Last weekend me and some of my friends rounded up some old packs for a Chaos draft. A chaos draft is just like a normal draft, but the packs are from as many different sets as possible. I figured that this forum might be interested in seeing the resulting decks.
We had two pods, one of 8 and one of 7. So that's why you'll see some decks with cards from sets that don't appear in other decks.
Sorry the photo quality on some of these is not great.
Wow, this looks like so much fun
I would've done it, but I can't find old packs in my country and shipping sealed products outside of USA is prohibited...
We used all of the low-hanging fruit: pretty much every set that has been printed in the last four years. Besides those, we had foil Shards block packs, Odyssey, Judgment, Prophecy, 6th Edition, Fallen Empires (2 packs = 1 normal pack), 9th Edition, Dissension, Champions of Kamigawa, Innistrad, Legions, and a couple of others that I'm forgetting.
Some of these packs I had saved, but a lot I ordered from channelfireball.com. The shipping cost was kind of high but the price of the packs themselves wasn't terrible, so I ordered a bunch at once. If there's a GP or large tournament near you, dealer booths might be a good way to get packs without paying for shipping. I do imagine that the U.S. is the easiest place to do this though...
I do at least one of these a year. I try to save 6 boosters of each set for future chaos drafts, I'm about 5 packs from my next one. I always wait till I have 24 different boosters. I was able once to do all the multi color sets Invasion block, both ranivca blocks, Shards block, Shadowmoor, eventide, and the rest was recent stuff. I love how the pick order changes so much, things that would have been a first pick in it's own format will go 13th pick.
We had two pods, one of 8 and one of 7. So that's why you'll see some decks with cards from sets that don't appear in other decks.
Sorry the photo quality on some of these is not great.
3-0 deck from pod 2, a blurry but very strong RW aggro deck. He said that he drew Boros Reckoner in 7 of 10 games.
My deck, UR spells. I went 2-1. Dwarven Catapult is a house.
Esper. I can't imagine that the Dripping Dead was worth it.
Jund. Featuring the most valuable pull of the draft, foil Damnation.
Deck built around Emissary's Ploy. I don't think he did very well but that's not the point.
Grixis. He brought three of the all-foil Shards block packs to the draft, so three-color was inevitable.
The event as a whole was really fun, if you want to blow some money on old packs I highly recommend it!
I would've done it, but I can't find old packs in my country and shipping sealed products outside of USA is prohibited...
How did you find those old packs?
Some of these packs I had saved, but a lot I ordered from channelfireball.com. The shipping cost was kind of high but the price of the packs themselves wasn't terrible, so I ordered a bunch at once. If there's a GP or large tournament near you, dealer booths might be a good way to get packs without paying for shipping. I do imagine that the U.S. is the easiest place to do this though...