Limited Draft Guide

Foundations (FDN)

Crush your next MTG draft with our Foundations draft guide, including a color tier list, card ratings, set mechanics, and more.

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Set OverviewStats based on: Premier Draft

9.1
Fast
Slow
7.1 min
Short
Long
BestWorst
522
170
183
130
39
2024

Top Colors Combinations

Tier
Colors
6+ Wins
Popularity
Tier
A
Orzhov
13.7%
Gruul
10.0%
Rakdos
8.9%
Boros
7.1%
Mono Green
1.7%
Tier
B
Azorius
10.4%
Selesnya
9.9%
Dimir
9.2%
Tier
C
Izzet
7.0%
Tier
D
Simic
6.9%
Golgari
6.4%
Sultai
1.1%
Mono Blue
1.0%
Low Match Volume
Tier
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Esper
0.8%
Mono White
0.8%
Bant
0.7%
Mardu
0.7%
Abzan
0.6%
Naya
0.6%
Jund
0.6%
Grixis
0.5%
Temur
0.4%
Jeskai
0.4%
Mono Black
0.4%
Mono Red
0.2%

Top Commons by Color

Felidar Savior
Felidar Savior
Healer's Hawk
Healer's Hawk
Dazzling Angel
Dazzling Angel
Bigfin Bouncer
Bigfin Bouncer
Uncharted Voyage
Uncharted Voyage
Refute
Refute
Bake into a Pie
Bake into a Pie
Stab
Stab
Eaten Alive
Eaten Alive
Burst Lightning
Burst Lightning
Gorehorn Raider
Gorehorn Raider
Involuntary Employment
Involuntary Employment
Llanowar Elves
Llanowar Elves
Bite Down
Bite Down
Beast-Kin Ranger
Beast-Kin Ranger

Archetypes & Signpost Uncommons

Flying
Empyrean Eagle
Empyrean Eagle
Assemble a squadron of winged allies to strike down your enemies from the skies!View Azorius decks
Graveyard
Dreadwing Scavenger
Dreadwing Scavenger
Control the battlefield using removal spells and card draw, while filling your graveyard to enact your master plans.View Dimir decks
Raid
Perforating Artist
Perforating Artist
Attack relentlessly with resilient creatures, whittling down your opponent's life total and triggering your Raid abilities.View Rakdos decks
Power
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Generate extra mana to play large creatures and outsize your enemies.View Gruul decks
+1/+1 Counters
Good-Fortune Unicorn
Good-Fortune Unicorn
Command efficient creatures that grow ever larger as you boost them with +1/+1 counters.View decks
Life Gain
Fiendish Panda
Fiendish Panda
Support your forces by healing yourself, putting you out of the opposition's reach while you strengthen your creatures.View Orzhov decks
Spells
Balmor, Battlemage Captain
Balmor, Battlemage Captain
Channel your inner spellslinger-cast instants and sorceries to empower your Prowess creatures and outmaneuver your opponent.View Izzet decks
Morbid
Wardens of the Cycle
Wardens of the Cycle
Get the most out of the cycle of life and death! Morbid turns the long game in your favor, adding value when you sacrifice your disposable minions or remove enemy threats.View Golgari decks
Aggro
Heroic Reinforcements
Heroic Reinforcements
Attack your opponent quickly with fast, low-cost creatures and buff them up to surge to victory!View decks
Ramp
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Defend yourself early and accelerate your mana, then go over the top with huge creatures and the most impressive spells in the Multiverse.View decks

Most Popular Combat Tricks

Set Mechanics

You may cast a card with flashback from your graveyard. If you do, you pay its flashback cost rather than paying its mana cost. Flashback doesn't change when you can cast the spell, so a sorcery with flashback can still only be cast during your main phase. Also, casting a spell with flashback doesn't change its mana value. Mana value is always based on a spell's mana cost, even if you pay an alternative cost to cast it.

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Threshold abilities care about you having seven or more cards in your graveyard. Some threshold abilities are, like the one Crypt Feaster has, a triggered ability. Whenever Crypt Feaster attacks, its ability checks to see if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard. If there are, the ability triggers and goes onto the stack. Players can respond to this ability with instants or activated abilities.

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Prowess is a triggered ability that gives the creature that has it +1/+1 until end of turn whenever you cast a noncreature spell. Any spell you cast that isn't a creature will cause prowess to trigger. Remember that lands aren't spells, so playing a land won't cause prowess to trigger. Casting a spell that's a creature and also another type (such as an artifact creature) is still casting a creature spell, so prowess won't trigger in that case either.

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Raid abilities care in some way if you attacked this turn. It doesn't matter what happened during that attack. The hope is that your creatures got through and dealt some damage, or overcame some poor chumps sent to block them. But even if the attack didn't go so well and your attackers didn't survive, raid abilities will still see that you attacked.

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Planeswalkers are cast as spells, just like any other nonland cards. There's a number in the lower-right corner of each planeswalker card. That's its loyalty. It enters with that many loyalty counters on it, whether you cast the planeswalker as a spell or if it entered some other way. It needs those loyalty counters to stay by your side. If a planeswalker ever has no loyalty counters on it, it's put into the graveyard.

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