General Draft Sign-Ups: Chaos Draft

[Jason Waddell]

Oooh, it's a spicy one incoming.

1. Jason Waddell
2. James Stevenson
3. Kirblinx
4. (Onderzeeboot)
5. Zoss
6. Silas
7. Dom Harvey
8. Pillow

 

[Kirblinx]

We haven't even finished the last forum draft! XD

 

[Jason Waddell]

Yeah yeah, and I haven't started coding the chaos draft stuff. currently waiting on a long card data scrape from Gatherer.

 

[Kirblinx]

Yeah yeah, and I haven't started coding the chaos draft stuff. currently waiting on a long card data scrape from Gatherer.

I would have used scryfall. Their API is actually pretty decent. https://scryfall.com/docs/api/bulk-data

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Is this going to be another rectangle?

 

[Jason Waddell]

Is this going to be another rectangle?

Yes, rectangle. Each rectangle will be 5 rows of 9, and each row is a different set.

 

[Jason Waddell]

I would have used scryfall. Their API is actually pretty decent. https://scryfall.com/docs/api/bulk-data

I'll look into this. I will need to learn to work with (har har) JSON files in R.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Yes, rectangle. Each rectangle will be 5 rows of 9, and each row is a different set.

Well, my previous offer stands then I'll draft but not play, and will make room for someone who can do both!

 

[James Stevenson]

I'll look into this. I will need to learn to work with (har har) JSON files in R.

I've got this one colleague, every time he hears us talking about JSON he says "Poor Jason". Always makes me think of you <3

 

[Jason Waddell]

I've subset the scryfall set to all core and expansion sets in English that are printed on MTGO, and removed a couple. Would any of the following be problematic to draft, for any reason?

> sort(unique(pref$set_name))
 [1] "Aether Revolt"             "Alara Reborn"              "Amonkhet"                  "Apocalypse"                "Avacyn Restored"           "Battle for Zendikar"      
 [7] "Betrayers of Kamigawa"     "Born of the Gods"          "Champions of Kamigawa"     "Coldsnap"                  "Conflux"                   "Core Set 2019"            
[13] "Core Set 2020"             "Core Set 2021"             "Dark Ascension"            "Darksteel"                 "Dissension"                "Dominaria"                
[19] "Dragon's Maze"             "Dragons of Tarkir"         "Eighth Edition"            "Eldritch Moon"             "Eventide"                  "Exodus"                   
[25] "Fate Reforged"             "Fifth Dawn"                "Future Sight"              "Gatecrash"                 "Guildpact"                 "Guilds of Ravnica"        
[31] "Hour of Devastation"       "Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths" "Innistrad"                 "Invasion"                  "Ixalan"                    "Journey into Nyx"         
[37] "Judgment"                  "Kaladesh"                  "Kaldheim"                  "Khans of Tarkir"           "Legions"                   "Lorwyn"                   
[43] "Magic 2010"                "Magic 2011"                "Magic 2012"                "Magic 2013"                "Magic 2014"                "Magic 2015"               
[49] "Magic Origins"             "Mercadian Masques"         "Mirage"                    "Mirrodin"                  "Mirrodin Besieged"         "Morningtide"              
[55] "Nemesis"                   "New Phyrexia"              "Ninth Edition"             "Oath of the Gatewatch"     "Odyssey"                   "Onslaught"                
[61] "Planar Chaos"              "Planeshift"                "Prophecy"                  "Ravnica Allegiance"        "Ravnica: City of Guilds"   "Return to Ravnica"        
[67] "Rise of the Eldrazi"       "Rivals of Ixalan"          "Saviors of Kamigawa"       "Scars of Mirrodin"         "Scourge"                   "Seventh Edition"          
[73] "Shadowmoor"                "Shadows over Innistrad"    "Shards of Alara"           "Stronghold"                "Tempest"                   "Tenth Edition"            
[79] "Theros"                    "Theros Beyond Death"       "Throne of Eldraine"        "Time Spiral"               "Time Spiral Timeshifted"   "Torment"                  
[85] "Urza's Destiny"            "Urza's Legacy"             "Urza's Saga"               "Visions"                   "War of the Spark"          "Weatherlight"             
[91] "Worldwake"                 "Zendikar"                  "Zendikar Rising"

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I would personally remove the following from that list:

• Seventh Edition
• Eight Edition
• Ninth Edition
• Tenth Edition
• Time Spiral Timeshifted

The core sets pre M10 aren't that interesting, honestly, and definitely not what I want to be opening when doing a chaos draft.
Time Spiral Timeshifted isn't an actual set.

 

[Jason Waddell]

oh god...

Spoiler: Rectangle B: Henry

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Ooh, this is quite a hard one... (for the first post with one rectangle)

Sword of Feast and Famine, Spin into Myth, Nemesis of Reason, Aether Adept, Mental Note?

 

[Jason Waddell]

8p Rectangle Draft

Spoiler: Rectangle A: Donathan

Sets: Aether Revolt, Born of the Gods, Ixalan, Nemesis, Coldsnap

Spoiler: Rectangle B: Henry

Sets: Ninth Edition, Alara Reborn, War of the Spark, Exodus, Mirrodin

Spoiler: Rectangle C: Barkley

Sets: Betrayers of Kamigawa, Khans of Tarkir, Fate Reforged, Guilds of Ravnica, Core Set 2021

Spoiler: Rectangle D: Emma

Sets: Prophecy, Scars of Mirrodin, Morningtide, Worldwake, Magic 2011

Spoiler: Rectangle E: Charles

Sets: Dragon's Maze, Tenth Edition, Stronghold, Theros Beyond Death, Battle for Zendikar

Spoiler: Rectangle F: George

Sets: Urza's Destiny, Zendikar, Shadows over Innistrad, Fifth Dawn, Theros

Spoiler: Rectangle G: Alex

Sets: Eventide, Mercadian Masques, Planar Chaos, Magic 2015, Magic 2012

Spoiler: Rectangle H: Frida

Sets: Dissension, Weatherlight, Ravnica Allegiance, Saviors of Kamigawa, Eighth Edition

 

[Jason Waddell]

I audibly guffawed when I opened this one:

Spoiler: Rectangle G: George

Sets: Rise of the Eldrazi, Fate Reforged, Worldwake, Theros Beyond Death, Magic Origins

 

[Zoss]

Oh yikes, that's terrifying. Yeah, I'd love to play this one!

 

[Jason Waddell]

2 slots left

 

[pillow]

Hello, I'm a friend of James and still a bit of a beginner at MTG (though I have a few drafts under my belt).

I'd love to join if you've got a spare spot

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Oh yikes, that's terrifying. Yeah, I'd love to play this one!

Don't know if you caught it, but the draft has started over in the Forum Games section Zoss

 

[Zoss]

Jason just told me too! Thanks for the heads-up, though--somehow I always forget that that board exists, even when I keep signing up for these things.