Kresh looks like he IS stampeding into battle. Anyway, I don't think the format began as revolving around your general, but I think it has evolved into that idea, which is FANtastic.
....unless I ramped faster than my buddy's five-color deck, allowing me to drop an Acidic Slime (or even Terastodon!) ASAP and tear apart his manabase. Just a thought.
No one says "enters the battlefield." You're a liar if you say you do, unless you started AFTER that horrendous change, in which you don't know any better. Go read Uktabi Orangutan, though.
I still don't think my friends and I will adopt Commander.....through abject laziness. EDH is way faster to say than Commander, easier to type,...cooler...
EDIT: I searched the thread and didn't get any hits for Meekstone! This card has been amazing for me; I think it should be played in most decks that run Trinket Mage.
Well, that might be going a little too far...but I just realized that my Vig deck doesn't have a ton of power>3 creatures, I run Earthcraft with limited drawback, AND Murkfiend Liege becomes godly and necessary. Man, I almost want to take out Propaganda for it. Wow-wee, I never thought I'd find a real deck to use it.
Are these forums going to change to "Commander Discussion"?
I don't like the dissonance between having a "general" and playing "commander." General is a higher ranking (and army) while commander's naval. I know "GENERALS FTW LOLZ" isn't a great name, but Commander seems off to me.
1) I'd say you need two-to-six Wraths/nonland-board-clearing effects. I figured at most five targeted critter removal, and upwards of ten as long as you have more flexible removal (Vindicate, Mortify, Maelstrom Pulse).
2) Yes, blue and black are the best colors in EDH. Then probably green for ramp, white for all the wraths, and red for...it's pretty vast assortment of random stuff. For the most part, I think it's more about how you build the deck around the general.
Unless his playgroup stated that they all WILL be making Memnarch.dec in the short future.
Maybe it's only two-for-one since your Emrakul's back where he belongs.
Also, @Aardvark: Yeah, but probably 95% of all the cards ever printed are nigh-unusable for any reason (save for hilarity).
Well, that might be going a little too far...but I just realized that my Vig deck doesn't have a ton of power>3 creatures, I run Earthcraft with limited drawback, AND Murkfiend Liege becomes godly and necessary. Man, I almost want to take out Propaganda for it. Wow-wee, I never thought I'd find a real deck to use it.
I don't like the dissonance between having a "general" and playing "commander." General is a higher ranking (and army) while commander's naval. I know "GENERALS FTW LOLZ" isn't a great name, but Commander seems off to me.
2) Yes, blue and black are the best colors in EDH. Then probably green for ramp, white for all the wraths, and red for...it's pretty vast assortment of random stuff. For the most part, I think it's more about how you build the deck around the general.