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Drafting Mechanic
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Drafting is a mechanic used to select or allocate resources (players, characters, items, cards, dice, tiles, etc.) among competitors from a common pool. Drafting tends to take two common forms, "Open" and "Closed". Open Drafting is where everyone sees and shares a single resource pool, while Closed Drafting usually takes the form of "you get a subset of the resource, then take one and pass the rest to the next competitor until all are chosen". Drafting mechanics often lead to trade-offs between taking stuff that benefits you, and taking something to keep it out of an opponent's hand ("hate drafting"). Hate drafting is at its strongest in two-player games where there's ultimately no difference between gaining a point for yourself and denying your opponent a point. However, as the player count increases, hate drafting may veer closer to Griefing than a viable strategy. Note that the element of choice is vital in drafting. For instance, drawing cards from the common deck in Uno is not drafting. Neither is buying properties in Monopoly; while the pool of properties is shared and you can choose whether you want to buy a property you land on, it's not drafting because you have no control over where you land. However, it's possible to do a downplayed variation of drafting with a shared deck and open display of a few cards, and give players the choice of which one they want to take a card from. In Video Games and in real life Sports leagues (and by extension, Fantasy Sports leagues), drafting more often takes the form selecting characters or players to build out a team. In such a draft, players/teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible characters/players, respectively. In sports, once a team selects a player, that team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player. The National Football League created the first sports draft in 1936 and now, all four major North American sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL) as well as numerous smaller leagues (CFL, WNBA, MLS, etc.) have all established drafts to allocate incoming players. Even the WWE has intermittently used (scripted) drafts to distrubute its talent between its multiple programs. Sports leagues typically use a "Round Robin" style draft, where the teams pick in a certain order (often the inverse of the previous season's standings, meaning the worst teams get the top picks of incoming talent) while fantasy leagues typically use a "Snake Order" style, where the order reverses each round (so the team who picked first in the first round will pick last in the second, first in the third, last in the fourth, etc.) to keep relative balance. Compare Luck Manipulation Mechanic and Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic for other ways to help you obtain resources in games. See Random Drop and Loot Boxes for other ways to distribute resources to players. Picked Last naturally comes into play with the final selection in any draft. Has nothing to do with the draft or tailgating for aerodynamics (which can be a mechanic in racing games). |
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Chappelle's Show Parodied the idea of a sports draft in their Racial Draft sketch, where each major race group in America took turns selecting celebrities to call all their own. Those selected all had some kind of multi-ethnic or -race background in some manner. The sketch threw in many elements of sports drafts to make fun of, like the draftee giving a thanking speech at the meeting (Tiger Woods going, "So long fried rice, hello fried chicken!" after being picked by blacks), surprise draft-day picks that confuse the commentators and experts (Latinos picking Elian Gonzalez on grounds that white people had appropriated him in culture), and frantic negotiations and trades conducted while the draft is running (whites and blacks making a bunch of deals after the former selected Colin Powell and the latter initially protesting, eventually involving Condoleezza Rice, Eminem, and O. J. Simpson). | |
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Unreal Tournament 4: Each round in the Showdown and Team Showdown modes start with the players on each team taking turns in order to choose a spawnpoint. In this case, the advantages can vary from just spawning near desirable items to surrounding nearby enemy players. | |
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Card City Nights 2: As Lemonic Diva explains, on how to win her unique Star pack cards: | |
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Sushi Go! is a simple "draft and pass" game where you try to pick the cards that will give you the best combination of sushi dishes. Different dishes are scored in different ways, such as sushi rolls rewarding players who collected the most of them, sashimi only being scored in sets of three, and nigiri giving you a bonus if it's paired with wasabi. The manual references hate drafting with the sashimi lamenting that "we were trying to collect 3 sashimi cards, but the guy next to us kept the last one!" | |
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In the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "Halloween Part III", Jake and Holt hold a draft of the other detectives (and Gina) to assist them in the annual "Halloween Heist". They decide to hold the draft because, the previous two years, the rest of the precint assisted Jake and Holt (each year, respectively) in winning. Amy is notably Picked Last, as Holt is suspicious of her for being Jake's girlfriend and Jake is suspicious because Holt is her mentor. She ultimately goes rogue and wins. | |
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Azul uses a complex drafting mechanic where you can choose to take all the tiles of one colour from a factory display, which drops the rest of the tiles on the floor. You can also take tiles from the floor, but you get a penalty if you're the first in the round to do so. | |
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WWE has used a scripted draft with different names (from just Draft to Superstar Shakeup) in recent decades to distribute talent between it's various "brands" (Raw, SmackDown, NXT, formerly ECW). This is done to create drama (splitting tag teams, separating rivals, etc.), move championship titles between the shows, and open up fresh storylines. It ran initially from 2002-2011 before a hiatus, then was reestablished in 2016. | |
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Res Arcana: Players choose magic items from a common pool. When they pass for a round, they have to return it and take another one. All players buy Places of Power from a shared pool. They also have a shared pool of Monuments, which use the "shared deck and open display of a few cards" approach. The draft variation has players use the "select and pass" method to draft their artifact decks instead of just being dealt eight random artifact cards to use as their deck. |
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Madden NFL: In Franchise mode, a simulation of the NFL Draft is one of the offseason events. Barring a few years where you could import draft classes from the NCAA Football sister series, the draft classes are made up of randomly generated CPU players. It mostly plays out like the real thing, with one difference being that it only has the seven rounds of standard picks, not including compensatory picks. An option before starting up in Franchise mode is to hold a "Fantasy Draft" which allows you to draft your team in a fantasy football style. Every player in the league is added to the draft pool and the CPU selects for the other 31 teams. The result is a major shakeup of rosters across the league. |
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The Arcane hockey Alternate Universe fic Run At The Cup deals with a different type of sports draft - how an expansion team like the Zaun Sumprats is created. Each existing team places eight of their players under protection. The Sumprats can pick anyone who is not under protection, meaning that every single Sumprats player was effectively abandoned by their former team. Vi and Caitlyn (both star players of their respective former teams) being left unprotected was very unexpected and had many commentators wondering what the hell the Ironfists and Lone Stars were thinking. The reality is that Vi had wanted to leave the Ironfists, while Caitlyn had been isolated within her team by her former captain, Terri Landsman. | |
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In Lost Ruins of Arnak, players buy Items and Artifacts from a shared pool. | |
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In Franchise mode, a simulation of the NFL Draft is one of the offseason events. Barring a few years where you could import draft classes from the NCAA Football sister series, the draft classes are made up of randomly generated CPU players. It mostly plays out like the real thing, with one difference being that it only has the seven rounds of standard picks, not including compensatory picks. | |
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Dungeons of Aether has a Dice Draft as its main mechanic. At the beginning of each turn, a set of dice of random colors are rolled, and the player and enemy take turns assigning them to their stats. Any dice higher than 1 can be assigned to any stat, but will have its value treated as 1 if it's not assigned to its matching stat, unless it's a yellow Stamina die. | |
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The Pokémon TCG has the "Build & Battle Draft format" where four players look at their 23-card Evolution packs (which are kept), and then do a "pick a card and pass it on" closed draft with the booster packs they received. | |
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Magic: The Gathering's Booster Draft format, where eight players take a pack of cards, take a card and pass the rest until out of cards. Then they do the same two more times before making a deck out of the cards they picked (and any number of basic lands). Magic also has Winston drafting, Rochester drafting, and Rotisserie drafting, among others. | |
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Downplayed in Wingspan. When players choose to draw cards, they can take one of the three cards in the open display or draw one from the common deck. | |
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The Fool's Errand: The Wheel of Fortune game, where the player starts with 2 cards of the Tarot, and the opponent starts with 1. Out of a selection of 3 other cards, the player picks 1, and the opponent gets the other 2, whoever has the best combination wins the round and gets points. The game is won after one side gets enough points. | |
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7 Wonders: At the start of each Age, you are dealt a hand of seven building cards. On each turn, you take a card and do one of three things with it: (1) paying its cost to add it to your city, (2) discarding it for coins, and (3) using to build a wonder step by paying the costs of the wonder step. The Leaders Expansion Pack has players draft leaders at the start of the game. They get a hand of four leaders, choose one to keep and pass the rest. The 2-player spin-off Duel starts with two open drafts of wonders. Then the main game consists of players taking turns drafting building cards from the structures in each Age. Some of the cards are hidden until all cards covering them have been taken. |
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Collectible minis games such as Hero Clix and Dungeons & Dragons Minis have rules for draft tournaments. Each player buys one or more booster boxes, then takes one figure from the box and passes the box to the next player, repeated until all the boxes are empty. The players then build a force to play in the tournament out of the figures they drew. | |
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Century: In Spice Road, players take cards from a common pile. The leftmost one can be taken for free, but the others require one cube on each preceding card, with cubes placed on cards coming with them as they are claimed. | |
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Some Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments have 4-8 players building their decks using a closed draft. | |
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Games like Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer and Star Realms are deck-building games where players acquire cards via a drafting mechanism. Cards are purchased from a row of cards dealt out from a central deck. When a card is bought, another card is dealt from the central deck to replace it, meaning that the cards on offer are always changing. | |
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