Obviously the least amount of any given card that can be drafted from the same box by every player is zero, but I'm curious how many of the same common, uncommon, rare, or mythic rare card a player could theoretically have in the same draft deck (not counting foils, and assuming no errors in the print run). I'm asking because I'm considering making my own, custom limited set of all reprints (like MM, EM, and IM) but would like to know how many copies of each card I would need to own in order to most realistically simulate an actual MTG draft.
It depends on how big the pod is. Every person could open the same card in each pack. So if it's 8 ppl then it would be 8*3=24. This is incredibly unlikely but this is the limit excluding errors and foils. The issue with cubing is the packs are purely random while booster packs are not. Booster packs have a set quantity of commons, uncommons, rares and chance mythics that take up the rare slot. You would have to unrandomize your cube packs to accurately reflect a booster draft environment which seems pretty time consuming.
Here's some over the top analysis I did that used some flimsy math:
According to wiki, booster packs contain: "1 marketing card, 1 basic land, 10 commons (one maybe premium card in any rarity), 3 uncommons and 1 rare (occasionally, about 1 in 8 packs, replaced by a mythic rare).[1][2]."
So if you multiply by 8 you get a semi accurate ratio of 80 common slots to 24 uncommon slots to 7 rare slots to 1 mythic slot.
So if you took Ixalan and made an Ixalan cube to accurately reflect the drafting environment you would have 1 of each mythic, ~1.7 of each rare, ~4.5 of each uncommon and ~12 of each common. If you exclude the mythics you get 1 of each rare, ~2.7 of each uncommon, ~7.1 of each common, this is around 1000 cards.
My math is probably way off but I think I'm in the ball park, enjoy!
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Here's some over the top analysis I did that used some flimsy math:
According to wiki, booster packs contain: "1 marketing card, 1 basic land, 10 commons (one maybe premium card in any rarity), 3 uncommons and 1 rare (occasionally, about 1 in 8 packs, replaced by a mythic rare).[1][2]."
So if you multiply by 8 you get a semi accurate ratio of 80 common slots to 24 uncommon slots to 7 rare slots to 1 mythic slot.
So if you took Ixalan and made an Ixalan cube to accurately reflect the drafting environment you would have 1 of each mythic, ~1.7 of each rare, ~4.5 of each uncommon and ~12 of each common. If you exclude the mythics you get 1 of each rare, ~2.7 of each uncommon, ~7.1 of each common, this is around 1000 cards.
My math is probably way off but I think I'm in the ball park, enjoy!