The draft format is a way for 6–8 players to play Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game over several rounds of unique headto-head play. This format encourages players to test their skill at the game as a whole against that of their friends, as players do not build decks prior to playing. When playing a draft, each player selects cards one at a time from a common pool until they have selected 80 cards that they use to build their decks. To succeed at a draft, players must find innovative strategies and optimize the cards they have without the ability to select from every card that has been released to build their decks.