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 weird. In our magic club at high school, the person who taught me how to play the game ran a knight tribal deck that was monowhite and actually fairly powerful. I believe he took it to modern FNM on occasion and would do pretty well. I saw that and decided to make one for myself after moving on from my aura deck. When I first made tribal knights, it was actually Azorius. This was mainly so I could run Detention Sphere and Supreme Verdict, as sphere was good against token decks in my group and verdict was good against Mana Leak, which was really the only counterspell we thought was good. For Box of Chocolates, I realized that there was already an Azorius deck. So, to keep things more unique, I remade my Knights deck to be monowhite. The deck is a fairly standard aggro white deck, with small creatures that really only gain power if you boost them somehow (usually through lords, enchantments, or planeswalkers). This deck was also the first deck I ever used a planeswalker in.
