Wizard's Tower

Wizard's Tower
DCI Sanctioned
Paper
Magic Online
Magic Arena
Rules
Type	Limited (Draft)
Multiplayer
Add. rules	All players share the same library and the same graveyard

Wizard's Tower is a Magic: The Gathering format created by Ryan Miller. All players draw from the same, massive deck — the "Tower." Each turn, you draft a card from a common pool in the middle of the table, then draw the top card of the tower.

Rules

What you need

• Two to five players
• Nine booster packs
• Eighty land (sixteen of each basic land)

Starting a game

• Open the booster packs (Try not to look at the cards in the boosters yet, though. It's more fun to discover them during the game.)
• Shuffle the cards and lands together into a single huge deck.
• Determine randomly who will go first.
• Deal three cards to each player.
• Starting with the first player, each player may discard any number of cards and redraw that many. Once all players have done this, shuffle the discarded cards and put them on the bottom of the deck.
• Put the top seven cards of the deck face up in the middle of the table. The deck becomes a library that's shared by all players.

Playing the game

• First, choose one of the face-up cards and add it to your hand. If there aren't any, put the top seven cards of the tower face up in the middle of the table, and then choose one.
• Draw the top card of the tower.
• All players share the same library and the same graveyard. If you cast a spell that targets a card in an opponent's graveyard or manipulates the top card of your library, those cards affect the shared library or graveyard.
• The face-up cards aren't considered to be in any game zone.

Other than that, the game is played as a Free-for-All Magic game.

External links

• HikingStick (September 2, 2013). "Wizard's Tower Format (Tips and Q&A)". Deckbox.org.
• Alex Houstoun (September 12, 2023). "A Guided Tour of the Wizard’s Tower". Lucky Paper.
• Epic Wizard's Tower Showdown from Mana Screwed (Video). Snow Stories. YouTube (2017).