New limited format - Sealed Draft - Input please?

Netopalis · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 1

Haldo, all,
I'm new to M-L, but I've played Magic IRL for some time now. I've had a limited format in mind for a while, but I've never had the resources or the players to actually test it out. I thought I'd bring it up here and get some general opinions - maybe, eventually, even try running one just to see what would happen.

The format goes something like this....

Boosters (from any set that contains a 15-card booster) are randomly divided into "packets" of 6 booster packs. A sample packet might look something like this:

Onslaught
Champions of Kamigawa
Fifth Dawn
Mercadian Masques
Conflux

Each player receives one packet, chooses one of the 6 boosters then passes the remaining 5 to the left. Each player picks one of the 5 boosters passed to them (and so on and so forth) until all packs are taken. Then, each player builds a sealed deck with the 6 boosters from different sets that they end up with.

On the plus side, this format could prove to have some interesting interactions with old and underplayed cards. On the negative side, though, some sets could prove to be unplayable - an entirely unplayable pack would really ruin someone's chances of winning.

Any thoughts?

coolcreep · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 560

Seems basically like a waste of time followed by a random sealed, plus the guy stuck with last pick homelands has a severely gimped deck. When I first saw the name I thought it was an idea I once had which I thought would be fun, where you draft one pack, then open 2 packs and examine the contents, then go back and draft another pack, feeding in the opposite direction.

Tonya · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 55

Seems like the least fun thing I"ve ever heard.

clayparson · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 59

what would be more interesting is if each play cracked open the packs and picked a card from the sealed pool then passed to the next player, essentially drafting all the packs at the same time rather than one pack at a time in a normal booster draft.

Still, solomon draft is better.

ncgeniusbrad · Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 41

the best and most skill intensive limited format was rochester, the reason its not around anymore is because of time consumption. to get any limited ideas out of your head and into irl this must be a main concern. random packs drafting is not going to cut it as its wasting time with packs, even more so when the packs dont go around more than once. if u maybe added in like it was a pod of 8 and the total number of packs were laid out and then rochestered it would add some skill into it but nothing beyond that.