shoutout to @anthony.luckypaper.co for the idea for this MTG battlebox — Pistols At Dawn, my new favorite toy! here's the premise: - 140 card singleton - all mana costs are 0, all spells have flash - both players start at 3 - at the start of each upkeep, put 2 lightning bolts on the stack - ThreadSky

jdragsky.bsky.social • 43 days ago

shoutout to @anthony.luckypaper.co for the idea for this MTG battlebox — Pistols At Dawn, my new favorite toy! here's the premise:
- 140 card singleton
- all mana costs are 0, all spells have flash
- both players start at 3
- at the start of each upkeep, put 2 lightning bolts on the stack

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infra-violet.bsky.social•41 days ago

Thank you for posting about this! I played this with a couple of my partners yesterday amd had the most fun I've had playing magic in a long time. Feels just like the perfect distillation of a wizard duel

infra-violet.bsky.social•41 days ago

My favorite game by far was when my wife let an Elderscale Wurm resolve, not realizing it was basically platinum angel, then played through it anyway with grapeshot regrowth grapeshot.

infra-violet.bsky.social•41 days ago

My girlfriend survived on 3 by drawing into a nourish, and then they both died to a mind bomb she had cast earlier, drawing the game

jdragsky.bsky.social•41 days ago

thats INCREDIBLE!!

jdragsky.bsky.social•41 days ago

did you play with 3 players at once? how did that go ! i haven't tried multiplayer yet

infra-violet.bsky.social•41 days ago

no, we just took turns in pairs with a spectator/facilitator. We played in cockatrice, which made a facilitator helpful (though not strictly necessary) to make the shared deck work

lemonancy.bsky.social•41 days ago

Love, you forgot that she actually cascaded into mind bomb with the cascade counterspell, which is SO much funnier

jdragsky.bsky.social•43 days ago

the result is a dynamic, fast paced game of magic that takes 5-10 minutes to play, and i've been having a blast playing with my friends when we have a moment
https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/pistols-at-dawn

jdragsky.bsky.social•43 days ago

i was gonna write a whole article abot this but i dont actually have that much to say. designers should make more toys for their own fun though! 10/10 would recommend

wynter-quantum.bsky.social•43 days ago

This looks so fun! Is the 140 cards a shared library, then?

I think the only thing I’ve played that’s remotely like this is Judge’s Tower

jdragsky.bsky.social•43 days ago

yep! it's a battlebox, so it works the same as dandan (if yr familiar w that)

wynter-quantum.bsky.social•43 days ago

Ooh, I hadn’t heard of that before now either! I’ve been somewhat out of the MTG loop since around Kaldheim. I love weird alternate skill-testing formats though!

monicamillions.bsky.social•42 days ago

I’ve considered making a dandan after Pistols was so much fun

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