Faster Draft?

[pepezor]

Drafts can take a long time in turn-based mode. Would people be interested in a fast draft variant?

Example for 3 players:
1. Display full set 1, choose 1
2. Display full set 2, rank top 2
3. Display full set 3, rank top 3
Each player answers 1-3 without waiting for the others. Cards are then distributed according to ranked preferences.

As a negative this would provide more info about available cards than regular draft, but it would be a faster way of reducing the randomness of no draft.

If BGA only uses officially-approved variants, if there is enough interest can this approval be requested?

[MasterMystery]

only offical stuff on bga so forget it.

[Nekojin]

This would significantly alter some gameplay knowledge. You never get to know the first card that the other players choose to draft, and the first card is the most likely to be kept and used. Knowing ahead of time that your opponent just drafted, for example, Deimos Down might cause you to prioritize playing your Greenery and reducing your plant tags before they get the chance to strip them from you, when without that knowledge you might have other actions that are higher priority, and waited on playing your greenery.

Incomplete knowledge of your opponents' abilities is an important part of the strategic layer of the game, and your suggestion would make a significant change to that.