For a control deck, you’ll be looking at around 18 lands in your 40-card deck. If you’re playing an army of small creatures, you’ll likely only need 15. It’s also worth always sticking to the 40-card minimum because then you have a far higher chance of pulling out your best cards during each game.
How many creatures should be in a 60 deck?
For anyone’s first deck, I recommend a good balance of creatures coupled with other cards. If you’re playing with 23 lands, I think about 20 creatures to 22 creatures is a solid place to be. This will put you at 43 to 45 cards out of your minimum 60 and help to ensure that you’re not just swept off the table.
How many lands and creatures should be in a 60 card deck?
24 lands
Playing a card means announcing the spell and paying its mana cost. That takes lands. The basic rule of thumb is that you play 17-18 lands in a 40 card deck, and 24 lands in a 60 card deck.
How much mana should a draft deck have?
Conventional wisdom is to run around 40% lands in Limited. This means around 12-13 lands for a 30-card deck, and 16-18 lands for a 40-card deck. Typically, you see three variations. Aggressive, low-curve decks (which curve out at at four or five) will run as few as 11/16 lands.
How many lands should I have in a 40-card deck?
18 lands
Traditional knowledge is that lands should make up a touch over 40% of a deck. This means about 17–18 lands for a 40-card deck and about 24–25 lands for a 60-card deck.
Can you sideboard in draft?
Everything in your pool that you don’t put into your deck in Booster Draft or Sealed Deck constitutes your sideboard. That means you can actually have a ton of options between every game! In Sealed, this is the rest of the pool you’re handed. But in Draft, you need to curate that sideboard yourself.
How many creatures should I have in a 60 card deck?
Usually, my draft decks tend to aim for 16-17, 6-7 other spells, and 17 lands. Generally, if you end up with 19-20+ creatures your deck is going to be aggressive but insufficiently versatile.
How many lands should I have in my sealed or draft decks?
How many lands should I have in my sealed or draft decks? A standard draft deck has 40 cards in it; a 4-booster sealed deck has 30 cards. How many lands should I put in each of these formats?
What should a draft deck look like on MTG?
Your “mana curve,” or simply “curve,” is a depiction of your cards spread out in piles based on their CMC. A typical draft deck should have lots of 2-drops and 3-drops, with fewer and fewer cards on the outside of your curve.
How many cards do you need for a booster draft?
Booster Draft rules allow you to add as much basic land as you want to your deck, and require that the deck you end up with be at least 40 cards. The standard number of lands in a draft deck is 17–18.
