One of our LFGS’ has a regular high turnout for EDH on Thursday nights. We plan on having a month to two month long tournament. Each participant will register a general, but not the entire decklist. Repeat generals are acceptable as this is competitive and certain generals have inherent advantages.

Each week a selection of 4 or 8 players (depending on turnout) will be in “featured matches.” They will be placed in a four person pod and play for points. 3, 2, 1 and 0 points for first, second, third and fourth place. In the event that kills the board simultaneously the “losers” points will be averaged across the remaining players.

This allows for people to anticipate their opponents and tweak their deck for the specific pod they will be playing. It will also allow for others to continue to play casually that night without stealing the show (I’ve found that it can be disruptive to try and poach the entire EDH crowd for a tournament). Deck changes are expected and promise to be more interesting for the thoughtful deck builder. Also, certain decks won’t steal the show. Your *unty BUG control deck owned last weak? Someone may adjust their strategy to deal with you specifically next week.

Anyhow, points will accumulate and a “leader board” will be displayed in the shop over the course of the tournament. We think this will allow for some competition without wrecking the casual/competitive balance. I am open to thoughts and suggestions or critiques.

i am the mono player. in commander, i am pretty easy to spot because i have a commander.

1 point for Last Man Standing after each player has had 5 turns.

1 point for being “That Guy”: players vote for their favorite player, can’t vote for yourself and tie = no point. Highest number of votes earns you one point.

Round Specific Points:

5 Rounds for Five Colors

White: Finish the game with more than 60 life

Blue: Play 3 or more spells when it is not your turn in a single turn.

Black: Play a game with over 120 cards in all graveyards.

Red: Do more than 30 points of damage in a single turn

Green: Control 30 or more permanents in a single turn.

Rules should be as easy as possible. So not a list of 10 possible achievements.

People should play for fun, not only their own fun, but also for the other players.

I use a simple system.

– each player will play 2 games for the tournament (you can play more of course!)

– each player gets 10 diplomacy points for each other player in his match. He can distribute these points to his opponents.

– Killing a player gets you 10 victory points

– Player with most points at end of tournament can choose first from the prize table (FtV foils, dice, playmat, …)

– Each tournament will have 2-3 achievements. I did this once for extra points, but also once for extra foils. for example: “kill your own planeswalker” Each player who killed his planeswalker at least once today, gets card x (a FNM foil for example).

Of course, there is always this mono blue combo player who says “i have nothing, don’t attack me” and than next turn kills everyone. They have an egocentric view of the word ‘fun’.

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We get 6-12 players a week generally and I’m pretty happy with that. We also don’t force people to play together which means if you think winning on turn 3 is fun – you probably won’t be able to find a pod to play in.