OVERALL: This is another card with a different image. I changed the title too – which is more fitting. This card represents a new shift in how I play weekly Magic the Gathering. We used to have an active 60-card weekday night group (4-6 players) on Wed/Thursday night. Over the years the a player would stop playing. Including myself, eventually it came down to 2 players. It was fun for a while, but 2 player games become boring as both players start to memorize the other players decks. We agreed to ventured out to find new players for our magic play night. What we found, was a thriving player base of ‘commander’ players at the Upland Magic Group (UMG). They play weekly on Sunday at Upland Brewery between 12-8p. There are always 15+ players in total and usually there are 5-10 players rotating in and out on Sundays. This past year, Sunday is Magic day with the UMG at Upland Brewery.

GAME ATTRIBUTES: This card is mono-black and was designed to be snuck into actual game play with UMG. Having protection from everything means it doesn’t go away. Since UMG plays in a brewery, it makes sense to have some kind of operating rules around how players pay for beer rounds. Besides being a great blocker (without flying) it determines that of a 4 player game, the first player out, buys the round for the surviving players as long as the card is in-play.