Neues Draft Format?

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Neues Draft Format?

Post by Johannes »

Aus der newsgroup. Mir gefällt es gut. Ich denke es wäre mal einen Test wert, z.B könnten wir ja nach Frankfurt kommen und wir machen das auch zu 10 oder so (ähnlich wie das letzte Treffen nur halt draft).

Last night (Mon. 4/12) I ran a draft event with the Boston group to
test the draft format I pitched to Newsgroup last week. We got 10
players to draft and got 2 rounds of games in. The goal was to test a
V:tes draft format, with existing sets, where each player started with
only 7 packs.

The Rules:

Each player purchased 7 booster packs which we drafted (in this order):

2 KMW
2 Black Hand
2 Sabbat War
1 Camarilla Edition

We built decks and played using the following special format rules:

Minimum Crypt Size: 7
Minimum Library Size: 40

Deck Recycling Rule:
A Methuselah with no library left may use a Discard Phase Action to
shuffle his entire Ash Heap into his Library and Crypt.



The Results:

The event went quite well. The format seemed popular. It was nice to
have a weeknight-viable draft with smaller time and money requirements.
There's a consensus building around doing a monthly draft-night and
using the format on a regular basis.

Even with the small card pool the decks seemed roughly as functional
(and dysfunctional) as V:tes draft from a larger card pool using the
standard rules. The smaller crypts and deck recycling both worked well.

I felt like (and heard others say the same thing) I had thirtysomething
cards I could actually use and had to puff up to 40. But with better
set selection and draft order that could be fixed. I'm inclined to
leave the library minimum at 40.

With only 40 cards, people were running through their decks -- which is
good. I don't think there should be an added "cost" to the library
reshuffle.

The spread of sets and order of drafting was not ideal. A better choice
would be:

More packs (4+) should come from a base set (Cam or SW)
Base sets should be drafted first
1-2 sets (3 is a stretch) total would be best


Perhaps other players who were there can add their comments. I look
forward to paying this format again.

-Ben Swainbank



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