Magic Minigame: 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 pules 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

• 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 or 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 fo the winner of an award, randomly determine its winner.

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