[Discussion] MTG Elder Dragon Highlander

[lemmingllama]

Elder Dragon Highlander(after this I will refer to it as EDH), is a fun variant of Magic in which you play with an 100 card deck and 40 life. Other differences include the fact that you cannot have more than one of a card in your deck and that you have a commander that can be summoned and resummoned whenever you want. This varient of Magic is a lot of fun, simply because games tend to last a lot longer and so you can get much more intense games going. Also, with the rule that you can only have one of a card in your deck, it makes it so that people dont just spam certain cards and ensures that people need to use skill to create a deck.

Deck Building

Players must choose a legendary creature as the "General" for their deck. A deck may not generate mana outside the colours of its General; anything which would generate mana of an illegal colour generates colourless mana instead. An EDH deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the General. With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same english name. Standard banned cards apply for EDH games.

Play Rules

Generals are announced and placed in the command zone(basically just set in a place where everyone can see your pretty general) before shuffling at the start of the game. Being a General is not a characteristic, it is a property of the card. As such, "Generalness" cannot be copied or overwritten by continuous effects, and does not change with control of the card. While a General is in the command zone, it may be played. As an additional cost to play your General this way, you must pay {2} for each previous time you have played it this way. If a General would be put into a graveyard, or exiled from anywhere, its owner may put it in the command zone instead.

Players begin the game with 40 life. If a player suffers 21 points of combat damage from a single General, they lose. This is an additional state based effect, similar to poison counters, but separate and specific to each General. Also, plays can lose if their total life drops to 0.

[Darvius@msn.com]

Just an update. There is a specific ban list for commander now that determines whether a card can be played in the format or not. It is seperated into two lists. Cards that simply cannot be played and cards that cannot be used as generals. Also, a player cannot use a card in their deck that is being used as an opponent's commander.