What is EDH?
Asked by puddlesftw 14 years ago
What are the general rules? When it comes to building a deck for EDH can i have multiple legendary creatures?
nammertime says... Accepted answer #2
In short, it's a highlander deck (max limit of one copy of each card of a particular English name, save basic lands) with 99 cards with mana costs and symbols in their text limited by the casting cost colors of your general, which must be a legend (with the same limitations).
The general has a special zone called the command zone from which he starts and goes to if he becomes exiled or goes to the graveyard (your choice to put into graveyard or command zone, if he's put into a graveyard). Every subsequent time he's summoned (he can be played as a normal creature from the command zone), it costs 2 more colorless mana on top of his normal casting cost for each time he was sent there.
EDH decks (which stands for Elder Dragon Highlander) are generally designed with the goal of maximizing the general's ability, and with the goal of winning like in any other Magic game, except that you start with 40 life, and you can lose if you take 21 combat damage or more from any specific general, yours or not.
Most people will follow the EDH site's rules, including mulligan rules, the banned list and the presence of a ten-card sideboard, but of course, house rules and such are a lot more common (such as different wincons, awarded points for different effects, no sideboard or a different banned list/mulligan rule).
September 22, 2010 1:50 p.m.
nammertime says... #3
If it was unclear, it's a 100-card deck with 99 cards and one general.
$ªmHεiπ says... #1
General Rules :
http://www.dragonhighlander.net/rules.php
and you can have any number of different Legendaries, just no duplicates.
September 22, 2010 12:45 p.m.