I think the approach that the ´EDH maffia´ had on deck building is very interesting. I, for one, would like to see team-EDH (2 vs 2 vs 2´s). Although I do not know what their exact decklists looked like, just imagining the complexities of having to design a deck that combo / synergistic with several other decks that you could randomly get teamed up with on a table is very interesting. All of a sudden, you´re not building 1 deck, but you´re building 4 decks where
Let´s say you have players you can get teamed up with randomly. Deck A, Deck B, Deck C, Deck D.
That means that the decks must have synergy in these pairings AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD. What are your thoughts on this? It looks extremely fun and challenging to design 4 decks that can properly take advantage of eachother.
For reference, here is the original discussion.
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Well, GenCon ran three EDH events at 10 pm each night. Rules: 4-6 man pods, depending on the number of people in the event, top 2 from each pod advance. Having heard the second rule, my group of players formed the EDH mafia.
We have been playing EDH for upwards of two years, having been introduced to the format by judges Aaron Cutler and Chris (Sneak) Stagno. The mafia consisted of those two, playing Zur and Dralnu, myself, playing Momir Vig, Nick, playing Captain Sisay, Jason, playing Karn and Brain, playing Niv-Mizzet. There were a few other mafia members on certain nights.
The prize payout was about two boxes, split among top 4.
Night 1:
Round 1:
Pod 1: Myself and Brian are in a pod together. Ken Nagle is also playing. His Magus of the Vineyard accelerates me into an early Wood Elves, followed by a Yavimaya Dryad. Kami of the Cresent Moon is played, and every one has to sacrifice two lands, leaving me in the best position with two lands and a Zoetic cavern face down.
Ken plays a Heartbeat of Spring, and I forbid a Boldwyr HEavyweights, and Worldly tutor up my Palinchron. Having infinite mana, I drop Memnarch, take everybody's permanents, and pass the turn. Next turn, I Chord of Calling up a Body Double, copying Ken's Kamahl of Green, killing everyone except Brian.
Pod 2: Sneak comboes out with Dralnu. No other Mafia members are in his pod, so he takes someone random with him.
Pod 3: Nick and Jason are in this pod. Jason gets off to a slow start, but Nick is out the door with Sisay as usual. The game ends off Sisay, Seedborn Muse, Horoki + Karakas, and a butt load of Nemata tokens.
Pod 4: No Mafia members.
Round 2:
Pod 1: Sneak and Brian are put in one pod. A different Karn deck goes totally aggro and starts bashing Sneak into the ground. Luckily a Poticullis kept no more that two creatures on board, while Brian kept Sneak alive with a Staff of Domination. Then, Sneak played Fact or Fiction, Brian of course giving him the 5-0 split. Brian Time Stretched Sneak, giving him two extra turns. On one turn, he Mind Slavered the person sitting between the two, and then set up the combo. He locked down the guy with Slaver.
On his own turn, he Time Stretched himself again, and proceeded to combo.
Pod 2: In my own pod was Jason, Nick and myself, with two others. Karn's Winter Orb locked down the early game, although I was doing OK with some extra lands via Wood Elves. Sisay got off to a slow start. The game slowly peedled along until a Cryptic Command countered one of Karn's spells and bounced Winter Orb. A few turns passed, and Nick played a Yosei. Yosei found a Rewind from the Jhoira player, and in response I Chorded up a Teferi, looking to combo, with Palinchron in hand.
Much to my demise, Nick already had a Gaea's Cradle in play. Nonetheless, I searched it up with Reap and Sow, and Witnessed it back to hand, played it, and tried to combo. Again, my Cradle hit the bin off a Ghost Quarter. Luckily, my board was not swept, and on my own turn, I Sakashima'd my Witness, getting back Cradle, mad infinite mana, found Tidespout Tyrant, and bounced the board. Having already seen the outcome of the other pod, I killed the two non-mafia members, one of my buddies scooped, and we split five-ways.
Day 2:Sneak and I did not play, but Aaron, Nick, Jason, Brian, and Bowman (another stand-in Mafia member, playing Vorosh) locked it up the second day for the five-way split.
Day 3:
Round 1:
Pod 1: I find myself in an awkward situation with Jason and Sneak in my first game. I searched up some lands and played some morphs early. Karn went absolutely nuts and had metric tons of colorless mana by turns eight and nine (think, Planar Portal into anything, play it with mana left over). Turn ten or eleven I find Time Stretch, play top, and see Witness on top. I take two more turns, and on turn number 2 (with two left) I Memnarch, stealing Jason's Erratic Portal, granting me infinite extra turns. I take Jason with me into the next pod, since Sneak did little to nothing in that game.
Pod 2: Evan (playing Chainer) and Brian lock it up. Not sure exactly how it happened, but I think Chainer locked everybody out with Titan and Nether Void.
Round 2: I am sitting with Nick and Evan. I get an absolutely nutty hand (land, land, Sol Ring, Mana Drain, Gifts Ungiven+ others.) I lock the game out on turn five with the help of a Gilded Lotus (and a Gifts for Temple, Tooth and Nail, Time Stretch, Witness), and combo turn six.
Brian was knocked out of his pod, but we managed a six-way split with some non-mafia member friends from our area.
