turgy22
Nothing Special
I just had a great (or maybe really bad) idea for a new Magic draft format. Imagine that you and your friends owned one copy of every single Magic card ever printed and you basically decided to draft them all. So in the end, everyone ends up with a singleton deck and no two people have any of the same cards.
I've been trying to think about how a draft like this might go, but it's hard to imagine how people value cards when they can choose any of them. Is Black Lotus automatically the first pick if you know you can only have one in the deck? How about the moxes? Will there still be a premium on creatures, like in other drafts or are there enough control cards in Magic that one or two people can create decent decks using them? And how much disparity will be between the first pick and the last pick? Assuming 8 people draft, the last pick of a 45 round draft will be approximately the 360th best card in Magic.
So anyway, seeing how my friends and I don't own one of every Magic card, nor do we have the hours on end to attempt this using proxies, I thought these forums would be a great place to try this out. If anyone's interested, let me know and we can hammer out the details and give it a whirl.
I've been trying to think about how a draft like this might go, but it's hard to imagine how people value cards when they can choose any of them. Is Black Lotus automatically the first pick if you know you can only have one in the deck? How about the moxes? Will there still be a premium on creatures, like in other drafts or are there enough control cards in Magic that one or two people can create decent decks using them? And how much disparity will be between the first pick and the last pick? Assuming 8 people draft, the last pick of a 45 round draft will be approximately the 360th best card in Magic.
So anyway, seeing how my friends and I don't own one of every Magic card, nor do we have the hours on end to attempt this using proxies, I thought these forums would be a great place to try this out. If anyone's interested, let me know and we can hammer out the details and give it a whirl.