New MTG EDH League starts 3/4/09

ELDER DRAGON HIGHLANDER RULES

*FOIL PROMO CARDS AVAILABLE:  League sheets will be tracked each week.  Points will be tallied every Saturday if you have earned a minimum of 6 tick marks (and for every additional 6 tick marks) you may choose to receive an alternate art foil promo of Wooly Thoctar (40 cards available) or Sprouting Thrinax (40 cards available) while supplies last.  A win receives 2 tick marks and a loss receives 1 tick mark.  Other prizes will be provided at the end of the league.

 

League Players & Generals :

If you are a member of the league and would like a copy of the league contact info to schedule games please email us.

 

Deck Construction Rules:

Players must choose a legendary creature as the "General" for their deck.

 

The following card may not be used as a General: Rofellos

 

League Rule: An EDH "League" consists of a regular group of players who frequently play together using the same decks. No two players in a league game may have the same General. Within a given league, Generals are allocated first-come, first-serve and are preserved between meetings/games. No player may have, in his or her deck, the General of any other player in the game; it should be replaced with some other card before the game begins. The first day of league is March 7^th, at 4PM. Make sure you're here in time to reserve your General. We are not accepting any General sign-ups before March 1st.

 

The General's mana cost limits what colored mana symbols may appear on cards in the deck: if a colored mana symbol is not present in the General's mana cost, the deck may not contain any cards using that mana symbol. Lands with a basic land type (basic lands, Shock lands, Dual lands, Shadowmoor CIPT-basics, etc) contain the corresponding mana symbol(s) as per CR 212.6g.

 

Example: If you were play Phelddagrif (Casting cost 1UWG) as your General, your deck may not contain any red or black cards; no card in such a deck may contain red or black mana symbols or hybrid mana symbols ( Talisman of Dominance, Life//Death and Boros Guildmage are not allowed. Degavolver is doubly bad).

 

A deck may not generate mana outside it's colors; anything which would generate mana of an illegal color generates colorless mana instead.

 

An EDH deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the General.

 

With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same English name.

 

EDH is played with vintage legal cards, with the exception that cards are legal as of their set's prerelease.

 

Additionally, the following are banned:

Balance Worldgorger Dragon Biorhythm Sway of the Stars Upheaval Panoptic Mirror Crucible of Worlds Kokosho, the Evening Star Limited Resources Riftsweeper *NEW* Karakas *NEW*	Ancestral Recall Black Lotus Moxen Time Walk Library of Alexandria Yawgmoth's Bargain Coalition Victory Recurring Nightmare Protean Hulk *NEW* Grindstone *NEW* Lion's Eye Diamond *NEW*

 

Play rules:

Players begin the game with 40 life.

 

Generals are announced and removed from the game before shuffling at the start of the game.

 

Being a General is not a characteristic it is a property of the card. As such, "Generalness" cannot be copied or overwritten by continuous effects, and does not change with control of the card.

 

Examples: A Body Double copying a General in a graveyard is not a General. A General which is affected by Cytoshape, or is face down, is still a General.

 

The first time a player takes a mulligan, they draw 7 cards (instead of 6). The second mulligan is to 6, and so forth.

If a player suffers 21 points of combat damage from a single General, they lose. This is an additional state based effect, similar to poison counters, but separate and specific to each General. This damage cannot be healed or undone, even if the creature is removed from play temporarily. Damage done by a creature under someone else's control is still counted towards the 21 point limit for that creature and defender.

 

While a General is removed from the game, it may be played. As an additional cost to play your General this way, you must pay {2} for each previous time you have played it this way.

 

If a General would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner may remove it from the game instead. (This is a replacement effect... the creature never goes to the graveyard and will not trigger abilities on going to the graveyard) .