[ WP ] A casual game of Magic : the Gathering becomes real , jumanji-style .

It was Josh ’ s first chance at winning a tournament. Early this same day he had bested at least a hundred inferior opponents. Only one before this had posed a threat, but Josh in his ever gleaming genius paid the last drop of mana to blast his opponent away with a simple bolt of Lightning. 
 Now he faced the champion four years running. The current champ was the holder of the acclaimed “ Best Deck Ever ”. Josh figured the odds were about 1:25 he loses. 
 
 The pair role their die and Josh ’ s lands on 18 
 “ Maybe I have a chance today ” he thinks to himself as his opponent roles a pathetic 4. 
 Fans have gathered by now, and Josh is starting to feel nervous. His tremoring hands reach towards his deck and he draws his cards. 
 As Josh draws up his seventh card he realizes the worst possible situation. 
 “ Shit, Mulligan ” 
 Josh returns his seven creatures and instead pulls a hand of three mountains, a one drop goblin, and a near useless 5 drop. 
 Many opponents in the past have spoken out against josh for using a mono red deck, but they didn ’ t here with their Blue-Black kill decks did they? 
 As Josh places down his first mountain the scenery changes, this was the newest feature to the game; it was real now. A small ball no larger than one used in the batting box shot above his head. His ball of pure energy shoots towards the middle ground between Josh and his opponent. Here it materializes as a small goblin no larger than Josh ’ s own ten year old sister. 
 “ Turn ” Josh yells over a seemingly enormous distance. However, clear as day he hears a scoff in response. 
 Josh can barely focus on his opponent, if asked he probably couldn ’ t tell you a thing about him. 
 Josh is snapped back into reality as a thousand foot goliath materializes in front of him. 
 “ shit ” Josh whispers once again under his breath. He needed a Hell of a turn. 
 Josh pulls up the next card from the top of the deck; it was a two drop burn spell, useless to him here. 
 Josh places down another mountain and knows that everyone will laugh at this pathetic attempt at a turn, but as he had no other option he simply says “ Turn ” as monotonously as possible. 
 Another scoff. 
 Josh is nervous now, more than a little bit, the turning oceans from the other side begin to brush near his mountains. 
 Once again Josh is snapped from his autopilot, only this time it ’ s from the stench of death and decay brushing against his nostrils. 
 In a moment three specters are waiting at the conversion point of an Ocean, a swamp, and a simple mountain. 
 The three specters race up towards the top of the mountain and Josh can feel cold radiating off of them. As one specter lines up for an attack easily strong enough to stagger Josh, his lone warrior, the Goblin, Rushes between the two. He trades his soul to save Josh from just one of their hits. 
 The next few turns end in the same manor; however Josh draws some blockers to negate more damage, which is a far superior method than using his face to tank hits. 
 Josh finally draws the fifth mountain he needs. 
 As his mana sparks rush to the field in a cluster a figure begins to emerge. 
 
 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs 
 
 
 Kazuul may be an amazing card, but he has no real way to win the match. 
 Not yet at least. 
 More creatures rush Josh on what appears to be the last turn of the game, but a sudden spark from his hand saves him from taking the last two damage needed to finish the job. 
 Josh ’ s fear turns to glee in the next few seconds. Attacking with almost all his creatures last turn may prove to be his opponent ’ s downfall. 
 “ You see ”, Josh begins, “ My friend Kazuul here isn ’ t that strong on his own, but he has quite the ability. Every time you attack he gets a new friend a 3/3 red Ogre to be specific, and to me it looks like you attacked with ten creatures last turn, just narrowly missing the kill too. It ’ s a shame you couldn ’ t kill me off there, because now my Moonveil Dragon is ready to help the ogres in their final charge ”. 
 As the words leave his mouth, the mana spheres shoot to the sky and summon the largest creature Josh had ever seen, this beautiful dragon had the power to enrage every single ogre and give them just the strength they needed to crush Josh ’ s opponent to his knees. 
 
 As his opponent sat with just one health point remaining, Josh stepped closer towards the receding sea. 
 Josh scoffs and casts a Bolt of lightning from his hand. 
 The scenery began to fade. 
 He had succeeded. 

