Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
This is the 2019 edition and reimplementation of Magic The Gathering - Game Night (2018). It follows the 2018 edition in including five monochromatic starter-level decks, plus life counters and tokens.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Income
Receive recurring resources according to your position, assets, or development.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Interrupts
React during another action to alter, prevent, or respond to its resolution.
Player Elimination
Players can be removed from contention before the game ends.
Take That
Direct negative effects at selected opponents.
Read the full game description
This is the 2019 edition and reimplementation of Magic The Gathering - Game Night (2018). It follows the 2018 edition in including five monochromatic starter-level decks, plus life counters and tokens. As in the previous edition, the box contains all components required to play the game with all decks. The composition of the cards, however, is unique. Half of each of the five decks is from the Magic Core Set 2020 expansion, and the other half are reprints from a range of earlier sets. In additions to the reprints, each deck has one "legendary creature" card created specifically for this set. Each "Core Set 2020" half of a deck is designed so that it can be viably combined with any "reprint" half of another deck for quick and easy deckbuilding, once players are ready to try two-color decks.