Wardraft?
Originally published at DanHulton.com. Please leave any comments there.
My phone line is currently out (and thus my DSL), so I spent some time catching up on things I’ve been putting off.
I read a bit of a book that looked interesting (it was).
I read some of a story I’d been promising to read (for far too long).
I did some cleaning (totally necessary).
And I read the rules to the Warcraft CCG.
No parentheses for the last sentence there, since it’s what I want to talk about. See, while it cleared a few matters up for me, it also opened up an interesting idea: the draft tournament.
Basically, everyone buys four booster packs. You sit down, open a pack and choose a card. Then you pass the remainder of that pack to your left, and accept the player on your right’s remaining deck. Choose a card again, and repeat the pass until you’re out of cards. Then repeat until you’re out of decks.
At this point, you have 60 carefully-chosen cards. From these, you create a deck of a minimum size of 30. Then you fight it out amongst the other decks made during the draft.
The winner gets a booster pack per person (really meaning everyone buys FIVE booster packs, but only opens four). Everyone keeps the cards they choose during the draft.
So is anyone up for a wardraft tournament when I come home next weekend? I understand that there’ll be WoW CCG action with our regular decks anyway, but I’m also interested in running one of these as well. It’s a fun way to get some more cards, PLUS while we all have some skills we’ve built up, we haven’t all had the time or money to build crazy decks. (Actually, heck, we can all buy six boosters and put the sixth up in a regular tournament with our prebuilts.)
If so, make sure you buy your boosters early, as we know we can’t really rely on Mike to have boosters at any given moment - stock sells fast.