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AuthorRyan Saxe

Ryan is a Limited specialist who prides himself in his efficacy for problem solving and innovative solutions to Draft formats. Finding exploitable strategies within a Limited format is what he does best, and teaching the skills necessary to succeed in Limited is a close second.

Draft Digest: Tinkering Around The Edges

When a Vintage Cube Draft starts with Tinker, the possibilities are endless, but you can’t just phone your picks in! Ryan Saxe guides you through a good problem to have!

Draft Digest: Vintage Cube Returns!

Ryan Saxe is hyped for the return of Vintage Cube to Magic Online! He offers a pair of practice picks to familiarize you with this surprisingly freestyle format!

Introduction To Team Draft: Amonkhet Wrinkles

Intrigued by Team Draft? Ryan Saxe catches you up on the wrinkles presented by Amonkhet so you’ll be ready for the after-hours fun at Grand Prix Cleveland!

Draft Digest: Introduction To Team Draft

Team Draft is a time-honored Magic tradition, but its complexities can be more than a little intimidating! Today, Ryan Saxe breaks down the three-on-three format’s most important nuances!

Draft Digest: Yay! We Opened A Rare!

After our last Limited adventure, we could use a nice rare to open! But will it be good enough in a format this aggressive? Ryan Saxe would like your help in selecting and discussing Amonkhet Draft again this week! After all, you’ll need all the help you can get at GP Las Vegas’s Limited Grand Prix!

Draft Digest: Wide Open Spaces

When packs are weak and picks are close, that’s when there’s a lot of room to make a big mistake. How would you handle the difficult decisions posed by Draft specialist Ryan Saxe? There are no bombs to bail us out this time around…

Draft Digest: Finding It Hard To Believe We’re On Drake Haven

Amonkhet Draft is not known for its build-around cards! Yet today’s first pack offers the tempting possibility of Drake Haven. Can Ryan Saxe take it over two of the format’s best commons? And how will he follow up his first choice? Have you opened this card? Is it a bomb, or is it a trap?

Draft Digest: What You See Is What You Amonkhet

Ryan Saxe has his eye on a Sealed RPTQ this weekend! But if he wants that blue envelope, he’ll have to win a round of Draft, and today he presents potential picks that add up to one intriguing archetype!

Draft Digest: Legacy Cube!

Ryan Saxe is switching things up on the Draft Digest! Today he’s brought out some Legacy Cube and two fiendish packs to pick from! With some of the most powerful cards in Magic’s history lurking, what’s your choice?

Draft Digest: White Open Spaces

White has solidified itself as the best color in Amonkhet Draft. Today, Ryan Saxe explores the question of whether it’s right to take a white common to start a draft! In this pack, is it worth the risk?

Draft Digest: Slow Down, Partner

Ryan Saxe has been a cheerleader for aggro in Amonkhet Draft, but a few too many people have picked up on his enthusiasm! Today he offers a swerve…or does he, when Honored Crop-Captain is in his first pack?

Draft Digest: Angle-Shootin’

Well, here are some picks you don’t see every day! It takes a lot of drafts to get to the choices like the ones Ryan is faced with here! How would you handle it? Cast your votes to prove Ryan right! Or wrong…

Draft Digest: Get Low

Ryan Saxe is addicted to having almost no land in his Amonkhet Limited decks! Is the format really that fast? Strap in for another trip down Draft Digest lane!

Draft DIgest: Zealous Conscript

Ryan Saxe has a first pick he really likes! But now what? Anyone can open a good first take…it’s where you go from there that’s tricky! Follow Ryan’s newest Amonkhet adventure. What would you do in this spot?

Draft Digest: Return To Sender

Just because Grand Prix Richmond is in the books doesn’t mean we’re putting the packs away! Grab a seat and draft some Amonkhet with Ryan Saxe!