure once you get the hang of it and feel you can pull ~4 wins, leave those for later.
You have all the time in the world to do the bot draft, so feel free to consult your picks with some online guide.
Check some videos of people drafting to get an idea what a good draft deck might look like.
Stuff you wouldn't touch in constructed can be very powerful, and on the contrary, shit you'd kill for in constructed can be merely meh in draft.
You can also get a white friend and consult your final list with them for adjustments. Sometimes you can shuffle 3-4 cards around and unfuck it.
It takes time to get it right, what I did was put away shekels for 2+ draft tickets. This way if I royally fuck up my picks, or see some bomb plays to copy, I can immediately try and improve my game.
This approach also helps when you get easily distracted by the oooh shiny rare, this way you can spend one draft ticket cherry picking the good stuff, then try to actually draft a working deck on the next go.
I still suck in draft, by the way, I never went above gold rank and Bo3 drafts are fucking juden sciencemajik for me, but it's good enough to keep me free to play and 99% complete on pretty much all the sets.
Also which boosters are best value for someone looking to play Black or Green based decks? I've also been thinking of B/W.
I'd wait a bit for M21 to drop, looks like it's got some black stuff that looks cool.
Normally, I'd suggest looking into the Ravnica expansions, as there's a lot of two-color support there, but these things will soon be falling out of standard (assuming you care about this).
There is a bit of support for going mono black in Throne of Eldraine, but good stuff is pretty much littered all over the place. You should be fine by buying into whatever expansion
(or better still, read above about trying not to succ in limited and try doing that). Otherwise, just play the game and see what people are playing to give you some idea about what works.
