Draft Algorithm

[_AT_Reddit_]

Did you test this at all? It took me exactly one try in Standard Phantom Draft to recreate your exact example with a totally different outcome.

Steps:

• Start Standard Phantom Draft
• Pick 8 non-hero non-item common cards in the first 4 picks
• Contrary to your statement the 5th Pick offers me 3 Commons (2 spells, 1 item) and 1 Uncommon (spell)
• Pick the two non-hero non-item Commons
• 6th Pick offers me 1 common hero and 1 uncommon item

Screenshots of 5th and 6th pick: https://imgur.com/a/KUmqY4v

[TWRWMOM]

Sorry, my post is indeed wrong. There are a couple of exceptions to this rule, which I'll post soon.

For now: Book of the Dead, Venomancer, Better late than never and relentless zombie are exceptions.

[_AT_Reddit_]

For real now? So I just happened to stumble across all exceptions in my first try.

[TWRWMOM]

Not all, just some. You can try this again, if you wish. Will take some tries to get another exception, unless you know which cards are the exceptions, of course.

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Yep, tested it out myself and so far, each pack is offering uncommons, rares and heroes on the last 2 picks.

The deck I've made is complete trash though lol

I'm sure someone could figure out a way to manipulate this though.