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 a deck I always wanted to make and a deck somebody else had already made. A few months after I learned the rules of the game, I found out about the card
Pillar of the Paruns
. I then decided that a fully multicolor deck would be the most overpowered deck of all time. After all, pillar would be an amazing card if everything in the deck was gold, and most of the cards I thought were good were multicolor. A more experienced player in my playgroup had made a bird tribal deck that was pretty amusing. The end result was this deck, an attempt to fuse both of them. The deck has strong flying synergies and solid creatures to boot. Many of them are small but work better with multiple other flying creatures on the battlefield, and you can usually just swarm players. The deck is also a bit midrange-y with boardwipes and enchantments that exile permanents. When looking for Azorius multicolor cards, that was really the first theme I saw. So I just ran with it.
