Archenemy Rules Announced

by News | posted at 2010-05-16 23:31:00
tagged: WOTC, MTG, Magic, Wizards, Wizards of the Coast, Magic the Gathering, Archenemy, Multiplayer, DailyMTG

Wizards of the Coast has detailed how the upcoming multiplayer release Archenemy will work through their daily Magic magazine DailyMTG.com. From the article:

"To play Archenemy, each player needs a deck made of normal-sized Magic cards. By default these will be normal Constructed decks consisting of at least 60 cards (such as, for example, the 60-card decks featured in the four Archenemy game packs), but in theory you could also try this with 100-card EDH decks, 40-card Sealed Decks, or any other Magic decks. The player playing as the archenemy also needs a scheme deck made of at least 20 oversized scheme cards (also included in each game pack—note that some schemes appear in more than one game pack)."

So what exactly are scheme cards? Wizards is also giving us our first look at those as well. Check out "Which of you Burns Brightest?"

There are approximately a half dozen of the over-sized scheme cards spoiled in the article. The set will be available for sale June 18, 2010 with MSRP set at $19.99 for each deck. Release events will also be held June 18-20 at participating venues.

Read the full article and check out all the spoiled cards here.

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(Edit: updated to reflect changed price on DailyMTG.com from $24.99 MSRP to $19.99 MSRP. Thanks to reader Peter Beckfield for catching the change from Wizards.)

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