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?
This deck is an amalgamation of two decks in my original group. Nearly every player in my group started playing when the Izzet Vs Golgari duel deck released, so we all had the precon Izzet and precon Golgari decks. I ended merging my Izzet deck with a M13 "Depths of Power" precon Intro deck to create a pretty weird pile of cards that was mostly based around general spells and creatures that benefit from casting spells. Another player in my group took his Izzet deck and went full burn with it, adding lots of your standard burn spells. Both of our decks had similar themes, so for this deck I decided to merge them. This deck is based around casting a hell of a lot of spells really quickly to buff certain creatures. Most of those spells are cantrips, but a good portion are cheap burn spells that can catch players off their guard.
