Duffin Draft to the next level - 'Texas Draft'


So if everyone isn't aware, the Austin playgroup loves draft.  We
Duffin Draft all the time.  One night while drinking at the pub we came
up with a 3+R format using Duffin Draft.  We tried it last night and it
went over real well, although I think we still have some kinks to work
out.  Maybe the community has some insights and comments that would
help:

Here's what we did:

- Bought 3 boosters each, completely random sets.

- Duffin Draft one random booster round 1 allowing infinite transfers
on turn 1, 12 pool.  4 pool for ousting.

- Tally VP/GW and put those cards aside.

- Change seating, Duffin Draft as above again with another booster for round 2.

- Tally VP/GW and put those cards aside.

- Change seating, Duffin Draft as above again with last booster for round 3.

- Deterimine finalists.

- Finalists play the final with Swainbank format with all cards drafted
in the previous rounds (ie no limit to reshuffle discard phase action
since our libraries were so small).


We ended up having a lot of fun, and the final decks were more playable
than you would think.  Many times in round 2 or 3, when there was no
immediately useful card to pick, I would draft a card useful for cards
I already drafted.  It made Duffin Drafting a bit more strategic, which
I liked.

We talked afterwards and were hoping to find a way to make more cards
available to you in the final, as the libraries ranged from 18-24 cards
which still didn't feel like enough.


1) Do 4+R since the non-final rounds go pretty quickly.  Maybe even 5+R.

2) Draft 5 boosters, do 3 rounds of Duffin as normal and the final 2 can be added 
	if wanted ala sealed.

3) During all Duffin Draft rounds, when you are ousted you pick one
card to keep from your 11 cards and give the rest to your predator
(like ante).  So the finalists in theory have a lot of cards to choose
from and can then just build according to Internal Recursion format (7
crypt/40 library minimum).  This version obviously will depend on a
minimum number of players to be viable.

Comments?  What do you guys think of the format?

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Ethan Burrow - the pre/vic guy
http://presence.vekn.org
http://monger.vekn.org