Mystery Booster Commander Edition (Patreon)

One of my favorite callbacks from the new Mystery Booster spoilers is Arzakon, who was the final boss in the MicroProse MTG video game back from 1997. I used to love that game. If you don't know, the main gameplay was that you were a character who would walk around from village to village. And when you would stop at a village, you would challenge another wizard to a game of Magic. If you won, you could add to your collection (through ante of course).

What made the game especially fun is that you could build some truly degenerate decks because you only had to have 40 cards and you could have up to 4 of any card. I wish I had some of my old decks lists! Just off the top of my head, a typical deck list might be

4 Mox Sapphire4 Mox Jet4 Underground Sea4 Black Lotus4 Dark Ritual4 Timetwister4 Ancestral Recall4 Time Walk4 Contract from Below4 Underworld Dreams

You get the idea. Super fair, right? You don't know true brokenness until you've played with Contract from Below.

The final boss Arzakon in particular had a starting life total of 400. Whereas you still started at like 20. So you had to go through some insane loops or focus on trying to deck him instead (and his deck had well over 100 cards).

Just writing this out has me itching to play again. It must be available online somewhere, right?