Are there any proven methods allowing players to refine their sealed pools of cube cards? Something like either a structured trading exercise, or re-pooling + redistributing a set number of reject cards?
I am planning on running an L5R cube next month and, to save time drafting, I will probably be giving participants sealed pools. Ordinarily I'd just leave it at that, but L5R's card types, mechanics, and archetypes are so siloed compared with magic, that I'm afraid pure sealed pools will not give players the tools and options they need to build coherent decks. I'm interested if anyone has ever done something like a Sealed 2.0 session.
The simplest thing I can think of is you get your sealed pool, then choose any number of cards to exchange. All exchanges are shuffled together with whatever remains of the cube and then you get that many more new cards. Basically, something like what's used in 5 card draw poker.
Trading could be fun. Set a time limit and allow people to trade.
"Trading" cards out of a sealed pool is going to have some unexpected downsides, notably that people will be showing eachother their Sealed pools and beyond that, expressing what archetype they're going to be pursuing by what they ask for in trades. Both of which are typically kind of no-nos for limited play, but if this doesn't bug you, then you should be golden.
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Are there any proven methods allowing players to refine their sealed pools of cube cards? Something like either a structured trading exercise, or re-pooling + redistributing a set number of reject cards?
I am planning on running an L5R cube next month and, to save time drafting, I will probably be giving participants sealed pools. Ordinarily I'd just leave it at that, but L5R's card types, mechanics, and archetypes are so siloed compared with magic, that I'm afraid pure sealed pools will not give players the tools and options they need to build coherent decks. I'm interested if anyone has ever done something like a Sealed 2.0 session.
Thanks!
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Trading could be fun. Set a time limit and allow people to trade.
Never done this, but could be cool.