Art by Terese NielsenYou've been accepted into the most prestigious magic school in the multiverse. You start out knowing almost nothing, but you must learn spells and gain allies to triumph over your fellow students.
Magic’s Limited formats were a huge influence on deck building games, such as Dominion and Ascension. In those games, building your deck is part of the game itself. What if we brought that innovation back into MtG as a new format?
The Rules- Your starting deck consists of one of each basic land, three wastes, and two Eager Cadets.
- Start the game with a 5 card hand and 20 life. There are no mulligans
- You may cast cards from your hand without paying their mana costs. You must still pay mana to activate abilities, pay additional costs, or cast spells from the graveyard.
- You do not play lands as normal. Instead, you may discard a land to activate one of its tap abilities. For example, you could discard a Mountain to add one red mana, or a Karoo to add a white and a colorless mana.
- There is a center row of 10 cards. You may pay the mana cost of any of those cards to put it directly into your graveyard. That card is then replaced with a new card from a shared center deck.
- There are 11 always available cards. Basic lands, which can be bought for
, Karoo lands which can be bought for 
, and stonework pumas, which also cost . You can buy any number of these. - At the end of each of your turns, discard any cards remaining in your hand and draw 5 cards.
- If you would draw a card with an empty deck, shuffle your graveyard and it becomes your library.
Owner and controller are synonymous. Changing control changes owners. Exile is a shared zone.
Archetypes work a little differently. Each color has it's own method for increasing the number of cards they can buy from the center row. Remember, cards that help you win rarely help you buy more cards, creating a balancing act between having a powerful deck and having a deck that is good at purchasing more cards.
White White focuses on a high permanent count. As long as they stay on the battlefield, they don't clog up your deck, allowing you to purchase more cards.
Blue Blue focuses on card draw. Getting seven or eight cards in hand makes buying new cards easy.
Black Black focuses on cards that can exile cards from your deck. Once exiled, they're gone forever. This way you can purge the weakest cards in your deck and only draw strong ones.
Red Red focuses on cards that add a large one time sums of mana, to make big purchases all at once.
Green Green focuses on permanents that add mana. They can stay on the battlefield increasing your buying power every turn, until they're removed.
If you're interested in building one of these for yourself, or about the thought process behind it, you can find a longer write up HERE.
- Alabaster Kirin
- Alabaster Kirin
- Alabaster Kirin
- Nightguard Patrol
- Nightguard Patrol
- Nightguard Patrol
- Mammoth Umbra
- Mammoth Umbra
- Mammoth Umbra
- Shepherd of the Lost
- Shepherd of the Lost
- Shepherd of the Lost
- Battle Mastery
- Battle Mastery
- Faith Unbroken
- Faith Unbroken
- Fabled Hero
- Fabled Hero
- Kor Spiritdancer
- Kor Spiritdancer
- Angel of Renewal
- Angel of Renewal
- Benalish Marshal
- Celestial Mantle
- Citywide Bust
- Divine Reckoning
- Parhelion II
- Oblivion Ring
- Crystal Ball
- Crystal Ball
- Crystal Ball
- Junktroller
- Junktroller
- Junktroller
- Meteorite
- Meteorite
- Meteorite
- Myr Enforcer
- Myr Enforcer
- Meteor Golem
- Meteor Golem
- Clone Shell
- Clone Shell
- The Immortal Sun
- Tome of the Guildpact
- Legacy Weapon
- Mindstatic
- Mindstatic
- Mindstatic
- Divination
- Divination
- Divination
- Preordain
- Preordain
- Preordain
- Cephalid Broker
- Cephalid Broker
- Cephalid Broker
- Cancel
- Cancel
- Clone
- Clone
- Supplant Form
- Supplant Form
- Drawn from Dreams
- Time Warp
- Spell Swindle
- Archmage's Charm
- Well of Ideas
- Tromokratis
- Clone Legion
- Fruit of Tizerus
- Fruit of Tizerus
- Fruit of Tizerus
- Corpse Lunge
- Corpse Lunge
- Corpse Lunge
- Pharika's Spawn
- Pharika's Spawn
- Pharika's Spawn
- Gravedigger
- Gravedigger
- Gravedigger
- Graf Harvest
- Graf Harvest
- Underworld Charger
- Underworld Charger
- Murder
- Murder
- Diabolic Tutor
- Diabolic Tutor
- Dark Deal
- Dark Deal
- Underworld Sentinel
- Cabal Surgeon
- Lich's Mastery
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Awaken the Erstwhile
- Bad Deal
- Archfiend of Despair
- Akki Rockspeaker
- Akki Rockspeaker
- Akki Rockspeaker
- Bombard
- Bombard
- Bombard
- Faithless Looting
- Faithless Looting
- Faithless Looting
- Krenko's Command
- Krenko's Command
- Krenko's Command
- Infernal Plunge
- Infernal Plunge
- Battle Hymn
- Battle Hymn
- Goblin Rally
- Goblin Rally
- Rapacious Dragon
- Rapacious Dragon
- Hordeling Outburst
- Hordeling Outburst
- Irencrag Feat
- Geosurge
- Demanding Dragon
- Rage Reflection
- Ball Lightning
- Storm's Wrath
- Dragon Mage
- Volley of Boulders
- Oasis Ritualist
- Oasis Ritualist
- Oasis Ritualist
- Llanowar Visionary
- Llanowar Visionary
- Llanowar Visionary
- Awaken the Bear
- Awaken the Bear
- Awaken the Bear
- Garruk's Packleader
- Garruk's Packleader
- Challenger Troll
- Challenger Troll
- Spidery Grasp
- Spidery Grasp
- Gnarlback Rhino
- Gnarlback Rhino
- Howlgeist
- Howlgeist
- Circle of Elders
- Temur Sabertooth
- Seasons Past
- Mosstodon
- Llanowar Tribe
- End-Raze Forerunners
- Enlarge
- Cloudblazer
- Cloudblazer
- Isperia, Supreme Judge
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Malfegor
- Outland Boar
- Outland Boar
- Borborygmos
- Unflinching Courage
- Unflinching Courage
- Armada Wurm
- Agent of Masks
- Agent of Masks
- Kaya's Wrath
- Cadaverous Bloom
- Cadaverous Bloom
- Doomgape
- Maraleaf Pixie
- Maraleaf Pixie
- Plasm Capture
- Prophetic Bolt
- Prophetic Bolt
- Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
- Heartwarming Redemption
- Heartwarming Redemption
- Aurelia, the Warleader
- Angelic Destiny
- God-Pharaoh's Gift
- Orbs of Warding
- Cloudreader Sphinx
- Cloudreader Sphinx
- Citywatch Sphinx
- Citywatch Sphinx
- Sphinx of Uthuun
- Nightmare Shepherd
- Gaea's Blessing
- Gaea's Blessing
- Gaea's Blessing
- Horncaller's Chant
- Blizzard Specter
- Blizzard Specter
- Bituminous Blast
- Bituminous Blast
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