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Still can’t stand that one :-/

I also think it’s reasonable to assume the decision for lower drop rates had very little to do with concerns about draft.

Honestly I don’t remember that well how they were received back then, even though I drafted/watched draft streams quite a bit during Strixhaven.

But it’s always a very fine line imo. Sometimes having these extra cards can be good for variety and make you draft interesting deck archetypes the format usually wouldn’t support. But the more powerful cards the higher the risk the format is defined by bombs.

Strixhaven did have the advantage that the extra cards were instants/sorceries which both meshed well with the theme and a lot of the cards were just efficient removal, which is much better for draft than big bomby creatures or enchantments.

“I am a draft player and I approve this message”

Alternatively, if you have a good grip on how good of a player/drafter everyone is, you could just do the picks in reverse order of skill. So most novice player gets to pick first

Edit: could also have the pick order reversing each round for the collector’s booster, so it’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4

There’s probably no way to do that that won’t make gameplay/the decks more imbalanced. So I guess it depends a bit on the people you are playing with. If they are more established/entrenched players, I’d probably leave out the collector’s booster altogether. If they’re more of the casual “I want to see big things happen” crowd then I feel like doing it via dice roll is probably one of the better approaches, because it’s another way of adding a bit more spectacle/excitement to it.

Thanks for the summary!

Are audacity still the good guys? Iirc the project was purchased by a company at some point and there was this whole tenacity fork thingie.

Thanks!