Planechase

Planechase brings a new variant to the casual game play of MTG. The back stories of the card expansions and Planechase lends itself to the whole experience.  

There are four game packs to choose from:

                Strike Force

                Metallic Dreams

                Zombie Empire

                Elemental Thunder

What do you get in the packs?

10 Oversized planar cards, 1 planar 6d die, 60 card deck and a strategy/rule insert.

The planar decks set the scene in which the battlefield is staged. However, this is not to say that it remains this way throughout the entire game.

All the planar cards have a global effect, which affects all players at all times. A chaos effect is activated by the chaos symbol if rolled on the planar die. There is also a Planechase symbol which causes you to jump to a new plane, changing how the game may pan out.

If we look at the planar card ‘Sokenzan’ the global effect is ‘All creatures get +1/+1 and have haste’. The chaos effect is ‘whenever you roll [chaos], un-tap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase, followed by an additional main phase’. As you can see these abilities can make or break your game.  

You get one free roll per turn during you main phase. If you want to try your luck again it costs 1, if you want to try again it costs 2, and if you really aren’t happy with your past rolls it costs 3 and so on and so forth.

This format of play is so much fun and gets even better with more players. With the added effects with every plane, it can turn the game-play in seconds; always keeping it fresh and new. It is fun watching someone spend all there mana trying to Planechase, as it’s not helping their game at all.

My favourite planer cards:

‘Shiv’

The global effect is only good if you have mountains but if you roll chaos you get a 5/5 red Dragon with flying. NICE!

‘Sanctum of Serra’

You could lose it all or gain it all. If you planes walk out, all non-land permanents are destroyed but if you roll chaos, then your life becomes 20. If you’re about to lose, then what have you to lose...

‘Cliffside Market’

If swapping of life totals and creatures doesn’t make the game interesting, I don’t know what would.

‘Naya’

Especially if it’s the first planer card you Planechase to.

If you play multiplayer games a lot then I recommend getting these packs.