Phantom Duskmourn: House of Horror Bot Draft – Midweek Magic Event Guide

Hey everyone! We have reached the middle of another week and you all know what that means. That’s right, it is time for another Midweek Magic. This week we will be doing Phantom (WotC can’t give away too much stuff…) Duskmourn: House of Horror Bot Draft.

As you all know, drafting is my favorite way to play Magic so I’m always excited when WotC tosses us a bone for MWM. While I always prefer drafting with people over bots, I’ll take what I can get without too many more complaints.

Per usual, I am here to give you some event info followed up by a few tips and tricks to help you through.

Event Details

Select one card at a time from rotating Limited packs against AI with no waiting and no pick timers. Add basic lands to make a 40-card deck and play against other players as much as you want!

• Duration: November 5th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST to November 7th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST
• Format: Phantom Duskmourn: House of Horror Bot Draft
• Entry Fee: Free
• Ends After: You can play as much as you like for the duration of the event.
• Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)

Event Rewards

Tips and Tricks

Since there is so much info on Duskmourn drafts already out there (including on this here wonderful website), I am going to be focusing on what is going on bot draft differentials.

In bot draft, you can’t expect a table to massively undervalue an archetype unless it is consistently undervalued across bot drafts. That makes finding an underappreciated archetype a lot more difficult. In other words stick with what consistently works.

The most successful two-color decks in Duskmourn quick draft are Azorius, Rakdos, Gruul, Golgari, and Boros. Try to hop into one of those lanes to make your experience smoother.

As you can tell from that list, most of them (outside of Golgari) appear to be aggressive. It is Bo1 so that is a good trend to follow.

Try to stay on theme when drafting your deck. Don’t drift around too much just because a slightly more powerful card is in your color. Obviously ignore this for bombs.

The bots LOVE rares and tend to take them above almost anything. They’ll even gobble up those worthless Leylines leaving more goodies in the pack for you. On one hand this prevents you from being passed a busted rare because you were the only one in that color, but it also takes those wasted cards out of the equation quicker.

There aren’t a ton of big differences at common in the ALSA (Average last seen at) between premier and quick draft, but an example is that Twist Reality goes a bit later in quick draft while Clockwork Percussionist goes a bit earlier.

Most of you know to almost always stick to 40 card decks, but I run into enough piles that I feel that I need to mention it. That probably doesn’t apply to you if you are invested enough to read this article on it, but it never hurts.

Wrap Up

Thanks for reading! I’ll be back later this week with my limited archetypes guide for Foundations (yeah, they talked me into doing a limited article again). Until then, stay classy people!