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Explanation 

Constructed

Limited

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Gambling Magic

Rules

Each player is given fifty poker chips. These are used for ante and "side bets" as the tournament progresses. You are eliminated when you have no chips left, the winner of the tournament is the player who has all of the chips. You will also need some six sided dice.

At the beginning of each game, instead of using cards for ante, you ante five chips from your stash. The winner of each game takes all the chips in the pot. Three times per game, any player may put a chip into the ante to roll a six-sided die during their turn.

If you roll a:

  • 1 - skip your next turn.

  • 2-4 - nothing happens.

  • 5-6 - draw 2 cards.

"Side bets" are won when specific conditions in a game are met. You can make up some of your own, but here are a few:

  • The first player to put two creature enchantments on a single creature gets two chips from his opponent.

  • The first player to damage an opponent with a 1/1 creature gets two chips from his opponent.

  • Killing your opponent on his turn gets you two chips from your opponent.

  • Winning the game with a life total higher than twenty gets three chips from your opponent.

Deck Construction

Use standard deck construction rules for this variant.

Sideboard

You can have a 15-card sideboard in Constructed and in Limited the cards you don’t use are your sideboard.

Banned & Restricted List

When playing this variant it is usually decided what type you will be playing. So if playing Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, or Extended Gambling Magic then, follow that format’s Banned and Restricted List.

Mulligan Rules

In order to take a Standard “Paris” Mulligan in this variant you must ante 1 chip for each time you Mulligan. 

You may also take a Gambling Mulligan. To take a Gambling Mulligan you must ante 5 chips but you will get to draw the same amount of cards you had before you took the Mulligan. You may only use this Mulligan once per game.

A Standard “Paris” Mulligan is defined as: Before each game begins, a player may, for any reason, reshuffle and redraw his hand, drawing one less card. This may be repeated as often as the player wishes, until he has no cards left in his hand. After the participant, who plays first, mulligans as often as he likes, the decision of whether to mulligan passes to the other player. Once a player passes the opportunity to mulligan, that player may not change his mind.

History

This variant was created by Eric Huynh.