Dien's Arena Magic

Rules

For this variant players will share 5 separate decks. Each of the decks will contain one of the five colors with 1/3 land cards. Special cards (multi-color lands, artifacts, and gold cards) should be shuffled and then mixed into the five decks. To start off the game each player should be dealt two cards from each deck and chooses what seven they would like to keep as their initial hand (discards are not revealed until everyone has decided what to keep).

Each time a player draws a card they may choose what deck to draw from. If drawing multiple cards, they may draw from any combination of decks.

In addition to the standard rules there are the following special rules:

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.

Sideboard

This variant does not use sideboards.

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 Dien’s 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.

History

Joe Dien created this variant.