I friend of mine in college introduced me to EDH. One day, we decided it was time for me to buil a deck, so I ended up building a jank Wrexial deck, and haven't looked back!
Me and my friends play a lot of multiplayer so i decided to research multiplayer variants. I found edh, built 3 decks so that i could teach people, and then people got hooked. Then when bsa and more so jace came out, many of my friends didnt want to play t2 anymore so now just about all we play is edh.
Having played T2 for the better part of last year. Built a jank Lin-Sivvi edh deck to played it against all of my edh friends. Got wrecked. Disassembled the Lin-Sivvi deck. Hated EDH, then I started to put some thought into my deck and soon after loved it again. Playing a combination of old and new cards is just plain fun to me. Granted it will be the closest thing to vintage I will be playin for a while.
I had been playing Magic for about half a year when one of my friends, biarg777, who had been playing significantly longer than me, told a few of us about EDH. He happened to have all of his EDH decks on him, so the people that didn't have EDH decks, like me, got to play. I remember it being a six person game that lasted about three hours long. It was a really good game. If I remember correctly, I was using Sliver Queen. I also remember there being Phelddagrif and Jhoira. For most of the game, I was public enemy number 1, which was a pretty cool feeling. Although I didn't win, I still had a blast.
Shortly afterwards, I wanted to make a Vorosh deck, mostly because I happened to have quite a few good cards of those colors. I ended up going with Sedris, but it wasn't that great. I then went through a few more generals, most being BRG, but I couldn't find one that I liked. It also didn't help that I just didn't have a lot of good cards that I wasn't using. Eventually, after borrowing biarg777's Jhoira deck and consistently kicking ass with it, I was pressured into making my own deck again. I was initially going to go with Agrus Kos (which I'm currently making now), because I happened to have a lot of good red and white stuff I wasn't using, but my brother gave me Mayael and biarg777 offered me a few fatties and a few cards that are good in EDH. I then went on to make my Mayael deck, thought it was good, and I've stuck with Mayael ever since. Since then, I've also went on to make a number of other EDH decks. To me, making the deck and finding that one card you're looking for in someone's binder is one of the things I like most about the format. That, and playing too.
Found out about EDH by looking up Doran, the Siege Tower on the MTG gatherer because I was intersted in his crazy color combination, something a new player like me found faschinating to the newer cards I was exposed to. I found Teneb, the Harvester and in the comments someone said he made a great EDH general. Googled that and it was on from there. First general and still my favorite.
Now I exclusively play it because it's more fun and cheaper than standard, along with being a good investment compared to standard.
My playgroup played almost entirely multiplayer casual back in 2005, but our decks just started getting too good as we developed a better understanding of the game. The 60/4 construction rules just resulted in way too much consistency to keep the games as fun as they had been. Then my brother heard about EDH from a judge friend of his and we each built a deck and tried it out. Within a couple months it was all we were playing and I've never looked back.
My playgroup also used to play a ton of 60-card casual Magic. A friend and I heard about EDH online (it might have been a Kelly Digges article in 2008 or something), discussed it with our playgroup, and agreed to give it a shot. I built Zur, he built Niv-Mizzet, and the other guys built Horde of Notions and Wort, the Raidmother. Everything escalated from there!
It's funny how we all thought the R/G Wort deck was jank because it was nothing but ramp and bombs (which was laughable in our blue-intensive 60-card meta), but I dare say the Wort deck won more often than any of the others. Apparently ramp is good in EDH or something.
A friend of mine and I used to play a lot of 60 card singleton. He always wanted to go the 5 color rout and I tried to narrow my choices down. Somewhere along the line I heard about 100 card singleton, followed by EDH. I just grabbed my favorite colors, picked my general, and I'm quite pleased with the result. Funny post script, I played a 60 card WBG singleton deck, and now I mainly play Teneb, the Harvester. My 5 color friend to this day plays 5 color Child of Alara. Some things never change.
I play a lot with my lady and she is not competitive at all when it comes to magic. EDH is fun and people tend to not care if someone forgets to untap mana, or accidently draws 2 cards. They can put one back and keep on going.
The fact that you can play so many cards that don't work in competitive play adds to the fun for me.
And the cost is much better for me as I don't have to get 4x (random expensive card) I get my one and I am good to go. I am sure prices can get insane if you are trying to Pimp the deck out foil style, but I haven't ventured into doing that yet.
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That is not an opinion. It it cheaper, and that if a FACT!
It's not though, there are plenty of people on here on record as having decks over $1000+. Any format is only as expensive as what each person wants to put into it.
It's not though, there are plenty of people on here on record as having decks over $1000+. Any format is only as expensive as what each person wants to put into it.
You can have a crazy powerful deck for well under $100. Good luck doing that in another format
I jumped back into MtG at the start of Zendikar. Got into Standard and enjoyed it for awhile, but the cost to stay current was high, and there were never more than a handful of "good" decks to play. I was also getting sick of having such a limited card pool to use, and never having a chance to explore/revisit MtG's older sets.
I wrote off vintage/legacy as too expensive, and just wasn't interested in extended.
At the same time, our MtG group was looking for a good way to run multiplayer, in such a way that the players with the most money cards didn't auto-win.
EDH allowed me to play older cards and innovate more, and significantly levelled the multiplayer playing field for my group.
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EDH UBW Sharuum BR Olivia Voldaren UR Jhoira URG Riku U Vendilion Clique
About a year ago I went to a launch day at a local shop with a roommate and two of his buddies. While I was still finishing up a round they were in the back. One of them pulled out a box that apparently had three huge decks in it. when I was done I headed over and found them all playing. I asked them what it was and wrote it off as silly.
About a month later that roommate showed me a Gaddock Teeg deck he'd been working on and he needed someone to play with. I've been playing for a long time so when I finally had a general picked out I just grabbed all the best black/white rares I had and through them in.
First game took an hour and it was awesome. I can't stop.
One of my friends in the dorm got me back into magic after a few years off. Went to the card game club on campus and there were a few people with edh decks. Those that had spare decks would let others play, so I joined in a couple games. Got hooked. Eventually found out about the group hug archetype and made that my first deck. Still have it, along with a semi-chaos build and a legitimate attempt at a deck that actually has a chance of winning without a miracle.
I saw the blurb about it on the "From the Vault: Dragons" info insert and kind of forgot about it. Then I started hearing more and more about it at FNM and such so I thought I'd check it out. We used to play "Dan Gray" (five color 100-125 card highlander with strict deckbuilding rules--mainly a west-coast thing), so we took those decks apart and built EDH decks. We've never looked back. Same deckbuilding challenges and just as much fun to play, with the added twist or flavor of the general itself.
It was awesome just starting out and already having all the "good cards." Hehe.
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Shortly afterwards, I wanted to make a Vorosh deck, mostly because I happened to have quite a few good cards of those colors. I ended up going with Sedris, but it wasn't that great. I then went through a few more generals, most being BRG, but I couldn't find one that I liked. It also didn't help that I just didn't have a lot of good cards that I wasn't using. Eventually, after borrowing biarg777's Jhoira deck and consistently kicking ass with it, I was pressured into making my own deck again. I was initially going to go with Agrus Kos (which I'm currently making now), because I happened to have a lot of good red and white stuff I wasn't using, but my brother gave me Mayael and biarg777 offered me a few fatties and a few cards that are good in EDH. I then went on to make my Mayael deck, thought it was good, and I've stuck with Mayael ever since. Since then, I've also went on to make a number of other EDH decks. To me, making the deck and finding that one card you're looking for in someone's binder is one of the things I like most about the format. That, and playing too.
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GU Edric, Spymaster of Trest
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1.) Everyone played it in my area
2.) Both T2 and Legacy were too expensive for me
3.) I already had most of the cards necessary to make Sharuum
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Standard:
Ha! That's a good one.
Now I exclusively play it because it's more fun and cheaper than standard, along with being a good investment compared to standard.
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WUGJenara, Asura of WarWUG
WBGTeneb, The HarvesterWBG
WUBRGHorde of NotionsWUBRG
EDH: Xenagos, God of Revels.
It's funny how we all thought the R/G Wort deck was jank because it was nothing but ramp and bombs (which was laughable in our blue-intensive 60-card meta), but I dare say the Wort deck won more often than any of the others. Apparently ramp is good in EDH or something.
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I play a lot with my lady and she is not competitive at all when it comes to magic. EDH is fun and people tend to not care if someone forgets to untap mana, or accidently draws 2 cards. They can put one back and keep on going.
The fact that you can play so many cards that don't work in competitive play adds to the fun for me.
And the cost is much better for me as I don't have to get 4x (random expensive card) I get my one and I am good to go. I am sure prices can get insane if you are trying to Pimp the deck out foil style, but I haven't ventured into doing that yet.
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It's not though, there are plenty of people on here on record as having decks over $1000+. Any format is only as expensive as what each person wants to put into it.
You can have a crazy powerful deck for well under $100. Good luck doing that in another format
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I just put that part in, so people wouldn't type just to watch themselves type, but I failed in my quest. Complain saying it's not cheaper.
I agree that it is cheaper, unless you want to foil out your deck.
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(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
I wrote off vintage/legacy as too expensive, and just wasn't interested in extended.
At the same time, our MtG group was looking for a good way to run multiplayer, in such a way that the players with the most money cards didn't auto-win.
EDH allowed me to play older cards and innovate more, and significantly levelled the multiplayer playing field for my group.
UBW Sharuum
BR Olivia Voldaren
UR Jhoira
URG Riku
U Vendilion Clique
About a month later that roommate showed me a Gaddock Teeg deck he'd been working on and he needed someone to play with. I've been playing for a long time so when I finally had a general picked out I just grabbed all the best black/white rares I had and through them in.
First game took an hour and it was awesome. I can't stop.
UBU/B Tezz ControlUB
WTempered SteelW
EDH
BWTeysa, Orzhov ScionBW
RUJhoira of the GhituRU
RGWMayael the AnimaRGW
Legacy-U Faerie Ninja Still, WDeath and Taxes
Casual-WB Bleed, WGUBRCascade
It was awesome just starting out and already having all the "good cards." Hehe.