At A Glance
- Players: 4
- Setup Overhead: Moderate
- Minutes: 40
- Core Concept: A four-player Booster Draft where players draft a double-size pool and then build two separate decks.
Setup Requirements
These are the steps that need to happen before you can start the draft:
- Gather enough cards for the desired card-pool size * the number of players * 2 (Usually 90 cards * 4 players = 360 cards).
- Shuffle the entire cube thoroughly!.
- Distribute randomized “packs” of cards to each player, face down (6 packs of 15 cards is most common).
How To Draft
Follow these steps for a fair and engaging draft:
- Open a pack of cards distributed to you.
- Select 2 cards from your pack to add to your draft pool face down (All picks can be for either deck and are in the same pool).
- Pass the remaining unpicked cards to the player on your left.
- Pick-up the card pack passed to you from your right (Which will have 2 fewer cards in it than your previous pack).
- Continue steps 2 through 4, selecting two cards from each pack and passing the remaining cards until all cards from the pack have been selected.
- Repeat this process for the remaining packs, switching the direction you pass for each new pack (Pack 1: Left, Pack 2: Right, Pack 3: Left, etc.).
By the end of the draft, each player will typically have a 90-card pool plus any additional basic lands from which to construct their two minimum 40-card decks. (No swapping cards from one deck to the other between games! Between matches, changes are probably fine.).
Matches
Matches are played in a best of three using one deck for the first match, their other deck for the second match, and if a third match is required, each player secretly chooses and reveals simultaneously the deck their opponent must play.