![]() Conversely, if an opponent is about to make a legal mistake in a tournament game (like forgetting an opposing Drannith Magistrate as they cast Underworld Breach ), stay quiet. cEDH players who regularly show opponents cards in their hand win plenty (I'm confident they win more than players who never reveal that info). In cEDH it is better to over-communicate than be silent. People in this situation often under-share, hiding key information about cards in their hand or on the battlefield, which then causes a temporary ally to make an error. ![]() When you're part of this trio, you should share information with the other two players. When one player is trying to win, each of their opponents share one goal: ensure that the game does not end. Draws notwithstanding, each game has one winner and three losers. A Series of 3v1'sĮternal format and cEDH champion Brian Coval describes cEDH as "a series of 3v1's."Ĭommander is a multiplayer format. This prompts another question for your mulligans: Does this hand feel wildly impressive? In most cases, mulliganing to a hand that feels like it breaks Magic's baseline rules (e.g., accruing one extra mana per turn, drawing one card per turn, etc.) is smart. It's good to ask of your openers: Is this tempo favored to win this pod? If the answer is no, ask this followup: Will someone else's first few turns cause this hand to win?īy our best estimates, cEDH is a five-turn format on average (with a standard deviation of two turns). Your opening hands will imply play patterns and tempos. You overcome this disadvantage when your opponents have fewer resources to stop you. A cEDH player starts the game at a severe resource disadvantage: when you draw 7, your collective opponent draws 21 when you play a land, your collective opponent plays three. Your chance of winning will be higher if you attempt to win second or third. In a pod with an average distribution of colors (so with ≥1 deck on blue), trying to win first usually makes you lose. Playing cEDH well requires a good sense of timing. cEDH is also the most complicated version of a game whose complexity is already insoluble. ![]() Just the good stuff.Ī necessary preface: cEDH is a young metagame within a young format of a young game. This field guide covers what you need to know to win more games of cEDH than you should. ![]()
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