Art by James PaickThe OG Five Alive Micro Wizard Tower
Draft
- Lay all 32 cards face up on the table
- Players alternate picking a card, till each player has 7 cards
- Those seven cards are the starting hands
- Shuffle remaining cards together to form the shared library
How to Play
- Both players start with 5 life
- The player who picked 2nd in the draft goes first
- Both players draw from the shared library
- Both players share a graveyard
- Otherwise, it's normal magic (lol)
1v1v1
Same as above, just draft 5 cards for your starting hands instead. Works great.
PLAY PATTERN NOTES : Think about 'decking' the opponent, or being 'decked'. After the initial 7 cards each for starting hands, there are only 18 more cards in the deck, a maximum of 9 turns. Usually less because of the looters and millers.
PROXIES : The shock lands are proxies. One, because I'm cheap. And two, because I really want the mana symbols on the shocks. I'm old school like that. Why'd they take the mana symbols off the 'new' old frame shocks?
HISTORICAL NOTE : This is the first, original 5A list. As such the format has evolved since this lists creation. You may find lists with slightly different rules out there. They might have better rules tbh.
Co-Authors that helped create the 5A format : GuyInTheKnow / Zerdan / Aibrett / JoeDonkey
The Boneyard Wurm has been a staple... or has it? It's commonly a 4/4, but then seems to die to Dress Down every. single. time. I dunno. I've never really seen it be a threat unless it's Likeness Looter doing a trick.
So...Lets try out a huge power creep, the Urborg Lhurgoyf. Which will "live' to a dress down, and pushes the mill threat even more. Could be good? Maybe too good?
If the mill side of U.Goyf is too strong then I might need to swap out Stitcher's Supplier for Zulaport Duelist...we'll see.
Special thanks to Hiddeuh on discord for jumping into the 5A format with fire suggestions.