I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work,

coronavirus edition. Okay, so today, today's podcast is about a format. But in many ways,

it's about more than just a format. I'm going to talk about a format known as Minimafter,

or Pack Wars. I'm going to talk about what it is, how to play, because it's a fun way to play.

And then I'm going to tell you a lengthy story about his history.

And in telling you the story about its history, I'm going to tell you a lot about early

Los Angeles magic.

One of the interesting things about being a magic historian is really enjoying not just

how the game evolved, the technical mechanics of the game evolved, but how the game as a community evolved.

And so today's is sort of diving in a little bit, talking about my past and talking a little bit about the early days of magic.

Okay, so the format I'm about to teach you today and talk about is called mini mafter, also known as Pack Wars. The way it

works is you take a single booster of magic. Normally you take a 15-card booster. All the things

I'm telling you, as it's a 15 card booster.

You can adapt how much basic land you put in if it's not.

We have made some non-15 card boosters, but most magic boosters are 15 cards.

So what you do is you take the booster.

You take three of every basic land.

So three plains, three islands, three swamps, three mountains, three forests.

And then you, without looking at the

pack, you mix them in. If you happen to know what the basic land is in the pack, or you can know

where the token card is, you can take those out. If you can take those out without having the look

of the pack. If not, you can just leave them in and just discard the token ad card when you draw it.

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