MTG

One thing I want to add that I don't this has been mentioned, is that there are some misconceptions during drafting about which "lane" to be in. Certainly one of the primary skills in draft is to read the picks coming upstream to see which colors or "lanes" are open to draft in. By picking cards of a certain color you can signal that the color is being picked and for others to go elsewhere.

The misconceptions I think are that you have to always adapt to what you see every draft, but really you have much more control over the colors you play than you might think. There is much more control in a Cube draft where the overall card quality is high -- every card is pretty good so you end up with playables no matter what color pair you select. However, if the set has a high amount of playable commons or if every color is viable then you can usually play whatever color pair you feel most comfortable in. This is called "forcing" a color or pair or deck archetype.

In short, I think it's easier to force a color pair in a normal set draft than people think. And by extension, if you have a color pair or archetype that you particularly enjoy playing or are good at, then my recommendation is to force that as much as possible and get good at it and building that type of deck in the draft environment. I personally think that will help a player become better at drafting more than anything else, outside of the basics.