#jenga magic

You need:

Magic decks of your choice

5 or 6 assorted piles of cards, shuffled (one pile for each color, roughly 20 cards each, and 1 pile for colorless if you choose to have those)

A jenga set with colored blocks

You play normally except that at some point during your turn you have to play a turn of Jenga. If you successfully move a block and place it on top of the tower then you get to draw a card from pile of cards corresponding to that block’s color. Play your Jenga turn only any time you could cast a sorcery. You retain priority until the end of your Jenga turn, when a draw trigger for the appropriate color pile goes on the stack.

The above set is the one I have. Yellow is white cards and purple is black cards. Each pile has generally powerful cards that would be useful to just about any deck of those colors. So you want to draw a card from a pile that you could potentially play.

The catch is that if the tower falls and you were the last one to touch it then you lose the game immediately (alternatively you could just get a major set back, like discarding your hand, destroying all nonland permanents you control, losing half your life rounded up, etc. You could make a small chart and roll a dice for these if you want people to potentially stay in the game after the tower falls).

Get it? Unstable? The tower falls?

Alternatively (how I’m likely to play the first time I try this) ignore the colors and just have some booster packs handy. Successfully completing your Jenga turn means you get to draft one card from a booster to put directly into your hand.

Another alternative -- have the piles of cards in their own sleeves that are readily distinguishable from everyone else’s deck. Cards in those sleeves can be cast as using mana as though it were mana of any color. So the color isn’t a restriction but rather an indication of what kind of effects you have a chance of getting. Need a destroy creature spell? Try to draw from the black pile and hope for the best.