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Booster Draft is a method of play which involves multiple players opening booster packs, passing them from player to player and selecting cards from them to build their own decks.

What You Need[]

A booster draft can be played with 2 or more players, though 4 players is recommended. Each player must have 6 sealed booster packs from the same booster set.

Draft Procedure[]

  1. Determine the seating arrangement around the table with a random method.
  2. Each player opens one booster pack and checks the cards inside it.
  3. Each player takes a trigger unit from the pack and drafts it (places it face down in front of them) to start their own collection of cards. Each player then freely chooses one of the other cards from the pack and drafts it as well.
    • Players may not peek at their drafted cards.
    • Within Booster Sets 1 to 5 and Extra Boosters 1 to 7, it is not guaranteed that each pack will contain a trigger unit. If boosters from these sets are being drafted, the above "each player takes a trigger unit" rule is ignored and players skip to freely choosing and drafting one card each.
    • If a player's booster contains a Legion Rare, that player may ask for a judge to verify it. If Legion Rares from one or more players are verified, each player freely chooses and drafts two cards from their pack instead of one (in addition to the trigger unit).
  4. Once all players have made their selections, each player passes the remaining cards in their pack to the player on their left (clockwise around the table). This means that each player should be receiving a pack from the player on their right.
  5. Each player drafts one card from the pack that the player on their right just passed to them, placing it face down with their previously-drafted card(s) in a pile.
  6. Once all players have made their selections, each player again passes the remaining cards in the pack to the player on their left.
  7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until all the cards from the packs that were opened during step 2 have been drafted.
  8. Repeat steps 2 through 7 with the remaining booster packs.
    • Between the third and fourth pack, each player may review their own pile of face-down drafted cards.
    • Starting from the fourth pack, players pass their packs to the player on their right (counter-clockwise).
  9. Once all packs (six per player in total) have been opened and passed around, the draft is over. Players will use the 30 cards they have drafted as their decks for their upcoming games.

Game Rule Changes[]

Players who participated in the draft play tournament-style against each other using their draft decks. During these games, the rules of a normal cardfight apply, with the following changes:

  • No card restrictions are applied, neither from the game rules, nor from the official Card Restrictions list, nor from cards' abilities. Therefore, if a player is lucky enough to acquire more than 4 cards of the same name, or more than 4 heal trigger units, or more than 4 units with Sentinel, etc. during the draft, they can use all of them in their deck.
  • Games are played to 4 damage instead of 6.
  • All units are treated as being all clans at once. Each unit is treated as if its printed clan was "all of the clans", and all instances of clan names printed within "« »" brackets in card text are replaced with "«all of the clans»".
    • For example: "Dragonic Overlord the End" has the ability "[CONT](VC/RC):If you have a non-«Kagero» vanguard or rear-guard, this unit gets [Power] Power icon-2000." In a booster draft, the part of the ability that reads "If you have a non-«Kagero» vanguard or rear-guard" is read instead as "If you have a non-«all of the clans» vanguard or rear-guard". Since all units are treated as «all of the clans», "Dragonic Overlord the End" will not get [Power] Power icon-2000 regardless of what other units you have.
    • This also means that trigger effects will always activate.

Ending the Draft[]

After all games have finished, the cards that came from the opened boosters are shared among the fighters in any way they agree on. Typically, if players individually paid for the booster packs they brought to the draft, they get to keep all of the cards they collected during the draft; or the players put their cards of R rarity or higher together and, starting with the player who won the most cardfights during the draft tournament, take turns selecting cards to keep.

Notes[]

The official Booster Draft rules were last updated during the Legion era. This causes two problems when drafting boosters from future eras:

  • In the G era and onward, Legion Rare was discontinued in favor of other premium rarities (such as G Rare and V Rare). The author of this article assumes that the same procedure as when a player opens a Legion Rare (as in step 2 of the draft procedure) may be applied if a player opens a card of one of these rarities in a pack.
  • Booster packs of the V-icon Series era and later contain 7 cards each, meaning players will end up with 42 cards (6 booster packs x 7 cards each) instead of the 30 cards they would end up with when drafting G era booster packs and earlier. It is unclear whether this means players use all 42 cards they acquired during the draft as their decks, or choose 30 cards out of the 42 to use as their decks. The author of this article recommends that players decide this for themselves before starting the draft.

Source[]

Official Draft Rules

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