What is the Box of Chocolates?
When I learned how to play magic, it was at a kitchen table. My playgroup didn't know what was good, and we didn't really care. At the end of it all, we were just trying to have a good time during high school. I wanted to put together a set of seven decks that were based around the decks used in my casual "meta" when we started to learn the game, mostly for nostalgia. Most of these decks weren't balanced, weren't ideal, and had too many colors. I tried to capture the spirit of those decks when putting together this set while adding minor improvements and changes.
How do you play?
Each deck is double-sleeved with Dragon Shield Clears in a certain color of Ultra Pro Eclipse sleeve. The deck is stored in an Ultra Pro 80 card solid color deckbox with the same color as the sleeve, and the deckbox has a number on it. All seven Box of Chocolates decks are stored in a Quiver Leather Carrying Case with one extra black deckbox containing dice and tokens in black sleeves. At the start of the game, each person rolls a d8. The number you roll is the deck you get to play with in an ensuing multiplayer game of Magic. Rolls of 1 through 7 correspond to one of the seven decks, and a roll of an 8 means you need to reroll. If two players roll the same number, they reroll.
What's this deck about?
Alpha Enchant was my second deck. It was based around the Planechase 2012 "Savage Auras" preconstructed deck. It was actually a pretty strong deck, as nobody ran removal. And when people started to run removal, I ran hexproof. It was a bit of an arms race for a while, and eventually I made a different deck and put my Auras deck aside. I still remember the majority of the cards, and the old deck used to be Bant. I ended up making it Selesnya to tighten up on what cards the deck uses. The deck still focuses around a fairly light number of creatures that benefit from enchantments, with each other card in the deck being an aura. Most of the auras grant some form of resistance against removal (hexproof for targeted removal, totem armor for boardwipes, and a little bestow as well).
