Magic Minigame: Into the Story: Horror Edition

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<br>• 1-6 Players • 1+ Packs • 10 minutes <br><strong>Objective:</strong> <br>Tell the best horror story you can, using the cards in your booster as inspiration. <br><strong>Get Ready:</strong> <br>Open a booster for each player and remove any ad, token, and art cards. Then sort the cards into separate pules for double-faced cards (DFCs), single-sided creature and planeswalker cards, land cards, and all other noncreature cards. Shuffle the piles and place each of them face down. <br><strong>Let's Play:</strong> <br>Go through the beats of the story below in order, revealing a card from the top of the specified pile or taking the specified action. Tell a story as you go. After a player tells a bit of the story for a beat, it's the next player's turn for the next story beat. If there are no cards of the requested type, players can make something up. <br><strong>Introduction</strong> <br>• Setting: a land <br>• The characters: three creatures/planeswalkers <br>• Why the characters are at the location: a noncreature card <br>• The monster the characters face: a DFC card <br><strong>Action</strong> <br>• The characters make a critical mistake: a noncreature card <br>• The first to die: choose one of the three characters <br>• How the monster kills the first character: a noncreature card. <br>• The hero: choose one of the two remaining characters <br>• Describe the monster's weakness/secret/motivation and how the hero discovered it: a noncreature card or creature/planeswalker card <br><strong>Resolution</strong> <br>• Confronting the monster: a noncreature card <br>• The lone survivor: choose one of the two characters <br>• Ending: Create this yourself! How did the second character die? Did the monster survive? Was it all worth it? <br><strong>To Win:</strong> <br>After the story's been told, assign the following awards by popular vote to players: Scariest, Funniest, and Most Exciting. Feel free to invent your own awards as well. In the case of a tied vote fo the winner of an award, randomly determine its winner.