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Interesting there is no mention of the new Arena MTG game and the fact that you draft against bots as opposed to humans like on Magic the Gathering Online. With each new set that has come out, they have had to adjust the bots because they would allow a player to always draft a particularly powerful deck. Ryan Spain, who was involved in development of Arena, said on the Limited Resources podcast that the bots are essentially trained to make a few first pics and than "stay in their lanes". He said that each bot has a preference and attempts to fulfill it. In contrast, human players show more variance in their draft pics.

There is also more nuance in draft. For example, if you see that a particular color set is closes (i.e. people are drafting it), you might grab a particularly powerful card in that color set just to prevent them from obtaining it.