Needs:

• Five 1d6 of two different colors for each player.

• One 1d20 for each player to track Life Points.

• A minimum of 60 MTG cards per player.

Preparation:

• Shuffle all cards of one or more MTG packs. This is the Source Deck.

• Take 60 cards from the Source Deck. This is the Play Deck.

• Prepare the Play Deck

  • Check the Play Deck to see there are at least 20 lands. 

  • Remove all Artifact, Sorcery, and Enchantment cards. 

  • Replace any cards from the top of the Source Deck to maintain 60 cards. 

  • Shuffle.

• The Starting Hand

  • Each player draws 7 cards. 

  • If the player does not have at least 2 lands, the player re-draws 7 cards. 

• Highest dice roll decides who starts.

• Set Life Counters to 0.

Play:

Each turn has the following phases:

Untap - Draw - Build - Cast - Combat - Clean Up

• Untap

  • Turn all face-down cards face-up.

• Draw. 

  • Pick a card from the deck.

• Build. 

  • The player can place a land on the board vertically (untapped).

  •  Only one land can be played per turn.

• Cast. 

  • Either:

    • Place one or more creatures on the board face down if there are lands equal to the required mana of each creature OR 

    • Place one or more creatures into combat.

  • Check to see if any active (not in hand or in combat) creatures need an update.

  • Each player can place as many creatures as they want per turn as long as they have enough mana for each.

  • Each new creature must suffer conjuring sickness for one turn by being face down upon entering and cannot go into battle.

  • Only active (face-up) creatures can use the power listed on their card.

• Combat. 

  • (note: attacker always goes first)

  • Set Up

    • The player can announce an attack to any player (not specific creature) by any number of creature(s) and tap (turn over) the required mana. 

    • The creatures are brought forward into the Combat Zone.

    • The defender can defend with one or more of the creatures active on the board and tap the required mana or announce no defense.

    • The defending creatures are brought forward into the Combat Zone.

    • Resolve any actions from the cards.

    • If there is no defense, the Attacker cards are discarded and the Attacking player gets one life point per card.

  • Spells

    • Instant cards can be attached to any creature or creatures as long as there is corresponding mana to tap. 

    • Instants count as spells.

    • Resolve any actions from the spells.

  • Battle

    • The Attack/Defend numbers are on the bottom right of each card in that order.

    • The Attacker rolls the number of combined Attack dice with any modifiers.

    • The Defender rolls the number of combined Defense dice with any modifiers. 

    • The highest number of total points from each side is the victor of the battle.

    • If there is a draw, all cards in the battle are discarded with no points awarded.

  • Spoils

    • The winning player collects 1 life point for each defeated creature.

    • All cards used for the attack and defense are discarded.

• Clean Up. 

  • Discard or add cards from the deck until there are seven in hand. 

  • The Discard pile can be re-shuffled if there are not enough Draw cards.

This continues until one of the players has 10 points.

Winning:

• The first player to gain 10 life points is the winner.