I've been strongly considering seperating my cube into 2/3 sets to be drafted one after another in a particular order. I have some ideas on how to split it up, but I'd like to discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and details.
Note that this can have some of the same effects as Jason's new 'polycubing'. Each pack will have 120 cards drafted in an 8 man draft. If you want to, say, increase your variety in planeswalkers without increasing planeswalker density, you could put all your walkers in a 150-180 card set, making it very unlikely for all of the to be in the draft.
I see this as a desirable effect for build-around-me cards.
In a standard draft, some of the B-A-M cards end up in later packs, often making them unplayable, and clogging packs.
If you put all of these cards in a 120 card set and draft it first, they no longer clog packs, but you lose some variety in decks, as all of the B-A-M cards will be picked fairly early every draft, and therefore built around every draft.
You can have the best of both worlds by putting all of those cards in a 180 card set, where about 2/3 of them will be seen each draft, and the rest won't clog packs later on.
First Set: Most of the build around me cards will go here. I will try to limit high pick value cards, leaving those for later in the draft where there's some tension between picking a bomb and picking something that fits your colors/curve/strategy.
Second Set: This set will be used for packs 2 and 3
Other things to consider:
Where to put Gold Cards
Where to put Colorless Cards
Where to put Fixing (shocks and fetches together/seperate?)
How to seperate sets between drafts
Also, fun little thing: If you put Cogwork Librarian in pack 1, and all of the bombs in pack 2/3, it gets better.
Note that this can have some of the same effects as Jason's new 'polycubing'. Each pack will have 120 cards drafted in an 8 man draft. If you want to, say, increase your variety in planeswalkers without increasing planeswalker density, you could put all your walkers in a 150-180 card set, making it very unlikely for all of the to be in the draft.
I see this as a desirable effect for build-around-me cards.
In a standard draft, some of the B-A-M cards end up in later packs, often making them unplayable, and clogging packs.
If you put all of these cards in a 120 card set and draft it first, they no longer clog packs, but you lose some variety in decks, as all of the B-A-M cards will be picked fairly early every draft, and therefore built around every draft.
You can have the best of both worlds by putting all of those cards in a 180 card set, where about 2/3 of them will be seen each draft, and the rest won't clog packs later on.
First Set: Most of the build around me cards will go here. I will try to limit high pick value cards, leaving those for later in the draft where there's some tension between picking a bomb and picking something that fits your colors/curve/strategy.
Second Set: This set will be used for packs 2 and 3
Other things to consider:
Where to put Gold Cards
Where to put Colorless Cards
Where to put Fixing (shocks and fetches together/seperate?)
How to seperate sets between drafts
Also, fun little thing: If you put Cogwork Librarian in pack 1, and all of the bombs in pack 2/3, it gets better.
