Draft Mode arrives on 4th of July

A new play mode is coming to KARDS: We publish the long-awaited Draft mode on 4th of July!

Without further ado, let's get right into the exciting details.

• In draft, you construct a new deck from scratch by picking cards from a limited number of choices until you have a full 40 card deck.
  
  
• You won't pick cards from your collection, and the cards picked are not added to your collection. Instead, you pick from a certain set of cards.
  
  
• Once you have a draft deck ready, you can play against other players, each player using their own draft deck.
  
  
• The draft ends either when you lose your third game or when you have won 7 times. Once the draft is completed, you'll receive rewards based on how well you did in the draft.
  

Draft games do not affect your rank, but do count for achievements and daily missions. Your hidden matchmaking value is not used for draft games, but you are more likely to be matched against a player with similar score as you in the draft.

• You will always get 1 pack as a reward for the draft, regardless of number of wins (even 0 wins).
  
• Additionally, you will always get a bonus reward. The bonus can be anything from gold, resources, a card (can be golden) or even an extra pack. The bonus reward is randomly chosen, but the more wins you have, the better the bonus reward will be.
  
• Starting with 2 wins, you'll also get a fixed amount of gold. With 6 wins you are guaranteed to get enough gold to be able to pay for another draft immediately. With 7 wins you get two bonus rewards.
  

Because you are guaranteed at least one pack and the bonus rewards, entering Draft cannot be free.

• To enter a draft you can spend gold, money or a draft ticket. A draft costs 15 gold to enter, or $1.95.
  

All players that have been created before server-downtime on July 4th will receive 2 free draft tickets. The tickets will be ready in your accounts when the servers are back online.



You are most welcome to get a taste of draft with these free tickets!



Once you have entered a draft, the first thing that you will a tutorial window (one-time display only to provide a quick overview).

• The first choice you’ll have in Draft is selecting your main nation. After picking a few cards for your main nation you get a choice to pick an ally.
  
• After choosing your main nation, you start picking your cards. Each card pick has three slots of cards. For each slot a random card is chosen. This can be any card from the main and ally nation, of any rarity, though each pick has similar rarity ranges for each slot.
  
• There is also a chance that more than one copy is offered, up to 4 copies for a Standard card. This means that drafting can be as many as 40 clicks, but usually is less.
  
• As you make your picks, cards that you select are added to a deck visible at the bottom of the screen.
  
• You draft at your own leisure - there is no time pressure, you can go back in the middle of drafting a deck and even close the client and then continue where you left when you next enter the draft.
  
• Once you have your deck ready, you enter a draft battle in the draft menu itself.
  

You'll face interesting choices when picking cards:

Is it better to pick 3 solid standard cards, or a single decent limited card?
Or, you get the option to take 3 Eagle Claws. You want to run Eagle Claws, but 3 copies? Do you skip it now and hope it shows up again later, in lesser numbers? It can be a tough choice!

You can only have a single draft active at a time, so you will use the deck you drafted until you have won 7 games, lost 3 games or decide to retire from the draft. If you do retire, you will get the rewards based on the number of wins accumulated so far.



That's it in a nutshell. Let us know what you think!

See you on the draft battlefield on Thursday!