Changing the number of boosters for Sealed (and draft)?

[RobertAugust]

For the custom cubes, you can choose how many boosters you want for a sealed draft. I was wondering if there was a way to change that number for block sets, too. The same goes for the amount of boosters that are drafted. Is this possible by tinkering in one of the notepad files?

[RumbleBBU]

Short answer: yes!

Longer answer: Take a look at your res/blockdata/blocks.txt file (or fantasyblocks.txt depending on which definitions you want to change). In the current version, the format will look like this (example):

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Alpha, 3/6/LEA, LEA 

Quite simply, the first number (3) is the number of draft boosters, and the second (6) is the number of sealed boosters. Edit away as you like!

On a related note, I've been thinking of adding an in-game dialog that allowed you to specify ad-hoc formats (any combination and amount of boosters as you like) for limited format games, as in some other computerized MtG games. But what's been holding me back is that UI design is not exactly my forte, and that particular feature would be virtually nothing but UI design...
Nevertheless, some day I might actually get around to giving it a shot.

[RobertAugust]

Thanks for the thorough answer, RumbleBBU!

Now, there's good news and bad news.
The good is that I can indeed edit the amount of boosters for sets (like Legends, Rise of the Eldrazi, Coldsnap, M14); so that's gonna be fun.

But not for sets that are a part of blocks (Time Spiral, Zendikar, Mirage)
Would that still be possible? Like, could I make a draft where you draft 6 boosters Mercadian Masques and 2 boosters of Nemesis?

[Max mtg]

Yes, you can.
Read the blockdata file mentioned before. You can specify any sequence of boosters to be used in your draft and sealed games. Even some special sets can be used instead of boosters - that's how ravnica sealed events were implemented