Legacy Cube Draft

I've never been one to do online drafts...or real life ones really. I should clarify before I go much further that I'm talking about Magic: The Gathering and an online client that I drafted on at one time. Drafting is when you open a bunch of packs, you only get to pick one card from the pack before you pass it to your left. You obviously will get the pack back, minus some cards. You repeat until everyone has completely opened three packs. Then you build a 40 card deck (normally you play with 60) and you go up against the others who drafted in your set with you. What's unique about this format is that it is a show of skill and decision-making skills because you have a limited pool of cards to play with, you can't just pick and fine-tune your deck as you normally can. Since it requires a whole lot of thought and attention, not really my strong suit when it comes to mtg. I much prefer the route of fine-tuning my deck and making it as perfect as I can before I could go against someone else. But he convinced me to play a legacy cube draft and I agreed because alcohol. It ended up being a lot more fun than I thought it would be. What I didn't realize was in this particular time of limited event, it basically the best of the best cards so no matter what you end up getting, you are likely to have a decent deck. We ended up with almost 10 planeswalkers in our deck. They are literally one of the best things you can pull during a limited event but they were everywhere during this particular draft so it made it less special, still awesome as hell. We ended up winning 2 out of the 3 games. One guy got so salty about losing, it was highly amusing in the end though. All in all, not a bad night I guess.
Pack 1, pick 1: I mean come on guys, look at all those planeswalkers.

Don't even pretend you're not impressed, he won the second game with only 8 seconds to spare after the client glitched out multiple times. Then had to play the second game, with no choice but to win, with only 3 minutes left on his clock. And someone he managed to pull out a win, how impressive that?

 

Just thought I would share my fun Magic adventures from this week. Sadly, the legacy cube draft is gone from mtgo. For the first time ever, I wish that it wasn't because I would actually do it again. As I stated earlier, and you hopefully remember, I hate limited events. But yeah, that was a fun little adventure for me.

~Ashley Renee