Does anyone out there actually play 60-Card Standard Singleton?
*crickets*
Anyway, it interests me. Commander is a pretty big format to wrap your head around and you need a pretty deep collection of cards to be able to hang in a lot of groups. A 60-card deck is more focused, and limiting the card pool to standard-legal would lower barriers for newer players, and having every card be restricted allows for more variance and the chance to play cards that wouldn't see much action in other formats.
I never see it in the casual queues online. I've started games in the casual queues only to wait for half an hour with no takers. Unforunate, as it really is an intriguing idea.
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Standard (KLD):UR Thermo-Thing Modern:UR Delver, URB Delver, URB Control, G Elves, WB Soul Sisters Legacy:UR Delver, URB Delver, G Elves EDH:GWTrostani, Selesnya's Voice, UBOona, Queen of the Fae
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I started playing pauper with my son. I noticed that in M13, each color has exactly 20 common cards. For kicks, we made a deck by taking the exactly 20 commons from black, 20 commons from white, adding 10 black lands, 10 white lands, and playing against the same arrangement in blue-red. It was awesome! We've played a bunch of games and really enjoy it!
I started playing pauper with my son. I noticed that in M13, each color has exactly 20 common cards. For kicks, we made a deck by taking the exactly 20 commons from black, 20 commons from white, adding 10 black lands, 10 white lands, and playing against the same arrangement in blue-red. It was awesome! We've played a bunch of games and really enjoy it!
I like this idea... Keep it simple and fun. I'm sure you can try each of the 2-color combinations to see how they work together.
I am going to try something along similar lines that I call a "lazy man's cube" where I take the one of my redeemed M12 sets from MTGO and just play that as a small cube or a fat stack. One copy of each card and the full spectrum of card power represented with little-to-no effort required to put it together.
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Standard (KLD):UR Thermo-Thing Modern:UR Delver, URB Delver, URB Control, G Elves, WB Soul Sisters Legacy:UR Delver, URB Delver, G Elves EDH:GWTrostani, Selesnya's Voice, UBOona, Queen of the Fae
Find me on MTGO and Twitter with the same username
I started playing pauper with my son. I noticed that in M13, each color has exactly 20 common cards. For kicks, we made a deck by taking the exactly 20 commons from black, 20 commons from white, adding 10 black lands, 10 white lands, and playing against the same arrangement in blue-red. It was awesome! We've played a bunch of games and really enjoy it!
BTW, this format is awesome in RTR, because when you include the multi-colors and gates, you have about the right number of cards.
Take Green and White for example:
15 White cards
15 Green cards
4 White/Greens
1 White/Green guildgate (Selesnya Guildgae)
=35 cards + 24 lands = 59
Room for 1 uncommon like Selesnya Keyrune, or maybe another land
Let's do Blue/Red:
15 Blue Cards
15 Red Cards
4 Blue/Reds
1 Blue/Red guildgate (Izzet Guildgate)
=35 cards +24 lands = 59
Room for 1 uncommon
I feel like they design these sets to work with the format!
I just recently made a goofy Standard Singleton deck and I wanna try playing this thing. My name is SnozberryDreamsicle on there if anyone wants to add me.
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*crickets*
Anyway, it interests me. Commander is a pretty big format to wrap your head around and you need a pretty deep collection of cards to be able to hang in a lot of groups. A 60-card deck is more focused, and limiting the card pool to standard-legal would lower barriers for newer players, and having every card be restricted allows for more variance and the chance to play cards that wouldn't see much action in other formats.
I never see it in the casual queues online. I've started games in the casual queues only to wait for half an hour with no takers. Unforunate, as it really is an intriguing idea.
Modern: UR Delver, URB Delver, URB Control, G Elves, WB Soul Sisters
Legacy: UR Delver, URB Delver, G Elves
EDH: GWTrostani, Selesnya's Voice, UBOona, Queen of the Fae
Find me on MTGO and Twitter with the same username
MTGO username is DreamKing20XX, I'll brew something up to battle with in the 2-man queues, message me on there some time!
the fire - I will become the flame." - Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
I like this idea... Keep it simple and fun. I'm sure you can try each of the 2-color combinations to see how they work together.
I am going to try something along similar lines that I call a "lazy man's cube" where I take the one of my redeemed M12 sets from MTGO and just play that as a small cube or a fat stack. One copy of each card and the full spectrum of card power represented with little-to-no effort required to put it together.
Modern: UR Delver, URB Delver, URB Control, G Elves, WB Soul Sisters
Legacy: UR Delver, URB Delver, G Elves
EDH: GWTrostani, Selesnya's Voice, UBOona, Queen of the Fae
Find me on MTGO and Twitter with the same username
BTW, this format is awesome in RTR, because when you include the multi-colors and gates, you have about the right number of cards.
Take Green and White for example:
15 White cards
15 Green cards
4 White/Greens
1 White/Green guildgate (Selesnya Guildgae)
=35 cards + 24 lands = 59
Room for 1 uncommon like Selesnya Keyrune, or maybe another land
Let's do Blue/Red:
15 Blue Cards
15 Red Cards
4 Blue/Reds
1 Blue/Red guildgate (Izzet Guildgate)
=35 cards +24 lands = 59
Room for 1 uncommon
I feel like they design these sets to work with the format!
1 Avenging Arrow
1 Azorius Arrester
1 Concordia Pegasus
1 Ethereal Armor
1 Eyes in the Skies
1 Keening Apparition
1 Knightly Valor
1 Rootborn Defenses
1 Selesnya Sentry
1 Seller of Songbirds
1 Sunspire Griffin
1 Swift Justice
1 Trained Caracal
1 Trostani's Judgment
1 Centaur Healer
1 Common Bond
1 Coursers' Accord
1 Sundering Growth
1 Aerial Predation
1 Axebane Guardian
1 Axebane Stag
1 Centaur's Herald
1 Chorus of Might
1 Drudge Beetle
1 Druid's Deliverance
1 Gatecreeper Vine
1 Giant Growth
1 Horncaller's Chant
1 Korozda Monitor
1 Rubbleback Rhino
1 Stonefare Crocodile
1 Towering Indrik
1 Urban Burgeoning
12 Forest
12 Plains