{"id":5051,"date":"2015-03-06T01:09:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theendgamesblog.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:04:49","slug":"timmy-leaders-big-boy-spells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theendgamesblog.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"Timmy Leaders: Big Boy Spells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EDH\/Commander is one of the more popular formats around our shop. \u00a0If you are like me, you enjoy the ability to play a less competitive format at times. Taking a break and socializing with my friends via a game of Commander has long been a past time of mine. Unfortunately as the format has gotten more popular it has also gotten more cutthroat. I have watched the meta at our shop shift significantly over the past several years. Gone are the days of wacky fun slow Commander games, now is the time of Spikey McCombostein. Showing up to a game with a deck that is not tier 1 and getting destroyed by turn 4 because someone has ramped into some unanswerable\/infinite board-state is not my definition of fun anymore. I have been that guy myself, and I understand why people do it, but as I have spent more time playing in a social setting I have less desire to be number one and place more emphasis on overall group enjoyment.<\/p>\n

Seems like just about everyone knows about Tiny Leaders these days, and if you don’t well then\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0you go. Along with a large portion of Commander players around our shop I was excited to try out this new format. It seemed like a really fun and creative way to play EDH with some new strategies and decks being viable with a 3CMC and below format. What I had not anticipated was the level of competitiveness that would be involved with said format. It was basically Mini-Legacy. Once again I felt out of place trying to play a “fun” deck in a hostile environment.<\/p>\n

Thing is, everyone is entitled to their version of fun, different strokes for different folks and all that. So instead of trying to force the shop meta into something it doesn’t want to be, we have taken it upon ourselves to bring that whimsical feeling back to Commander. Sitting around trying to find a solution to our hyper competitive environment, fellow TEG employee Chris Kreitzman and I came up with this…<\/p>\n

TIMMY LEADERS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite obviously a play on words with Tiny Leaders and going the complete opposite direction with the play style. Name open for change but I am fan of this one.<\/p>\n

150 Card – Multiplayer Format<\/p>\n

Players start at 60 Life<\/p>\n

21 Commander damage is lethal<\/p>\n

10 Infect damage is lethal<\/p>\n

All spells must be FOUR Converted Mana Cost and up. Any “X” spells must be 4CMC as well before the X cost, and any split cards must have at least one 4CMC or greater side.<\/p>\n

Ban List includes original EDH ban list plus these extras<\/strong><\/p>\n