I enjoy drafting in everything. If you haven't noticed by now I watch alot of DotA and shit like that, and one thing I enjoy is looking at the draft. Naga is still imba, whatever Na'vi says.
Anyway, it doesn't take alot to realise that drafting with Battle Pack is shit. You can compared it to Magic but the truth is with such a constrained card pool, the pull from the pack becomes much more significant and the skill less.
Anyway, I've had some ideas of how drafting can be incoporated in the game. Although I don't actually see it happening ever.
Like for computer games, the hero/champion pool is fixed for both sides, and they are both fully aware of their opponents options. The same can be implemented to YGO. By making a bi-annual banlist for DRAFTS.
What happens from there is every card in the bloody game is available for picks, while a pool of the strongest cards in the game available for bans, I would envision the size of that pool to be roughly about a 100. We'll use 100 for this example.
From that pool, players take turn to ban say 10 cards in a draft, while picking 10 cards to use. The draft format will be 1-2-2-2-2-1 for the first five and again for the second.
So from those 10 picks, they would use any cards outside the restricted card pool to build the rest of the deck, essentially meaning that the 20 bans and 60 non-picks on the list cannot be used in the deck building.
If you're a retard and goin to ask me what the 20 bans are for, it's to ensure that they don't get secured as picks.
This means that if power cards such as Storm or Reborn slip through the bans, only ONE player will get them, so drafting does require a decent amount of skill, and Reborn will be perma banned.
With the above stated logic, the draft banlist should have a section strictly for banned shit (aka cards that should never have been made) and restricted cards only. Semi restriction cards will not be part of the draft and will follow the normal banlist. Ofc, that said the draft banlist could restrict some semi resticition cards like Tour Guide, and also some banned cards like Trishula and Glow-up Bulb.
lol... you're talking about a cube
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cubedrafting.com/what-is-the-cube/
And yes, there are cube drafts for Yugioh iirc since I know Allen Pennington talked about it.
Lol really? In Singapore people only open Battle Pack to get Tour Guide and Lance. We don't draft with it at all. And I don't actually know much about Magic drafting. Anyway, if Konami does intend to make it more skilled a game, they should set aside a certain card pool as stated above, with a standardised card pool, instead of opening packs, outpicking the other is a showcase of true skill in the draft. Maybe due to combo decks though, the draft banlist should also include restricted cards not auto banned if left out of the draft ie. Exodia parts. This could be done possibly at a higher level and promoted worldwide, to both OCG and TCG.
ReplyDeleteKonami's intentions is to make profit, not to make things more competitive or fun.
DeleteAnd yeah, its like that all around the world with Battle Packs. Reprints actually killed off any chance of Sealed/Draft events since people buy the packs for the reprints.
And I'm pretty sure you're talking about Cube. And there is no need for a draft banlist. If you don't like a pack because of X card(s), don't draft it! If you don't like how someone's Yugioh Cube (if others exist besides the few I seen online, I would be surprised), then don't draft with them.
If you don't like X card in drafting or sealed, you could always make your own Yugioh Cube that excludes X card.