What's Your Nightmare Chaos Draft? l Unsleeved Podcast #58 l Magic: The Gathering Podcast MTG

Chaos draft is its own unique thing, to say the least. But is there a worst version?
Cedric and Patrick submit their worst possible chaos draft and want to know if you agree!
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[@chrisjett6232]

I have to imagine if you ignore the wow factor of it existing and getting to open it, adding an Alpha pack to a chaos draft has to be awful with the high chance of getting five lands and a majority of the other cards being highly unplayable

[@nathanielreichley4640]

Agreed. I've done some of these on draft sims online and they are so bad

[@joeldheath]

Coldsnap, Fallen Empires (2x for card count), Saviors of Kamigawa.
if we stick with sets designed to be drafted, replace the Fallen Empires packs with Rise of the Eldrazi becuase like Coldsnap it doesn't work well unless it's all 3 packs
For anyone who hasn't ever tried to draft Fallen Empires: Thallids is the only viable archetype and there is zero removal

[@seedlesstom]

You gotta throw in a random energy set too, for lack of synergy.

[@nathand6467]

Alara Reborn is also dogshit in chaos drafts, you might get a pack with nothing you can even reasonably cast. Power level might be there, but its still pretty low, and every card has a very demanding mana requirement.

[@DankAudioStash24]

If all the boosters have a low power level, playability of individual cards will be higher relatively speaking. Maybe to make the whole draft miserable, add a very powerful booster so that the other two really don't matter.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

A lot of people saying Fallen Empires, but I’m going to disagree. As sets from that time period go, it’s probably among the more playable. Very little removal, but at least there are plenty of creatures and they’re mostly not terrible on rate.
Compare that to the draftability of a set like Antiquities or The Dark; just full of stuff that doesn’t do anything.

[@zigeif777]

No hate-love for Alara Reborn? or even the Alara all-foil packs?

[@nathanielreichley4640]

Wow those sound miserable great job guys

[@canman87]

Homelands, Fallen Empires, The Dark. For obvious reasons, not the least of which include a complete lack of power of any kind and small pack sizes. You might not even be able to cobble together a playable 40 EVER.

[@seedlesstom]

If everything is equally bad, you'll always have something playable. There have to be massive outliers to make it bad.

[@tylerberg4832]

@@seedlesstom wut

[@seedlesstom]

@@tylerberg4832 if everything is bad, nothing is bad, it's all average playable stuff.

[@gryfyn71]

I think legends should be in There, while maybe not fair as is wasn't intended to be drafted the combo of a third of the set being unplayable e en by 1994 standards and a third being wildly over powered coupled with a non functional level of diversity seems crazy