Poll Results!

With the Limited PTQ season just around the corner along with the new MTGO PTQ's that are on their way qualifier tournaments are a hot topic on the web. This poll asked all you out there what kind of PTQ format would you like to see if you could pick from any existing MTG format available. The voting was completely inconclusive: EDH, Pauper, Standard, and Booster Draft all ended up in a tie for the top spot. I think if I had my choice I would go for an EDH format PTQ. It's extremely fun to play and the multiplayer aspect would be hilarious to try and organize. Honestly, it would almost be as much fun to see how they would set up the eliminations as actually playing in the event. I would play the Sharuum deck that I am currently putting together for some casual play in between classes on campus. Decklist is on the way! On a side note: I will begin back with the weekly posts next week so stay with me!

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Favorite EDH generals

Right now I'm playing an Esper EDH deck with Sharuum the Hegemon as my general. I guess I just have a thing for artifacts. I'm also building a deck around the popular general; Momir Vig, Simic Visionary. He is incredible with some of the new hybrid cards that have come out in the last couple sets and provides insane card advantage. I'm thinking of making a mostly creature deck with decent abilities so that after you play Momir, pretty much everything you get after that will trigger his ability. Also cheap hybrid cards such as Slippery Bogle will trigger both abilities because of how they are put on the stack. This means that any hybrid card is a tutor for any other creature in your deck. (Let me know if I am mistaken in this regard please!) Should be fun and I will post a decklist as soon as I get done! What generals are you using in your EDH decks and what is your favorite?

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Food for thought...

EDH Zombies anybody??

EDH-ification

EDH or Elder Dragon Highlander is a form of constructed magic that my play group is getting involved in and its been pretty fun to think of deck ideas. Basically an EDH deck consists of a "General" creature which starts out the game removed from game and can play it any time you normally could as if it was in your hand. You can only put cards in your deck that share colors with your general. The other limitation on construction is that your deck must have a minimum of 100 Vintage-legal cards and cannot contain multiple copies of the same card (besides basic lands). If you play your general throughout the course of the game and it is killed, instead of putting it into your graveyard you remove it from game again. You can play it again once it has hit RFG but every time you do, the cost increases by two colorless. It leads to some interesting deck building strategies and some out of the box thinking! I threw together a mono white soldier deck with Akroma, Angel of Wrath as my General. I'm also toying with the idea of a blue/black deck with Circu, Dimir Lobotomist as the General or a Red/White/Green deck with Rith, the Awakener as the General. I will post a decklist or two tomorrow after Ive had a few hours of sleep and a few cups of coffee..