I love to draft. As a format I don't play it much for a variety of reasons, primarily two: I don't particularly care for Magic Online, and my work schedule for the last 8 months or so have been abominable for ever going to an event or FNM other than a pre-release. Magic Online would seem like the solution to my schedule woes, but I get wa-aay too distracted when I play Magic on the computer. I need to immerse myself in a game with people I can talk to easily, and Magic Online is missing the social aspect of the game that makes it fun for me.
Enter my playgroup. I have a great group of friends that I get together with far too infrequently to play Magic, again mostly due to scheduling issues. We did manage to schedule something a couple weeks ago, though, and it was a lot of fun. I had my Commander and Standard decks packed up, but I received a package that changed the course of the evening: a box of Conspiracy. Hallelujah!
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| No, not THAT Conspiracy, the other one! Oh, nevermind... |
Every playgroup is different, but my group has a particular love for multiplayer games over 2 player duels. When you get together as often as we do, we want everyone to be playing as much as possible. So we really enjoy Commander, Two-Headed Giant and Emperor, as well as Planeschase and Archenemy variants so maximum mayhem will ensue. Also, most of my playgroup still has the aversion to drafting that many people do; namely, not getting to keep every card that you open.
My solution was to provide a box of Conspiracy, we draft the heck out of it, and then I keep the cards to go towards building a multiplayer cube. I'm slowly getting there with the Cube, but this was going to be our second draft of this wonderful set and I was really looking forward to it. For groups that like multiplayer and a little bit of chaos, I can't recommend it enough.
