Hi. I just started playing this game a week and a half ago, and I have some concerns about this rule.
First, a question: what is the intent of this rule? To eliminate some of the luck factor from the game? To give a player who is in an inferior position a chance to catch up by ensuring that player has access to domain in all their spells?
In my experience, the most common situations in which the autodraw rule comes up are the following:
1. In Sealed and Draft games: One player takes a slight lead by getting a well advantage early (usually by some card that skips the construction site process, such as legs of baba-yaga, thunderhead reach, stringing together bamboo watch towers, galom's prospectors, you get the idea) and uses the autodraw rule to get a domain building with salvage nearly every turn thus making it nearly impossible for the player who for whatever reason fell slightly behind to catch up. i have lost games where my opponent played zero creatures because the terrain prevented me from reaching their older buildings, and they played 2 or 3 removal spells. i repeat: I have lost games where my opponent has played zero creatures, or one creature that had no impact whatsoever on the game.
2. Much more rare: A player is backed into a corner but strings together the domain buildings they need to cast some spells and recover, thus making a blowout game closer.
I do want to note that in constructed this isn't a problem at all. You can easily build a constructed deck with this rule in mind, ways to deal with your opponent abusing the rule, etc. But in limited games you have noticeably less options, less ways to deal with this kind of play. By contrast there are PLENTY of cards in the set that deal with problematic bomb creatures, but there aren't many ways to deal with losing to your opponent's autodraw while he stalls you with removal.
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Rushing new salvageables is often not too good idea. Try concetrating on "older" buildings, dropping your own buildings near flux points (yeah, even next to opponents completed one, he can't do much if you got 3 creatures around). Some cards are exceptionally good 'gainst that tactic (Peoples Champion, Heat Wave) Player with zero creatures is SOOO vulnerable (very limited vision is serious weakness, use it by all means 
That's where sometimes you can't do anything to save yourself from taint of growing megapolis.