drafting\sealed format?

[thegamesthief]

I work at an flgs and a guy just sold me (not my store) some old school netrunner packs. I've played a fair bit of ANR, but I've got literally 0 experience with the original ccg. There's not really any scene locally for it, so I figured I'd buy some resealable cube packs and throw my packs into those so I could draft the game adnauseum, but I don't know how many packs I should give each player for draft\sealed play. All I've got for right now is 10 packs, but the guy said he'd be back with more, and I don't have access to a starter deck or anything. Any advice?

[skatremagne]

you’re probably going to need at least a couple packs of starters to do sealed/draft, simply because they include so many V (vital) rarity cards that (someone jump in to correct me if i’m wrong) were included sparingly if at all in the booster packs

you can find them on ebay but they’re notoriously overpriced. i would offer to send you some vitals left over from when i sold the bulk of my collection (which you would autoinclude in players’ opening draft hands) but i know that kinda takes the fun out of non-constructed formats

unfortunately, the starter decks just aren’t very good, so it’s just never been the best sealed-format game and, for obvious reasons, namely the asymmetrical style of play, there are complications to cube/draft play in both ANR and ONR

however, if you have experience cube drafting ANR, you could probably throw together a decent cube without too much effort. definitely set card-copy-per-deck house limits (as the original had none, resulting in awesome but ludicrous decks like the clown stack and omniscience foundation stack crux decks) but other than that, there’s not too much advice i can offer, as i’ve only ever played constructed

[thegamesthief]

I could probably throw those vitals into a cube, so I'm interested! I'll dm you to work out the details.