The Draft format is a true test of skill. Build decks on the spot from a rotating selection of booster packs. Pick a card and pass it on. Harness the chaos, explore emergent strategies within the cards your opponents pass you, and draft a unique and exciting deck.
You, along with everyone else at the table, open one pack each and select—"draft"—one card from that pack. Then you pass the rest of the cards to the player on your left. The packs get passed around the table until all the cards are gone. You repeat this process for the second pack, passing to the right.
How to draft: First, players sit around a table in a semi-circle. Each player then opens a booster pack and picks a single card without showing the other players. Each player then passes the remaining cards to the left, and continues drafting from the new cards they get from the player on their right.
Booster Draft rules allow you to add as much basic land (only plains, island, swamp, mountain and forest) as you want to your deck and require that the deck be at least 40 cards. The standard number of lands in a draft deck is 17–18.
Comments Section Start with 4 packs per player instead of 3 Draft like you normally would (pass pack 1 left, pack 2 right, pack 3 left, pack 4 right), except... Each pick, each player takes two cards instead of one. After the draft, each player builds two different decks with no sideboards.
To have a Booster Draft, you need three things: 3 Booster packs per player from the current draft format. 8 total players (It's possible to draft with fewer than 8, but 8 is the number needed for sanctioned Magic drafts) A healthy supply of basic lands.
You, along with everyone else at the table, open one pack each and select—"draft"—one card from that pack. Then you pass the rest of the cards to the player on your left. The packs get passed around the table until all the cards are gone. You repeat this process for the second pack, passing to the right.
All you need is 6 packs for each player, so you could certainly do that to practice in advance of a prerelease, since it's the same format (apart from the fact that you'd be doing it with a set besides MOM). You just open your 6 packs each an make a 40 card deck out of what you open, plus basic lands.
For 2 players, I prefer a tower draft. Shuffle 92 cards into a pile, then take turns flipping over the top 4 cards. Player 1 takes a card, player 2 takes 2 cards, the player 1 takes the last card. Take turns going first.
Each deck should have at least 40 cards and should last an average length for a game (about 20 minutes).