TOPIC: PvP drafting ideas

Looking for some suggestions for rare, uncommon, and common tokens that would be good for drafting. Needing input on commons more than anything else.

One thought: in draft, maybe add a material component to spells. A level X spell could require Y "units" of gear or other tokens, or Z gp to be consumed.

Then no token is totally useless, and it puts some brakes on the casters.

I am already planning on nerfing the spells available to keep things in check. I am trying to build the TD equivalent of a Magic Cube draft. There will be random 'packs' pulled from the cube, with each pack having one rare, 2 uncommons and 4 commons. Each team of four will be allowed to trade their picks within their team.

Trying to look at some different options, in the interest of speed and being able to fill more token slots.

Option 1: Drafting from 'packs' made from the my cube of tokens. The packs would have 1 Rare and 3 Uncommons per pack and players could use any number of Commons (non-consumable) to fill out their sheet. Players would need to provide any Common weapon tokens they wished to use.

Option 2: Allowing players to build characters using a point system budget. This would be limited to C, UC, and R, with point values assigned to each rarity and a budget for each character. Players would only need to bring the tokens for weapons they intend to use.

I could add commons to the cube that I have made, but I think both of these options would speed up the time needed for each fight. Keep in mind that teams would be 4 players and could not duplicate any classes on their teams. All of the spellcasting classes would lose access to some spells, either all of the level 2 spells or the number of uses would be lowered.

This is still more of an idea than a reality, so I am open to suggestions.