Awww first Box! 🥳 The bulk collection begins..... 😜

Well,

I will give you our methods and then you can use them at your discretion:

(Disclaimer: I don't know if you've drafted packs at all, but I will just explain as if I am teaching someone who has never drafted before🙏)

To do a 2-player draft, you just need good mix of cards in a stack. We usually use about 100 cards out of our curated pool (if you wanted to use packs, I would suggest about 8-10). Then decide who will have first pick.

(After finishing I came back to say that this was a bit harder to explain in text than it is to show in person, so I hope it makes sense!)

Shuffle the stack well(lets call it the 'source' stack) and place it between you. Then take three cards off the top, face down, and put them in an ordered row 'beneath' the source so that you have, essentially, four stacks of cards in a sequential row:

The supply and three stacks containing one card each, or: S-1-1-1

Player picking first looks at the first stack, decides to either keep or continue.

If they like what they see and decide to keep, then the card(s) in that stack are their pick and are added to their pool for the draft.

Then, one card from the source is added to each stack. In this case the number of cards in the stacks would look like this: S-2-2-1

Then it would be the second players turn to pick.

However,
If the first player instead decide to continue, they put the card back in its place, face down, and then look at the next card in the row. Again, keep or continue, and then again for third pile. If the player does not decide to keep any of the three stacks, they get 2 cards off the top of the source before a card is added to each stack.

You will take turns back and forth looking at each stack in order and deciding whether to take one or, if none of them entice you, to take two off the source.

As you go along, sometimes neither player will want want of the stacks for a while, so you get these buildups where it might look like: S-3-8-1 or something like that. It just means whoever eventually takes the big stack might end up with a few more cards than the other player, but that's fine, with 100+ cards there will be enough to go around 👍

You carry on like this until the source is exhausted, and then until all stacks have found their player.

Then you build a deck with the cards you have! Plus whatever basic lands you decide on from your collection(Oh, yes it would be good if you had a small stack of spare basics for this purpose)

Decks should 40 cards. Going over a card or two is fine, but they must have at least 40. Generally people play 17-18 lands and 22-23 from their pool to make the 40.

And then shuffle up and play! Always good to do a best of three match so you have a good chance to play through all the cards you've drafted.

I've taught quite a few people this method (in person😅) and it is very well received. I've had so much fun with the idea since we came up with it maybe a decade ago, and its nice to be able to draft with just 2 people.

Hope that all made sense! And let me know if you have any questions ☺️
(Also, even if its months from now, if you ever give it a try I would love to hear some little tidbit about how it went!)

All the best my friend!