Draft online, then play the deck you drafted

Pick-trainers and tables are different tools

If you are learning a new set before a prerelease, Draftsim's pick suggestions will teach you faster than any table will, and there is nothing wrong with drafting there and never playing a game. If you want the draft to be the first half of a night with friends, you need a place where the forty cards you picked become a deck and sit down against the other seven, without exporting anything. That is the whole difference, and it is the only reason to prefer the table.

How a draft runs on Untap.in

1. Open a draft from New Game. Choose Draft, pick a set for each pack — three packs is the default, up to eight — and set the pick timer, from forty-five seconds to five minutes. The pod seats eight.
2. Let the seats fill. Friends join from the link or the lobby. When you are tired of waiting, Start now fills the empty seats with bots: smart ones that read colour signals and build a deck, or random ones if you want the packs to wheel. You can also run the draft with no bots at all and start when the humans are ready.
3. Pick. The pack is in front of you with the timer running; drag a card to your deck or your sideboard and the pack passes. One pick per pack, and the engine refuses a second.
4. Build. When the packs are done, sort your picks into a deck and a sideboard, add basics, and save it. It lands on your account as a deck like any other.
5. Play. The pod is already at a table. Pair up and play the matches with the decks you just built — voice, counters, Rewind and a replay of every game, the same as any game on the site.

Cube and sealed

Cube. Paste a CubeCobra list URL into Decks and it imports as a cube on your account. Open a Cube game, choose it, set the pack size — fifteen is the default, five to twenty-five — and the pod drafts your list with the same seats, bots and timer. A friend's cube works the same way if they share it.

Sealed. Six packs from the sets you choose, dealt all at once, with a build timer from thirty minutes to a day. No picks, no bots, no passing: everyone opens, builds and plays. It is the right format when the pod is two or three people, because a draft with five bots is mostly bots.

What you can draft

Any Magic set in the database with enough cards to make packs, which is nearly all of 6,520 of them, from the current release back through the old ones. Packs are built from the set's rarity structure, so a pack looks like a pack. Draft is on for Lorcana and One Piece as well, from their own sets. If your pod would rather draft a curated list, that is what cube is for.

After the draft

The deck stays. It is on your account with every pick in it, so you can goldfish it the next day, tune it, or take it to the lobby and play it against people who were not in the pod. A game created with Drafted decks only in its title keeps the format honest for a league night. And because every game is recorded, the match you lost on pick 1 of pack 3 is there to watch back.