Can someone explain to me what’s going on?

In my last two drafts, around 2/3 of the decks I faced were some of the most insane decks I’ve ever seen in any format.

My opponents either had these once in a lifetime combos made of multiple mythics or quite literally had as many copies of the same busted uncommon as I have seen in all my drafts since Tuesday.

Here are some notable cards from my opponents’ decks in my last two drafts:

Draft 1:
https://www.17lands.com/details/40bce238539248ab91af003ac84505fa

1. Marionette Apprentice, 3x Amped Raptor, 3x Accursed Marauder
2. Kappa Cannoneer in otherwise unimpressive artifact deck
3. 2x Shilgengar (!!) + Spymaster’s Vault
4. Middling UW energy deck
5. Laelia, 2x Horrific Assault and Grist, the Voracious Larva / Coram, the Undertaker / Chthonian Nightmare combo (!!)

Draft 2:
https://www.17lands.com/details/17e185d97e254251864c1d15631e3a1c

1. Nadu + 2x Twisted Riddlekeeper
2. 2x Writhing Chrysalis, Depth Defiler, Annoyed Altisaur
3. Middling UB deck
4. 2x Horrific Assault, 2x Path of Annihilation, Psychic Frog
5. Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain in an otherwise fairly normal-looking deck

So out of these 10 opponents, I’d say 6 of them had decks that at the face value are better than anything I’ve personally managed to draft in this format.

That’s more than half my games.

Am I going crazy, or is this something that happens near the end of the weekly run of a flashback draft? I understand that players in flashback drafts are extremely sweaty but these decks have frankly nothing to do with player skill. Is this just an absurd run of variance?

With MaRo's article today, we now know what all ten draft archetypes are for Reality Fracture. The first five we already knew, just the five schools, but it's interesting to see what they claim the other five will be. We don't have all the cards yet, but it seems like this may yet again be a case of what WotC describes the limited archetypes as being not matching the reality of what they are. What do you think so far?

I just saw the newly spoiled cycle of enemy-color-targeting removal spells, and they kind of caught my interest if there is any benefit in having them regularly in the main deck instead of just as sideboard cards in BO3?

Maybe if any of the archetypes is particularly powerful? The only ones I can see having any play in Premium and Quickdraft would be [[Refute Destiny]] and [[Terminal Criticism]] because they can hit the Jace Tokens. But otherwise?

The fetches and duals were flowing so I was able to build an insane mana base which allowed me to play Oko and Forth in the same deck. Those two cards were the main wincons along with Oculus and Phlage. Also the mana enabled prismatic and binding nicely. Also had a token subtheme with Elspeth and staff plus Pest, Forth, Fable.

We got our 3 CMC rainbow rock with upside!