1. To make your EDH deck, first choose a Legendary creature to be your commander.
2. You may only play cards in your deck that are contained in your commander's color(s) or are colorless. This means you may only play hybrid symboled or multicolored cards in your deck if your commander contains all of those colors. For example, if your commander is Wrexial, the Risen Deep (blue/black), you can play Memory Plunder and Agony Warp, but you cannot play Unmake or Terminate.
3. You may play cards that have activated abilities that are not in your commander's colors. For example, if your commander is Omnath, Locus of Mana (green), you can play Cavern Thoctar in your deck even though its ability costs red mana (this is a change from previous rules).
4. You cannot generate mana outside of your commander's colors. Any mana of disallowed colors that would be generated produces colorless mana instead. For example, if your commander is Kaervek, the Merciless (black/red) and you sacrifice a Composite Golem, you would add 3BR to your mana pool instead of WUBRG.
5. Your deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including your commander. You may use a different colored sleeve for your commander 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 commander gets shuffled into your deck or bounced to your hand (see rule #7).
6. You may cast your commander at sorcery speed from your command zone, which is where it begins the game. However, your commander will cost two additional mana each time you cast it from the command zone. For example, if your commander is Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile (mana cost 2WW), she will cost 4WW the second time you cast her, 6WW the third time you cast her, and so on.
7. If your commander 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 commander returned to your hand or put into your library.
8. This is a singleton format - i.e. you may only have one copy of each card in your deck except for basic lands.
9. Players start at 40 life. A player wins the game if his or her commander 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.
10. 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.
11. Players will receive one free mulligan per game, though they may choose to waive this and proceed directly to the Paris mulligans if desired. Afterward the free mulligan, they will be required to use the Paris mulligan style, which involves exiling X cards from the hand and then drawing (X-1) cards from the library any number of times, followed by shuffling the exiled cards back into the library.
12. Players may not proxy cards (this is a change from previous rules).
13. All cards are legal except for the ones in Unhinged and Unglued, plus the following cards, which are banned:
Banned Commanders (these can be played in decks, just not as commanders):
- Braids, Cabal Minion
- Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
- Memnarch
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Vendilion Clique
Banned Cards:
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Biorhythm
- Black Lotus
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Coalition Victory
- Crucible of Worlds
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Felidar Sovereign
- Gifts Ungiven
- Intuition
- Karakas
- Kokusho, the Evening Star
- Library of Alexandra
- Limited Resources
- Lion's Eye Diamond
- Mana Crypt
- Metalworker
- Mind Twist
- Mindslaver
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- 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
- Test of Endurance
- Timetwister
- Time Walk
- Time Vault
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Upheaval
- Worldgorger Dragon
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Anything with the word "Ante" in it (such as Tempest Efreet)
I am using a fairly extensive ban list because this is supposed to be a fundraising event that is fairly casual should be a lot of fun for players, and I don't want people to build something obnoxious that is not fun 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 particularly overpowered, but make the game take significantly longer, like Shahrazad, Sensei's Divining Top, and Sway of the Stars are banned.
Commander 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 Commander event will be Saturday, February 26. Let me know if you have any questions.
- Dom
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