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Ok, me and some friends of mine have been coming up with a new format for playing magic. The whole premise is that there's a universal Dream Halls in play. Now, if you look up Dream Halls, you'll find that it's banned, and here's why:

Dream Halls
3UU
Enchantment
Rare, Stronghold

Rather than pay the mana cost for a nonartifact spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

Ok..think about that....don't know why it's broken? Ok, here's an example.

You have two Raging Goblins and two Searing Winds in your hand. Pitch a Goblin, play a wind for free, Pitch a goblin, play a wind for free. Now, you just played 2 9-casting-cost spells for free...and did 20 damage to your opponent.

Now, imagine playing decks that can do that all the time. Every single non-playable colored card you can imagine is now playable. Now, here are the rules (we're not done yet, but here's some)

Deck Requirements:
No Lands that can produce mana
Decks must be at least 75 cards
Every Spell may be played as though there is a Dream Halls in play.
X spells can have the X payed after the announcement of the spell (if you have some way of getting mana).

Card Legality:
All cards ever printed, including Starter, Portal, and Unglued/Unhinged are legal unless stated below.

Banned Cards:
Demonic Tutor
Regrowth
Power 9
Channel
Biorhythm
Amnesia
Brain Freeze
Tendrals of Agony
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Time Walk
Capture of Jinzhou
Beacon of Tomorrows
Temporal Manipulation
Time Stretch
Time Warp
Any Unhinged card that uses 1/2 lives (Assquatch, Avatar of Me, Bosom Buddy, Cheap a**, Flaccify, Fraction Jackson, Letter Bomb, Mons's Goblin Waiters, Necro-Impotence, Saute, Save Life, and Wet Willie of the Damned)
Chaos Orb
Chaos Confetti
Illusions of Grandeur
Double Dip
Double Cross
Double Play
Double Take
Double Deal
Once More With Feeling
Sway of the Stars
Time Spiral
Time Twister
Volrath's Motion Sensor

I know that's a lot of cards, but most of the cards are either instant-speed kills, too damn confusing, or are unfair (such as the 'take an extra turn' cards...if you can play those for free, that's retarted good).

Please, give this format a try. It's really fun, and gives you a chance to play so many of those stupid-expensive or wierd cards, and really explore. I think you guys should try playing this with your friends and stuff, it's great. smile

I did a rare draft, so I know what you're talking about. I think this is certainly an interesting format and would love to give it a go when my school club starts up again this year.

i am going to have to find people and play some of that. The rare draft i mean. I am hearing great ideas for gameplay lately.

no. unglued and unhinged are still banned. Rare draft just stops you from using commons and uncommons, other then that you have to follow the rules from the type your playing.

-omg, how long does it take,
before a single game end's.?
-like when me and my team
mate's play a 60+ deq's it
take's us atleast an hr. or so
to finish a game. sweatdrop

-jeebus that long, i might forfeit after
3 hrs. has elapsed. sweatdrop

-yea i guess. 3nodding