As far as I know this format was created to add a game element to moment when you are cracking packs open: in this blog post I’ll demonstrate a game of Mini master and setup.
So the things you need to play Mini master are:
And optionally sleeves
Next up, Open boosters without looking what cards are in it (and sleeve them) then suffle them up and start playing with your about 30 card deck.
As usually in limited formats you start with 20 life
So lets see how would my test game go:
R1T1, White. Main Phase 1: Play Swamp, Go!
R1 T2, Red, Draw: Earth-Cult Elemental. Main Phase 1: Play Plains, Go!
R2 T3, White, Draw: Potion of Healing. Main Phase 1: Play Island, Go!
R2, T4, Red, Draw: Forest.Main Phase 1: Play Mountain , Cast Mimic, Go!
R3, T5, White, Draw Mountain. Main Phase 1: Play Mountain, Go! (When colors don’t match spells, even if you have several spells in hand it, is not always good to keep the hand.)
R3, T6, Red Draw: Tiger-Tribe Hunter. Main Phase 1: Play Forest, Cast Chaos Channeler. (Draw is important, while I might miss some spells with the ability, chances are I’ll get more out of it, than lose to it.
R4, T7, White, Draw: Bruenor Battlehammer, Main Phase 1: Play Island, Go! (Any land other than Island will now allow me to play a spell.)
R4, T8, Red, Draw: Plains. Declaring to Attack with Chaos Channeler, Wild Magic Surge triggers, Roll 4. Exiled Silver Raven, hit 4. 2nd Main Phase: Play Plains, Cast Iron Golem
R5, T9, White, Draw: Vampire Spawn. Main Phase 1: Cast Vampire Spawn, ETB trigger drains 2 life from Red, Go!
R5, T10, Red, Draw Clattering Skeletons. Declare attackers: both go! Wild Magic Surge triggers, Roll 2, Exiled Mountain, White does not block, goes to 9. Main Phase 2, play Mountain from exile, cast Tiger-Tribe Hunter.
R6, T11 White, Draw: You’re Ambushed on the Road. Pass the turn!
R6, T12, Draw: Swamp, Declare Attackers: Attack with all 3: Wild Magic Surge Triggers, Roll 8, Exile Sylvan Shepherd. Pack Tactics trigger, Sacrifice Chaos Channeler, to Kill Vampire Spawn and hit 9 to win the game.
As from this example game you can notice, as half of deck is landa the game is very luck dependent, if you don’t have correct colora in starting hand, clearly not good idea to go. To finish up, I’ll show what cards each booster had,
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