MTG's Weirdest Format - Party Box

I don't have an exact list, because it's always changing and it's unique, bespoke and meaningfully mine. I urge you to try and cultivate a similar, yet different experience to mine.
Watch Party Box gameplay here:
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[@tapedeccard]

It was extremely amusing to see you play this thing with Cardmarket crew

[@Dylnn17]

truly

[@KnicKnac]

That was so funny to watch

[@jamesfilyawDigginGabe]

Seeing this on CardMarket made me want to do 2 things: 1. Make my own 2. Hunt you down, Kenobi. (At a Magic convention to play it with you, should you be playing)

[@kannonpq]

Effectively the same. I actually spoke with my roomates, were doing this. Were starting 6 copies of booster tutor, 5 flickerwisp, and...that's it. That's our party box to start.

[@PleasantKenobi]

I LOVE this.@@kannonpq

[@Arkouchie]

@@kannonpqThat's a really really fun way to start a party box

[@wehavemagnums]

@@kannonpqthat's genius

[@Malidala]

This needs Exodia because it would be very funny if someone somehow assembled it.

[@Oxygen1004]

If you somehow get all 5 pieces you win the match rather than just the game

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

Only exception of the entire game lol

[@mrsplays9817]

Somehow get 5 yugioh jokers at once and just make it Exodia~

[@ashdog9235]

⁠@@mrsplays9817I really like that have 1 piece of it missing forcing the use of jokers

[@Rocknoob49]

@@mrsplays9817 directly breaks the Joker rules tho

[@marcelstap8585]

Wait hear me out. Commander party box where players roll a d20 to get a random commander. When a commander wins that player signs the card and puts a new legend in the pool.

[@danielbekmand5470]

I like this idea.

[@HadesElderSage]

I showed my buddy this and our group are adding 10 cards each to get it to 60 cards and go from there. The card market video was so much fun and we all loved it!

[@PleasantKenobi]

You love to see it.

[@HadesElderSage]

@@PleasantKenobi like it is crazy how much fun the party tower looks to play. Signing cards that get added are just the cherry on the top. The stories that will be had are exciting to think about!

[@thepausebuttonmedia3559]

I've been waiting for this video for one whole day since the cardmarket video

[@PleasantKenobi]

Hope it helps!

[@Random_J_]

Is there a decklist?@@PleasantKenobi Just curios for when I totally steal the idea

[@Aigis31]

​@@Random_J_ I would also love to see a video that shows off the entire thing as it currently is, if you have the desire and the time to be able to make one!

[@as95ms98]

After seeing your video with the Cardmarket crew it honestly amazed me how crazy and malleable the magic ruleset is that a lot o this stuff just works within the game (with some minor house rules of course).

[@wydx120]

I mean, I find whether they're "minor" or not is subjective... But among my friends we joke that once you know how to play Magic, you know how to play any card game, as you can describe most of them as "like Magic, but with X instead of Y", thanks to how thorough the Magic rules are

[@EspherMercury]

Parts of this vaguely remind me of a feature that the old InQuest magazine did, where they played multiplayer, but each player was playing a different card game, and on that player's turn, that game's rules applied as best they could agree to them. It was funny reading the table try to figure out how to handle Magic vs. Overpower vs. BattleTech vs. SimCity or whatever the hell they were doing.

[@Roby1Kenobi]

glad to see you lay out the philosophy and thought behind it because the Cardmarket video really made me want one

[@PleasantKenobi]

You should!

[@benji-menji]

I have decided to start r/MTG Party Box community collab based on this format. Thanks for the great idea! I won't post the link because KZbin, but it's there.

[@PleasantKenobi]

I'll pop my head in. :)

[@GonzoEDH]

I got the Teferi's emblem in my opening hand during Barcelona Magiccon and been waiting for this video ever since. I loved playing partybox

[@jerrym2836]

Commander at its roots from what it sounds like, great idea.

[@ibox55gaming]

Watched the cardmarket video yesterday, went looking for this & ended up watching a couple old videos of you playing this, it looks like a lot of fun!

[@chrisvanderheiden12]

It definately gives similar vibes as Judge's Tower. More goofy fun vs spikey fun, but the vibes are there.

[@fatpad00]

I was thinking just that. It's like Judge Tower's drunk sibling, and I'm 100% here for it

[@Tim_Fandango]

How is it even diff from Tower?

[@chrisvanderheiden12]

Here you are just playing a "normal" game of magic, but with some wacky cards. Judge tower has a different win condition (catch an opponent making a mistake) and is meant more to create strange rules and timing situations

[@Zenondikar]

Watched you play this on cardmarket late last night and loved it! As a massive fan of cube and alternative mtg formats like DanDan variants, as well as EDH i shall definitely be putting this and judges tower together at some point in the future. Thanks for sharing! Looks like a blast 🥳🎉

[@PleasantKenobi]

Remember the Flickerwisps and appropriate answers!

[@altered_beast_of_burden]

This is pure, unadulterated madness and I can't wait to build one. Vince my boy, you are a genius

[@Crashtoob]

I made a comment on your Commander Banlist video mentioning rule zeroing Pokemon cards and then this shows up lol. Probably just a coincidence but I found this pretty funny either way.

[@theamazingwally3015]

i just watched the Cardmarket video with this and now seeing its origins and how to create one myself is great

[@RPGFanboy14]

I watched the party box video yesterday and now after watching this one I think I am going to go ahead and make my own party box. I have a lot of random cards from other card games that I no longer play then I'm very nostalgic for. And this will give me a really nice outlet for it. And it just sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for the idea PK!

[@JamsGams]

I made one of these boxes and brought it to a friends this past weekend, and it was easily the most fun and funny games I’ve ever played. One of us ended up booster tutoring an NBA booster and we got lucky with one of the players (James Harden) being on the 76ers, allowing for a 0 mana 7/6 with Reach. Thank you for this great idea Vince, you’re a blessing on the community!

[@Dumannios]

Been waiting for this video since my partner and I got to play it with you in Barcelona! Absolutely love it!

[@owceania]

This and the Cardmarket video inspired me to make my own Party Box! My friends and I have been looking for alternatives to Commander to play and this looks like it!

[@anblueboot5364]

Me and my friends are always out there looking for some casual MTG fun at conventions, once for us to have fun and second for people being curious have an easier point of entry to join our fun. So after talking to one of my friends, I‘ve bought a few cards inspired by some of the comments left under this video, and it‘ll forever be my very own very personal Convention Diary. Instead of a book it‘ll be a fun signed collection of cards. This makes me super excited to go out and visit a few events!!! It‘ll be a nice chaotic welcoming memory archive v.v

[@c.oltmanns]

I was so excited to see the card market video on this! I’ve had my own version of this for years now, mine leans more heavily into peasant cube than commander as far as vibes go. It can be played either 1v1 or multiplayer and there’s a lot of synergy with picking permanents up ie borderposts, flicker effects, aviary mechanic (and similar). The rules you have for searching and shuffling I might have to adopt, it can be a dexterity challenge to manipulate the deck lol

[@justin370bender]

We need more party box content!

[@itallianstallion1989]

What a beautiful way to share and make new memories, level the playing field and just have a wacky game of magic. I absolutely love it!

[@PersonWithProblemss]

After watching the card market video yesterday, I was interested in making one, this helps! I had one set up last night and plan on playing with it tonight with some friends at the local game store. I’m really excited to, and really like how much this explained what I needed to do to fix mine!

[@PleasantKenobi]

Report back. I want to here your thoughts, successes and things you learnt on first jam session. :)

[@PersonWithProblemss]

Thank you! I've watched your channel for a very long time (though hadn't subscribed, as I thought I had and then realized I didn't when I watched this video) and this really means a lot to me. The game went great! The only complaint the players had was that the deck was way too easy to knock over. I'm thinking of DIYing something together and making a deck holder of sorts! I highly suggest you do to, as the elbow is the worst enemy of the tall deck...

[@happyguy333]

That's a really hilariously brilliant idea. It's wonderful hearing you so happy sharing all the cool moments you've shared over the years with this party box.

[@azuriel9292]

Since this released my party box had a few games and two things that happened for mine was 1. A friend of mine that only played yugioh with me for years saw the 'face down cards' and said "wait trap cards would work with that" and gave me some of his favorites that would kind of work 2. One player had the idea to write on the mtg joker card the chosen cards name, and you cant name one that is written on it already, which also gives it more variety Thank you for this, it has given is a lot of joy so far!

[@ZSAITOSEI]

Okay so I'm definitely going to create one of these, but I have a cool idea for it... Not just Booster Tutor to add to it but also things like Invasion of Arcavios and Karn, Great Creator to tutor from outside the game, but whatever they tutor becomes a part of the cube, a donation to the madness, if you will. Keeps their choices limited to what they're willing to give so it won't be broken easily. Sounds really cool! I am curious what the approximate number of jokers for, say, 300 cards should be.

[@Crash32378]

I watched you play with Carl and the guys at card market. Afterwards my wife and I created our own. We have plans this coming weekend to go play with some friends. Thank you for this.

[@PleasantKenobi]

I'm unbelievably excited to hear this from people. Good luck, and let me know how it goes.

[@SasaraSara266]

Fun fact, Duel Masters (MtG's sister game) has cards that interact with face-down lands. There are things like Crystal Soul 3 (Each face-down land you tap pays for 3 of this card's cost instead of 1) and Eternal Kappa (If this creature would leave the battlefield from effect or battle, you may instead turn 3 face-down lands you control face-up). I think they would be interesting to use in this.

[@Raagentreg]

I've been waiting for this video since Barcelona! Was a pleasure to play with you then and loved hearing the story of the Party Box now. May you have many more fantastic experiences with your beloved cube.

[@PleasantKenobi]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Flip4Crypt]

It's so crazy- I made something I called Resource Management, it was a single deck, multiplayer format that used any card as a land that had a massive flicker strategy to flip over huge shit early Since watching the card market video and this one I have already upgraded it and changed it quite a bit Thank you!

[@muchluck7981]

For cardfight vanguard, Since I saw this on the cardmarket video, I figure I would drop this here. -The power on the card is the power and defense of the unit. so if a unit has 10K power, it has 10K power. -The icon on the bottom middle of the card with the star is the critical icon, that tells you how much damage that card does. so when you attack an opponent directly, you are only dealing 1 damage. -In vanguard, when a card attacks, it can drive check. drive checks are draws but you reveal the top card of the deck. you then add the card you reveal to your hand. if you put triggers in your party box, they can do various effects when you check them. G3's have the twin drive icon so they get to check the top deck twice and add the cards they checked from there -In vanguard, there are certain cards that have a guard icon at the side of the card, those cards allow you to use the card instead of offense, for defense. This means that you can have a unit block for you if you desire from your hand and this happens during the guard step. I hope this helps people wanting to add vanguard cards to the party box

[@cowgba]

This has the same energy as the time ~9 friends and I decided to spontaneously play a huge game of Commander in college. One guy in our group didn't have his Commander deck with him so he pulled a bunch of random cards from his collection and a few of each type of land and declared that would be his deck. At one point in the mid/late game when everyone's board state was built up he played Ovinize on (I think) Ink-Treader Nephilim. Suddenly we had 9 people with boards full of 0/1 sheep and it's still one of my favorite MTG memories almost 10 years later.

[@CallMeCJ_]

I remember watching that one video where you played Minicube something like 6 years ago. I loved it, and was always curious where it went. I figured it was something like the "Entire deck is less than a dollar" commander series you did, and it just wasn't fun anymore, so you stopped making vids on it. I'm glad it's still alive and well, and with a much more appropriate name.

[@grantmurdock7385]

I love this idea, I love the videos you've done with the Cardmarket crew, and this seems like an absolute blast. I've got a few Cubeamajigs with Jumpstart/Jumpstart 2022 kicking around, but since I'm usually in for Commander night, having something that works for four people to screw around is perfect.

[@ito2246]

When you casually make a better version of universes beyond

[@UkuleleProductions]

Honestly, after watching the talk with Richard Garfield from Magic 30 TODAY - I think this Party Box comes very close to what he envisioned when he first created Magic. It's such a beautiful funny idea. It's just there to create good times and good memories. And the memories got to even stay in the box. Amazing and Beautiful! I hope we see many many more of these Boxes being played on Magic events soon :)

[@evan7721]

your original Minicube video from aeons ago is what spurred me to make my own Minicube in 2019 which then evolved into a cube in 2022. I remember playing the minicube one day before class at Uni and my friend somehow mini stormed off into an Empty the Warrens for 4 or 5 and just shit stomped me

[@nkling02]

So I have set up something like this in the past and have not perfected it. this looks like perfection. My cards were All based on items, Places , Generic characters, Or simple actions In the card title, And oversized Planechase cards. This is really usefull to help my box I've had issues with😊 Thanks!!!!

[@humblesample2796]

This is the greatest thing ever. Thank you so much. I cant wait to make a party box that has ultimate combat cards.

[@salfredo]

If you want to add more cards that adds card you could add contract from below or any other ante card. The player using the card then must add a card they own to the box

[@apanapane]

This seems really fun! I'm seriously considering building one of these now. :D

[@starmanda88]

I just yelled at my husband to finally watch the card market video I sent him yesterday of yall playing this. I haven’t laughed that long in a while.

[@nickjoseph77]

Loved the card market video and this concept, especially with your memories on cards and sharing with people across the world just makes this so wholesome. This has got to be the game Garfield intended.

[@GramCleric]

Grand nonsense in the greatest way. Inspiring. Definitely getting out my VS cyclops once i saw your batman!😂

[@PleasantKenobi]

Go for it! Get some use out of him!

[@MirkoBoll]

ok, your game at Cardmarket looked like fun, thx for sharing this video with us, now i have to build my own partybox :)

[@PleasantKenobi]

Go for it!

[@CaleU011]

Love stuff like this. We've tried to balance EDH for years in my group with only some success, but we always tend to have salt. I made a cube that has helped to mitigate some of this, but it's nice to see a new spin on that.

[@Issblodh]

Thank you, Vince, for this idea. I still have a lot of promo cards from game magazines from the nineties. Now I know what i can do with them. Should we ever meet at a convention, I’ll make sure to hand you a few to add to your party box.

[@matheuscomparini1663]

Idea for Batman: vilains are players that committed a crime that turn 😂

[@saqvobase4301]

I have a lot of cards i like but nowhere to play them, this is the perfect way to show off the cards i like

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

My friend and I used to do something similar, but we'd just grab one of those ~200 card "value" packs from the local game store to use. Ended up with the house rule that I always go first, because at first we'd roll, and either I would win and take the play as an aggro-leaning player, or he would win and take the draw as a control leaning player, so we streamlined it :P

[@golengrundy6283]

Ngl seeing the Cardmarket Video made me really wanna meet you at an event and play this with you for sure

[@mssj4gokou]

I had an interesting idea. Spells that can be cast (with increasing cost based on the ability level) of going and using Urza's Fun House or Ask Urza and the card gets that ability. Could make it a modal spell where you get 3 clicks on the site and depending on the CMC of the card can pick more than 1 option.

[@mylesh7987]

This really makes me want to play this with you so I can add an ALF trading card in there. Watcing you play it with the cardmarket guys was awesome

[@nichodemus10]

So we have been doing this with our curated cubes but dont have the lands be all colors, you play lands face up and they are the types of the color of the card. It does two things to add tension: first you have to choose if you want to cast a powerful multicolor spell or play it as a land, and second it allows for better threat assessment as if someone plays grisslebrand as a land you know they have access to flicker grisselbrand and can make more informed choices. (It seems like this is not the direction you want to go, but others should try it). We do not have a designated party box, which certainly could be interesting, but whenever we have played at a store people are confused by the board state and cant figure out that spells are not just free.

[@origaminosferatu3357]

Holy heck this is absolutely my jam. At the moment in Spain they're selling Semana Santa cards (cards with religious icons on) and I really wanted to get some for something like this. Now I finally have an excuse.

[@mellowcorpsep6665]

id love to see a lot more of this

[@the_fat_wizard]

The moment I watched the Card Market video I wanted to do a box of my own for two specific reasons. One is similar to yours, memories. Started in tenth edition and to me there's a lot of sentimental value to some of the cardboard. The second reason: I can put the physical Inscryption (One of my favorite video games of all time, and a love letter to TCGs) cards that were meant to be memorabilia to actual use.

[@PleasantKenobi]

That's a sick idea. I still haven't played Inscryption. Think I will give it a blast next time I take a little holiday.

[@the_fat_wizard]

@@PleasantKenobi Worth it 100%. Depending on how much you like it, consider getting one of the merch boosters specifically as a choice for your Booster Tutor twist here!

[@FlibTheBard]

Me and my friends do a similar but less wacky multiplayer same deck thing where we have 10 lands in a "command zone" (5 basics and 5 duals) and starting hand size of 4. Ours is specifically curated for multiplayer stuff and less pure chaos but no matter what the concept of a massive deck everyone is drawing from is very fun. People should definitely give building their own a go.

[@nexus3d5]

building my own right now.. tore apart my commander chaos deck i built. had a similar theme of craziness.. I love this idea

[@chummer2060]

I made a chaff battle box a few years ago. Similar, but less ridiculous. It's surprisingly fun

[@Aigis31]

Stuff like this is why I love card games and why I love Magic specifically. Magic has existed for so long and has graced many players, and as a result, a lot has been done with it. Projects like this remind players about the true joy and wonder of card games. Of sitting down with people and just having fun. And that's always a goal worth pursuing. I've recently made a similar deck following a Battle Box ruleset with very low power level cards in order to play Magic with my family again. Just building it alone was a ton of fun, and I highly recommend anyone to try it, even if no one plays it. The act of creation is sometimes all that is needed. I think I'm going to try making my own party box as well. I love trying to mash together several different games into one play environment and the hilarity and confusion that can ensue. If I can ever find files with my old custom cards in them, I might even make a party box that's full of my oldest custom cards as well.

[@RaptieFeathers]

I think the best thing that could happen is if 5-Color became a format again. That was so much fun, especially with the version where if you lost a card to ante your opponent just gets to draw on it instead of actually taking the card. Oh yeah and sleeves were banned I still remember the guy at my store who had some P9 in his deck, too. 😂

[@sirKonradical]

Exchange of words would be amazing in that deck

[@zilchdelerion4076]

This is like multiplayer Kangaroo Court, which is a format where you play "normal magic" but you can define the rules with discussion, like "bad moon kills blood moon because the earth only has one moon" "but we arent on earth, we are on dominaria" Etc. etc.

[@TheHarmpo]

Such an elegant design, I love it. Thank you 💚

[@PleasantKenobi]

You are so welcome!

[@wishypoos]

I had the chance to play it at MC Barcelona It really is quite the experience ! Would advise it to anyone! (happy to have donated a Rapidash sleeve ;) )

[@mike-games6281]

I absolutely love this.

[@Pedun42]

It's essentially a cube version of Dandân. I love it so much.

[@gogogagagugu2134]

huh, this idea sounds really fun, I might try to make my own at some point

[@lilfoxgod]

I love this so much, don't know if I have a big enough collection to do this but one way to find out.

[@landale3993]

Aside from the cards from other games, this reminds me of Fat Stack. One big deck with lands, mana rocks, and mana dorks, and one deck with anything else. Everyone uses the same pair of decks and picks which and how much of it they draw when they do, and they share the graveyard as well.

[@almogdov]

We used to play back in the pre-commander times (2006-7) a format called Limited Infinity. The rules are simple - it's a large collection of a few hundred cards in a box, everyone play from the same library or it can be split to the players, it's multiplayer, and you have infinite mana but you can cast only one spell per turn. This was quite a lot of fun honestly, it allowed to play with high CMC cards you never see like Yavimaya's Embrace and was very volatile and chaotic. You can put anything in it except for infinite mana that kills players (like Walking Ballista) though the one who carried it did some curation so it will be somewhat manageable and there won't be too many instants or counters since those tend to be quite powerful. (also cycling effects were very strong like Decree of Silence since they aren't spells).

[@jamesdrummond7684]

party box is a lifestyle.

[@rim956]

this might not be pure Magic, but it is pure fun and joy

[@woopwoopftw]

Really tempted by this idea, sounds great and I loved the card market video. Had any thoughts on whether the one piece tcg would fit and how you would interpret the rules? I love the idea of incorporating leader cards in some way but it might just be too awkward!

[@xxlpulselxx]

I made a tweak for this to make it magic centric, and make it "pod-able." People just need 30 sleeved magic cards that aren't basic lands. Everything else plays relatively the same, I just asked people to have different color sleeves to make it easier to take apart. With this change, people can randomly group up, shuffle their cards together, and fire a game.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

Imma make my own version of this and bring it to my next commander game night at my LGS. I know a few people would be down for it.

[@Wabajck]

Started putting my own together. Started with cards I loved thru my history of playing the game. Also asked my friends their top 5 favorite cards and threw them into it.

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

A cool idea would be instead of regular jokers, you should put basic lands that act as jokers but JUST for cards of that particular color (including wastes) hehe

[@Lycandros]

No I want to see this on Shuffle Up and Play.

[@tomcadden8054]

Vince iv been waiting for a vid of your party box for years

[@diesertimgaedke]

Can't wait to jam this thing one day ❤ Thanks for the shoutout!

[@PleasantKenobi]

You didn't get a game with me in Barcelona in the end??,

[@diesertimgaedke]

@@PleasantKenobi nope, we didn't have time in the end. But if you bring it to Amsterdam, I'll be there (and I can add some more cards to it)

[@bookworm2442]

Would love to play this with you some day!

[@ryantomczak2248]

Love the idea and it looks super fun. If I ever run into you at a Magic Con I would love to play it with you. I showed it to my playgroup and i fortunately didn’t get good responses. Some of them are too serious I guess. So I will have to wait for the day I can play with you.

[@Bobbyo2014]

I need to send you some more random packs from vintage games/weird collectible cars so they may make their way into the party box

[@hannahhansen3005]

This is a fun goofy way to play.

[@smudge8466]

Gonna use this as inspiration for my own Kaiju themed party box

[@laurelindeep5394]

Idea for jokers: use a special art land from any set you want, then the joker can represent any card from that set. Means you don't just get jokers played as the best card choice for that particular moment, but can have some more inventive selections

[@FreyrFox]

it sounds so silly and so fun, the face down for lands is genius

[@SideironPunch]

Honestly, this seems like everything that I love about MTG packed together in one place. The stories and the Gathering has always been the best part of it for me, and this entire idea has it in spades. Can't wait to build my own, and just add to the great memories that the best card game ever made has given me already.

[@mikeelarsen1964]

I made something like this once. It was tons of fun and I highly recommend for all those non-serious nights you just need some silly magic.

[@bobconway5958]

my friends and I play a similar game we call chaos. The deck is 500 cards, there are five separate piles of 50 each basic lands. Non-basic land can be found in the main deck. Sttart by dealing ten cards to each player, they put unwanted cards in their graveyard and take s many lands as they want up to 7 card hand limit. Play proceeds with each player choosing to draw a basic land, two cards from the top of the deck of which the keep one and put the other in the "discard" pile. or choosing a card from the top X cards of the discard pile, where X=number of players -1. Play proceeds similarly to commander. We have several variants and ways to accelerate the game after the first player is eliminated (most keep eliminated players involved, they just can not win). The main decks are curated so to make the cards resonably playable together, and may be theme based. We play enough that we have found it neccessary to write down the rules, including point based systems which reward players for being active instead of sitting on the sidelines until others have been eliminated or drained. It is fun, casual, and highly social.

[@ghost64626]

Oh I am absolutely going to make one of these!

[@oafkad]

What an incredible idea.

[@Hector-Rhyzell]

Me and my buddies used to do something similar! we would all gather 20-30 cards we always wanted to play and shuffle them into a pile that goes in the center. You can draw from your deck or the center deck. You can spend mana to cast any card from the center pile. its evolved into a 200 card deck and that's where it stays. Whoever wins chooses a card from the deck to take out and they put something that isn't in it. I always have them put their number on a piece of paper to put behind that card and when someones previous card gets taken out then I message them 😃its been fun to see the deck evolve over the years!

[@osc5911]

I'm a month late, but just built my own party box. Thank you for introducing me to the format! Executive Summary of my starting party box Allowing bottom of deck access (meta #1 below for details), 301 cards total, 11 NOT MtG cards (listed below), 4 token MtG cards (listed below), 8x MtG Jokers, limited graveyard removal (by choice), 16x Accumulated Knowledge, and 8x Flickerwisp. Haven't played yet but everyone who helped build it is interested for at least one try. ********* Longer details below, no need to read if the summary was enough My personal meta changes 1. Allowing use of bottom of library, since library will be in Dragon Shield Nest 300 (Dragon Shield), thus easy to access. 2. I chose for the graveyard to matter, so I limited the number of graveyard removal effects 3. starting with 301 cards, since I have a Chaos Confetti in the deck 4. 8x Flickerwisp 5. 16x Accumulated Knowledge (I got 4 FNM copies as a gift 10 years back that I wanted to include) 6. 8x MtG Jokers (sort of has 9, see #9 NOT "MtG" cards) 7. Lands are additionally Snow Wastes and Portal (produces Purple) Mtg token cards (4 of them) 1x MtG Hero card, "The Harvester" 0 cost emblem, Abilty: tap > Draw a card, then discard a card 1x MtG token card, 0 cost, 1/1 black "Assasin", Deathtouch and Haste 1x MtG token card, 0 cost, 1/1 blue "Faerie Spy", Flying and Haste, when it deals combat damage to player draw a card 1x MtG token card, 0 cost, The Monarch, you can put it on any player The NOT "MtG" cards I included (10 unique, 11 total, the 7 simplest cards first) #1. "13 of Tomes" M2E playing cards King of Clubs, 0 black Instant: Split second, add 13 black mana #2. Two copies "Lorcana card backside", 0 colorless Instant: Split second, add 5 mana of any combination (diamond and purple okay) #3. "Stormtroopers Attack!" Star Wars [1977], 0 blue Instant: 42 game to target creature #4. "Time Vortex" Promo Flux card [1998?], 0 blue Sorcery: gather all player hands, without looking, deal them out starting w/ you #5. "Primeape" Pokeman, R red Pokeman Ape, 0/100 (doesn't heal): EtB Sac a creature, Ability, R tap > deals 30 damage to target creature #6. "Everybody Gets One" Flux [1996], 0 blue Sorcery: draw one card for each player, for each player pick and give them one of those cards #7. "Goal: Power For Its Own Sake" Illuminati NWO [1994], 0 black enchantment: beginning of your upkeep if your creatures power totals 50+ you win #8. "Flat Earthers" Illuminati New World Order [1994], 0 1/2 red and blue "Weird Conservative" Ability, tap > roll 2d6, if total equals to or is less than # of lands you have in play, draw cards equal to dice roll total #9 "Son Goku, the Last Straw" (from game store acquantance [signed and dated]) Dragon Ball Super, G green "Baby Saga", 5000/1 EtB put any one MtG card that you've owned at one point in your life into your hand When this creature attacks, it gets +10,000/+0 and Double strike Rulings: i. You can take a permanent on the board if you've owned one in the past (no taking the Lorcana style land) ii. New cards are temporary infini-tokens and will go and stay in various zones (graveyard/hand/etc) for that game #10 "Boss' Decision" (from game store acquaintance [signed and dated], promo/business card for "SOTSU" 0 colorless Instant Take control and "game ownership" of target permanent an opponent controls, give that player either i. a card from your hand (if a permanent, it goes into play face up, otherwise to their hand) ii. a permanent you control This card is now "game owned" by the opponent. The permanent you took gains, original owner can pay 50,000 mana (can be over turns) to "buy" back "game ownership" and control

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I love the accumulated knowledge angle. That's very cool. I would argue that graveyard matters needs more graveyard sculpting. Delve is great for this.

[@osc5911]

Thanks for feedback! It does have a couple sculptors, Necrogenesis and Dig Through Time, as well as a dozen or so reanimation style cards, but I'll add Murktide Regent and Kaya, Orzhov Usurper for the first game (hopefully tomorrow). I'll pay extra attention if graveyards get too crazy or if every joker becomes a Bojuka Bog effect, so I'll know to add more.