Drinking Game / Magic: The Gathering

Drinking games for Magic: The Gathering.

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Commander/Elder Dragon Highlander Format:

• When a player casts their Commander, they take a drink.
  • If their Commander is a Dragon, they take two drinks instead.
• When a Commander returns to the Command Zone, its owner takes a drink.
  • When a player chooses to put their Commander in their library^note As of March 2015, a player can choose to put their commander into their command zone whenever it would change zones of their own volition, they and the person whose card effect put it there each take 3 drinks.
• When a player casts a legendary creature that isn't their Commander, they take a drink.
• When a player takes Commander damage from their own Commander, they take 2 drinks.
  • If it causes them to take enough damage to be out of the game, they finish their drink.

All formats:

• When a player plays a nonbasic land, they take a drink.
  • When a player plays a land beyond their first land for the turn, they take a drink.
    • When a player puts a land into play using a spell or ability, they take a drink.
• When a player searches their deck for one or more cards, they take a drink.
  • Whenever a player searches another player's deck for a card, both those players take a drink.
  • If the card in question is put onto the battlefield instead of into their hand, make it two drinks instead of one.
  • If Aven Mindcensor^note Forces opponents to only search the top four cards of their deck instead gets put into play in response but the search is still successful, the owner of Aven Mindcensor takes a drink.
• When a player looks at another player's hand, the one doing the looking takes a drink.
  • If the player owning the hand had to reveal it because of one of their own spells or abilities, everyone takes a drink instead.
• When a player draws a card when it's not their draw phase, they take a drink.
• When a player gains one or more life, they take a drink.
• If there's a board wipe, everyone takes a drink.
  • Hardcore Mode: Everyone takes a drink for each of their cards that got destroyed. (Cards, not permanents. Tokens don't count. Your liver will thank you later.)
    • Death to the liver mode: Same as above, but for every permanent destroyed by the wipe, not just your own and including tokens.
• When a player targets another player with a card that helps the targeted player, both those players take a drink.
• When a player takes control of another player's permanent, both those players take a drink. (Note: If someone has Norin the Wary as their Commander, the affected players take a drink only the first time this happens.)
  • If a player gives another player control of one of their permanents, those players take two drinks instead.
    • Make it 3 drinks if the card being given has no drawbacks.
    • It is the will of Zedruu that you should have ... a drink.
• Whenever a player says "it resolves", they take a drink.
• When a player casts a card that makes everyone agree they need to team up on that player, the player who cast that card takes a drink.
• When a player backstabs another player they agreed to team up with, both those players take a drink.
• Finish your drink if someone plays a combo that "goes infinite" and wins the game.
  • If the combo player stops or breaks the combo of their own volition, downgrade it to a sip.
  • If that player discovers or reveals they're missing the resources to win on that very turn, they take a drink.
• If the game ends with players scooping, all players still in the game finish their drinks.