1. To make your EDH deck, first choose a Legendary creature to be your general.
2. You may only play cards in your deck that contain your general's colors or are colorless. This means:
- You may only play hybrid symboled or multicolored cards in your deck if your general contains all of those colors. For example, if your general is Wrexial, the Risen Deep (blue/black), you can play Memory Plunder and Agony Warp, but you cannot play Unmake or Terminate.
- You cannot play cards that have activated abilities that are not in your general's colors. For example, if you general is Omnath, Locus of Mana (green), you cannot play Cavern Thoctar in your deck because its ability costs red mana.
- Your deck cannot generate mana outside of your general's colors. For example, if your general is Kaervek, the Merciless (black/red) and you sacrifice a Composite Golem, you would add 3BR to your mana pool instead of WUBRG.
3. Your deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including your general. You may use a different colored sleeve for your general so that you can keep it separate from your deck, but keep a sleeve of the color of the rest of your deck handy in case your general gets shuffled into your deck or bounced to your hand (see rule #5).
4. You may cast your general at sorcery speed from your command zone, which is where it begins the game. However, your general will cost two additional mana each time you cast it from the command zone. For example, if your general is Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile (mana cost 2WW), she will cost 4WW the second time you play her, 6WW the third time you play her, and so on.
5. If your general would be exiled or put into a graveyard, you may choose to have it returned to the command zone instead (this is a replacement effect). Note that this does not apply to having your general returned to your hand or put into your library.
6. This is a singleton format - i.e. you may only have one copy of each card in your deck except for basic lands.
7. Players start at 40 life. A player wins the game if his or her general deals 21 or more combat damage, or by any of the other usual methods, such as reducing the opponent's life total to zero, using an alternate win the game clause such as Test of Endurance, or milling the opponent's library such that they cannot draw a card when required to do so.
8. Matches will only consist of one game, so conventional sideboarding will not occur. However, you may bring a 15 card sideboard if your deck plays cards that search for "card(s) you control outside the game," such as Glittering Wish and Spawnsire of Ulamog.
9. Players will receive one free mulligan per game. Afterwards, they will be required to use the Paris mulligan style, which involves exiling X cards from your hand and then drawing X-1 cards from the library any number of times. I'll explain it before the event in case this doesn't make sense, but the purpose is to smooth your draws as much as possible. Since there is only one game per match, we don't want entire matches decided on people having too much land or not being able to cast their spells.
10. Players may proxy up to $50 worth of cards using prices using the Mid-value you can find using the search feature at the top of the screen on http://store.tcgplayer.com/. If you do this, please use Excel or a similar program to keep track of card prices to make sure you don't go over the limit, and email me a copy of your spreadsheet (or bring it with you on the day of the event). Players who exceed the cost limit or don't make a spreadsheet will be allowed to play in the event but will be disqualified from league points and prizes. The goal of this is to allow people to play land-fixers and other utility cards they may not have access to (ex. Mortify, Harmonize), not so that people can play lots of bomby cards (ex. Vengevine, Primeval Titan) in their decks. Be reasonable and don't try to beat the system.
11. All cards are legal except for Unhinged and Unglued, plus the following cards, which are banned:
Banned Generals (these can be played in decks, just not as generals):
- Braids, Cabal Minion
- Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Vendilion Clique
Banned Cards:
- Anything with the word "Ante" in it (ex. Tempest Efreet)
- Chaos Orb
- Falling Star
- Power 9 (Mox Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Jet/Pearl, Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, Timetwister, Time Walk)
- Balance
- Biorhythm
- Channel
- Coalition Victory
- Crucible of Worlds
- Fastbond
- Gifts Ungiven
- Intuition
- Karakas
- Library of Alexandra
- Limited Resources
- Lion's Eye Diamond
- Mana Crypt
- Metalworker
- Mind Twist
- Mindslaver
- Necropotence
- Painter's Servant
- Panoptic Mirror
- Protean Hulk
- Recurring Nightmare
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Serra Ascendant
- Shahrazad
- Sol Ring
- Staff of Domination
- Sundering Titan
- Sway of the Stars
- Time Vault
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Upheaval
- Worldgorger Dragon
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
I am using an especially extensive ban list (I combined the official list with the one from South Carolina, which was based off the MTGSalvation list) because this is supposed to be a fairly casual event that should be a lot of fun for players, and I don't want people to build something obscene that is not fun for anyone to play against. Time is also a major concern with this list, as these games tend to go long, which is why cards that are not really overpowered, but make the game take significantly longer, like Shahrazad, Sensei's Divining Top, and Sway of the Stars are banned.
EDH is supposed to be a social format that exhibits relatively low-key competition when compared to other constructed formats like Standard and Legacy, so keep this in mind while building your deck. The draft will be Saturday at 1 PM. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
- Dom
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