ChaosDrafting

This review will be very short, because so much has been said about Masters 25 regarding its value and the fact that, as a Masters set, it's not much of a synergy-based set. I agree on the first count: It's sad to pay full price for a booster and pulling, you know, a tree. On the second count, though, I'm not so sure. The set looks like a blast. And when it comes to chaos drafting, Masters 25 is a true dreamboat. Not too tight and parasitic and full of wonderful commons, some decent uncommons and fun rares. With morph as one of the main mechanics, you are granted at a minimum off-color, barely playable cards at almost all points within the pack, but also add to that some decent removal and useful cards that can fit in all basic archetypes. In this sense, it feels a lot like a core set (which is something I've seen mentioned online), but the main difference lies in that the power level of common cards is much much higher. A25 packs feel like they can fit at any point wit...

After the more structured chaos draft we had during February with Unstable, Conspiracy and Masters boosters, I thought it'd be a good chance to go back to a more traditional sort of chaos draft. It seems that 4 players has become the norm, and well, it's hard to get a bigger group interested in drafting in a more or less regular fashion, so I'll take it anyway. This time the pool consisted of 12 different boosters, most of which were rather new, but with some extra spicy cards: • Rise of the Eldrazi • Return to Ravnica • Theros • Origins • Khans of Tarkir • Fate Reforged • Dragons of Tarkir • Battle for Zendikar • Eldritch Moon • Amonkhet • Ixalan • Iconic Masters To me this looked interesting enough, especially because of that ROE booster hopefully giving us some big bodies and dumb spells to play with. We took the boosters in a rather random fashion (and I can't recall who opened what for the most part). This time the games felt a lot closer, and three ...