Commander Variant - SRH
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Aug. 27, 2016, 2:04 a.m. by Bushwhack
Hey all! Tonight I drafted my first ever Conspiracy Draft. One my favorite (non-reprint) cards in the set, ever since it was spoiled has been Sovereign's Realm. Tonight, it was my luck that I pulled one, and that got the little gears in my head working. What if we made a new commander variant?
What I propose is a variant called "Sovereign Realms Highlander":
The basic premise is that all players start the game with Sovereign's Realm in play. The usual basic rules for normal EDH still apply, however. (Singleton, Ban-List, Etc.). The only exception is that whoever deals the first point of damage gets a Monarch Token.
There are some obvious problems with this idea:
-Most decks will probably be 5 Color Goodstuff
-Certain Cards and combos immediately become Godly.
-Manafixing becomes nonexistent. Your hand is your manafixing.
BRIEF OVERVIEW:
-Players start with Sovereign's Realm in play.
-Whoever deals the first point of combat damage to a player gets a Monarch Token.
Help would be much appreciated! Thanks for the read.
try it with your play group and see how it goes. just like in normal EDH there will be tryhard degenerates who want nothing more than to make you watch them play solitaire, but with normal responsible people it could certainly be a fun format. Would deck size be limited to <100? seeing as lands are usually ~30-40% of an EDH deck that is a lot of card slots to put new stuff in. though you might just have people running 30 Darksteel Relics as land fodder.
August 27, 2016 2:14 a.m.
zelian12 Ah, thanks for the correction. I'll edit it here "Soonish"
Lokotor The cool part about Sovereign's Realm is that it doesn't cut out NonBasics. So you could theoretically run anything you wanted except for Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Although, there are a lot of people that play this "Semi-Casual" format that don't have access to a lot of the "Good" nonbasics so I can see where you're coming from. (I'm in that boat myself haha). Another thing is that SRH would follow most of the normal EDH rules. IE: Singleton, Command Zone Shenanigans, etc.
August 27, 2016 9:58 a.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #6
Being the Monarch allows you to draw a card at the beginning of your end steps.
zelian12 says... #2
Pinging isn't combat damage
August 27, 2016 2:08 a.m.