Multiplayer planchase in Modern
Modern forum
Posted on Dec. 18, 2018, 10:18 a.m. by Icbrgr
I am interested in trying Planechase for games ranging from 2-5 players with 60 card decks.... does anyone have any experience or suggestions for how to go about this?
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Should everyone have their own planar deck; Or should there just be a community planar deck/Eternity Map
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Is it better to buy specific planchase cards or to buy the Planchase Anthology?
Updated my description to include a link to the Rules for others interested/unfamiliar Flooremoji
December 18, 2018 12:44 p.m.
Personally, I play with a community planechase deck, because this is a bit easier on my players and works better for the hyper-casual meta of my kitchen table. There are some advantages and disadvantages to this plan.
Pros:
- I own one complete set of planechase cards from the Anthology (as well as some duplicates since I had the Savage Auras and Night of the Ninja decks). If each player were designing their own deck, there might be competition over who gets what planechase cards. Since planechase is not very popular, it's unreasonable to expect other people to go out and purchase their own planechase deck. If you were to play more often, this consideration would be less valid, as players would have a justification for buying the deck.
- It makes every roll of the planechase dice a gamble--you never know if you're going to be put ahead or behind by the change in plane. This helps even the playing field if you have very desperate skill in deckbuilding and playing, as random chance can hamper even the best players.
- Setup is a tad faster.
Cons:
- Players are less inclined to take a gamble on the planechase dice if (a) they plane does not actively harm them and/or (b) the special ability does nothing for them.
- Takes out skill from deckbuilding. There are too many different planes to try and be synergistic with, so there's no reason to build a deck with specific planes in mind, like you would if you were also building a planechase deck.
All in all, it comes down to your specific meta, and what would work best for your players.
No idea what is better--buying the anthology or the cards. It probably depends on whether you would use any of the cards from the deck and the price-point of buying the planar cards.
One note, the Anthology will come with copies of Fractured Powerstone, a card you might otherwise forget exists. I'd recommend putting this card in every deck players are using.
Personally, I purchased the Anthology as I wanted a full set of planar cards and wanted the reconstructed decks. This was also in-part due to my meta. Most often we play with precon decks as the majority of players are not Magic-inclined, and it's just another game on our traditional roster of nerd games to them.
December 18, 2018 12:57 p.m.
Lol I already did forget the existence of Fractured Powerstone cdkime!
Yeah this pursuit is a personal push... I don't expect others to run out and buy planar decks and intend on providing the planar decks.... which is honestly the main reason why I'm drawn to purchasing Anthologies... I watched the Tolarian Community College/The Professors video about the contents and the product seems nice as a whole and view the decks that it comes with as nice pieces to my collection... but mainly drawn to the idea of having ALL of the planar deck building tools in one package and having a large community planar deck too keep it fair/random.... but was probing for advice/assurance before actually buying it.
December 18, 2018 1:35 p.m.
PhthisisClock says... #6
Ah, Planechase! You should try multiplayer Planechase Commander/EDH... adds a nice extra layer of randomness to it.
December 18, 2018 5:31 p.m.
From what I understand Commander is the most common place for Planchase to be played PhthisisClock but for some reason its never taken with my playgroup.... we have a few EDH decks collecting dust but nobody ever wants to play them it's kinda annoying...especially after I spent as much time as I did putting my Tromokratis deck together....
I've been toying with the idea of Planchase for about a year now and just recently read about playing with an "Eternities-map" so now I am kinda obsessing over it and wondering/waiting if anyone can talk me off the ledge or convince me that planchase is better with individual planar decks or not.
Flooremoji says... #2
Can you link some rules? I'm not sure many people know much about it. :)
December 18, 2018 12:13 p.m.