Arena Magic

Rules

For this variant players will share 6 different decks. The first five decks each contain a separate color of magic, while the sixth deck contains land and artifacts (and possibly some gold cards). Once you have constructed the 6 different deck place them in the center of your playing surface. It helps to put a color marker beside each deck so players don’t have to guess what color they are. If you want to copy our setup exactly, we put the land deck in the middle of the table and placed each of the five colored decks in a star pattern around it. If you look at the back of any magic card, you can see the order or position each color should be in.

After you place the decks on the table choose a player to go first. That player picks one card from any pile and then the player to his left picks a card, from any pile. Continue doing this until all players have 7 cards in their hands. Players do not have to pick from the same pile each time they draw a card. They may pick from any pile.

From there play just like a normal game. When it is your draw phase, or when a spell or effect requires a player to draw a card, he may draw from any pile.

Deck Construction

When constructing the five color decks you should try to include equal power cards for each color. If you build one or two colors better then any of the other then no one will draw from them. You should build them where players want to draw from any of the piles.

When building the land and artifact deck make sure to put in some artifact mana fixers, some lands that produce more than one color mana, and an equal share of each basic land. You may also include gold cards in this pile but do not put to many of them so players have a better chance of drawing land.

Sideboard

There is no sideboard for this variant.

Banned & Restricted List

When playing this variant it is usually decided what type you will be playing. So if playing Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, or Extended Arena Magic then, follow that format’s Banned and Restricted List.

Mulligan Rules

Standard “Paris” Mulligan is used for this variant.

Before each game begins, a player may, for any reason, reshuffle and redraw his hand, drawing one less card. This may be repeated as often as the player wishes, until he has no cards left in his hand. After the participant, who plays first, mulligans as often as he likes, the decision of whether to mulligan passes to the other player. Once a player passes the opportunity to mulligan, that player may not change his mind.