Sealed Format

The Sealed format is a means to test your mettle and hone your skills. Build decks on the spot from a predetermined set of booster packs that you open. Explore any emergent strategies that you see as the cards present themselves, and face off against a littany of opponents.

Players

Any number of players!

Supplies

We recommend 6 boosters per player, plus more for prizes. This gives a generous enough range of cards and elements for players to put their deck building skills to the test while keeping the power level of the average deck under control.

For every 4 players, you’ll need...

  • 1 Booster Box (at least 24 booster packs per pack, 6 packs per player).
  • 1 Draft Kit (see here). These are available through LGS Store Kits or direct from our online storefor at-home players. Draft kits are reccomended for a desirable default Avatar and Site power level, however, if you don't have Draft Kits, you can use Alpha / Beta edition Sorcerer Avatars and Ordinary Sites.
  • Prizing. The easiest option is to provide additional booster packs & LGS Store Kit items, but you can award whatever you want. If you opt to provide boosters, we recommend awarding 1 pack per win per player.

Time

Give approximately 20 minutes for players to open their packs and complete deck construction, and approximately 45 minutes per game (perhaps an hour total per round with time for pairings and any games that reach the time limit).

Deckbuilding

Players build Sealed decks according to the following rules:

  • 1 Avatar. Either the supplied Avatar, or any Avatar you open in your boosters.
  • Your Spellbook will contain at least 24 cards - your arsenal of minions, magics, auras, and artifacts.
  • Your Atlas will contain at least 12 cards - your Sites with which you'll construct the realm around you.
  • There is no deckbuilding constraint on cards according to their rarity!
  • Players can use any number of supplied Sites (or they can bring their own) to supplement any they opened and wish to play in their decks.
  • Any extra cards you pick that don't go into your 24-card Spellbook or 12-card Atlas become your Collection in its entirety.

The Collection In Limited

  • Cards that are named by cards that interact with your collection are freely available for use.
  • Certain cards reference specific ones by name that should be fetched from your collection. In Constructed would typically be included in your Collection and would count towards your 10-card Collection Limit. For Limited, the most common cards can be found in the box topper for Gothic.
  • Some cards allow you to interact with cards from your Collection. If specifically named, you may resolve the effect as if they were already in your collection. Otherwise, you should have the card in your Collection, which, for limited, is the group of extra cards you opened but didn't include in your Spellbook and Atlas.

Instructions

Give approximately 20 minutes for players to open their packs and complete deck construction. Then, play a Swiss-style tournament with all the players until you have an overall winner. We reccomend playing 2-3 rounds, but you can play as many as you like. Leave about 45 minutes to play each round of games and enjoy your decks! Players keep all the cards they open!

Each player starts on 20 life. We recommend playing on a 5 wide by 4 tall grid. You'll play your Sites in the grid squares, summon your creatures to them, and battle your opponent. Reduce the opponent to 0 life to bring them to Death's Door, then deal the final blow to win the game.