My First Magic Draft Event
Tonight we went to Friday Night Magic to play in the FF draft game. There were 14 of us playing which made it interesting. It cost $40 (which is not normal for draft, but FF is $$$ A normal draft is closer to $20.) for 3 packs and we drafted the cards pretty quickly. As I was pulling from my packs I started off with Black/White because of how many good cards I was finding, but quickly switched it to Red/White once I realized nobody else at the table was picking the red cards. This worked out because going Red/White gave me cheap 1 cost spells and 2 cost white artifact equipment that created it's own creature to attach it to for free when you played them.
The first round I won 2 in a row which ended the match. The second round I lost the first one due to terrible land pulls, I had 3 land for half the game and couldn't catch up. The third game I won twice in a row again. By the end of the tournament I was in 5th place. I got an extra pack (Which is included in your cost really, because the packs are 10 bucks each.) and a cool blue d10 FF dice. The top 3 got a fun little dice bag with the magic logo and extra packs. We had fun.
Quite a few of the players had either never played Final Fantasy or had only played 1 or 2 games from the series. I found this to be kinda common from other groups as well. Maybe I should start playing them in order. I have several on GBA cartridges. My favorite game is FFX because that's the first one I played and it's just the best one period. Lol.
But yeah, this was my first time drafting Magic IRL. I've done a few on Arena and got destroyed, maybe I'll try again with FF. I have drafted Lorcana a few times last year and did alright, but I'm not super great at picking cards. And to be fair, you really do need to draft them, and not try to make a deck out of 4 random packs. Once you have a few good base cards picked you can start selecting the colors you are running from the rest of the packs and create a playable deck. I know the Pre Release packs are just "use the cards in the packs you've been given" but you get 6 packs instead of 3 so you can get enough of one color to run a 40 card deck.