Welcome to the official (but sporadically updated) website for a casual tournament format for Magic the Gathering - Peasant Magic! Peasant magic decks contain 90% common cards, 10% uncommon cards, and 0% rare cards from any Magic the Gathering edition. (Full deck-building rules can be found in the Rules section of this web site.
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Each new arrival began well enough, and made all of the right promises up front. "There will be peace," they would say, "Prosperity, freedom, and safety for you and your family." Who knows...some of them may have even meant it. Regardless, within weeks, days, or sometimes even hours, the cycle would begin anew. First, the taxes. Later, the conscriptions, the battle, and the death. Always, there was death.
Some of them are legends: Urza, Feldon, the Phyrexians; others are legends in their own minds. Still, you and I call them the same name: planewalkers. They always come, take, and leave nothing behind except destruction. They war for their own glory, valuing nothing but their own scrawny necks.
Today, all of that has changed. Across Dominia, the peasants are rising up against their masters. A few lead them this year, but there will be more with each bloody harvest that the planeswalkers reap. We are no longer content to live in continual warfare, we shall no longer allow foreigners to rule us or our land. We are the land...only we truly speak for Dominia...
I conceived the peasant magic format after realizing that my magic card collection contains 70% common cards, 20% uncommon cards, and 10% rare cards. Howver, when I examine tournament-winning preconstructed decks from sanctioned DCI events, the mixture always seems more like 75% (or more) rare cards, 15% uncommons, and 10% common cards (not counting land, naturally). This seemed wrong to me, because rare cards are expensive, and having four of a really good kind of rare card takes (a) a lot of time, (b) a lot of money, or (most likely) (c) both.
Because I am not a "serious" collector, this also meant that there weren't any tournaments that I could compete in, aside from "sealed box"-type tourneys, where my haphazard collection would stand a chance. Also, sealed-deck tourneys typically carry with them a high entry fee, naturally, as tournament judges try to recoup their upfront expense for cards.
Thus, I typically refrained from participating in tourneys, mainly because I am thrifty, preferring to play with the thousands of cards that I already have rather than trying to buy a Black Lotus and a collection of Moxes, or buying boxes of cards as they are published. This makes me a bad customer for WotC and a real outside shot for any tournament, but an otherwise happy Magic player.
Peasant magic is my attempt to make Magic more accessable for people like me. I hope you enjoy it.
