Rainbow stairwell, like skittles with rare cards

[doomhed]

here are the rules for rainbow stairwell.

1- No gold cards, hybrid cards or split cards. Now it gets hard.
2- We use the legacy banned/restriced lists, with Time vault added.
3- 10 dual lands (any duals, pains, shocks, bounclands, ETC), 5 fetchlands (mirage/onslaught) and 2 of each basic land.
4- Cards in casting costs of 1-6 in each color and artifacts. (yes this makes a 61 card deck)

the awsome part of this format is the difficulty in making a deck coherant enough to win. This format has viable control, aggro, prison and combo decks. for example, here are my aggro and control decks.

Doomhed's Control

Artifact
1- Sensei's Divining Top
2- Sun Droplet
3- Vedalken Shackles (this card is gonna be cut for something better)
4- Darksteel Reactor (for shits and giggles)
5- Minds Eye (SOOOO good)
6- Duplicant (Ditto)
Black
1- Dark Ritual
2- Nezumi Graverobber
3- Necromancy
4- Nekrataal/Barter in blood
5- Woebringer Demon
6- Skeletal Vampire (bit of a token theme in this deck)
Blue
1- Chain of Vapor
2- Remove Soul (this is an open slot)
3- Propaganda
4- Collective Retraint (Chinese Foil...lol)
5- Meloku the Clouded Mirror
6- Arcanis the Omnipotent
Green
1- Oxidize
2- Sylvan Library
3- Eternal witness
4- Nullmage Advocate
5- Deranged Hermit
6- Nemata Grove guardian
Red
1- Fireball
2- Rolling Thunder
3- Browbeat
4- Flametongue Kavu
5- Shard Pheonix
6- Reyusei, the falling star
White
1- Enlightened Tutor
2- Disenchant
3- Ghostly Prison
4- Wrath of God
5- Blinding Angel (open slot)
6- Exaulted Angel
Lands
10x Original Dual lands
5x Onslaught Fetchlands
5x Basic Lands
5x Snow-Covered Basics

Doomhed's Aggro Sliver

This one is still under construction, so there are some open gaps.

Artifact-
1- Metallic Sliver
2- Umezawa's Jitte
3- Proteus Machine
4- Riptide Laboratory
5- Coat of Arms
6- Brass Herald
Black-
1- Disembowel
2- Clot Sliver
3- Spectral Sliver
4- Toxin Sliver
5- Dregs of Sorrow
6-
Blue
1- Soothsaying
2- Winged Sliver
3- Mnemonic Sliver
4- Shifting Sliver
5- Synapse Sliver
6- Overwhelming Intellect
Green
1- Natural Selection
2- Muscle Sliver
3- Horned Sliver
4-
5- Brood Sliver
6-
Red
1- Fireball
2- Heart Sliver
3- Blade Sliver
4- Magama Sliver
5-
6-
White
1- Plated Sliver
2- Talon Sliver
3- Armored Sliver
4- Essence Sliver
5- Ward Sliver
6- Akroma's Vengeance


The things that attract me to this format over skittles are-

I have rare cards, therefore I like rare cards.
With the casting cost restrictions it is alot harder to build a good deck, requiring more creativity in deckbuilding.
You can't build a viable prison deck without rare cards.

Have fun
Doomhed

[Harlequin]

That Sliver deck looks cool.  Here's what I would play if I were going to build that sliver deck:

Artifact-
1- Metallic Sliver
2- Umezawa's Jitte
3- Urza's Incubator<-- !!!! Total insanity
4- Soul Foundery
5- Coat of Arms
6- Brass Herald
Black-
1- Skeletal Scrying
2- Clot Sliver
3- Spectral Sliver
4- Toxin Sliver
5- Dregs of Sorrow
6- INk Eyes, Servant of Oni
Blue
1- Soothsaying
2- Winged Sliver
3- Mnemonic Sliver
4- Shifting Sliver
5- Synapse Sliver
6- Overwhelming Intellect
Green
1- Worldly Tutor
2- Muscle Sliver
3- Horned Sliver
4- Elvish Piper
5- Brood Sliver
6- Recycle? <- too risky?  Rather easy to end up with 2 totally unplayable cards in hand.
Red
1- Fireball (Maybe welder because the artifacts in this deck are all INSANE!)
2- Heart Sliver
3- Blade Sliver
4- Magama Sliver
5- Savage Beating
6- Fissure
White
1- Plated Sliver
2- Talon Sliver
3- Armored Sliver
4- Essence Sliver
5- Ward Sliver
6- Akroma's Vengeance

[Anusien]

No gold, hybrid and split cards is sad, because it takes so much of the deck building fun out, and it also cuts you off some really really good cards.  Ever consider lifting that?

[doomhed]

no way, if you pull those restrictions it makes it easy to minimize colors like in 5-color. this format would be too easy if you could cut corners with multicolor cards or hybrid/split cards.

I have about 8 players around here and 5 of them are going to waterbury, so I am trying to get enough support to do a stairwell side event day 1 or 2.

[CCClark]

We play Rainbow Stairwell in Traverse city on a regular basis among the better players.   It's like the type 1 on the side from the type 1 tournaments.   Amazingly fun format.   I didn't know it had reached further than our town though.  wow. 

We found some of the best cards you can use are very underrated compared to normal constructed. 
Genesis, Citanul Flute, allied strategies, Sunburst creatures, clearwater goblet, and all of the Volver creatures. 

Mindblaze is just tech. 



Anyway, I played a deck that everyone had ended up boarding a ton of cards to fight because in our testing no one really found a good way to fight it.    Because of this deck we ended up banning a couple of cards for next time because they have too much power for the format oddly enough.   

Humility because no one likes playing against it anyway. 
Forbid turned into a powerhouse.

There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of winning with the Door. 

Here it is.

   Black
1   Seal of Doom
2   Fevered Convulsions
3   Dark Banishing
4   The Abyss
5   Thrashing Wumpass
6   caustic tar

   Blue
1   Mystical tutor
2   counterspell
3   Forbid
4   Rewind
5   Force of Will
6   opportunity


   White
1   enlightened tutor
2   Seal of cleasing
3   Words of Wisdom
4   Humility
5   rout
6   final judgment

   Green
1   Drop of Honey
2   Sylvan Library
3   kodamas reach
4   explosive growth
5   rude awakening
6   desert twister

   Red
1   bolt
2   Orcish settlers
3   hammer of bogarden
4   desolation giant
5   Shower of Coals
6   Wildfire

   Artifacts
1   phyrexian furnace
2   journymans kite
3   skull of orm
4   jaymeade tome
5   door to nothingness
6   planar portal

The lands were the fetches and painlands.


The trick with it is abusing skull of Orm of all things to recycle the enchantments.  Usually no one had much more than one seal of cleansing and maybe a dismantling blow to take care of enchantments.    Words of wisdom and sylvan libray go make you go nuts also.