Mono teams are non-existent in draft. Hellfire club splashed for concealed characters like Analee etc, and Morlocks splashed for good sized bodies in the early game such as X-mens early drops because its impossible to get a perfect evasion deck.

I would first pick a Enemy at the PC level (non-foil obv) because it is the best card in the set for any curve deck. The only time I wouldnt take a Enemy would be; if I were deep into archetypal Hellfire Club on the second or third pack and I was lacking a Shaw Industries, but there was one in the pack; If I was missing early evasion characters for Morlocks but already had the support, and there was a Tommy/Eve/Evasion 2-drop in the pack; If I already had the components for a solid Blackbird Blue off curve deck, but was lacking the Blackbird and there was one in the pack.

It also very much depends where you are sitting at the draft. If you are sitting anywhere within the lower tables you should always take the Enemy because it at worst a 2-3rd pick, but you essentially pick up a extra $35 which makes up for the discrepancy in its power level in a monetary sense. If your sitting at the higher tables, the power level of the card could be worth decidingly more monetarily; the difference between a top eight and 0-3 in the draft pod could be thousands of dollars. Even so, I would only not take the Enemy in the aforementioned situations.

Search, in draft, is huge. The situations where Enemy of my Enemy would be a bad pick are few and far between ... the other search in the set gets you Reservist, evasion, concealed or weenies. The last one being very team specific and also rare. If you don't intend on packing the Enemy, it would likely be more hate drafting than rare drafting. Sure, you've drafted the top rare in the game, and you may not be able to use it. But the odds of 7 other people at the table being unable to use it? Slim to none.

I mean, we all should already know the answer to this question...

What about considering the scenario that you are drafting the X-Men wheenie deck, and there is a Black Bird Blue in the same pack. It is the third pack, and this is the only Black Bird Blue you've so far. Black Bird Blue obviously won't wheel, you already have a Black Panther to fetch it. But EoME is da $$$$$. What to do?

take it! do it now!

The situation would warrant that you grab the Black Bird Blue.

However ... grabbing the EoME might be a good idea. Because, if you've been forcing the X-Men weenie deck for two packs without ever seeing the Black Bird Blue ... then on the one hand you will have reduced the chances of other people drafting the strategy since you've been cutting them off. But also, you were drafting a strategy around a card you didn't see if your first two packs ... better to take the Enemy and run since you probably aren't going to do too well in that draft anyway.

"Enemy" and "take it" seem to go together in my mind for this.

Then the questions becomes, if you are doing prize draft at the end and you open an EoME, should you just take it and run out of the door?

Isn't the answer to this thread the same answer that you would give Jessica Alba if she was willing to give it up for free? I think so....

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This is all assuming that EOME is not good in an X-men Draft (which it surely is).

Id take it ANY time I see it if I were not in contention for a good chunk of money. If I were seated relatively high, Id forego it for another card in the pack that I desperately need for my deck.


In reality, EOME is great in X-men draft and if you see it in a pack, taking it will likely only help your deck. The only time I wouldnt take it is if there is a bomb in the pack for me, or if it was 3rd round and my deck was in desperate need of more focus.

A PC Stamped Enemy is worth $40 imo. I would first pick it pack 1 or 2, over just about anything else. Pack three if there is something I really need, and I am a 2-1 away from top 8/money, I might pick something else.

I've been in quite a few drafts and it seems like no matter how well you go mono-team, you inevitable have 3 or 4 characters of another affiliation and I think 1 Enemy of My Enemy would be worth it in a MXM draft.

I have no idea who you are, but you deserve a rep!

I see what you did there too.

Enemy is probably the best card in the pack, but its $40 value should have nothing to do with your selection. You can have your $40, I'll take the $40k