Day 024: Magic Draft

Tonight was Friday Night Magic, but it was special because it was also ClubFest and BirthdayFest.

During ClubFest all the clubs set up booths in the Dragon's Den (auditorium) so people could go around and sign up for things. I missed the pizza but I signed up for the Magic draft (explained below) and the Let's Be Kids Again Club's assassin game.

Assassin is where everyone who signs up gets a target, who also signed up. You have to kill them with Nerfs or foam weapons without anyone seeing. Then you get their target and continue. Or something like that.

Because two people named Andrew were born relatively close to each other, we celebrated both their birthdays at BirthdayFest which happened a little later. So there was food and drinks while we played Magic.

Now at the Magic draft, everyone's given 45 cards. You pick one you like and pass the rest to the next person and keep it up until no cards are left. I ended up making a black-red deck. Basically I think that means it's good at attacking, but attacking the opponent directly (because usually you have to go through their creatures).

All our names were put into some computer and it matched me up with a walking rulebook and I lost 2-0.

Then it matched me up with someone I at least had a chance with. It went a while and I actually had a ton of fun, and ended up winning 2-0.

Lastly it matched me up with my roommate, the dictator of the club. I won the first round to both of our surprise. The next two rounds ran longer than anyone else's but he ended up winning 2-1. I'm was satisfied with the results.

So the draft was fun. I only had some idea what a good deck was but it was a good experience. I'd prefer to use my own deck next time, one that I know, but it was fun.