QuickDraft

QuickDraft is a fast tactical card game about drafting the best cards for your hand, maximizing your Victory Points and disrupting your opponents plans.

To reach this goal, the players have different card types at their disposal. There are coloured cards with different victory point values and quantities and there are white cards offering a wide selection of effects - ranging from improving or copying another card to stealing cards from another player and bonus victory points if specific conditions are met.

The game plays in three phases:

During the Drafting Phase the players are selecting a total of nine cards for their hand using a drafting mechanic like in "7 Wonders" or in "Magic: the Gathering" sealed tournaments.

During the Playing Phase the six of the nine cards collected during the first phase are played and the different card effects are resolved.

During the Counting Phase each player determines how many victory points he has using all the cards he has in front of him (+ eventual bonuses from cards on his hand).

The player with the most victory points wins the game.

Though QuickDraw is a multiplayer game, there are rules for a solo game included where a single player trys to beat 10 levels of increasing difficulty.

One deck of cards (60 playing cards) is enough to accomodate up to 5 players. If however, two decks of cards are combined, up to 10 players can play QuickDraw.

In January 2013 the second edition of this game was published by the Gamecrafter. The game now features a new card type - black cards, new card effects on the white cards and offers several new strategies by strengthening the coloured cards. This new version also includes a Hold'em variant - essentially offering two different games in one small package.