EDH Forum!

[Demonic Attorney]

The staff is pleased to announce the creation of the EDH Forum!  The same general rules apply here as everywhere else. Posting access is set to the same level as Vintage Open, Tournament Results, etc.  In a nutshell, you need to be a registered TMD user and not on Restricted Posting.  

If you have an EDH event that you want to announce, you can put it here instead of Tournament Announcements.  However, you'll still need TO status before starting a thread about a tournament even if you want to put it in here.  If anyone wants to post reports, they can do that as normal either here or in the Reports forum.

If there's a lot of interest in this, we can try structuring the EDH forums differently, with child boards devoted to General Discussion, Announcements, and Results/Reports.  For now, though, this is just a trial run.  Enjoy!

EDIT:  If you're not familiar with EDH, or just want to brush up on the rules, you can look them over here.

[DubDub]

Sweet.  I'm a few cards away from finishing Numot, which I was sad wasn't ready in time for the 5-way Planechase EDH at Myriad Games last Saturday.  That looked sick.  I'll have the full stack of planes and Numot with me for all NE tourneys I attend in the future.

[Mr. Nightmare]

Heck yeah!  Another reason to look at TMD!

[Almanomada]

I know that the rules for EDH can be found numerous places but I thought it was a good idea to have a complete rules breakdown for EDH in this forum here.  Probably good as a sticky post that isnt open to all.  Deck building restrictions and R/B list etc.  I am jsut learning about this format myself and plan on building a deck for it soon.   Thanks for the new forum, hopefully people take notice.

[Matt]

I think it would be very, very beneficial if everyone included in their first post:

-Is this deck meant for duels or multiplayer? If the latter, how big a playgroup? Some cards that work fine at 3-4 players are weak with 5+, and vice versa.

-How broken does your playgroup like to be?

-How political does your playgroup usually play?

[Philatio]

Oh my goodness.  I am so very thrilled: this is my favorite format.  I'm happy that I have a 2nd forum to go to, and a reason to come back to one of my old haunts (TMD).

My current playgroup in Cambridge, MA has kind of dissolved.  This is ok, as I am moving in less than a month to Gainesville, FL.  However, I'm almost certainly going to have to introduce players to the format in order to find a playgroup.  This will be difficult, as I used to have 11 decks:( lists at http://forum.dragonhighlander.net/EDH_Forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=123&hilit=+a+tale+of+ten+decks), but have dismantled them in order to up their power level, consolidating them into 5 decks, which are still under construction (Rafiq, Sek'Kuar, Garza Zol, Mayeal, Ertai the Corrupted).  The old 11 decks were cool in that the set together were also highlander (so, for example, only my best black deck got Demonic Tutor), so the power was quite dilute, but the decks were very balanced.  Providing so many decks was great to introduce others to the format, but now, not having any *complete* decks sucks (though I'll have Rafiq done soon).  I'm afraid the power level of that deck is a little too spicy for new players to handle    I've got to dumb a few others down).

Before that, I was in Princeton, NJ, where the playgroup was pretty casual, had a fair amount of aggro and a TON of boardsweep.  My Cambridge playgroup is quasi-competitive - a few of the others dip heavily into blue for stack control and has a ton of graveyard recursion.  But because there is little red/green or early aggro, there's less sweepers and free for all games take ~3 hours, so we usually only time for one.  I'll be happy to leave that metagame behind.

All my metagames have/will be using the official ban list unless we arrive at a consensus on a change (my Cambridge playgroup banned Back to Basics, Blood Moon/Magus of the Moon and any infinite combo).  It was also ploddingly political.

I like politics, but not if they are overly tedious.

All of my decks are paper (no MTGO), and all of them are tuned for multiplayer.  I've always been a Johnny, but I'm finding myself waxing Spike.  I like a metagame with a good balance between casual and competitive, and think the best way to play is to be inclusive as possible and benefit all members of the group to maximize the play experience.  Both of my former playgroups routinely had 5-8 players.