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[SHAD0Wdump]

For some time I was frustrated by the fact that MTG is pretty much always competitive. But I devised this little idea to change that, and allow people to get together without getting at each other's throats over it.

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Each player brings a normal 60 card deck plus one leveler(creature) card.

Hand size is six, always kept full(always draw up to six whenever cards are used), and cannot be made larger.

Each player puts their leveler on the field at the start of the game and rolls a die. The die roll determines which card in their hand is placed on the battlefield as an 'enemy'. Any land cards in the hand at any point are immeditately placed on the battlefield under enemy control.
 The 'enemy' is an abstract opponent. The enemy each turn taps mana to use whatever abilities it can that would cause the most trouble for the respective player the cards belong to. It then attacks with any creatures that remain untapped.

The player may attack any creature of the enemy directly with the leveler or any creatures he/she may have summoned.

Whenever a player kills a creature of 'the enemy' he/she may take one of the following bonuses:
-Level up, the leveler does not normally level up, this is the only way to do so.
-Raise life by 1
-Take control of a land card from the enemy

Any card in the hand may be cast if the player can produce enough mana to do so as in normal Magic The Gathering.

Players may cast spells on each other, may block for each other, or attack each other's enemy creatures.

The leveler cannot be destroyed, instead, whenever it is beaten the player takes the remaining damage +1 to his/her life points, or removes a level counter from his/her leveler if he/she does not have enough life.
 If any player reaches zero life, the game is over. The game is won when each player runs out of cards in their hand.


---Additional Details---
Discard, draw, or library draining abilities used by the enemy instead take cards from the graveyard and ADD them to the library.

Abilities that return cards from the graveyard or battlefield to the hand instead return them to the library.

Exile abilities that target the leveler each player chooses will only exile it for one turn.

If a player does not have a leveler card, a normal creature card with cmc 1 or 2 may be used(optimally, if all players agree you may use whatever you want). And instead of level counters, the player may add +1/+1 counters.

If there are no enemy creatures to attack, you may take a bonus for free.

If you regenerate your leveler or it is indestructible, you take no damage to your life if it is defeated.

Card draw abilities/spells may be used by you to discard a card in your hand.

Please tell me what you think, if any details are unanswered, and of course feel free to use it with your friends!

Personally, I think the +1 life bonus is a little weak, but I have yet to playtest this.

You can get yourself set up with apprentice here.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Tested it, it's pretty challenging.

Don't know how multiple players will effect it though, and don't know if the 1 life bonus should be increased or not, it worked mostly as a filler.

[Neonivek]

I always thought of a Magic the gathering pen and paper game.

The problem is that it requires one of two things

1) Unlimited amounts of cards
or
2) Online gameplay

I rather wanted to try it.

[breadbocks]

I for one would love to try a MTG game where I partner up with someone and then face whatever a Dungeon Master has to throw at us. But I have enough trouble keeping track of my cards to actually do much.

[Virex]

I for one would love to try a MTG game where I partner up with someone and then face whatever a Dungeon Master has to throw at us. But I have enough trouble keeping track of my cards to actually do much.

Well that is pretty simple to arrange. For example, the Game Master could set up prearranged encounters with a set of creatures, artifacts, enchantments et cetera and then the players have to overcome the challenge with the decks they have brought and possibly some cards that have carried over from earlier encounters. You could even start with a small, weak deck and award players with better cards for encounters.

[Nivim]

 You guys could play it with eachother using Hamachi, Apprentice, and some filesharing. SHADOWdump compiled some links which still work. (I would like to play, but can't bring myself to agree to Hamachi's EULA.)

[SHAD0Wdump]

You guys could play it with eachother using Hamachi, Apprentice, and some filesharing. SHADOWdump compiled some links which still work. (I would like to play, but can't bring myself to agree to Hamachi's EULA.)

Ah yes, I think I'll add something there, a patch up to Scars of Mirroden that I developed myself using magic set editor.
 I also added some custom cards in a unique set just for the hell of it, don't expect balance.

[Rooster]

Competitiveness was pretty much the whole point of card games.
However, there have been some new things devised, to make mogic less serious, and more casual and fun
For example: Elder Dragon Highlander, or Archenemy, or a couple other different formats made for casual fun.