Comments on: What’s the Best Magic Drinking Game

By: sean

sean — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:57:27 +0000

My magic drinking game is called “achieving a wicked crossfade and still placing top 3 at the drafts at my house.”

By: Stpcc

Stpcc — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:55:59 +0000

We made up a game that basically got you drunk while opening a box of Magic cards.

3 – 4 players

To keep everyone honest, we pour 1 shot of beer to keep in front of you and it must be full at all times. If you try to proceed and it is empty, two beer shots.

You begin by placing every pack in a random order face down on the table. Each round, everyone rolls a die for order of pack selection. If your die falls from the table, you do a beer shot. Everyone then selects a pack. If you match another pack, both matching players do a beer shot. If you have four players and three match, odd man out does one. If everyone matches, then everyone drinks the remainder of their beer.

All this is just before you open packs where you drink based on certain cards (like one with an ugly picture or a particular cycle of uncommon cards). You drink if you get a foil. Another for a foil uncommon. Yet another for a foil rare.

When you get to rare, based on price, your card will fall into 5 tiers:

5. Bulk – Force someone to do a beer shot.
4. $1 – $3 – Take a beer shot
3 Good ($4 – $7) – Do a liquor shot of your choice.
2. Great ($8 – $15) – Do a liquor shot where the other players place different liquors all adding up to a double shot that usually has 6 different liquors.
1. The best to be expected (+$16) – the other players are now allowed to put any item found in the fridge along with liquors until your double shot is filled up. This has included Tabasco, egg whites, coffee grounds… you get the picture.

There are lots of little on the fly rules I’m not thinking of.

I don’t know where it started but it became a monthly ritual while I lived with guys that all played Magic casually over ten years ago. We still do this every once a while but nowhere near the frequency. It was a blast and wasn’t as expensive as you think if you wanted to sell some of the cards.

By: Ryan Overturf

Ryan Overturf — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 02:56:59 +0000

In reply to Chad. If you look at its history, it's been on a downward trend for some time with no sign of stopping.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:46:03 +0000

I’m wondering if the liver is a good long term hold – this article seems to indicate that it might be worth offloading nowish?

By: Ryan Lam

Ryan Lam — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:17:36 +0000

Draw before you untap? Take a drink.
Mess up the turn order accidentally? Take a drink.
Declare combat after combat step? Take a drink.
Screw up an effect? Take a drink.
Create a hostile environment? Chug 2.

You get the idea. #BeABetterGamer

By: Robert Grimmer

Robert Grimmer — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:39:33 +0000

In reply to Ryan Overturf. I do Ryan. I read/subscribe here, mtgprice, and elsewhere daily.

By: Ryan Overturf

Ryan Overturf — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:00:59 +0000

In reply to Bobg. If you're looking for finance pieces, check out my last two insider articles. We don't offer much in the way of finance tips on the free side.

By: Robert Grimmer

Robert Grimmer — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:13:25 +0000

Indeed I do. Auto correct has a mind of it’s own.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:58:32 +0000

In reply to Bobg. Do you mean Substance?

By: Bobg

Bobg — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:56:20 +0000

I really wish you would write more about investing, speculating and/or magic trends as apposed to articles like this. Your articles as of late have really lacked sustenance.