So I draft regularly with a buddy of mine one against one. We open each one pack, pick one and pass, pick one pass, pick one pass... until pack is finished. 3 packs per person in total. Then we proceed to build 40 card decks. We do this for every new set a few times until a new set comes out.
Since Ixalan, I've followed the traditional drafting scene well. What cards are valued highly and how to go about staying open or committing to a deck type. I have to say that these general guidelines completely fall apart in One vs. One drafting. I've followed strategies in one vs. one that get me far in drafting tournaments but they can't be translated to one vs. one.
Are there any people here that can shed some light on how to ajust to the one vs. one format?
I've done grid drafting with my cube, and it made for awesome 1v1 as it's a very interactive drafting format. Not sure how well it would translate to limited, though, as it generally starts with 162 cards. I guess you could open all the packs first, shuffle/randomize them, and then do the grid draft.
Here's an articlewith a description and example images of how it works (scroll down to the Grid Drafting header).
Grid drafting is a two-player format that works as follows:
• Start with 18 packs of 9 cards.
• For each pack, lay it out in a 3×3 grid face up (just lay them out in order, don’t look at the cards and decide where each one should go).
• The first player takes a row or column.
• The second player takes a remaining row or column. Discard the undrafted cards (which will be 3 or 4 cards per pack).
• Alternate who goes first each pack.
By the numbers, each player will end up drafting between 45 and 54 cards from the total 162-card pool.
Grid drafting, first and foremost, is an interactive hate-drafting format. Every pick requires you to balance maximizing your own deck’s power while minimizing the potential power of your opponent’s deck. With each pack you look to take a slice out of the grid that leaves your opponent without favorable options.
So I draft regularly with a buddy of mine one against one. We open each one pack, pick one and pass, pick one pass, pick one pass... until pack is finished. 3 packs per person in total. Then we proceed to build 40 card decks. We do this for every new set a few times until a new set comes out.
Since Ixalan, I've followed the traditional drafting scene well. What cards are valued highly and how to go about staying open or committing to a deck type. I have to say that these general guidelines completely fall apart in One vs. One drafting. I've followed strategies in one vs. one that get me far in drafting tournaments but they can't be translated to one vs. one.
Are there any people here that can shed some light on how to ajust to the one vs. one format?
Here's an articlewith a description and example images of how it works (scroll down to the Grid Drafting header).
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