"Midweek Magic December 2017 #48 - Let the Packwars begin"

"Midweek Magic December 2017 #48 - Let the Packwars begin"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

In the back end of KFC sits 3 guys who seem to be intent on a pile of 5 cards that they seem to be playing against each other. Once in awhile you hear laughter , groans of frustration and even a shout or two after an intense play.

Don't worry these 3 happen to be Lippy , ST and Me who are currently engaged in Pack Wars but what in the heck is pack wars and why does it illicit such reactions from us?

Packs wars is a great way to enjoy Magic:the gathering. All you need are two packs that will serve as your deck and a friend to fight with.

You open the pack and remove tokens in the packs and play with the remaining 15 cards. You will separate them into 5 piles of cards consisting of 3 cards each.

Per game each player has 5 life points. Reduce this to zero and you win that game. Since a round of pack wars consists of 5 games , the player who wins 3 games first wins.

So in a game you have access to unlimited mana of any color.This means that you can cast all of your spell at once or hold off for some battle tricks or bluffs.

I was given an Ixalan pack by St to start things off and I was pleasantly surprised at the things that you can still learn despite playing for more than a decade now. 

There will be card piles full of game winning bombs like in the case of Lippy  , he cracked a pack with the Planeswalker Huatli! This meant that your chances of winning are even close to nil when you pick that one particular pile.

Of course in this limited setting I was also able to pull off surprising things. Things that surprised me too since it seemed that you will look at cards through a different set of filters while playing pack wars.

Things like Hierophant's Chalice and Deathless Ancient which meant a single attack from the flying vampire was a win.

Or Belligerent Brontodon turning the harmless Ixalli's Diviner into a 3 powered beater.

Or the Sudden End of turn impact of the 4 damage Unfriendly fire.

Pack wars is another fun way to enjoy Magic and to look at cards a different way , cards that will continue to hold value regardless of their rarity.

And even more than that the chance to spend some quality time with friends over a friendly game. So let the pack wars begin!