Into the Story: Horror Edition // Into the Story (cont'd) Token

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1-6 players | 1+ packs | 10 minutes OBJECTIVE: Tell the best horror story you can, using the cards in your booster as inspiration. GET READY: Open a booster for each player and remove any ad, token, and art cards. Then sort the cards into separate piles for double-faced cards (DFCs), single-sided creature and planeswalker cards, land cards, and all other noncreature cards. Shuffle the piles and place each of them face down. LET'S PLAY: Go through the beats of the story below in order, revealing a card from the top of the specified pile or taking the specified action. Tell a story as you go. After a player tells a bit of the story for a beat, it's the next player's turn for the next story beat. If there are no cards of the requested type, players can make something up. **Introduction** • Setting: a land • The characters: three creatures/planeswalkers • Why the characters are at the location: a noncreature card

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• The monster the characters face: a DFC card **Action** • The characters make a critical mistake: a noncreature card • The first to die: choose one of the three characters • How the monster kills the first character: a noncreature card • The hero: choose one of the two remaining characters • Describe the monster's weakness/secret/motivation and how the hero discovered it: a noncreature card of creature/planeswalker card **Resolution** • Confronting the monster: a noncreature card • The lone survivor: choose one of the two characters • Ending: Create this yourself! How did the second character die? Did the monster survive? Was it all worth it? TO WIN: After the story's been told, assign the following awards by popular vote to players: Scariest, Funniest, and Most Exciting. Feel free to invent your own awards as well. In the case of a tied vote for the winner of an award, randomly determine its winner.

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