Apr 09

It’s drafty in NYC

dastels @ 9:22 pm

Cold & rainy too… but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m in NYC this week and had the chance to draft twice.

No ordinary drafts either. Tuesday night I was invited by BDM to join the group at Jon Finkel’s place for a couple AAC drafts. Good times.

And Thursday night we had a “reject rare” draft at work, 3 Googlers and 3 guests.. once again including BDM. (Brian, do you crash every draft in the area or what?) This was pretty cool. People bring random rares, put a pool together, randomize and pull out “packs” of 15. Distribute & draft. Sounds like a cube, but a cube is typically full of powerful cards whereas this format generally uses not quite so good rares (i.e. “reject rares”, or “junk rares”). As Mark put it “It’s like a cube I’m willing to leave at work”.

Once again… good times and great fun.