ChaosDrafting

I've never been a big fan of Un- sets. They've always felt more like a curiosity than something to be played with, and that seemed to be the case for both Unglued and Unhinged. Looking through the cards form both sets now, there's a bunch of things that were playable or at least interesting, such as Lexivore , Fowl Play , Jumbo Imp , Strategy, Schmategy or Elvish Impersonators . Now, some of these cards may not be powerful enough and they have a big chance element associated to them, but the idea is going in a different direction from a regular Magic game. The problem with chaos drafting Unglued though lies in that you may end up getting half of the BFM or Bureaucracy , either stuff you simply can't play or stuff that makes games tedious and annoying. The same goes for Unhinged: some cards are fun and ok, but there's a whole load of cards that will only make you feel like you'd rather open a Saviors of Kamigawa pack full of Everminds , because honestly, who...

 One must always be careful when mixing drinks and cardboard. In all my time playing Magic though, this is the first time a glass was spilled over the table we were playing at. Luckily it was just Pepsi Max (or Zero Sugar as it's called down here) and the only casualties were the basic lands and advertisement cards that came in the boosters. This all happened while we were drafting pack 3 and while we were still four players. The night started with Edu, Seba and Rob, the last of which was chaos drafting for the first time (but we had drafted a couple of sets as well as my cube before). After we had finished drafting and building our decks however, Rob had to rush out because of personal reasons, so we were left playing only a two rounder for each. Luckily we already had our decks built, so we still got to have a fun time. This time I wanted to lower expectations by not including any Masters set booster in the pool, but decks ended being fairly strong nevertheless. The draft pool co...

There's always some expectation that some cool cards and decent plays will be seen when chaos drafting. I don't think we had a great pool, but there were fun things to do. We played a 3 round tourney and had some good fun with decks that weren't exactly powerful, but they were quite playable anyway. Instead of going for multiplayer like last time, we went for a more traditional approach, and even though drafting with 4 people always yields suboptimal decks, there's some good fun to be had with them anyway. That is, it's an exercise in deckbuilding. This time it was Nico, Seba and Edu, who is a newer player and has only drafted a couple of times before (and one of those was my cube). The draft pool was: • Fate Reforged • Origins • Battle for Zendikar • Eldritch Moon • Eternal Masters  • Conspiracy 2 • Kaladesh • Modern Masters 2017 • Amonkhet • Ixalan (2) • Iconic Masters Again, nothing too exotic because I didn't want Edu to be any more confused t...