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Some people like to count the number of creatures, removals, etc... in a deck and reach an organized balance. I usually try to focus more on overall card quality.

I usually take the better card (of course, given it works with other cards in my deck) and usually don't start the draft planning "OK, I'll need 15 creatures, 4 removals, 3 land fetchers, ..."

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Added a "draft" tag, since I wasn't initially sure if you were talking about Constructed or Limited... – Vespers Jun 18 at 16:43

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Mana curve is, as i think, more important than either card quality or quantities. If you can play something from your hand in the first four turns of the game with all available mana, you've gained quite some speed, and you have a lot of options already. You should have creatures as your first drops because they're versatile, and removal to get those creatures to actually hit the opponent.

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You certainly need to take both into account... YOU HAVE TO!!!

You don't need to plan how many creatures will you draft before you open ur pack. It is quite unrealistic to do so because you can never predict what will you get and what others around table will react.

but at certain point in the draft (at the end of second pack in a Z\Z\Z draft for me), you need to consider the composition of the deck, because, well, if you only get 6 usable creatures by so far and don't take any action in your 3rd pack and end up with only 8 or 9 creatures, it normally gonna be bad.in this case, you should know you need to pick creatures over other things and have at least 12 so-so to good creatures(that's my opinion).

the point is, you should know what deck you are drafting. You should know what you want your deck to be.There are times when you draft really good quality cards but cannot win, because the organization is too badly balanced.

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I keep falling in this trap. Whenever I draft I'm too stressed by the time limits that I forget what I've already drafted and what I need for my deck, and focus on "what does this pick have for my colors?". Last draft I got Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghast first pick, then only at the end noticed I only got 4 black cards and can't play with it. Same for creatures vs. spells or mana curve - I just can't keep it in my head. – Avish Oct 23 at 16:25

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