SE Booster Draft
From Legend of the Five Rings Rules
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Samurai Edition Booster Draft Format
General Information
Draft Set-Up
Once arranged and seated in their Councils, players may then open their first booster, determined by the tournament organizer. Players may look through that booster and select one card from that pack. Once that card has been selected, it becomes part of their card library and is no longer considered part of the booster pack. The rest of the booster pack is turned face down and passed to the person on his left. Once everyone has selected their card, they may pick up the booster that was just passed to them and select another card for their card library, again passing the remains of the booster to the person on their Left. This continues until the last card is selected and there are no more cards.
Once the first booster is depleted, the tournament organizer signals which booster players open next. Like the first booster, players select their cards. But this time players pass the booster to the Right instead of the left. Players continue until that booster is depleted and go on to the third booster. The passing direction continues to alternate, with odd-numbered boosters passed to the left and even-numbered boosters passed to the right.
Building Your Deck
After all the boosters have been depleted, players begin the deck building process. In addition to the drafted Cards each player adds the following cards from the draft pack to his card library:
• 1 x Shrine of Lady Sun
• 4 x Brilliant Artisan
• 1 x Akodo’s Grave
• 2 x Private Trader
• 5 x Spearhead
• 1 x Ring of Earth
• 1 x Impromptu Duel
The tournament organizer should supply draft pack cards to any players who do not already have a draft pack. Players then have a time limit set by the tournament organizer for deck building.
Draft Specific Rules
Special rules:
• Decks will be constructed 20/20 exactly - no more, no less.
• No Sensei or Wind cards are allowed.
• Before determining who goes first, either player may offer the other the chance to go first. If a player accepts, he goes first, and the other player begins the game with 5 more honor than printed.
• After one of your decks becomes empty, immediately take all cards from your appropriate discard pile and shuffle them to create that deck again. [CHANGED Sept 30 2007]
• After an event resolves, it is removed from the game.
• All card count restrictions in the rulebook are waived, so players may include as many copies of any single card in their decks as they were able to draft. The restrictions such as Unique and Loyalty Rules are not waived during game play.
• Once players have created their decks, they declare two Storyline-Legal Factions. They are considered to be playing both of those factions, for all card and rule purposes, throughout the tournament. Once that is done the tournament begins.
