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Spelldown is a Dandan/shared deck variant with some added rules.

  • 2 players
  • Each starts with a hand of 7
  • Shared library of 30 cards
  • Shared graveyard
  • No nonland permanents

Yup, it's all just instants, sorceries and islands. What's more, there are no damaging effects in these spells - the only way to win is to deck out your opponent.

You have a selection of cards that draw, force others to draw, scry, counter, surveil, bring cards back from the grave to your hand and even one that shuffles everything in the yard back into the library. Use your cunning and timing to make sure you have a card on your draw step and your opponent doesn't.

No cards exile. No cards with flashback, or jumpstart or rebound. Just clean mechanics keeping both players on their toes, searching for an out.

This is a prototype for now. I want to keep this pretty cheap, but I'm sure there are other card choices that could easily go in here. Please comment with your ideas!

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Maybe Deep Analysis would be a decent optio for the deck

July 21, 2025 6:14 a.m.

xram666 thanks for the suggestion. I like Deep Analysis, but it has a couple problems here.

The first is that the flashback cost has no real drawback when you're playing without life points. It's just two mana for two cards, which might be a little too strong compared to the other cards. The second is the flashback itself. While it would be an interesting tool both players could have access to in a shared graveyard, I don't want any cards to be able to exile themselves from play.

A variant of this that heavily utilizes flashback cards could be really cool, it's just not what I'm going for with this list.

July 21, 2025 3:26 p.m.

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