We've got plenty of strategy gamers here, and a few of us still sling cards around, even if it is mostly on the internet these days! We've had plenty of time to play around in the new environment, and now we're going to see if any of us have what it takes to make it in a competitive environment. Draft tournaments are easy to run, fun as all get-out to play in and even better to win at!
It's going to be a fun day with the club, but I want to take a moment and go over a few things just so we have them recorded all official-like. Nothing too heavy, but we have promised prizes to the winning players so we have to have a tiny bit of interpretable legalese. Or something.
Anyways, for those of you who've never played in a draft tourney, let me sketch it out for you how it's going to go. First, we'll open the box and issue each of the 8 players 3 packs of Scars of Mirrodin. Each player will open the 15 card pack and take 1 card from it, as his top pick. The remaining 14 cards are passed to the player on the right, who then takes a card from those. We continue passing the packs to the right, and each player takes one card from it each time until all the cards are picked. Then we do the next pack (passing to the left), and the next (to the right), until each player has 45 cards (3 packs worth) to select his deck from.
Once all the packs have been drafted, it's time to build a deck. Now, there's tons of strategy articles out there about drafting and aggressive selection, and I totally encourage you to check out a few articles around the web on such subjects, but I won't be going into that in detail in this article. Decks will be 40 cards minimum.
Lands are going to be provided by the Wargate, so you'll get to have as many basic lands as you want. This means that from your set of 45 cards that you drafted, you'll use approximately half of them in your deck.
After decks are built, the games begin! Each player has been randomly assigned their opponents for each round and a tracker has been placed on the board at the Wargate. There will be 3 rounds, each with four different matches running simultaneously.
Winning is simple. The tournament matches will be best 2 of 3 games. After each match, a marker will be placed by the winners name. We're going to use a very simple scoring system, so at the end of the tournament you win a pack of Scars of Mirrodin for each match you win. Simple.
We want to make these drafts a part of the Wargate's curriculum, so give us plenty of feedback on this! We might start with having a Draft Tournament after each expansion comes out (3 months or so), or it could be a monthly occurrence depending on that feedback, so let us know what you think!
Until then, beware the frakkin' Memnites!!
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