Disclaimer: I don't own Magic: The Gathering
I wish that I did though

Summary: There's a Tournament, a crappy, lowlife tournament, with the usual characters, a cheater, an expert shuffler, a newbie, a master, a girl, a wizard old guy who knows everyone's destinies and loads of other usual (and unusual) players. What happens though is the cards come to life and the game they play is to keep their own lives, also known as their life points, and that's just to make it to the next round.

"Next in line," the attendant called. A young boy stepped forward.
"That would be me," he said.
"Name?"
"My name is Jacob," he replied.
"Jacob who and how old are you?" the attendant asked.
"Oh, um... Jacob Aryan, and my age... I'm 17," he replied.
"Very well, head over there to have your decks checked in," the attendant said, "And take this with you." He handed Jacob a sheet of paper. Jacob looked at the paper. It was his registration.
"Thanks," he said and hurried over to the next table.
"Hello, you are next, right?" a female voice asked, "Mr...."
"I'm Jacob, is this where I check my decks in?" he asked.
"Yes, it is!" she said, "First and foremost, you are not allowed any unglued cards, save the ones should you use them for tokens."
"Oh, um... Unglued?" he asked, "I think I might have one..."
"Well, here is a special box for you to put all restricted cards in, let's see...from the Masques set, Lin-Sivvi, defiant hero and Rishadan Port, from the Urza's series, Memory Jar, Gaea's Cradle, Serra's Sanctum, Time Spiral Tolarian Academy, Voltaic Key and Windfall, from Rath Cycle Block and Cursed Scroll, from Mirage Block, Squandered Resources, and from the Ice Age block Amulet of Quoz, Thawing Glaciers, Timmerian Fiends and Zuran Orb."
"Is that all?" Jacob asked.
"Here's the list, those are just some of them," she replied, "And this is your ID card, so... welcome to the Tournament of Dragons." Wow, she must really be into magic, naming off all of those banned cards, at least, that was what Jacob thought.
"Anything else?" he asked.
"Rulebook, rules for this tournament and... oh yes, your promo card," she said, "Thank you and enjoy this tournament." The promo card was just some green creature. He just put it into his pocket and didn't even give it a second thought. He liked playing Blue and White Decks the best. He looked around at the people gathering for this 'Tournament of Dragons'. He wondered why it was so large, he only knew about it from a small tiny add in a magazine and decided to try it out. Maybe it was really worth his while.

TBC

A/N: Yeah, all the possible hijacks that can be in a story hopefully will be in this story... romance, action... everything... I should just call it the it's gonna be so friggen familiar you know the ending sort of thing... but it's not really all that... Please read and review and if you must flame, Keep it G-PG please!