EDH / Singleton
Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) & Singleton are game formats for Magic the Gathering.
We at Xtreme Games support & encourage our customers & friends to build decks for free play in our store.
Here is how in a nut shell
The Deck must be exactly 100 cards.
Besides basic land, you may have no more than one of any card in your deck.
A good average land count for most decks is between 35 – 45.
For EDH one of your 100 cards must be a legendary creature and you can only play cards that match the mana symbols of your Generals colors.
See below for the official rules.
Deck Construction Rules
1. Players must choose a legendary creature as the "General" for their deck, in advance, and check with the coordinator of the whichever group they will be playing with. No two players may have the same general in the same game, and no player may have anyone else's general in their deck. Allocation of generals is first come, first serve. Within a given group, generals are preserved between meetings/games so that one's deck can remain consistant.
The following cards may not be used as a General:
- Braids, Cabal Minion (Effective 2009-06-20)
2. The general's mana cost dictates what mana symbols may appear on cards in the deck. A deck may not generate mana outside it's colors; anything which would generate mana of an illegal color generates colorless mana instead.
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).
3. An EDH deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the general.
4. With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same English name.
5. EDH is played with vintage legal cards, with the exception that cards are legal as of their set's prerelease
See below for Two Headed Giant Rules.
Play rules
6. 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.
7. All generals are removed from the game before shuffling at the start of the game.
8. 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.
9. If a general would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, it's 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)
10. Players begin the game with 40 life.
Card specific rules
11. The Judgement Wishes can only be used to wish for cards which began the game in the controller's deck, or the controller's general. No sideboard/wishboard is allowed.
12. Karakas's ability does not return a General to its owner's hand.
13. Rune Tail, Kitsune attendant flips when his controller's life total is 60 or higher.
14. Riftsweeper's ability can't shuffle a General into its owner's library from the RFG zone.
The following is a list of cards which, in addition to the regular Vintage banned list, are banned in EDH.
The following cards are banned in Vintage tournaments:
BANNED Cards List
This is the Standard Banned list for Most EDH Players
PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A FUN FORMAT
Two-Headed Giant Constructed Format Deck Construction
Updated June 1, 2007
Two-Headed Giant Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance.
Two-Headed Giant uses the Unified Deck Construction rules. With the exception of basic land cards, a team's combined decks may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title. (For example, if one player is using four Naturalizes in a Multiplayer Constructed event, no other player on that team may have a Naturalize in his or her deck.) Sideboards are not allowed in Constructed Multiplayer tournaments.
If a card is restricted in a particular format, no more than one of that card may be used by the team. No players may use cards that are banned in a particular format.
In addition to the above rules, the following card is banned in Constructed Two-Headed Giant tournaments: