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Geek-Kon will be running both a Booster Draft tournament for Magic: The Gathering as well as free play and trading for Magic: The Gathering and general CCGs/TCGs.

Tournament Cost
There will be a nominal fee for participation, and participants will be allowed to keep the cards they acquire during the tournament. The expansion that will be used will also be announced at that time.

Tournament Rules
A more detailed description of the rules will be posted shortly, what follows is a basic description of a Booster Draft from the official site.

Booster Draft is more complicated than Sealed Deck. Each player at the table starts with three unopened booster packs. Instead of just opening your cards and building a deck, you and the other players at the table have to draft the cards for your decks. At the start of a Booster Draft, each player opens a pack and picks the card he or she wants from it. (You can’t see the cards that the other players draft.) Then each player passes the rest of the pack to his or her left. You pick up the pack that was passed to you, select a card, and pass the rest to your left. This process continues until all the cards have been drafted. Next, each player opens a second pack, but this time, you pass the pack to your right. After all those cards are drafted, you open the third pack and pass to the left again. At the end of the draft, each player has forty-five cards-and unlimited basic lands-to build a deck with.