Your deck is brewed, saved, and ready. The next choice the MTGBrew game will ask — and it is a choice, not a loading screen — is how you wan...
Your deck is brewed, saved, and ready. The next choice the MTGBrew game will ask — and it is a choice, not a loading screen — is how you want to play it. This article walks through the format pick at the heart of the game we are building: Commander at 40 life, Regular at 20, Pauper at 20, or Random when you would rather the game decided. The game itself is in development — coming soon, in the works, with no launch date promised here or anywhere else.
Commander: 40 life, a hundred cards, one legend in charge
Commander is the format MTGBrew's builder was born for, so it anchors the pick. Forty life, a singleton deck, and your commander setting the terms of the game. Pick Commander when you want the long, political, swing-heavy game your brewed deck was designed to play — the mode where a deck built around a single legendary creature gets the time and the life total to do its thing.
Regular and Pauper: 20 life, two different kinds of honest
Regular is the classic duel: 20 life, a focused deck, and games that reward a tight curve and interaction you can cast on time. Pauper keeps the 20 life but changes the building rules — commons only — which makes it the budget brewer's proving ground: no rarity safety net, just clean design and cards doing exactly what their text says. If you brew on a budget in the MTGBrew AI deck builder, Pauper is the mode that grades your homework most fairly.
Random: let the game pick
Random exists for the nights when choosing is the hard part. Select it and the game assigns the format for that match — a small surprise that keeps a playgroup's habits honest, because the deck that only ever plays one mode stops being the only deck you reach for. It is a planned part of the format picker, described here as part of a game still being built, not a separate rules format of its own.
What is already live while the game is being built
The game is coming soon; the rest of MTGBrew is not. The MTGBrew site already runs the AI deck builder, the full card database, and saved decks and collections — the decks you brew today are the decks this format pick is being built for. When you sit down to a game, you will play the decks you brewed, and if you have none, you will be able to borrow an equal-power community deck instead of sitting out.
The MTGBrew Discord is where players are already gathering and where finding opponents will start: join the MTGBrew Discord. For the neighbouring pieces of this series, read Coming Soon: Your MTGBrew Profile Record — vs the Computer and vs Real Players and Coming Soon: Build Your MTG Deck, Then Play It on MTGBrew.
Keep reading
Keep reading: Coming Soon: Your MTGBrew Profile Record — vs the Computer and vs Real Players and Coming Soon: Build Your MTG Deck, Then Play It on MTGBrew.
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