Muzzio's Preparations

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.)
Each creature you control with the chosen name enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Jumbo Cactuar

10,000 Needles — Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +9999/+0 until end of turn.

Three-Headed Goblin

Triple strike (This creature deals first-strike, regular, and last-strike combat damage.)

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Wisedrafter's Will

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.
{U}, Sacrifice Wisedrafter's Will: Draw a card.
{U}{U}, Sacrifice Wisedrafter's Will: Counter target spell.

Red Herring

{1}{U}: Exchange Red Herring from your hand with a permanent you control on the battlefield or a spell you control on the stack. If that permanent or spell was the target of a spell or ability, change that target to Red Herring.

Telepathic Transmission (cont'd)

A multicolored card counts as any one of its colors.
There is no turn order. If someone has a card to play in the above sequence, they may play it at any time.
If at any point a player notices the sequence has been broken by a card in their hand, they say "restart" and reveal the card that should have come next in the sequence. Restart the game by shuffling all cards together and dealing them out again. Use your knowledge of _Magic_ and the cards revealed between restarts to successfully complete the sequence.
TO WIN:
The game is over when all cards have been discarded in the correct order. Keep track of the number of restarts—one or fewer is a victory!

Telepathic Transmission

2-4 players | 2 packs | 5 minutes
OBJECTIVE:
Order your cards without communicating in this game that puts your telepathy to the test.
GET READY:
Open two booster packs and remove all cards without _Magic_ backs. Shuffle the rest of the cards together and deal them out as evenly as possible to each player. One player then discards a land to begin a central discard pile.
LET'S PLAY:
**Lands** ➧ **Other Colorless Cards** ➧ {w} ➧ {u} ➧ {b} ➧ {r} ➧ {g}
Within each category, order cards by numerically ascending mana value.
A card of the same color and cost can be played on another card of the same color and cost.

Telepathic Transmission // Telepathic Transmission (cont'd)

Don't Worry About It

Enchant card in your hand (This Aura remains on the battlefield. If you play enchanted card or it otherwise leaves your hand, put this Aura into the graveyard.)
Enchanted card costs {1} less to cast.
When you cast enchanted card, copy it.

Enchanted Prairie

Enchanted Prairie enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Thriving Bluff

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red.
{T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Temur Elevator

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}. If you don't have the city's blessing, you lose 1 life.

Bucket List

Whenever you cast a spell of a type showing on Bucket List, put a counter over that type and draw a card. If all five types on Bucket List have counters over them, sacrifice it and draw one more card.
☐ artifact ☐ creature ☐ enchantment ☐ instant ☐ sorcery

Do-It-Yourself Seraph

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle.
This creature has the text box of each card exiled with this creature in addition to its own.

Masterful Ninja

Haste
Reveal this card from your hand: Masterful Ninja is on the battlefield and in your hand until end of turn.
{1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Noble Ox

Flash
When Noble Ox enters the battlefield, all unblocked creatures attacking you become blocked by Noble Ox.
Noble Ox can block any number of creatures.

A Good Thing

Spells and abilities you control can't destroy, exile, target, or cause you to sacrifice A Good Thing.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double your life total. Then, if you have 1,000 or more life, you lose the game.

Regicide

Reveal this card as you draft it. The player to your right chooses a color, you choose another color, then the player to your left chooses a third color.
Destroy target creature that's one or more of the colors chosen as you drafted cards named Regicide.

Wizened Arbiter

When Wizened Arbiter enters, you may reveal a white card you own from outside the game. If you do, exchange that card with a card in your hand.

Deathpact Angel

Flying
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token. It has "{3}{W}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Return a card named Deathpact Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield."

Nearby Planet

Rangeling (This card is every land type, including Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, and all those Urza's ones.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.

Haunted Fengraf

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Mirror Mirror

This artifact enters tapped.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose target player. At the beginning of the next end step, exchange life totals with that player, exchange control of all permanents you and that player control, and exchange cards in your hands, cards in your libraries, and cards in your graveyards.

Space Beleren

Space sculptor (Space Beleren divides the battlefield into alpha, beta, and gamma sectors. If a creature isn't assigned to a sector, its controller assigns it to one. Opponents assign first.)
+1: Creatures in each sector can be blocked this turn only by creatures in the same sector.
−1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature in the sector of your choice.
−5: Destroy all creatures in the sector of your choice.

Killer Cosplay

Whenever this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name with an identical mana cost. That creature becomes a copy of the card with the chosen name until this Equipment becomes unattached from it.
Equip {3}

Roll for Initiative (cont'd)

Play continues until all players are out of cards.
*White Card*: At the end of the game, increase a player's roll by 2.
*Blue Card*: Reroll another player's die, but use the new result only if it's lower.
*Black Card*: At the end of the game, decrease a player's roll by 2.
*Red Card*: Reroll another player's die. They must use the new result.
*Green Card*: Reroll your own die, but use the new result only if it's higher.
*Colorless Card*: Each player may reroll their die. if they do, they must use the new result.
*Multicolored Card*: Apply the effects of each of the card's colors. Each effect can target a different player.
*Any Card Played Face Down*: At the end of the game, increase or decrease a player's die roll by 1.
TO WIN:
Once everyone is out of cards, check to see who has the highest roll. That player wins initiative!

Roll for Initiative

2+ players | 1+ packs | 5 minutes | d20
OBJECTIVE:
As you enter the room, the terrible dragon opens its eyes and lets out a roar. Everybody... roll for initiative! Roll a d20 and modify the result with some _Magic_ cards to get the highest initiative!
GET READY:
Open a booster and remove all cards without _Magic_ card backs. Use an additional booster for groups of five players or more. Shuffle, then deal the same number of cards to each player. If there are extra cards after dealing, set them aside. Each player then rolls a d20 to determine their *initiative*. In case of a tie, the tied players roll again. The player with the lowest starting initiative goes first.
LET'S PLAY:
On each player's turn, they play a card to modify a player's initiative (see reverse side for card effects). Cards with effects that will be counted at the end of the game should be placed in front of the target player. All other cards go into the discard pile.

Roll for Initiative // Roll for Initiative (cont'd)

Vibrant Cityscape

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Yet Another Aether Vortex

All creatures have haste.
Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.
Noninstant, nonsorcery cards on top of a library are on the battlefield under their owner's control in addition to being in that library.

GO TO JAIL

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
At the beginning of the upkeep of the exiled card's owner, that player rolls two six-sided dice. If they roll doubles, sacrifice this enchantment.

Restless Vents

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Into the Story (cont'd)

• The monster the characters face: a DFC card
**Action**
• The characters make a critical mistake: a noncreature card
• The first to die: choose one of the three characters
• How the monster kills the first character: a noncreature card
• The hero: choose one of the two remaining characters
• Describe the monster's weakness/secret/motivation and how the hero discovered it: a noncreature card of creature/planeswalker card
**Resolution**
• Confronting the monster: a noncreature card
• The lone survivor: choose one of the two characters
• Ending: Create this yourself! How did the second character die? Did the monster survive? Was it all worth it?
TO WIN:
After the story's been told, assign the following awards by popular vote to players: Scariest, Funniest, and Most Exciting. Feel free to invent your own awards as well. In the case of a tied vote for the winner of an award, randomly determine its winner.

Into the Story: Horror Edition

1-6 players | 1+ packs | 10 minutes
OBJECTIVE:
Tell the best horror story you can, using the cards in your booster as inspiration.
GET READY:
Open a booster for each player and remove any ad, token, and art cards. Then sort the cards into separate piles for double-faced cards (DFCs), single-sided creature and planeswalker cards, land cards, and all other noncreature cards. Shuffle the piles and place each of them face down.
LET'S PLAY:
Go through the beats of the story below in order, revealing a card from the top of the specified pile or taking the specified action. Tell a story as you go. After a player tells a bit of the story for a beat, it's the next player's turn for the next story beat. If there are no cards of the requested type, players can make something up.
**Introduction**
• Setting: a land
• The characters: three creatures/planeswalkers
• Why the characters are at the location: a noncreature card

Into the Story: Horror Edition // Into the Story (cont'd)

Darkmoss Bridge

This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Lore Seeker

Reveal this card as you draft it. After you draft this card, you may add a booster pack to the draft. (Your next pick is from that booster pack. Pass it to the next player and it's drafted this draft round.)

Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black.
{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Ghalta and Mavren

Trample
Whenever you attack, choose one —
• Create a tapped and attacking X/X green Dinosaur creature token with trample, where X is the greatest power among other attacking creatures.
• Create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

Fetching Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Fetching Garden enters the battlefield tapped if it was played from your hand.

Eumidian Hatchery

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. Put a hatchling counter on this land.
When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, for each hatchling counter on it, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

Animus of Predation

Draft this card face up.
As you draft a card, you may remove it from the draft face up. (It isn't in your card pool.)
If you removed a creature card with flying from the draft with cards named Animus of Predation, this creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, and vigilance.

Double Stroke

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with the chosen name, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Truss, Chief Engineer

Whenever Truss, Chief Engineer enters or another creature dies, put a hack counter on Truss.
{2}, {T}, Remove X hack counters from Truss: Add or subtract X from a number or number word on target spell or permanent until end of turn. This effect can't reduce a number below 1 or a number word below one.

Border Guardian

Whenever you cast a silver-bordered spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you cast a black-bordered spell, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever you cast a white-bordered spell, this creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Restless Cottage

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{2}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 4/4 black and green Horror creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, create a Food token and exile up to one target card from a graveyard.

Dwarven Confluencer

{T}: Destroy target nontoken land. Its controller creates a Mana Confluence token. (It's a land with "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.")

Jeskai Baller

When you cast this spell, create a 1/1 white Athlete creature token.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Mirrored Lotus

Reflect {0} (As this enters, each opponent may pay {0}. When they do, they create a token copy of this except it lacks this ability.)
{T}, Exile Mirrored Lotus: Add three mana of any one color.

Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Flying, defender
As Pramikon enters, choose left or right.
Each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

How to Keep an Izzet Mage Busy

Return How to Keep an Izzet Mage Busy to its owner's hand.

The Countdown Is at One

Players play a Magic subgame, starting at 1 life and using their libraries as their decks. For the rest of the main game, if a source would deal damage to a player who didn't win the subgame, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Summoner's Bond

Double agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose two different card names. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal those names.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell with one of the chosen names, you may search your library for a creature card with the other chosen name, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Incoming!

Each player searches their library for any number of artifact, creature, enchantment, and/or land cards, puts them onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Puresteel Angel

Flying, indestructible
When Puresteel Angel enters, exile all artifacts that aren't colorless.
Whenever Puresteel Angel deals combat damage to a player, you get an emblem with "If you would lose the game, instead your life total becomes 20, shuffle your graveyard into your library, you lose all poison counters, and you lose this emblem."

Goblin

Blufferfish

{3}{U}: An opponent tells you a statement about themselves and secretly notes whether it's true or false. You guess which it is. If you guessed correctly, this creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked this turn.

Grothama, All-Devouring

Other creatures have "Whenever this creature attacks, you may have it fight Grothama, All-Devouring."
When Grothama leaves the battlefield, each player draws cards equal to the amount of damage dealt to Grothama this turn by sources they controlled.

Sarah's Wings

Target creature or player gains flying until end of turn. (Players with flying can't be dealt damage by creatures without flying.)

Iterative Analysis

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with the chosen name, you may draw a card.

Spelling Bee

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player looks at the top card of your library and chooses a word on that card. You spell that word. If you spell it correctly, draw a card. Otherwise, scry 1.

Power Play

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)
You are the starting player. If multiple players would be the starting player, one of those players is chosen at random.

Riftstone Portal

{T}: Add {C}.
As long as this card is in your graveyard, lands you control have "{T}: Add {G} or {W}."

Echoing Boon

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets a creature you control with the chosen name, you may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy.

Restless Vinestalk

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Hired Heist

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.)
Whenever a creature you control with the chosen name deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {U}. If you do, draw a card.

Form of the Approach of the Second Sun

When this enchantment enters, you gain 7 life. You become a card until you leave your library or that library is shuffled. Put yourself seventh from the top, balancing the cards on top of you on your head.
When you draw yourself, you win the game.
When one or more cards fall off your head, exile them and all cards on your head, then sacrifice this enchantment.

Destroy target creature. Its controller creates two 1/2 red Half creature tokens.

Smelt

Smelt // Herd // Saw

Mystic Monastery

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.

Círdan the Shipwright

Vigilance
Secret council — Whenever Círdan enters or attacks, each player secretly votes for a player, then those votes are revealed. Each player draws a card for each vote they received. Each player who received no votes may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Aeon Engine

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}, Exile this artifact: Reverse the game's turn order. (For example, if play had proceeded clockwise around the table, it now goes counterclockwise.)

Ghouls' Night Out

For each player, choose a creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types and they gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Mana Screw

{1}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, add {C}{C}. Activate only as an instant.

Staying Power

"Until end of turn" and "this turn" effects don't end.

Expert-Level Safe

When this artifact enters, exile the top two cards of your library face down.
{1}, {T}: You and target opponent each secretly choose 1, 2, or 3. Then those choices are revealed. If they match, sacrifice this artifact and put all cards exiled with it into their owners' hands. Otherwise, exile the top card of your library face down.

Omnipresent Impostor

Changeling
Omnipresent Impostor has all card names.
As you search your library for one or more cards, you may choose Omnipresent Impostor as one of those cards. (For example, if you search for two land cards, you may find Omnipresent Impostor and a land card.)

Pithing Spyglass

As Pithing Spyglass enters, name a keyword ability or ability word.
All cards in all zones lose that keyword ability or ability word and all text tied to that ability.

Claire D'Loon, Joy Sculptor

When Claire D'Loon, Joy Sculptor enters, for the rest of the game, tokens you own become cards that are still tokens. (They continue to exist after they leave the battlefield.)
{1}{W}{U}, {T}: You may put a token from your graveyard or hand onto the battlefield.

"Ach! Hans, Run!"

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may say "Ach! Hans, run! It's the . . ." and the name of a creature card. If you do, search your library for a card with that name, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Story Beats

INTRODUCTION
• Setting: a land
• The protagonist: a creature
• Why the protagonist is at the location: a noncreature card
• The villain: another creature card
ACTION
• The protagonist recruits allies: two creature cards
• The protagonist and allies get stronger: a noncreature card
• Take down the henchman: a creature card and a noncreature card
• An unavoidable death: choose one of the allies
• Describe the villain's weakness/secret/motivation and how the allies discovered it: a noncreature card or a creature card
RESOLUTION
• Confronting the villain: a noncreature card
• The final assassination: choose one of the allies and a noncreature card
• Ending: Create this yourself! What did the protagonist do after the assassination? Did they get what they need? Was it worth it?
TO WIN:
After the story's been told, assign the following awards by popular vote to players: Coolest, Funniest, and Most Historically Inaccurate. Feel free to invent your own awards as well. In the case of a tied vote, determine the winner of that award randomly.

Into the Story: Assassin Edition

OBJECTIVE:
Create your own Assassin's Creed storyline, using the cards in your boosters as inspiration.
GET READY:
Open two boosters for each player and remove any cards without magic card backs.Then sort the cards into separate piles for creature cards, land cards, and other noncreature cards. Shuffle the piles and place each of them face down.
LET'S PLAY:
Go through the beats of the other side of this card in order, revealing a card from the top of the specified pile or taking the specified action. Tell a story as you go. After a player tells a bit of the story for a beat, it's the next player's turn for the next story beat. If there are no cards of the requested type, players can make something up.

Into the Story: Assassin Edition // Story Beats

Cheatyface

If Cheatyface is in your hand, you may sneak Cheatyface onto the battlefield. If an opponent catches you right away, that player may exile Cheatyface.
Flying

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Hamster

Plain Walker

Plainswalk
Planeswalkerwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a planeswalker.)
Whenever Plain Walker deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, planeswalk. (If you're playing Planechase, proceed to the next plane.)

Destroy target creature with reminder text. (Reminder text is any italicized text in parentheses that explains rules you already know.)

Restless Bivouac

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}{R}{W}: This land becomes a 2/2 red and white Ox creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Comet, Stellar Pup

0: Roll a six-sided die.
1 or 2 — [+2], then create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn.
3 — [−1], then return a card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
4 or 5 — Comet deals damage equal to the number of loyalty counters on him to a creature or player, then [−2].
6 — [+1], and you may activate Comet's loyalty ability two more times this turn.

Earl of Squirrel

Squirrellink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to create that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.)
Creature tokens you control are Squirrels in addition to their other creature types.
Other Squirrels you control get +1/+1.

Mischievous Lookout

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a noncreature, non-Aura permanent spell from your graveyard. If you do, it perpetually becomes a 2/1 Rat creature in addition to its other types.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Graf Rats

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you both own and control this creature and a creature named Midnight Scavengers, exile them, then meld them into Chittering Host.

Trial and Error

Whenever Trial and Error is countered or fizzles, you may copy it and choose new targets for the copy.
Trial and Error deals 3 damage to any target.

Careful Study (cont'd)

For example:
What's the creature's power?
What's the mana cost?
Who's quoted in the flavor text?
What's the character in the art holding?
Is the character's mouth open?
Who's the artist?
What's the collector number?
What mechanics are mentioned in the card text?
What's the rarity?
Can you see the sun or moon in the art?
Don't ask any questions you can't accurately answer (e.g. how many blades of grass are in the art?).
TO WIN:
The team who gets the most questions right wins! If there is a tie, play another round with new cards.

Careful Study (minigame)

2-6 players | 1 pack | 5 minutes
OBJECTIVE:
Take turns memorizing _Magic_ cards and trying to stump your opponent with questions!
GET READY:
Split up into two teams of one or more players. Randomly determine which team goes first, and then open a pack and remove any remaining land cards and any cards without _Magic_ card backs. Each team then picks a card and puts it face down on the table without looking at it.
LET'S PLAY:
On your turn, your team has 30 seconds to examine your card before handing it over to the opposing team. Then they ask your team five questions about your card. Once you've answered them all, note your score. Now it's your team's turn to ask the questions! Questions can be about anything on the card.

Careful Study (minigame) // Careful Study (cont'd)

Zombie

Paper Tiger

Creatures named Rock Lobster can't attack or block.

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Artifacts you control are Foods in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life."
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a Food: Ragost deals 3 damage to each opponent.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, untap Ragost.

Wrath of Sod

Put a manabond counter on all creatures. (They lose all other abilities and become lands with "{T}: Add one mana of this card's color.")

Chronobot

When Chronobot enters, switch upkeep steps with target opponent for as long as it remains on the battlefield. (You take your upkeep on their turn, and they take their upkeep on your turn.)

Gunk Slug

When Gunk Slug enters, create three Gunk token cards and shuffle them into target opponent's library. (Gunk is a colorless sorcery card with no mana cost that has cycling {4}.)