Innistrad: Double Feature Event Draft Guide • MTG Arena Zone

Table of Contents

Event Details
Event Rewards
- Showcase Dracula Card Style Rewards
Archetypes
Tips and Tricks
Wrap Up

Hey everyone! Hopefully you are all as excited as I am to finally get the chance to draft the combination of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow. It’s a fabulous opportunity to see what happens when we drop a bunch of vampires and werewolves into a winner takes all battle royale. So with that out of the way, I present Innistrad: Double Feature!

Event Details

Duration: January 28, 2022 @ 8:00 AM PST to February 10 10, 2022 @ 8:00 AM PST
Format: Innistrad: Double Feature
Entry Fee: 10,000 Gold or 1,500 Gems or 1 Player Draft Token
Ends After: 7 wins or 3 losses, whichever comes first
Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)

The format is Innistrad: Double Feature for MTG Arena: A ranked player draft with three Double Feature packs; each pack contains cards from both Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow, including a rare from each set.

This is originally designed for tabletop Magic – you can find more information about the product here. In summary, all cards from both sets are included.

Event Rewards

Wins	Rewards
7 wins	2,500 gems
6 wins	2,000 gems
5 wins	1,500 gems
4 wins	1,000 gems
3 wins	600 gems
2 wins	300 gems
1 win	100 gems
0 win	No rewards

Showcase Dracula Card Style Rewards

Each time you enter the Double Feature event, you will receive a Showcase Dracula Card Style. These alternate art cards bring Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel to life featuring characters, locations, and objects inspired by the original novel. Voldaren Estate (Castle Dracula) is the Buy-a-Box promotional card and is excluded from the prize pool.

Each has an equal likelihood of being received, and you will always receive a style you don’t own yet.

There are 17 total styles available:

I’ll jump right into the main complaint I’ve been hearing about Double Feature. The prize structure is really unforgiving. It’s also set up in a way where someone might see the seven wins prize and think Wizards increased all the gem prizes while removing the packs. Unfortunately if you end up with 3 or 4 wins, you are actually down 400 gems from the normal prize structure.

The best way to look at it is that those missing gems are replaced with the sweet Dracula cosmetic you get with every entry. The number of cosmetics you get doesn’t scale with the number of wins so you will need to run this event seventeen times to get them all. I saw a lot of people that were upset they didn’t get the Godzilla promos so don’t be the one that misses out on your only opportunity at the Dracula promos.

Archetypes

White Blue

The theme for Azorius in both MID and VOW was disturb so this will end up being one of the most synergistic decks that you can draft. This will typically be a very aggressive, low to the ground deck with flyers to finish the opponent off. It should be considered one of the top tier archetypes in Double Feature.

While insane in every deck, Organ Hoarder pulls triple duty in this archetype by providing a solid body, drawing you a key card, and dumping more cards in the graveyard to disturb back. Don’t undervalue cheap disturb cards like Lunarch Veteran and Baithook Angler as they are key to pulling ahead early with this strategy.

White Black

If you go down the Orzhov path, I’d recommend that you focus on building a grindy, good stuff deck because the themes don’t really work together. The sacrifice theme from MID does gain a few solid options in Doomed Dissenter and Undead Butler, but at the cost of losing half of it’s decay token generators.

You should still be able to build a solid deck just based on power level as cards like Bleed Dry, Heron of Hope, and Fierce Retribution are just generically great. I’d still rate this as a mid tier deck in Double Feature.

White Red

Boros is gonna Boros. Per usual the theme is smashing your opponents face in backed up by burn and combat tricks. It’s important to make sure you have a low enough curve to come out of the blocks quick enough to put your opponent on the back foot.

This deck gets a big power level boost from the uncommons so be on the lookout for Markov Waltzer, Sacred Fire, and Sunrise Cavalier. Since Boros isn’t that popular, you might even be able to get passed an amazing game warping card like Angelfire Ignition. I would consider this to be a mid tier deck.

White Green

I think Selesnya is going to struggle in Double Feature because trying to set different powers for coven and training can really conflict with each other and lead to extremely awkward attack steps. If you are going to try this, I would recommend sticking to the aggro creatures and tricks plan. I would rate this as a low tier deck.

Blue Black

Decay tokens and exploit go together like peanut butter and jelly because incidental disposable creatures make the perfect fodder to sacrifice for profit. My only knock on this combination is that the value of decay will drop some compared to MID because you won’t reach the tipping point in damage as quickly with only half as many zombie producers around.

Between the synergy and the sheer power of the cards in this archetype, I would rate Dimir as a top tier deck. Unfortunately there is a lot of talk about this deck already and I think it’s going to be heavily contested from the very beginning.

Blue Red

Izzet a spells deck? Of course it is. I would build this focusing more on a critical mass of spells instead of the combat tricks version from MID. Festival Crasher is still a fine card, but I want to build this around cards like Seize the Storm that go way over the top of the opponent.

While I think this is a mid tier archetype in the average draft, when it really comes together it can easily move into the top tier.

Blue Green

I think Simic is going to be an underrated deck due to recency bias from VOW. While it is still a mid tier deck, you should be able to pick up the key cards to make this work in most drafts.

I would take the self mill payoffs like Shadowbeat Sighting before the enablers because you can easily get mill cards from both sets. For example, a normally awful card like Moldgraf Millipede will always be available late and it becomes a lot better when it hits a couple of flashback cards.

Black Red

This is another archetype where both sets work well together to create something great. In MID, Rakdos was just an average aggressive vampire deck that always felt like it was missing something. VOW provides those missing pieces in blood to keep the beats flowing along with efficient early vampires that you actually want to play.

To no one’s surprise, this will be one of the top tier decks. While the removal will be heavily contested, you shouldn’t have to fight too hard over the vampire specific synergy pieces like Markov Retribution, Stromkirk Bloodthief, and Vampire Socialite.

Black Green

Golgari was a low tier archetype in both formats and that’s going to continue in Double Feature. It’s just a hot mess of cards that don’t do anything particularly well. Even the big butts meme dream is less likely to happen in Double Feature. I would recommend avoiding this archetype unless it is “slap you in the face” open.

Red Green

Both sets share the werewolf theme so you should be able to build a cohesive deck. Even with the return of the MID werewolf hate, there will be less overall copies available in the draft so you should be able to get away with getting your Gruul beats on. I’d rate this as a mid tier deck.

Tips and Tricks

On average there is only around one of each common per draft so you can’t expect to see a particular card. This also means you need to devalue any of the collect them all cards like Shipwreck Sifters and Ancestral Anger.

The overall power level is going to be higher because of the extra rare and extra uncommon in every pack. This means if you aren’t picking power, you need to be taking removal to deal with it.

The relative value of each mechanic changes in a mixed set. Re-evaluate everything in the new context instead of relying on old appraisals.

Since there are only half as many blood cards, the value of blood itself goes up while the value of blood payoffs drops.

The speed of the format should fall in between the two sets. This means card advantage spells will be playable, but you can’t durdle around as much as VOW.