I joined this site to be able to make pretty pictures of the decks that my friends and I draft.
My cube contains one copy of every card that I own. To each card is associated a strength rating, a knowledge rating (how well the strength is known), and a color alignment. Before a draft session, I generate that session's draft pool by filling 95% of the slots with cards with the highest strength rating (the cards that have won the most times) and 5% of the slots with cards with the lowest knowledge rating (the cards that have been played the fewest times). Of course, the draft pool is balanced from a color alignment perspective.
In other words, even though the cube is many hundreds of cards in size (my collection is small), my friends and I only play with the "strongest" and "most unknown" 180 or 240 cards. The theory is that eventually the draft pool will self-organize around the most successful cards, while having constant variation. I have no idea how this will turn out but I think it's a cool idea. (In the meantime --- while the algorithm is still learning what cards are good --- it's not too different from normal limited, because using all the cards in my collection means there's a lot of chaff.)
I should mention that the strength rating is not assigned by me; it's algorithmic. I update the strength ratings after each draft based on which deck was the overall winner. It's a very crude and simplistic method.
The group is small. No 360-card drafts yet. So far we've done booster draft, grid draft, and sealed.
I want to be able to share links to the deck lists, so I'll be putting the deck lists in the next few posts.
My cube contains one copy of every card that I own. To each card is associated a strength rating, a knowledge rating (how well the strength is known), and a color alignment. Before a draft session, I generate that session's draft pool by filling 95% of the slots with cards with the highest strength rating (the cards that have won the most times) and 5% of the slots with cards with the lowest knowledge rating (the cards that have been played the fewest times). Of course, the draft pool is balanced from a color alignment perspective.
In other words, even though the cube is many hundreds of cards in size (my collection is small), my friends and I only play with the "strongest" and "most unknown" 180 or 240 cards. The theory is that eventually the draft pool will self-organize around the most successful cards, while having constant variation. I have no idea how this will turn out but I think it's a cool idea. (In the meantime --- while the algorithm is still learning what cards are good --- it's not too different from normal limited, because using all the cards in my collection means there's a lot of chaff.)
I should mention that the strength rating is not assigned by me; it's algorithmic. I update the strength ratings after each draft based on which deck was the overall winner. It's a very crude and simplistic method.
The group is small. No 360-card drafts yet. So far we've done booster draft, grid draft, and sealed.
I want to be able to share links to the deck lists, so I'll be putting the deck lists in the next few posts.
