Limited is my favorite way to play. I really like the Draft Night product because it's obviously meant to be played. I don't care much for the collector booster prize pack (mostly because of the huge added cost), and sometimes the lands are useful but most of the time I have access to my land station. So I've been thinking about how to make my own.

Headed out of town and this new toiletry bag my wife bought works well for this. We'll play 2 player sealed, so I don't need many lands. Sleeves and a shooter of Scotch as the prize.

Moving forward I'll probably just buy a play booster box to get more games per dollar.

I've wanted them since I first played against them. I also love Flubs, but there's no way the worn down sleeve won't be my default!

Absolutely perfect :')

Also, the midweek magic is a gold pack phantom sealed event and my deck sucks, but it's still pretty fun. Janky bombs with few synergies.

It was super fun, I opened a Watery Grave, and placed 7th out of 8 players 🙃

I started playing Arena to try Standard but now my only love is draft. So I'm very happy when they sell these.

I know Wizzards is wildly greedy everywhere they can get away with - but this just feels gross to me. If 3400 gems is $19.99 then 5k gems is $29.40!

I've been trying to get my brother and brother-in-law into draft so I preordered draft night and am hoping it'll motivate them to give it a try (my wife will also play).

My plan is to have a gimmicky but fun prize for each place (they like alcohol):

• First place: A shooter of a fancy scotch
• Second: A shooter of bourbon
• Third: A shooter of spiced rum maybe?
• Fourth: A shooter of fireball

So the collector booster doesn't really need to be a prize, I could keep it for myself since they won't really understand its value anyway. But I like playing with what I buy so I was wondering if it could be added to the draft in a fair way?

I was thinking maybe lay that pack out face up after drafting and take turns picking a card to add to your draft pool. But is there a fair way to decide who goes first? I guess there will be multiple rares so we could just roll a dice and hopefully everyone gets something for their colors. And I suppose the commons and uncommons will still be relevant.

Anyone have any ideas?

So I've been anxiously awaiting Lorwyn - I wanna love this set so badly, and it looks like a lot of care was put into its creation. I love draft and so I've specifically been wanting a great draft environment that's replayable and fun and has some cool build-arounds and maybe one of those hard-to-do decks like shrines from Avatar.

So only seeing 5 main archetypes worries me. Especially because they're tribal and that's lower on my list of archetypes I enjoy... To be fair, it seems like they aren't just straight tribal - Goblins is blight and Elementals is 4+ cost spells - for example.

I'm fairly new to draft/magic - so is this a bad sign?

My hope was to build a set cube, so I guess I could tweak/expand the other 5 color pairs. My understanding is that they're just missing some support, I heard they're missing a signpost card each, but if they also lack depth and aren't really a cool thing to do in draft then I worry the format won't feel very replayable...

Although 😭 maybe I'll only have time to draft 5 decks since it'll only be at my LGS for 5 weeks before TMNT...

From the prerelease guide: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/lorwyn-eclipsed-prerelease-guide

There are five two-color draft archetypes in Lorwyn Eclipsed, each of which is tied to one of the set's prominent creature types. There are also draft archetypes for the other five color pairs, but those are focused on mechanical themes rather than creature types, and they aren't the focus of this guide.

While it isn't impossible to build a deck that's outside of these five color pairs, we'd recommend sticking to one of the suggested draft archetypes for your first few outings with Lorwyn Eclipsed. Don't worry, there's plenty of texture to be found in these five archetypes.

The last sentence feels hard to trust...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40802960

If anyone didn't know, Mormons don't drink alcohol

A few years ago my older brother told me that at our Thanksgiving and Christmas family dinners he fills a powerade bottle with red wine. For years I never noticed. I remembered thinking "good for him, avoiding all the soda and bringing his own healthy drink" lol. I was still scared to try it myself, but it went fine, and the last time I used a pomegranate juice bottle instead. I love red wine, and with big family dinners with 40+ people of all ages and hours long, it REALLY helps me enjoy myself. Plus, I can take a sip during the prayer and that's cathartic for some reason.

But there are problems... Wine has a pretty strong smell and strongly discolors your tongue and teeth. I do NOT want to get caught and end up killing my grandma with shock. Also, I'd love having enough to share with my cousins who've left the church, so something stronger would be nice.

I've been thinking about this a lot this holiday season and here's some things I'd like to achieve:

• Super covert. Where even my smart aunt wouldn't think twice.
• A shareable amount. Maybe not where we could all get buzzed, but a few sips.
• Variety - I love making different cocktails, and like showing them to my Exmo family. So I don't want to be tied to purple forever.

Some ideas I've had:

• A thermos or opaque water bottle and just hope it's not suspicious.
• Invent some two chambered bottle that only pours alcohol if a button is pressed
• Find some clear cocktails and put them in clear water bottles
• Maybe a hidden and silent flask that we can just pour liquor into our drinks
• Color the inside of a bottle to look like it's full of the original beverage.
• Just refill emptied soda cans. Or re-bottle some root beer bottles (I have a bottle cap press...)
• Refill a kombucha bottle. This might work great because it can be whatever color I want since it's not recognizable, and since it's fermented tea it might ward off the TBMs

Also, I need a phrase I can say to ward off cousins who might ask for a sip, "that's not church-approved eggnog" for example 😂

Edit: Thanks everyone for being concerned about alcoholism! It occurs to me that I should have specified that I'm not a heavy drinker... Even small amounts of alcohol wreck my sleep so I very literally only drink a couple times a month - at most. Always on a Friday night so I have maximum time to recover before work on Monday (I'm an absolute baby...) And no I'm not getting drunk on those Fridays. Just 1-3 drinks. Usually me experimenting with some new cocktail or wine since I know so little about them, but wish I did. I was drinking more often when alcohol was super new to me, but it just doesn't agree with me very much. I swear on my Seminary Graduation Degree 😉 With that being said, I really enjoy drinking in social situations and the holidays feel perfect for that. Although... while I would never consider myself an alcoholic, pretty much all of my Mormon family would... 😁

This post is meant to ask for help with me challenging my family norms. Mormons in general, and especially my family, have a DEEP-rooted expectation of everyone pretending to still be Mormon when they visit. It was a huge fight a couple years ago for me not going to church with my parents when I visit ("it's such a small thing, can't you do it for me?" - it may be small, but this is a never-give-a-mouse-a-cookie situation). My parents freaked out at me this year (literal screaming and crying) because I wouldn't take out my earrings for the Christmas dinner (boys aren't supposed to have earrings according to Mormons). They asked me to wear long sleeves to cover my tattoo when I visit too. They also expect us exmo kids to abstain from coffee while visiting. I have to admit, I also don't drink coffee (or any caffeine) regularly, but when I'm home I make an effort to have some every day 😈 I literally drink decaf and pretend I need it lol. And at our family reunions, I'd been living with my girlfriend (now wife) for 3 years and every single one of my aunts asked me where she was sleeping tonight and every one of them was shocked that she'd be sleeping in my tent. "Don't you think that sets a bad example for your younger cousins?" - "Umm no. I think pretending to be someone you're not is probably setting a bad example though." (Although maybe in their eyes, they were right because the next family reunion two more of my cousins slept in the same tent as their non-married partners. I'm really happy about that though!)

So this post is just me wanting to be rebellious. Maybe that's childish and silly, but it's cathartic to me and exciting. Maybe some day they'll chill enough for some of us who've left the church to have a holiday drink, but it doesn't seem very likely right now.

A few years ago my older brother told me that at our Thanksgiving and Christmas family dinners he fills a powerade bottle with red wine. For years I never noticed. I remembered thinking "good for him, avoiding all the soda and bringing his own healthy drink" lol. I was still scared to try it myself, but it went fine, and the last time I used a pomegranate juice bottle instead. I love red wine, and with big family dinners with 40+ people of all ages and hours long, it REALLY helps me enjoy myself. Plus, I can take a sip during the prayer and that's cathartic for some reason.

But there are problems... Wine has a pretty strong smell and strongly discolors your tongue and teeth. I do NOT want to get caught and end up killing my grandma with shock. Also, I'd love having enough to share with my cousins who've left the church, so something stronger would be nice.

I've been thinking about this a lot this holiday season and here's some things I'd like to achieve:

• Super covert. Where even my smart aunt wouldn't think twice.
• A shareable amount. Maybe not where we could all get buzzed, but a few sips.
• Variety - I love making different cocktails, and like showing them to my Exmo family. So I don't want to be tied to purple forever.

Some ideas I've had:

• A thermos or opaque water bottle and just hope it's not suspicious.
• Invent some two chambered bottle that only pours alcohol if a button is pressed
• Find some clear cocktails and put them in clear water bottles
• Maybe a hidden and silent flask that we can just pour liquor into our drinks
• Color the inside of a bottle to look like it's full of the original beverage.
• Just refill emptied soda cans. Or re-bottle some root beer bottles (I have a bottle cap press...)
• Refill a kombucha bottle. This might work great because it can be whatever color I want since it's not recognizable, and since it's fermented tea it might ward off the TBMs

Also, I need a phrase I can say to ward off cousins who might ask for a sip, "that's not church-approved eggnog" for example 😂

Learned about it from this recent video by Tolarian Community College and it was WAAAY more fun than I expected.

Basically two players open up a pack of magic and use it to build decks of 3 cards. Then you play each deck with infinite mana and 5 life. Draws are possible obviously. Since Final Fantasy Play boosters only have 14 cards, we played 4 decks of 3 cards, and had a 2 card "side-board".

So the deck building fun is in trying to make each pile able to do 5+ damage.

We played where the winner of each round won all 6 cards in play. That way we got to play all our decks. The other way to play would be first to two wins and winner-take-all. Or just keep your own cards of course.

In my picture are two decks I made that I thought were pretty fun (and really my other two decks weren't bad either). The top deck I thought was unbeatable but I misplayed by playing my Lunatic Pandora my first turn and passing - and it got Suplexed... But it would have been a sweet deck otherwise! My plan was to target a creature with Zenos, kill it with Lunatic Pandora (flipping Zenos), then bring back Lunatic Pandora with Delivery Moogle...

My opponent (my wife) was sad to learn in a different round that Syncopate doesn't really work when we both have infinite mana...

Anyway, I 100% will be playing Booster Blitz again. Hopefully often. It's a cool way to open packs, and get to play with them. I could see myself wanting to play this after every pre-release or something. Gonna walk around with two packs always. Can't wait to build my Booster Blitz Cube 😜 Sorry to oversell it, but it was just way more fun than I expected haha.