Feedback on my new limited format/website

[speeddeckbuilder]

Hi I made the site speeddeckbuilding.com , in which you construct a deck within a limited amount of time. You can see any card in magic but only one at a time so the you have to make the decision to keep it or not quickly.

I would love some feedback on the site. Feedback I am looking for: how did the game feel to play? Anything about the site frustrate you? Any thing you feel inspired possibly a direction i could take the site?

Any feed back would be much appreciated.

speeddeckbuilding.com

 

[ravnic]

Super cool idea, would love to play that out. One problem though, the site doesn't work on phone, the card is far too large there.

 

[speeddeckbuilder]

working on it thanks for interest

 

[Karshtakavaar]

I've had a few goes and enjoyed it, sent to friends to see if they'd be up for an evening jamming decks generated this way so I can give better feedback. Based on my very limited experience so far I can say the following:

- The A/D keyboard shortcuts took a minute to get used to. I kept defaulting to "[A]ccept/[D]eny" rather than "[A]bandon card/Put in [D]eck"
- Probably just my familiarity with Magic cards and remembering my limited pool, but 8 minutes feels like ages. I feel like the first minute is time enough to spam through for the sick bombs that set my colours, and I have a decent skeleton of a deck at about 4-5 minutes, then I spend the remaining ~3:30 either carefully filling out my curve or spamming through for on-colour duals.
- I've definitely run into the same card multiple times in the one draft. Silvergill Adept was one of them, don't recall the other.
- As a result of the above two, I don't really feel any tension around ditching a card. If it's not a slam dunk, I don't take it. Having a limited number of denies might be an avenue to explore? Could be a setting to toggle/choose a max number of denies?
- I would love to see a toggle for a popup banner or something once you hit like 23 cards or so to help avoid going over the minimum deck size (Also configurable?). Semi-relatedly, I'm very tempted to force a Battle of Wits pile at some point too.

Really sick idea, looking forward to seeing how you continue to develop it and likely to keep messing about with it even if you don't

 

[speeddeckbuilder]

1 A/D key bindings are supposed to be like swipe left and right, similar how would scroll through tinder perhaps that's not as universal as thought.

2 I do have a suspicion that your better than me and most certainly, currently you can set how many minutes it takes on the bottom of the screen. I am strongly considering setting the default back to the original 6 minutes.

3 In regards to max number denies , I am intrigued , There's two ways of seeing the mechanic as a handicap or a feature, As a feature I can see how it could be frustrating if you reject too many cards and your forced to take off color or bad cards but I do agree that it would make it more intense.

4 just curious are aware of the 5 card side board where you take out your five worse cards in a best of 1 match?