A suggestion for fixing Autodraw follows, along with the reasoning behind it. Comments and criticism are welcome.
Premise
The purpose of Autodraw is to seamlessly provide the Domain you need so that you can play your cards.
Autodraw is not responsible for other benefits that your Domain cards incidentally provide. For example, it shouldn't cough up a Vapor Mahal just because you need a 2-vision building.
Observation
It seems to be impossible to create an automated system that caters to all needs. Every system suggested has been accused of invalidating the domain plan for someone's pet deck.
Barring mind reading software, it seems that some sort of in-game manual control is unavoidable.
However, it seems that most of the problems have to do with the basic buildings. Some decks just don't need basic buildings for some (or all) of their domains. Others (especially in limited formats) need them, but in a certain order.
Therefore, the solution will probably involve some sort of manual system for basic buildings, coupled with something resembling the current system for other domain cards.
However, the manual systems that have been proposed are too complex or cumbersome. Making an active decision each and every turn about which card to draw is unworkable. An on/off switch is not as bad, but will still overtax new players (besides, how do you indicate which domain building you want?). Ideally, the system should not involve any decisions about drawing.
The Proposal
There are no basic building cards.
In game, players have an eighth "virtual" basic building card. This card looks like other cards. It is highlighted if playable (i.e., 7 flux are available), and dimmed if not.
However, it is always in hand. It is never drawn, and is not discarded when used.
When playing this card, the player is prompted to select the domain, and then places the resulting basic building normally. Doing this causes the player to forfeit her next draw (so as not to generate a free card with each use).
Other domain cards are treated as they are today (if you have no playable domain card, you draw the next playable one in your deck).
Other Problems and Solutions
1. Unplayable domain cards: some cards are unplayable even if the necessary domain is available. For example, Vessel of Cathil needs a creature to enchant, and Astridian Diplomat needs a Base. These cards are considered "playable" by the current system, even when effectively they are not.
A possible solution is adding a "playability" clause to each such card. This clause does not need to be spelled out on the card: it is part of it's "autodraw/fated" keyword. For example, Vessel would only be autodrawn if you control a creature. Of course, these cards can still be randomly drawn (if they're on top of your deck) when those requirements are not met.
Of course, in specific cases, it will still be possible to draw an unplayable domain card (say, controlling one creature enchanted by Anti-Magic Shell, or controlling one base that's completely surrounded by water and figures). However, these situations are rare, and can be alleviated by cycling and by using the "basic building" feature. The playability clause will only address the most basic requirements.
2. Abuse of the Salvage mechanic:
(everything that follows is a bit of a tangent, and can be ignored if you're only interested in autodraw)
I've read complaints about players taking advantage of the endless stream of basic buildings. They spam those buildings, making it impossible to dislodge them from flux points, even with an overwhelming force (since a building that's immediately destroyed is effectively free).
I don't know if this is a real problem, but in any case, I think it has more to do with Salvage than with Autodraw. A possible fix is reducing the initial number of Salvage counters by 1 (for basic buildings only, or even for all Salvageable cards).
Other complaints relate to people playing Salvage creatures, and immediately sacrificing them or throwing them into combat. Sacrificing, in my opinion, should not trigger Salvage at all. The mechanic is supposed to alleviate destruction caused by opponents, not enable sacrifice at no cost. Combat is more tricky. A 1/4 creature is weak for 5 flux, but pretty good for 1 or 2 (because the rest are salvaged). Perhaps taking 1 Salvage counter off is a good idea here, too. In any case, this is again a problem with Salvage, not auto-draw.
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