This format celebrates the wild era of Magic's early expansions, with the aim of creating a playable draft format out of these sets that weren't designed for drafting. Every color brings their best to the table, which might not be much by modern standards, but it's enough to get some proper games!

There are some cards from Beta in the mix: Each pack includes an original dual land to accommodate the heavy color requirements of many of the cards and the slight ally-color theme, and the mythic rares are uncommons and rares from Beta.

Every pack also includes one random card from any of the pre-Mirage expansions, to showcase the truly weird/awesome cards that these sets contain.

There's also one snow land in every pack, but these offer only marginal benefits at best. Feel free to ignore them altogether.

This set isn't archetype-based, just like mtg's early expansions weren't, even the ones designed for draft. The closest thing to an archetype is BR's sacrifice synergy. But don't let the lack of archetypes hinder you, as there are still synergies to find and cool cards to build around!

Note: Despite the differing number of rares per color, there is color balance at rare/mythic level - the colors that have more rares/mythics just have more variety in them.

To make this format more friendly towards fair creature-based gameplay, most of the cards in the below categories have been rarity-upshifted:
-Multi-target removal
-Mass removal / sweepers
-Repeatable removal
-Cantripping removal
-Creatures with protection
-Creatures with regeneration

Cards excluded due to their power and/or difficulty to be interacted with:
-Ancestral Recall
-Ashes to Ashes
-Baton of Morale
-Binding Grasp
-Contagion
-Control Magic
-Desert
-Fire Covenant
-Hellfire
-Helm of Chatzuk
-Horn of Deafening
-Hymn to Tourach
-Karakas
-Library of Alexandria
-Mana Drain
-Maze of Ith
-Mind Twist
-Mirror Universe
-Moat
-Moxes
-Serrated Arrows
-Steal Artifact
-Time Walk
-Tornado

Potential includes that are unimplemented/broken in Xmage:
-Animate Dead
-Dance of the Dead
-Lava Burst

TODO:
-More balancing
-> common & uncommon multicolors... (Tobias to common?)
-> Some white rare in
-> Junun Efreet in
-Add Inheritance?
-Max boost aggro - especially ways to break thru 4+ toughness
-Update random slot to include latest implemented cards
-Layouts can be simplified? Maybe two layouts, one for monocolored rares/mythics and one for multicolored/colorless ones?

[Settings]
{
"withReplacement": true,
"showSlots": true,
"colorBalance": true,
"layouts": {
"Mythic": { "weight": 1, "slots": [
{"name": "Mythic", "count": 1, "sheets":[
{"name": "White Mythic", "weight": 1},
{"name": "Blue Mythic", "weight": 1},
{"name": "Black Mythic", "weight": 1},
{"name": "Red Mythic", "weight": 1},
{"name": "Green Mythic", "weight": 1},
{"name": "Mythic", "weight": 1}
]},
{"name": "Uncommon", "count": 3},
{"name": "Common", "count": 8},
{"name": "Random", "count": 1},
{"name": "Dual Land", "count": 1},
{"name": "Snow Land", "count": 1}
]},
"Rare": { "weight": 7, "slots": [
{"name": "Rare", "count": 1, "sheets":[
{"name": "White Rare", "weight": 40},
{"name": "Blue Rare", "weight": 40},
{"name": "Black Rare", "weight": 40},
{"name": "Red Rare", "weight": 40},
{"name": "Green Rare", "weight": 40},
{"name": "Rare", "weight": 272}
]},
{"name": "Uncommon", "count": 3},
{"name": "Common", "count": 8},
{"name": "Random", "count": 1},
{"name": "Dual Land", "count": 1},
{"name": "Snow Land", "count": 1}
]},
}
}