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If WotC were to produce a FTV set for EDH players that consisted entirely of Legendary Creatures, what would the 15 most powerful and flavourful EDH generals be?

This idea is entirely hypothetical of course, I'm not trying to present evidence that this will happen... I just thought it'd be interesting to see which creatures the MTGS EDH community consider to be the best choices for such a set.

So, what are your thoughts?

well the first five are obvious but I don't think it is possible to do as everyone has their own beliefs on top generals.

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well the first five are obvious but I don't think it is possible to do as everyone has their own beliefs on top generals.

If they're obvious, what are they?

The ones I would guess would have to go in are things like Azami, Uril, Sisay, Sharuum...there are probably heaps more obvious ones that I've completely overlooked. Clique is a bit boring to make the cut, I'd think.

I'd agree with Azami and Sisay. Despite being degenerate up the wazoo, Azami is very flavourful, as she depicts two things that blue is renowned for: wizards and card drawing.

I think Omnath, Locus of Mana would be a great legend for mono-green, being a big fatty-boom-boom and mana ramping all in one.

The Elder Dragons

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The Elder Dragons

OH!

But to be honest, that would be a bit of a cop-out. I mean, Wizards doesn't even acknowledge that EDH stands for Elder Dragon Highlander (in the comp. rules, it is always just EDH). And they all kind of suck. Bolas wouldn't be terrible, except that he already got printed in Dragons.

Arcades Sabboth
Chromium
Nicol Bolas
Palladia-Mors
Vaevictis Asmadi
Kiki-Jiki Mirror Breaker
Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
Chainer, Dementia Master
Thada Adel, the Acquisitor
Mageta the Lion
Captain Sisay
Wort, the Raidmother
Kaervek the Merciless
Jhoira of the Ghitu
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

Bear in mind none of the FTV sets are the most powerful collection of xyz (surely theres better banned and restricted cards than kird ape that are legal to be printed). In that regard I would expect 1 elder dragon legend, then go with key characters from as many blocks as possible so card like Lin Sivvi, Toshiro Umezawa, Akroma or Phage, Kamahl, Commander Greven il-vec, Volrath the Fallen, someone from the weathlight, Teferi, Agrus Kos or Teysa, Oona, someone from Coldsnap, an obscure legend from legends, and some filler depending on what color is lacking the most

I'd rather just have a set of 15-30 brand new legends....

oh wizards..

I certainly can't name all fifteen, but I think these would be auto-includes:

• Nicol Bolas
  
• Captain Sisay
  
• Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary

...and some other legends that aren't as epic, but still reasonable:
Sharuum the Hegemon
Kresh the Bloodbraided
Maga, Traitor to Mortals
Azami, Lady of Scrolls

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I'd rather just have a set of 15-30 brand new legends....

oh wizards..

This would be so sweet. Maybe as silver bordered to be able to design freely without messing up standard. Prob won't happen, but would be sweet to get an infusion of cool, build-around-me generals.

Well if they went off of Edh by the "format staples" I'd say it would look something like this

1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
2 Sliver Legion
3 Teneb the Harvester
4 Wrexial the Risen Deep
5 Zur, the Enchanter
6 Karn Silver Golem
7 Jhoira of the Ghitu
8 Thada Adel, the Acquisitor
9 Omnath, Locus of Mana
10 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
11 Sharuum, the Hedgemon
12 Mayael, the Enima
13 Doran, the Siege Tower
14 Captain Sisay
15 Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Some may just be on my list because I want them for my EDH decks, but I think it's be a good list that WoTC could sell.

I'm pretty sure we would see:
1. Captain Sisay
2. Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
3. Zur, the Enchanter
4. one of the Rav guys (probably Savra because Niv was printed in Dragons)
5. Squee, Goblin Nabob in old art (hopefully)
6. Doran the Siege Tower
7. Pheldagrif
8. Chromium
9. Rafiq of the Many
10. Memnarch
11. Toshiro Umezawa
12. Serra's Sanctum, Gaea's Cradle, or Tolarian Academy
13. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
14. Akroma Angel of Wrath
15. Plant from the next set.

Gaea's Cradle would be an amazing thing to put it, never thought of Edh staple cards. Not to sure if Memnarch would be, might confuses people about having him as a general.

Announcing
From the Vault: Legends

From the Vault: Legends contains fifteen battle-tested Legendary creatures, selected from throughout the history of Magic: The Gathering. Each card is important to Elder Dragon Highlander due to its popularity, or it's importance to the legacy of the format.

Contents:

* 15 Premium foil cards, including 8 with new art
* An exclusive spindown life counter
* Each card has been printed using a foil process unique to the “From the Vault” series.
* The 15 cards are all printed in the current card frame – for several, it is for the first time.
* All cards are black-bordered and tournament legal. This means that these cards are legal for use in any tournaments where the original printings are still legal.

Cards included:

Well i already have a Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed, but i'd definitely want one of him, As well as some of the other P3K Legends. As for choosing the other 14. I'd probably just pick one for each color first and then move onto multicolor.

All of them would need new art of course ;D

If we're talking new art - Jaya Ballard, Task Mage.

I never really liked the art.

Oh, Hanna, Ship's Navigator too - although me and a friend spent an hour or two making a really nice proxy.

Is this FTV: EDH or Legends??? The suggestions so far certainly point to the former.

How could one compile an FTV: Legends without true standouts of the game such as Dakkon Blackblade and Sol'Kanar the Swamp King???? Ihsan's Shade would be another great one and so would Baron Sengir. Tetsuo Umezawa would also be spot on.

Others could include Gerrard Capashen, Sharuum the Hegemon, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, and other such iconic characters.

To be fair, this is largely from a favour perspective.

I think itd be cool to see the 5 elder dragons, the cycle of dragons with rith, and the 5 planar caos dragons...That would be edh. As for best 15 generals id go in no particular order: clique, arcum, sharuum, sissay, karn, sliver overlord/queen, kresh, zur, johria, rafiq, uril, erayo, azami, red akroma, drana/the new dragon. Those would prolly be the best and most popular and offer a wide variety of playstyles. O and if banned generals are allowed then obviously reffelos and braids...prolly over drana and kresh.

• Tarox Bladewing
  
• Baru, Fist of Krosa
  
• Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
  
• Linessa, Zephyr Mage
  
• Oriss, Samite Guardian

that card style is just stupid

I actually love that style, go figure.

I also think the art for Oriss is amazing

tsabo tavoc

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Is this FTV: EDH or Legends??? The suggestions so far certainly point to the former.

The first post specifically said :

If WotC were to produce a FTV set for EDH players that consisted entirely of Legendary Creatures, what would the 15 most powerful and flavourful EDH generals be?

We need to look at legendary cards that are relevant to the format of EDH. The topic noted that they should also be generals, ruling out other legendary permanent staples.

I must disagree with a few of the choices presented in the posts above mine simply because cards like Gerrard Capashen, Sol'Kanar the Swamp King, or any cycle of legenadries would not be included. From the Vaults does not print cycles. It prints 15 cards that are important, flavorful, and powerful to the theme. With the theme so clearly defined in the first post, I don't see how people are missing the target.

Sidenote: people should not include cards that have already been reprinted in FTV. Karn, Nicol Bolas and Niv mizzet won't be printed in another FTV set.

You guys work fast apparently! Already on page two!

Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed and Zur the Enchanter seem like good choices to me.

Another thing to consider is that FTV sets include as many as 9 new arts...

So which generals do you think are most deserving of new art?

I think Braids, Cabal Minion would probably make the list. Just sayin'

It would have been a good set to throw our new Mindslaver in, too, but oh well.