Sunday, 9 November 2014

Tono's Drastic Weight Reduction Diet

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Tono has become morbidly obese with the constant diet of $2 coins we've been feeding him for over a year now. It's time for Tono's Drastic Weight Reduction Diet, and I think I know exactly how to do it.
We will hold a Magic: The Gathering Booster Draft.
For those of you who don't know, MTG is a collectible card game in which you play powerful mages trying to kill one another. You do this by playing land cards (which give you mana) and spell cards (which do fun stuff like summon creatures or just plain damage people). It's actually pretty easy to learn, but fairly complex to play.
Now the thing about doing a Booster Draft is that it means we are all on basically the same level - no one has access to their collection of 1000 hand picked super hardcore mythic rare cards, all of us start new decks, and all of the cards come from the same pool. Basically, a Booster Draft means that Tono funds the purchase of a booster display box. This box contains 36 boosters. These boosters contain 16 cards (two of which are not important to the draft). The idea is that every player is given three boosters, they open one, pick one card to keep, and pass the rest on. This keeps going until all three boosters are exhausted, and you have a stack of cards in front of you. We then add some extra lands (because boosters never give you enough!) to these decks, and start playing.
This way, every GG member gets their own deck, and since draft games can only be played with the cards from the drafts, everyone is at about the same power level. When Tono gets fat again, we can buy another box, and add more cards to our decks. And so on until we get sick of it.