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mrs_bun
07-14-2009, 07:23 PM
halp

I'm going to make a deck around it.
Tony3
07-14-2009, 07:26 PM
this would be a lot easier if you explained what you were talking about.
mrs_bun
07-14-2009, 07:34 PM
If you don't know, then you prolly can't pick it out. :teach:
Jenius
07-14-2009, 07:37 PM
this would be a lot easier if you explained what you were talking about.

You are retarded.
Tony3
07-14-2009, 07:39 PM
You are retarded.

I'm sorry I am not quite as amazing or knowledgeable at Magic as you are.
mrs_bun
07-14-2009, 07:40 PM
Less fighting, more terrible generals please.
Shadow
07-14-2009, 07:41 PM
I'm sorry I am not quite as amazing or knowledgeable at Magic as you are.

RTFT :rolleyes:
Jenius
07-14-2009, 07:43 PM
Wouldn't just shitty legends in general work? I guess the problem there is that I think EDH runs by weird enough rules that even mediocre overcosted legends are feasibly good.
Jenius
07-14-2009, 07:46 PM
What about a legend who's entire purpose is nullified by the format? Like Akuta, born of ash?
mrs_bun
07-14-2009, 07:51 PM
Akuta isn't terrible, because you can CHOOSE to let it hit the graveyard, so its ability can still be used.

Haakon was mentioned, because you can ONLY play him from the graveyard, but the point is to be able to play him so I can build around the card.

Also, color matters. Black and blue are pretty much out, imo, as is any multicolored general. Karn would be terrible on this note, but his ability is amazing.
Jenius
07-14-2009, 07:53 PM
Oh my bad, I thought it got rfg'ed automatically. Well I dunno then, it's still a bad card :V.

What about one of the samurai brothers? They're basically overcosted vanilla without the other one, and assuming I recall the rules right, you can't put the other in your deck right?
notallama
07-14-2009, 09:00 PM
grr bosh smash
Mixed Berry Hotcakes.
07-14-2009, 11:13 PM
Yeah it'd need to be a red one.

EDIT: Ishi-Ishi, Akki Craskshot (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74636)?
notallama
07-14-2009, 11:28 PM
memnarch
i was going to suggest this, but any excuse to put bosh in a deck is a good one. even though memnarch is probably about 10 times worse than bosh.
notallama
07-15-2009, 12:20 AM
but karn can?
i do not understand.
Mixed Berry Hotcakes.
07-15-2009, 12:44 AM
1. In a Memnarch EDH deck you can't play cards that have blue mana symbols.
2. Memnarch himself has blue mana symbols.
3. In a Memnarch deck you can't play Memnarch.
4. Memnarch deck cannot exist.
Jenius
07-15-2009, 02:58 AM
It's arbitrary casual rules so why not just change em on your own with friends?

Or do people actually take this format seriously? (This is not meant to be sarcastic).
notallama
07-15-2009, 10:36 AM
it goes by mana symbols, and not card colour?
what jackass thought up that rule? :V
Shadow
07-15-2009, 01:21 PM
EDH is a retarded "format" and generally a waste of time.

Fuck you, Zerg.
Tidal Kraken
07-15-2009, 05:59 PM
norrin the wary or w/e his name is maybe
notallama
07-15-2009, 06:54 PM
Well, the specific rule is something about its mana cost, and how only cards in your deck can be of that color, but it should look at mana symbols on the card itself.
well, mainly i think that it's dumb that they don't look at the same thing for what your legend counts as and for what cards you're allowed to play.

why not just use card color for both, though? using mana symbols at all seems weird. are there any cards that say anything about mana symbols?
Jenius
07-15-2009, 07:57 PM
There are cards that say "For each R in the casting cost of blah blah blah".
Captain Piano
07-16-2009, 02:27 AM
It's sad that I'm so bored that I'm reading this thread, despite not knowing what the fuck anyone is talking about.
Mixed Berry Hotcakes.
07-16-2009, 04:10 AM
Which is a silly, arbitrary rule, I think. Memnarch should be considered a blue legend since for all intents and purposes, he is a blue legend who happens to be an artifact, amirite? Look at the recent artifacts that are also a color and realize that would totally have been Memnarch had that 'mechanic' existed at the time.

This is a perfect example of arbitrary rules getting in the way of something. Memnarch is excluded because of a technicality in the way a rule is worded It could easily be rewritten to include cards such as Memnarch without changing the deck construction rules of the format.

Well no disagreement here.

well, mainly i think that it's dumb that they don't look at the same thing for what your legend counts as and for what cards you're allowed to play.

why not just use card color for both, though? using mana symbols at all seems weird. are there any cards that say anything about mana symbols?

Could do. But it'd be more elegant to add the line 'your General itself is not a part of your deck.'