Welcome to Mafia: The Gathering - You Pick the Card Edition!

GAME OVER, TOWN WINS, + 15377 WINS

Disclaimer: This was not originally my idea, but when Burning_Earth pulled the plug on it a year ago I volunteered to run a version of the idea myself.

The game is a Standard Mafia game (no bastard elements) with the added twist that your roles will be fashioned after Magic: The Gathering cards that you pick yourselves! Everyone has gotten at least one ability of some kind. Alignment has been determined independently of roles, at random, after you have made your card choices. It will be entirely possible, based on your card choices, that the Mafia team might not have a night kill. Not all powers are created equal, as I have to keep game balance in mind. The alignments in the game are as follows:
14 players = 9 Town, 4 Mafia, 1 Self

The Town win condition is to eliminate all Mafia aligned players. The Mafia win condition is to eliminate all Town aligned players. The Self aligned player will have a unique win condition that varies based on the card they chose and maybe an alternate win condition of surviving to the end of the game (depending on the card). A Self aligned player who achieves their win condition before the game's end is removed from the game while play continues for the remaining players.

Here's an example of what your role PM would look like if the card you had chose was Chainer's Edict:


Game Rules
1. Respect your fellow players and game mod.
2. Have fun.
3. Bold all votes. Coloured votes can help, but are not required. Unvoting is not required to place a new vote.
3a. Do not attempt to hide votes using invisible text or sblocks.
4. Do not edit or delete your posts.
5. Once you are dead, do not post. Not even a "bah" post. Opportunities for Resurrection might exist, so please keep that in mind.
6. Refrain from posting at Night.
7. A lynch requires a majority vote (defined as 50% of living players, rounded down, +1). Anything less results in No Lynch.
8. Days will last approximately 7 days. Nights will last approximately 2 days. Neither will ever end on a Saturday or Sunday, and will be extended to ensure that is not the case.
8a. Deadlines are hardset. Votes after a deadline will not be counted, even if I am not around to end the day.
9. Do not quote anything I have sent to you by PM. You may paraphrase.
10. Have fun!! Yes, this is on here twice. It is an important rule.

Breaking any of these rules is punishable by modkill.

Battlefield
1. felbatista
2. KingofDominaria
3. NeoSilk
4. altimis
5. Rubik
6. Urszasucks
7. Hello World

Graveyard
razorborne, Town-Aligned Seer's Vision
Just_a_Cleric, Town-Aligned Birthing Pod
Elijin, Mafia-Aligned Lord of the Pit
storyteller, Mafia-Aligned Evil Twin
Mown, Mafia-Aligned Mindslaver
Popular Pariah, Mafia-Aligned Deathrite Shaman

Exiled
1. 15377, Self-Aligned Scrambleverse
2. PariahKing, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Library*
1. Hello World
2. Lilan

Two-Headed Giant**
1. Hello World
2. 15377

*In the event that I need to replace a player, I will draw from this list of additional players to fill the spots in question. Replaced players will maintain the same alignment as the person they are replacing, but will have their own role based on a card they chose.
**In the event that my job prevents me from accessing the internet (possible for up to fourteen days at a time), Hello World has agreed to run the game in the interim until I return.
**15377 is the new Back-up Mod.

Innnnnnnnnnn!
Or am I too late to play?

I don't have my role yet, but that doesn't matter.

Vote: Lilan

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I am confirming that I have read, understood, and will blatantly violate any and all rules; except not. This sounds like it should be a fun game.
Vote:NeoSilk because he was mafia last game.

On serious notes:
Required Day One discussion:
"Hey Guys! Let's mass-Claim!" But not.
I do, however, want to know if people are willing to submit the colors of their cards. I feel that giving the names of our respective cards would be too much information for people to provide honestly, but I feel colors of cards is innocent enough that people will be honest about it.
Why will it help? The more information the better, and I figured this would get us more information than usual (per day one) while not completely mass-claiming. That's pretty much it for the Pro's.
Obviously, there is a lean of certain abilities being in certain colors. That covers the Con's.
To me, it's worth it as, again, it gives us more information to work with than usual.

While we're on the topic of mass-claiming, because we all know someone is going to bring it up. My vote is no. I am always against mass-claiming.

Also, Unvote: NeoSilk
because bad logic is bad

Confirmed...

Urzasucks is here?

@Altimis:

I'm going to pass on giving color identity. Each of the colors with abilities can, at times, bleed over into the other colors. Since we had the choice of naming a magic card, all cards are at our disposal. Be it creature, instance, enchantment, etc. Plus, if someone's card makes use of colors for their abilities, I'd rather not give that person such specific info allowing them to better target. After all, that play could be mafia.

confirm

anyway, agree on KoD, no sense taking the risk that mafia chose like prismatic ward or something and can get use out of knowing who's what color.

I totally forgot about color hate cards. That's taking me way back. Being reminded of that, forget I said anything.
Still against mass-claiming though.

I don't think mass claiming will be a thing, on D1, this game.

But let's wait and see what Numbers says.

Somehow I don't feel mentally prepared to play my second game ever with both altimis and KoD.

That aside, I'll give Rubik a pass given his timing, but I'm pretty wary of anyone doing "for teh lulz" voting, given all the crazy possibilities people may have as abilities.

Hey! When we played last I was cast upon a Pirate Ship quickly sinking into the Dark Depths, in the middle of a Roil Tide, and then given a life preserver and told to swim to shore 500 miles away through the highly shark-infested waters with both arms tied behind my back, and a broken leg.

I think I did well considering

That broken link is going to be the bane of my existence this game... Into the Roil flavor text FTW!

I now remember my greatest anger of playing mafia games.

Yo.


I'm only technically here.