Create a permanent 'Phantom Draft' (aka, you dont keep the cards) that runs 1000 gold per draft with same 'break even' rewards that you have now.

Reasons Why Below:

This is simply to allow players who love to draft the chance to do so at least once a day via free gold.

Drafting is one of the, if not THE, most fun format of magic. But due to it's high cost of entry, is significantly underplayed. Especially on Arena where most players are free to play players.

As it stands, your current mythic limited rankings is less "who is the best" and more "who had enough gems/consecutive draft wins" to keep playing.

Easy example: I was well on my way to mythic, but "OH NO, 3 bad drafts and unlucky runs in a row, you're outta gems/coins!" Now with my lack of funds, there is a very real chance I won't hit mythic in limited simply because I get at max 10k gold a week as a free to play player.

We are now on a digital platform with little to no IRL card worth(unlike MTGO) and no cost to create draft packs. This is the perfect chance to let people play the living heck outta draft and significantly develop the competitiveness of the format.

With the additional amount of plays and lower cost, we may even see multiple shifts in the draft meta months after a set release as people grow accustomed to the set.

Does it HAVE to be a player draft? No. You could easily run it as a quick draft and save player drafts as a way to encourage spending on gems.

Giving players, old and new, the ability to play and learn drafts of new sets without ruining them financially is within your power as a company at little to no cost. Something that has never truly been available to you before.

Please. I REALLLLLY want to draft but I'm poor :(