EDH - get involved!

[Ben Titmarsh]

EDH (Elder Dragon Highlander) has been gaining a bit of traction at the club recently. It's a fun format thats more like limited that constructed - only using your folders of old bomb rares! For a description of the format and official rules see here:

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~geduggan/EDH_rules.html

Jason mentioned a while back that if we get enough people who are keen he would consider running EDH tournaments (probably on saturdays). So sleeve up a 100 cards and get involved.

[Amidu]

"It's a fun format thats more like limited that constructed - only using your folders of old bomb rares!"

Its really not, at all. This format is more constructed than any other format, and if it isn't, your deck is terrible.

[Dan Barrett]

Its Gary, can you post your old highlander deck list.

Amidu said:

"It's a fun format thats more like limited that constructed - only using your folders of old bomb rares!"

Its really not, at all. This format is more constructed than any other format, and if it isn't, your deck is terrible.

[Ben Titmarsh]

Clearly some people are going to put 40 tutors, gifts and reveillark combo in their deck (me included)... but for the most part the spirit of highlander lends to more random games with interesting multiplayer interactions, it's a casual format after all.

It's a skill intensive constructed format, that much is obvious. But it definitely *feels* more like playing limited than testing the 4 Colour Blood vs Black-White Tokens matchup..

Amidu said:

"It's a fun format thats more like limited that constructed - only using your folders of old bomb rares!"
Its really not, at all. This format is more constructed than any other format, and if it isn't, your deck is terrible.

[Nathan Gotlib]

i think if people want to build a combo-boring EDH deck it's their right, but of course the games will all be boring and not fun..

i myself chose Teneb The Harvester and have a whole deck based around reanimation, and i've never had a boring game with that deck :)
I also have a Sharuum artifact deck but it's a lot less fun because it plays cards like Tinker turn 2 and Mindslaver lock.. EDH is just one of those formats that are only as fun as you make them :)

[Amidu]

It all depends on your definition of fun, for example, I get lots of enjoyment from stopping you doing anything, and then watching you get frustrated as i kill you very slowly :)

Gary, I'll post my decklist for non-ED highlander when I can be bothered, but it takes effort :P

[Dan Barrett]

Gary again, Rob you know you can just stick something with colours as your general and your non EDH deck is ready to go.

Amidu said:

It all depends on your definition of fun, for example, I get lots of enjoyment from stopping you doing anything, and then watching you get frustrated as i kill you very slowly :)

Gary, I'll post my decklist for non-ED highlander when I can be bothered, but it takes effort :P

[Amidu]

I know, read my earlier post, I was saying horde of notions :D

but tbh, you really want to have venser/teferi as your general...

Dan Barrett said:

Gary again, Rob you know you can just stick something with colours as your general and your non EDH deck is ready to go.

Amidu said:

It all depends on your definition of fun, for example, I get lots of enjoyment from stopping you doing anything, and then watching you get frustrated as i kill you very slowly :)

Gary, I'll post my decklist for non-ED highlander when I can be bothered, but it takes effort :P

[Amidu]

There was once a time when I could tell you this decklist off of my head, but since it got stolen, I've totally forgotten.

There are more cards, and every card was important, but what I can remember is this:

Creatures

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Venser, Shaper Savant
Mystic Snake
Solomn Simulacrum
Eternal Witness
Loxodon Hierarch
Kitchen Finks
Dimir House Guard
Body Double
Reveillark
Genesis
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Wickerbough Elder
Shriekmaw
Shadowmage Infiltrator
Aeon Chronicler
Riftsweeper

Planeswalkers

Liliana Vess

Instants

Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Rewind
Dismiss
Pact of Negation
Gifts Ungiven
Chord of Calling
Bant Charm
Mystical Teachings
Condescend
Clutch of the Undercity
Swords to Plowshares
Capsize
Treva's Charm

Sorceries

Vindicate
Life from the Loam
Merchant Scroll
Demonic Tutor
Primal Command
Damnation
Wrath of God

Artifacts

Mindslaver
Dimir Signet
Simic Signet
Azorius Signet
Golgari Signet
Orzhov Signet
Prismatic Lens
Coalition Relic
Sensei's Divining Top

Enchantments

Sylvan Library
Debtors' Knell
Treachery
Animate Dead

Lands

Krosan Verge
Terramorphic Expanse
Volrath's Stronghold
Underground Sea
Scrubland
Bayou
Tropical Island
Tundra
Savannah
Watery Grave
Godless Shrine
Overgrown Tomb
Breeding Pool
Hallowed Fountain
Temple Garden
Urza's Factory
Tolaria West
Sunken Ruins
Twilight Mire
Flooded Grove
Wasteland
Bloodstained Mire
Windswept Heath
Flooded Strand
Polluted Delta
Wooded Foothills
Tranquil Thicket
Lonely Sandbar
Barren Moor
Reflecting Pool
Academy Ruins
Island
Swamp
Forest
Plains

[Tom Reeve]

As reigning UK & Ireland Judge EDH Champion I approve this message.

Looking forward to Sliver Queening you all in the face in the near future (I even got to attack with her once!)

[Ben Titmarsh]

I've thought about doing Slivers for a laugh. Wouldn't Sliver Overlord be a better general with his search ability? Or it is just a 5c highlander deck that you tagged Sliver Queen on to?

Tom Reeve said:

As reigning UK & Ireland Judge EDH Champion I approve this message.
Looking forward to Sliver Queening you all in the face in the near future (I even got to attack with her once!)

[Charlie Grover]

His deck is 5c planeswalker armageddon, hes just decided Sliver queen is the best 5c general.

[Tom Reeve]

PLAINSWALKER APOCALYPSE

(pew pew)

That Ginger One said:

His deck is 5c planeswalker armageddon, hes just decided Sliver queen is the best 5c general.