Magic is my favorite method of not knowing where all my money went.

Thanks for showing off the Winston draft format, Nick! A friend and I were gonna try this several years ago, and were a bit thrown off looking at the drafting rules, and just settled on doing sealed instead. It was great to see how Winston is properly drafted.

@babylonian

9 жыл бұрын

caffeinethegathering Yeahhh, when the Winston draft rules are written out, they look super complicated, but when you see it in person, it seems much simpler! That's part of why I wanted to make a video about it.

Clear, explanatory, descriptive, good use of camera & minimalist additions 'in post'; gets the job done without overstaying it's welcome. Sirs, thank you for an excellent informative video; I'm excited to Winston Draft now!

I'm rapidly approaching my mid-40s, yet a friend of mine has just now managed to get me into Magic! I was trying to figure out if a booster draft would work with just the 2 of us, so this video is perfect - thanks for making it!

@babylonian

5 жыл бұрын

happy to help! i hope you enjoy MTG - i just took a break for a couple years, but now i’m back into it too 🙂

1:54 I bet Ryan was thinking about activating that Smoke Teller.

@babylonian

9 жыл бұрын

TacticOgre This is such a good joke, holy shit

isn't it possible for one person to get more cards

@bjornfredberger

Жыл бұрын

Of course, but you would technically only need roughly 20 of the cards to be able to form a deck... if you draft stupidly enough. The other player would have 70 cards (not sure if this exact equation would be realistic) and have a much better chance to craft a working deck.

The way he shuffled, you would need to do it 70,000 times to be fully random.

@reallyWyrd

6 жыл бұрын

Zeeth I find the "go fish" version of shuffling is the easiest way to actually get cards thoroughly randomized. But you have to have a very soft surface to do it on so the cards don't get scratched up.

tried this for the first time last night with my 9yo son. Loved it! Thanks for the vid! and that ending was hilarious!

Thrilled to see you doing a magic video!

this channel is the most random shit ever and i think its great

Seems like a pretty cool way to play Magic! Now I just need to learn how to play Magic...

I love Winston! I have a mini cube my friends and I winston from all the time. Winchester is another great 2 person draft system as well. 4 face up piles, play picks one, then flips a card onto the top of each pile.

Man I'm glad I went looking for your channel I only actually knew you from Rev3 (oops...) and I had no idea you played Magic! Sweet video.

Drafting is my favorite form of magic!!! My friends and I made up our own drafting as well. We had a big box of commons, uncommons and rares. We would decide before hand how many of each type we wanted to draft. Some of my favorite games were all rare or all common drafts.We would then use various experimental methods to draft. We did use this one as well. Instead of a trade binder with tons of rare cards, we had the rare draft box ^^. Totally worth it!!!

Huge Magic fan. Literally Winston drafted my friend's cube last night. A few other interesting ways to draft with fewer than eight players: Grid draft. Make a 3-3 grid of face up cards (randomly), and then a player takes a row or column, then the other player gets a row or column, noting that they might only get two cards, since the player before them already took some of the grid away. After these two picks, make a new grid, trashing the unselected cards. There's also solomon drafts, which are a great four-man format. Open a pack, and then split the pack into four piles face up. The player to your left takes a pile, following clockwise, and you get the pile left over. Then the next player clockwise opens a pack, and the process repeats. Three packs per player.

Great video, handy for when we are on holiday - thanks guys

super helpfull! ill show this to my buddy since we always thought we needed to be more than 4^^

Thanks for showing how to play this way! My husband has bad anxiety and a prerelease event would be too much for him. I was trying to figure out a way for just the two of us to draft together at home, if such a thing existed. This is perfect! Hopefully we can try grab some prerelease packs for Murders at Karlov Manor when it comes out and try Winston draft with them! Thanks again!

Short, simple and very useful! Thank you very much!

Thanks for the vid :) Looks like a fun way to play!

more videos like this nick :D I loved this one

Oh crap, I love it! Can't wait to try this with my only magical friend.

This was super helpful - Thanks!

@babylonian

8 жыл бұрын

Hah, glad to hear it!

Thank you Ryan for the over the shoulder looks. :P Will you share the drafted match?

That's a neat trick. Thanks for sharing.

MORE MAGIC VIDS PLEASE! I did not know you played

@babylonian

9 жыл бұрын

appleipodtouch2g Hah, okay! :D

@GrundoMan45

9 жыл бұрын

***** never enough magic

@isaachill1613

7 жыл бұрын

GrundoMan45 .hi

This is perfect! I'll try this out with my friend!

Nice! I will try this with my son in the next couple of days.

Don't know why this was recommended to me now of all times, but I guess I will keep this in mind for the next pandemic.

thanks for the tip. would've liked to see y'all play your game

Thanks, very helpful!

skipped through this vid for a solid 30 seconds looking for sweet drifts until i realized it said draft

Great Idea.

What sweet Magic boys

where to cop nicks shirt?

Can this work for 3 players? Also, any other ways 3 players can enjoy a draft?

Do you draw the lands too? Or do you add them freely after you drafted all? Also, I don't have boosters, I have a big collection of old cards though, I want to play this but I don't know what cards should I place in that 90 pile, how many colors, if I add lands, or not. Not to mention what cards should I place. Minions? Removals? Duals? Random?

@oofboi6421

3 жыл бұрын

You can do a Winston draft with a mtg cube

@mawest217

10 ай бұрын

Lands are never part of the draft, you add those freely after the draft.

I dont agree with taking out the "Filler" card,that tends to be a foil sometimes,and could even be a rare or mythic.

@babylonian

9 жыл бұрын

That depends! Every single booster since Shards of Alara has contained exactly 1 basic land and 1 'marketing card', neither of which you want in your draft pool. That said: if you're drafting with old, pre-2008 product, it's definitely worth being careful about!

@mtganimemiikefan

9 жыл бұрын

True,but foils do replace your basic land slot,plus i love your work.

@gamerbear84

2 жыл бұрын

@@babylonian I'm a FEW YEARS late, but to play it safe with foils and such, you could rule that if you see a basic land you reveal it and replace it with the top card and continue.

So after you draft the 40 cards what do you do about lands? Just add in a certain amount of whatever deck color you built?

@bobray342

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, add 15 lands of however you need to bring deck to 60 cards sounds about right.

I know that you recommended using packs , but would a cube work well too?

@hykoru193

8 жыл бұрын

+Enzo Peguero Yes.

I thought you only looked at the top card, you are allowed to look at the whole pile?

you have to take the whole pile? like, if there is 2 cards in the pile, can i just take one? what would i do next?

@babylonian

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, you take the whole pile. So, for instance, if there are 4 cards in the pile, you take all 4 of them. (You don't have to actually use with every card you draft, btw - so when you take cards that aren't in your color or whatever, you just set them aside during deckbuilding, and that becomes your sideboard.)

I need that shirt

Me and a friend played it and i ended up with way more cards than him. Did we mess up somewhere

@babylonian

2 жыл бұрын

not necessarily - that can happen! did your friend tend to not take any of the 3 piles, and instead opt to take 1 card blind off the top of the stack? because doing that too much can lead to not having a ton of cards :0

Where do the other 6 cards come from, to get a 90 stack from 14 cards in 6 packs, 6×14 is 84, so I'm confused about why he says the pile is 90 cards

@johnlovingood8588

4 жыл бұрын

N/M. Realize now that I'm dumb

@johnlovingood8588

4 жыл бұрын

And then doing the draft, taking out the lands from the pack does make it only 14 cards per pack, so my group was 6 cards short, I don't think you can take the lands out, only the token cards

See I always loved magic but here in Chicago, I couldn't ever find anybody in my highschool to play with -________- ..Hopefully in college! It's like I want to be that nerd but the world isn't letting me D:

you guys are fiiiiine as hell

if a person can take the whole pile can't they get more cards then the other?

@babylonian

8 жыл бұрын

Yup, that's correct! In most winston drafts, both players won't end up with exactly the same amount of cards (although it'll be close!) The thinking is: if you have fewer cards, it's only because you chose to select individual powerful cards over the bigger stacks full of cards that neither player really wanted. In the end, you'll both end up building 40-card decks from the cards you drafted, so it doesn't matter all that much! Hope that helps!

@OperatorSkillet

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Robinson (Babylonian) is it possible to play it where you can only take one card from the pile?

wtf never knew you did mtg lol

@lerbyn

2 жыл бұрын

I was surprised too

This is nothing like any drafts ive done at game stores. Though I guess I've never done a draft with only 2 people.

Have you ever tried a Solomon draft for drafting with two people? I'm planning on doing some 1v1 drafting with a friend of mine when the new Modern Masters drops, and was planning on doing Solomon but now I'm torn.

damn this seems very appealing

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It's so dumb that people seem to think drafting "require this and that many players" You can winston draft on 4 people too, easy. You can sealed booster draft on 3-4 people too, easy. Why the hells bells fu**s do people say you need 7-8?! When I winston draft with 4 people for example, you chose to put 2(!) cards instead of one down into the three piles. Then when you need to refill you slap two new ones down. But still only one per "skip". And if you don't pick any pile, we use to look at the top 3 cards of the pile, pick 2 and put the leftover wherever you want to.

The only problem I see is that one person could possibly get all the mythics

Do you wear mascara? 😂😂

They should add a mode based on this to Hearthstone.

@babylonian

9 жыл бұрын

googolplexbyte That would be so rad. The Arena is a pretty good proxy for a draft format, but a real (one on one) draft with friends could be super fun! I just wonder how that would work with multiple classes...

@nicolas4129

9 жыл бұрын

***** If you want to, you and a friend can play by each choosing a class, create a new deck, and using the Suggest a Card option for every card in your two decks.

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Just do one pack at a time. Then each player gets the shot at the rare from their 3 packs.

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isn't it possible for one person to get more cards

@OperatorSkillet

8 жыл бұрын

that's what I'm thinking? can some one confirm?

@kody87patten

7 жыл бұрын

Doctor Who 402 it's a 40 card game minimum amount. so you can have as many as you want but you can't go any lower than 40.