Back Draft

Back draft can be done with any drafting method.

Instead of the drafting a pool for your self, you draft a pool for someone else, trying to make as bad draft pool as possible.

Normally this involves trying to get useless cards, trying to get cards that do not work with mana curve and cards from all the colors.

What would be the best draft format to back draft? I think my favorite I have played was back drafted reject rare draft.

Continuous Draft

Continous Draft goes as follows:

Open up your 3 boosters and choose 1 card that you will not be drafting. This will leave you with 44 cards as your draft pool
find another player (or have the store pair you with someone)
Mix up both draft pools to make a pile of 88 cards.
Choose who goes first by rolling die
First player takes top 4 cards from the pile and lay them so both of you can see them
Then first player chooses 1 card he wants to his new draft pool
After this from the 3 cards that are left the other player chooses 2 cards and adds them to his new draft pool
The last card goes to first player.
Then roles are reversed, and you continue until both players have drafted a new pile of 44 cards, you make an deck with the cards you drafted.
After you play a match against the player you drafted with you take your new pool and start drafting again with the next person you pair with.

This makes you have a constantly changing draft pool and to not have a new deck for each game, the downside could be that it takes a while to keep drafting all the time.

Duplicate Sealed

In a duplicate sealed you give each player a sealed pool that is identical to each other players sealed pool.

The interesting thing in this is that you will see who creates the best deck using that exactly same card pool.

Rochester Draft

Rocher draft is a different way of drafting this is suitable for 2 players but also for more.

Rochester draft goes as follows

All boosters are set to side, one booster is opened at a time, instead of each player opening one.
then each player picks one card at a time until no cards remain, then repeat as there is 3 times boosters compared to amount of players each player will three times be the person to get the first pick
The greatest difference is that all information is shared, and it takes much longer than normal draft.

What would be interesting first booster first pick in rochester draft when everyone can see you do it?

Cube

Cube is when you create your own set, most cubes are done by using max 1 of each card and using powerful cards.

As you will be creating you own cube you can go for any theme, but do try to make it so that the colors are balanced and there is no cards that are always first picked or last picked.

It is also possible to make a cube in a way that you build your own set, take 4 of each common 2 of each uncommon and 1 of each rare and shuffle up boosters before play

No matter how your cube is created, it is commonly possible to manipulate the boosters in when you have this.

For example if you have a cube that is created with powerful cards having maximum 1 of each card you could make the boosters so that each booster has at least 1 of each color, 1 colorless and 1 multicolored by setting aside those cards before you mix up the rest of cards needed for your boosters. This does help to make boosters more even.

See the following link for inspiration and for testing out your own cube
http://www.cubetutor.com/

What would be the most interesting cube theme for you?

Jungle draft

Jungle draft is when you have boosters from many different sets instead of each player having same set of boosters, for maximal fun have different boosters for all players so no booster is repeated.

This takes down the chance for people to study the cards of the set and play knowing the format as there is so many different sets that it would be difficult to study the sets to know what is going to happen and which cards are going to be in these boosters.

What would be your favorite 3 boosters to open in a jungle draft?

Winchester Draft

Winchester Draft is good for cube or when drafting with 2 or 4 players.

It works like this

First decide with a die who goes first.
Each player sets 2 cards from their shuffled boosters in front of them, these 4 cards set the 4 piles that we will be using.
Each time you pick a pile you pick all the cards in it.
After each pick you each players sets 2 cards to each pile in front of him, maintaining the amount of piles in same 4.

This way the piles that are not picked normally grow to have more cards than the others, and growing until one of the players picks it. Drafting continues until all 3 boosters of each player are completely empty.

What is the best “pile” you have picked in Winchester draft?

Two headed Giant

Two headed Giant is a way to play either Constructed or Limited games.

In Two headed Giant you play together with another player against 2 other players

You share life total and start at 30 lifes
You take turns together, you attack and block together.
First mulligan is to 7 cards
You do not share mana or cards.
Cards that target Each opponent counts it from both players so it works twice.

What would be the best team up of 2 decks?

Conspiracy

Conspiracy is a special set, and a card type. The set was created for drafting multiplayer drafts.

The special Conspiracy cards are not in your deck and are not counted for your deck limit, and you can have as many as you want of these conspiracy cards in the side of your deck.

Some of the conspiracy cards or “draft matters” cards within the set will ask you to write down a number or color or something else and they are normally drafted face up.

Iron man [additional rules for limited]

The main idea of Iron man rule is that each time card is placed on graveyard, that card is ripped in pieces. So if you play an spell that card is removed from your deck for good, you will not have that card in your next game and you need to replace it with something else from your draft/sealed pool, and when nothing else remains just add more basic lands.

The way you draft cards and how many cards each player has can change depending on the organisers of the game. I think the most common would be to play with a pile, draft or sealed.

I think in theory it would be possible to take this rule and just remove the cards from game if you are playing with a cube or you are thinking to give the cards that would be destroyed to someone else but it does not have the feel to it.