rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Drafting

3 messages from 3 participants · 16 February 2007
original thread on Google Groups

Slytherin

I just would like to confirm this is or isn't the case on how to draft. I have checked the tournament rules and it would suggest that a sanctioned draft cannot be done in the following way, but I would question why? Each player has x boosters, they open all x boosters, choose x cards and pass on, continuing this way until all cards are drafted. I will write up my musings on a 3 booster draft shortly, but this is something that we all thought would be a better way of drafting than open, pick 1, pass... or separate crypt/library from all boosters, draft crypt, then draft piles of library. Cheers Slytherin VEKN Setite Ruler of Cambridge

LSJ

Slytherin wrote: > I just would like to confirm this is or isn't the case on how to > draft. I have checked the tournament rules and it would suggest that a > sanctioned draft cannot be done in the following way, but I would > question why? Confirmed. The two sanctioned draft formats are booster draft, as described in VEKN 7.6, and table draft, as described in VEKN 7.7.

John Flournoy

[ quoted text not captured ] As LSJ notes, it's not currently sanctioned - mainly because it's never been tried out in any depth before. So try it out - post your results here, convince other people to try it out, and generally playtest the format until conclusions can be reached as to whether or not it's fun and fair. This is what people did with the "Duffin draft" format and now the drafting rules have been expanded to include some aspects of that format (like sanctioning 1-booster draft events.) > Cheers > > Slytherin > VEKN Setite Ruler of Cambridge -John Flournoy