I would love to see a challenge like this: (I know that it is post 8th edd but hear me out)

Current standard + any 10 cards that are legacy legal. I think that would be a blast to build. And it would still hold the old card theme.

truble That's an interesting suggestion; I'll think about it.

truble if I do this for a challenge, do you have a preference as to whether it's pre- or post-Theros?

well I would love sooner rather then later, but whatever

Be careful with what is banned too. we dont need any 4X Black Lotus decks running around

Feel free to tweak my original suggestion too if you like

Yeah, right now I'm thinking legacy-legal and pre-8th edition (NO JTMS!), but I'm going to do some more research, and get an idea of what the Standard scene looks like, before I set anything in stone.

Cool beans

I like truble's idea so much that mine is similar. Same basic premise as all other Ye Olds except that you get the ten cards (or whatever number) from the other side of 8th instead of the other way around. Something like ABUR + 10 modern legal cards (with exceptions) or something like that.

Also, as an alternative, there could be another Ye Old where there are legal wishes and then only allow the modern legal cards in the side to get 'wished' out. Anyway, thanks for going to the effort of putting these together. Much appreciated.

Dritz I like your suggestions. I'm planning on doing truble's idea next, and I'll probably do yours 2-3 challenges after that. It'll probably be your first suggestion so the Modern cards will be more significant.

Make a challenge where we can pick only one card from each expansion before 8th edition? With the exception of basic lands of course. It'd be like some weird EDH concoction. Hell you could even make it EDH with a 60 card deck and a commander. In which the commander can be chosen from any expansion. Rulings would be legacy and EDH rulings.

I would think for the set-up you have some choices here in the matches. For the swiss you could do a few mini-rounds of maybe 4 free for all or 3 free for all, whichever makes sense based on the number of decks. Then for the actual tournament you could have everyone in a free for all, however when someone loses the game is restarted, minus the person who loses. This way the matches won't take that long.

Might take a lot longer to build the decks, so maybe allot a week or two more than normal for it. You could then post it in the EDH forums to~

Femme_Fatale That's a really cool suggestion. I like your idea for the tournament structure also. I'll probably make this challenge #18.

Yay~

Femme_Fatale I've been thinking about your request, and it seems that requiring 1 card per set would require too much time to build decks. Would you be terribly offended if I changed the requirements to 1 per block, 2-3 from the non-block sets (Antiquities, Homelands), and 1-2 from Alpha/Beta?

I would like to request a Pre8th edition deck using only artifacts (no Black Lotus Lion's Eye Diamond or other broken mana sacks) and Braid of Fire as its mana sources. I have been looking at how to consistently use Braid of Fire in Legacy or Modern but I'm stumped and would love to see other peoples take on this underused/unloved card.Thank you for considering this request even if it does not make the cut.Regards Urasa

urasa Interesting suggestion. I was thinking of doing a MUD challenge, and I could easily add Braid of Fire to the card pool.

Well, i have an interesting idea sparking in my head:

• Deck must be made of 60 cards
• It had to consist up to 4 planeswalker of the same subtype (so, you may put 4x Jace Beleren , or 2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor and 2x Jace, Architect of Thought , or even one single Jace, Memory Adept )
• The cards would be only in colors of your planeswalker (If you have both Ajani, Caller of the Pride and Ajani Vengeant , the legal colors are both white and red)
• For each planeswalker with other name, add 5 cards (not basic lands) from the same set as planeswalker. If the planeswalker is printed in more than one sets, you may choose these 5 cards from any of these sets. (For example, if deck haves 2x Lilliana of the Dark Realms, 1x Liliana of the Veil and 1x Liliana Vess , you choose: 5 cards from M13 and M14 (Dark Realms), 5 from Innistrad (Veil) and 5 from M11/M12/Lorwyn (Vess)
• Rest of cards must be from pre-8th edition

Did you liked the idea?

How about this. The infinite Life Gain challenge. You get 8 post eighth edition cards and the rest are old ones. The challenge is that you have to end the game by getting infinite life or by milling the other player (You dont loose by going bellow zero or by gaining 10 poison) Also to keep it from just being a milling challenge, each deck has to explain a valid way it will reach infinite life in the description.

or to keep people from intentionally building mill decks you could not allow any cards that move cards from the library to the graveyard

My suggestion is to pick a powerful set from pre 8th Edition (I am not well acquainted with them, so I presume your pick for it would be better than mine) and create a "Standard" block using it and Theros (or any other fairly recent block). The core set could either be excluded or cribbed from somewhere between the two sets.

Enchantment/ land only deck from 8th and before.

Interesting suggestions.

Dekord If I do that challenge, it would probably be Urza's Block. It had dozens more enchantments and twice as many "enchantment matters" cards as any other Pre-8th block.

BooJr2001 Though an Enchantment-only deck would be possible, most enchantment strategies involve some nonenchantment cards to work, so I'd probably allow 8-12 nonenchantment cards if I do your challenge.

I have another one ... how about a Girl's Only challenge? Where the card images (excluding lands) must show either A) only females or B) females that are CLEARLY in a higher position than the men presented. A good example for this criteria is my very own Girls Rejoice! Its a bargain of gorgeous dresses~♥

Whether or not you want to keep it pre-8th only is up to you, or you can make it every set.

I'm seeing a creatures-only challenge going right now... so why not try out a similar thing: Have we done a NO-Creatures challenge?

Basically, build a deck (The scope can vary, maybe anything modern legal?) that contains no creature spells.

I'm guessing this would likely lead to decks focusing on the following win conditions: Tokens, Mill, Burn, and 'I Win' spells/combos.

Whoops, forgot about the focus being on pre-8th edition. I don't see why you couldn't pick whatever scope you wanted for my last suggestion, including pre-8th.

Here's another suggestion, similar to the last:

Make a No-Permanents challenge (aside from lands, of course).

The scope can vary, like before, but only allow non-permanents, such as Instants and Sorceries. Lands would have to be an exception, but you'd probably want to ban the manlands.

Hmm, I think a fun challenge would be taking an older card like Storm Crow or another creature, perhaps one of each color that almost no one plays to keep the diversity, and making the rule that only that "champion" can deliver the killing blow. Allow decks to have 10 of the chosen creature and if they would like to run a multicolor deck, then only allow 10 of the "champion" creatures total, but the rest have to be cards that are pre-eighth edition. :p I think that would be fun.