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Once you have 45 cards in your pile, it is time to build your deck. 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.
Building Your Prerelease Deck Once you've opened up all six of your Play Boosters, start by sorting your cards by color. This will help you determine what colors you have enough of to play in your deck. You should aim to play exactly 40 cards. No more, no less.
Each deck should have at least 40 cards and should last an average length for a game (about 20 minutes). 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.
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.
There are four suits: hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs. Each suit includes 13 cards: numbers 2 through 10 and the jack, queen, king, and ace. Standard decks can also include 2-4 unsuited joker cards, bringing the card total to 54 or 56 cards.
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.
Grab two friends and battle against another team of three for 1v1 games! Seating arrangement for this format consists of two teams (Team A and Team B) each with three players, seating alternates between the teams as you go around the table.