Nationals limited format is 2x M11 draft ?!

[Dan Barrett]

Just saw on Facebook (via Kevin O'Connor), that the limited portion of this years Nats will be 2 M11/M11/M11 drafts - can anyone confirm this with a source?


Seems an interesting choice, i would have thought it would be either 2x RRR, or one each of this and M11.

[Amar Dattani]

I told Kevin this - and then he posted this up.

I asked Ray Fong, who confirmed it.
He is employed by Wizards and said that it was not a decision made by the UK office but from WotC US.

It sucks, I think we should at least have mixed pods, ie RRR and MMM

[Paul Hodgson]

IIRC in Birmingham they did LOR/LOR/MOR and SHA/SHA/EVE, seems odd that they're just going with the one format this time around. Hopefully M11 will be a bit more involved than M10 - stall, stall, stall, overrun, win

[Daniel Royde]

It's the draft format for all nationals (I think, except for ones which happen before it's released).

I don't like the plan, one RRR and one ZZW is what i'd expected.
M11 has no way of being a very interesting draft format because it's a core set.

I guess they're doing it this way to help push M11.

[Gary Lynch]

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[Daniel Royde]

Because drafting is fun? ;)

Gary Lynch said:

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[Gary Lynch]

Sure, but the extra incentive is that the format will be relevant for big tournaments. This is not.

Daniel Royde said:

Because drafting is fun? ;)

Gary Lynch said:

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[James Mills]

Epic fail! I'm with Gary on this one - RoE seems like an interesting format to draft and one that I am still trying to figure out but it doesn't matter any more because we have to draft an core set! Brilliant!

[Daniel Royde]

Guys, I do agree with you, it's lame, but.....

The only "big tournament" that we drafted SCR in was Nats wasn't it? LLM might have been the same for me- one draft at nats. TPF (single player) = at nats only.

I can't go to Lyons, but if I didn't have exams etc I would be going. That's THE big tournament for ROE. So if you went to that GP, then it'd be the same number of "big tournaments" you get to play in as normal.



Gary Lynch said:

Sure, but the extra incentive is that the format will be relevant for big tournaments. This is not.

Daniel Royde said:

Because drafting is fun? ;)

Gary Lynch said:

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[Philip Dickinson]

drafting IRL is already a losing proposition, let alone drafting an irrelevant format

Daniel Royde said:

Because drafting is fun? ;)

Gary Lynch said:

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[Dan Barrett]

@ Royde - not everyone travels abroad for GPs, however, anyone qualified for Nats who plans to attend it will want to test for it. I know i did 2/3 a week in the run-up to Nats last year.

[Charlie Grover]

Really? I was cashwise up on WWK draft (on fridays only), I only paid for one and sold drafted rares for mre..

Philip Dickinson said:

drafting IRL is already a losing proposition, let alone drafting an irrelevant format
Daniel Royde said:

Because drafting is fun? ;)

Gary Lynch said:

Great work wizards. They have made it so that it is almost pointless to play Rise of the Eldrazi. As the Nats drafts and all PTQ's will be M11, why spend money on a format that wont be played?

[Daniel Royde]

@ Dan- Ah yes, I see what you mean. I hadn't quite thought of it like that :s Drafts in the leadup to nats will need to be M11- bleugh.

@ Philip- Why is drafting a losing proposition?