Designed by Nick Floyd
This Magic: the Gathering variant is designed for two players who both play out of the same 80 card deck.
The deck contains ten copies of the signature creature for which the deck is named, the Dandân (originally from Magic’s first expansion, Arabian Nights), and eight Memory Lapse which are also represented in the variant’s name. There are four copies of Accumulated Knowledge, and two copies of each of the other cards in the deck (aside from basic Islands), many of which manipulate the top of the single library in some way.
RULE CHANGES — Forgetful Fish is played like a standard game of Magic with these simple rule changes.
• The two players share a library and a graveyard placed between them so that both players can reach them with ease. A card that refers to the “owner” of a library or graveyard or refers to “your library” or “your graveyard” refers to the singular library or graveyard. The “owner” of a card, is the person who played that card from his or her hand.
• For starting hands and anytime both players must draw cards from the same effect, the cards should be dealt from the top of the deck, one player than the other, as though dealing a standard card game. The active player deals.
•The standard mulligan rule applies, but anytime a hand of seven cards does not contain two or more land cards, that player may reveal those cards and take a free mulligan without having to put an additional card on the bottom of the library when finally deciding to keep a hand.
• Players start the game with 20 life, but since they will only lose life in increments of four, a starting life total may be simply represented by five counters (5x4=20 life) or tracked on a single six-sided die. Each time a Dandân deals its 4 damage to a player, he or she loses one counter, or one number off the die.
• The stack works as normal, but can get quite complex. Players should allow time for their opponent to respond and make sure his opponent passes priority before beginning resolution of the stack, each time a spell resolves, and before drawing a card from the top of the library.
