ZeldaZach
commented
3 years ago Some ideas I've been having in the past hour.
Could simplify development by instead having one large pack (i.e. the entire cube as a single pack) passing it around. This would allow for a more seamless integration.
This would mean we only have to implement three features:
- Snake Drafting opportunity, which we can extend to any draft on the site
- Public announcements of what card was drafted (which we can use the in-client chat for!)
- Only having one pack in the entire draft vs each player starting with packs
All of these things can be abstracted in a way and applied to any draft we might create in the future.
tooomm
Detailed Description
Rotisserie Drafts are the equivalent of fantasy sport drafting. You input a custom list (i.e. cube), the full cube is on display, and you pick cards in a snake formation (1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1,2,...) until you pick 45 cards.
Further Information
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Rotisserie_Draft
We could support this via having one "pack" that is shared by everyone, and players pick a card when it's their turn. We can set a flag to prevent picking "out of order" and update the packs with a push to all players. Would take some work on the pack display for the user, but this could be a nice net positive