Thank you for all of this great advice, everyone!
There is a lot of diversity here to choose from.
The Battle Box concept jumps out at me the most as my group of friends are familiar with dominion and ascension, so a shared pool of cards might be more familiar.
I hadn't considered no instants, and while that makes sense to teach new players, I think my group is clever enough to pick up the game quickly even with instants thrown in.
Tiny EDH and customizing a small CUBE are both fantastic ideas. I'll have to think about those more.
I think the building balanced mid range decks in different colors would also lend to fantastic games. I'll have to consider this further as well.
At this point, I think Battle Box might be the winner. The additional rules are more of replacement rules, and I can just pull out a stack of cards instead of having people worry about which deck to choose when they have no idea yet about the implications.
Thank you all very much for your thoughts, and I'd still love to hear anybody else's opinions on this.
I've had the idea to put together a few decks with the concept that I can pull them off the shelf just like a would any board game to play a quick game with friends that might not be familiar with Magic.
I'd want decks that are quick to teach with, have a good amount of interaction, would work well if all used in a multi-player game, can give a competitive two player game no matter which combination of decks I'm using, and have a lot of replay ability.
Has anybody else put together a 'board game' of decks for magic?
What cards would you consider staples for this kind of setup?
There is a lot of diversity here to choose from.
The Battle Box concept jumps out at me the most as my group of friends are familiar with dominion and ascension, so a shared pool of cards might be more familiar.
I hadn't considered no instants, and while that makes sense to teach new players, I think my group is clever enough to pick up the game quickly even with instants thrown in.
Tiny EDH and customizing a small CUBE are both fantastic ideas. I'll have to think about those more.
I think the building balanced mid range decks in different colors would also lend to fantastic games. I'll have to consider this further as well.
At this point, I think Battle Box might be the winner. The additional rules are more of replacement rules, and I can just pull out a stack of cards instead of having people worry about which deck to choose when they have no idea yet about the implications.
Thank you all very much for your thoughts, and I'd still love to hear anybody else's opinions on this.
I'd want decks that are quick to teach with, have a good amount of interaction, would work well if all used in a multi-player game, can give a competitive two player game no matter which combination of decks I'm using, and have a lot of replay ability.
Has anybody else put together a 'board game' of decks for magic?
What cards would you consider staples for this kind of setup?