The problem becomes you “hosting a draft” — which is an activity that people REALLY enjoy on MTGO and pay a lot of money for. People come out of the woodwork for the limited cube offerings and play the hell out of it. What’s to stop you or someone else from simply copying their cube 1:1?

In order for it to be enticing for WotC to allow it, they would have to recoup enough from you hosting your own cube to cover what they’d get from their cubes… and I don’t think that would be appealing to most people.

On top of that game-driven revenue, they would need to recoup the cost of actually developing the functionality… and we can make some guesses that it costs MTGO way more for new features than a normal software department would.

There’s a lot of things I would change if I had my way with MTGO. Sadly, I think this idea (which I agree would be fun) is one of the many that they will never implement.

You would have to own the cards on MTGO. This likely involves buying tickets. Also, they could make it so that it costs tickets to host your cube. And my idea didn’t involve playing with strangers necessarily. You can have entry allow buddies only just like in the casual constructed matches.

Will never happen without WotC monetizing it which will kill it. There’s no benefit to them creating a product that will let you copy their product card for card and draft it free.

And once there’s money attached to it, I’m not paying to play someone random’s crappy untested cube.

They have no idea how to properly manage the card economy and have no actual desire to do things “good for players” unless it falls into their very shortsighted opinion of what’s good for their pockets.

In many respects, MTGO stands in stark contrast to how the rest of the company is run and continues to make an insulting amount of money in spite itself.