Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I'ld go with Winchester drafting with three people. Fun, quick, and easy to do with three.
General What other formats do you use your cube for?
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Sounds like we'll need to give Rochester a try. Alfonso's way, mos' likely. And round robin, not FFA, because idk. Stubborn crowd.
I pull a singleton modern/legacy twin deck out of mine when people are really needed for events.
It's awful, of course, but fun.
It's awful, of course, but fun.
One time James and I played a variant where we built a jenga tower out of multicolored blocks, and it worked battle box style, where each turn you pull a land card from the tower (land type corresponding to block color).
It was awful.
What are you saying it was amazing
Oh right. If the tower falls you lose 10 life. That was my only win condition needed against James.
How'd you decide 22 was the magic number? Rochester draft is barely described at all on the wiki or wotc. If you went up to 4 players or down to 2, would you raise/lower the number of boosters, or the number of cards in each pack?
22 / 7 worked out real well, btw, thanks! It was so refreshing to NOT play sealed for a change, and draft a tighter Temur deck that wasn't just "every single card in my colors, plus a 4th color splash with a few synergistic cards in it".
Well, even though it was temur, it actually was made entirely of sultai, abzan, and neutral cards, ironically. Does that happen a lot to anyone else in Khans? It feels like whenever I make draft/sealed decks for khans, my main three colors are filled primarily with neighboring clans' cards.
I'd be so tempted to do 24 / 7 for mnemonic purposes.
Only because if you're getting two cards from each Rochester booster you would need 22 to get you to have 44 cards which is close to 3 regular boosters. So I guess if you wanted to go with four players, and still discard one then you'd need 22 boosters of 9 cards.
I suppose an alternative different dynamic for 3 player draft would be for whoever was picking first didn't get another pick from that booster and there isn't a card to discard. Does that add an interesting dynamic? That would be boosters of five cards. You'd need more packs to make up number of cards in your pool potentially...
I came up with another idea for 1-vs-1 on my morning drive.
Begin with a stack of cards. Take the top four cards and put them face down in four piles.
Player A can choose (1.) to look at one of the four piles OR (2.) look at the top three cards of the main stack.
If (1.), Player A drafts a card in the pile, then randomly exiles (face down) another card from the pile. (At first there will be no other cards to exile, but the piles will slowly increase in size.)
If (2.), Player A drafts a card from the top three of the stack, then places the other two face down in any two piles of their choice (not back onto the main stack).
Then Player B does the same.
The draft is finished when all the cards are gone!
Begin with a stack of cards. Take the top four cards and put them face down in four piles.
Player A can choose (1.) to look at one of the four piles OR (2.) look at the top three cards of the main stack.
If (1.), Player A drafts a card in the pile, then randomly exiles (face down) another card from the pile. (At first there will be no other cards to exile, but the piles will slowly increase in size.)
If (2.), Player A drafts a card from the top three of the stack, then places the other two face down in any two piles of their choice (not back onto the main stack).
Then Player B does the same.
The draft is finished when all the cards are gone!