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9 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 10:49PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 29, 2012
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I was just wondering if anyone here has any interesting house rules, or rules that they had been taught when they were new players that turned out not to be real rules.
My personal example: My friends taught me how to play magic, and they told me that I was only allowed 1 mythic-rare card per deck.
Anyone else?
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9 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 11:43PM
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It's not particularly weird, but around here we always mulligan 7 (when it's not an official event), and we'll let someone check the top card of their library to see if they can keep a crappy hand. 
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9 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 11:53PM
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Our houserule is that either me or another player in particular is always attacked first. At least I assume that's a rule, it's what always happens.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 12:13AM
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Our houserule is that either me or another player in particular is always attacked first. At least I assume that's a rule, it's what always happens.
LMAO, I think everyone has that house rule :P
I guess our house rule is that, in multi-player at least, first to play still draws card 8, and if you mulligan, you still get to draw 7. We're easy...
That, and in the old school group, Hymn to Tourach  was banned. Period.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 12:48AM
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Date Joined:
May 19, 2012
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My house rules are that whenever you attack another player you have to make out with him or her. And whenever you do anything else to/with a player (e.g. make 'em discard, or draw, or steal their creature, or counter their spell) you have to sock 'em one good.
Thems the only rules I gots. Oh, and we play naked, with liquor bottles duct-taped to our mitts.
What a shame, I thought your previous one was fantastic.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 3:27AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 18, 2009
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It's not particularly weird, but around here we always mulligan 7 (when it's not an official event),
We do this. and we'll let someone check the top card of their library to see if they can keep a crappy hand.
But not this. EDIT: trully, most times we use a "for as long as all players are getting mulligans, the mulligans are free". Once one player keeps, the other(s) player(s) starts getting one less card each mulligan. Except for the very first mulligan, this one is always free even if all other players are keeping the first hand.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 4:05AM
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Date Joined:
Sep 22, 2008
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First mulligan is free, no matter what, second mulligan is free if it's justifiable and shown. 2 lands in an aggro deck is not justifiable, 2 lands in a super expensive deck is justifiable. We know each other decks pretty well. What's the point of playing agaisnt someone with 2 lands and 5 cards with 6 cmc in his opening hand.... or playing agaisnt someone with 3 forest in his starting hand and 4 blue cards that all cost 2 blue to cast. We know the game is already over from the start, the game will not be fun on either side. So free mulligan!
We also often "look at the next X cards on the library" when one side is dominating the other, to cut the slaughter short or to see if there's a possible way out for the losing side in the next 1-2-3-4 turns depending of the situation. If you are at 3 lands and I have 10 tokens and you have nothing and cannot do nothing, but you know you have a wrath of god in your hands, you can check your next 2 cards to see if there's a land that will allow you to cast it before you die, if you dont, it's over and you show those cards for the sake of curiosity, if you do have a land next turn, you decide to play it out.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 7:43AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 22, 2005
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My group also runs the 'free mulls to 7' with the first one definitely free and ones after that free if you can show 0/1/6/7 lands in hand. It's no fun playing a game where one player can't do anything and if there's nothing on the line there's no reason to make either player sit through that.
The '1 mythic' thing is slightly odd, but not very. Before my group all got a bit more disposable income those of us with access to better cards tended to tone our decks down. Tier 1 Wolf Run Ramp vs "The best BlueBlack deck I could build out of a fat pack and a deckbuilder's toolkit" isn't exactly a fair fight.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 8:06AM
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My house rules are that whenever you attack another player you have to make out with him or her. And whenever you do anything else to/with a player (e.g. make 'em discard, or draw, or steal their creature, or counter their spell) you have to sock 'em one good.
Thems the only rules I gots. Oh, and we play naked, with liquor bottles duct-taped to our mitts.
Damn, just when I was about to invite you for a play.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 9:59AM
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Date Joined:
May 30, 2010
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When my opponent mulligans to 4 or less in casual play, I usually let him or her draw more cards.
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