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If you’re curious to know about Magic the Gathering methods suggested by listeners, you can find them below!

Hannah suggested that the friends play:

“Constructed, in which players make their decks ahead of time with whatever cards they can get their hands on. This format is the problem the plaintiff is complaining about.

Or drafting, where they each open a pack of cards and take turns picking cards from those packs until each has built a suitable deck for play. At which point, the two play with these new decks that did not exist prior to the game at hand.”

Mark suggested another mode of play:

“I’ve used this one in friendly, non-tournament play and it helps even the playing field. Everyone brings their favorite decks, and each player randomly selects one of the decks that was brought.” Essentially, each player has an equal chance of using an “overpowered” deck during a given match.

and Gabe thought of these:

Reject rare draft

(in which each player donates 45 cards and then drafts cards. The rares are “donated”, as everyone takes home the deck they draft and no attempt is made to return the rares to the original owners.)

Peasant

(In Peasant a deck may contain up to 5 uncommon cards and the rest must be common. Peasant Magic was created by Rob Baranowski who felt that players with limited access to cards should still have an opportunity for competitive play.)

Back draft

(where each player tries to build the worst deck possible, because each player gives another player that deck to play in the tournament.)