Hex Draft

Deal 132 shuffled cards into 6 facedown piles of 22 cards each. Then arrange the piles into a hexagon shape, like a honeycomb, in which each pile is adjacent to only two other piles.

Reveal the top card of each pile. The starting player picks any two adjacent cards, and takes them into their pool. The other player then selects any two remaining adjacent cards (there will only be three options). The final two cards are removed from the draft.

Repeat this process, alternating the starting player, until all piles are empty.

This is an interactive and efficient way for two players to make decks out of a number of cards totaling less than 9 booster packs. Once both players know the format, it can be done very quickly, even back to back.

You may need to modify the number of cards in each pile to account for fixing density, or other format variations (such as a Desert cube).

For an additional player, add 44 cards and arrange the two extra piles into an Octagon, then rotate the starting player around the table. You may wish to add additional sets of 8 cards, or reuse the burned cards, for extra rounds so that each player has been the starting player the same number of times.