New EDH Commander House Rules and Banned List

So with occasional breaks we will be playing EDH/Commander one on one matches (one game long) on Monday evenings. There are three ways to earn league points aside from the automatic two that come from showing up and completing three rounds. You can be the overall winner, you can be the top standard legal player, or you can have the deck that is voted most fun by your opponents in a secret ballot. These all will receive equal prizes and one additional league point. You can not win more than one category. If you are unfamiliar with the general (that was an unintentional pun) rules then check here: http://forum.mtgcommander.net/Forum/ We play with a few slight modifications in an attempt to keep it casual and fun.

1)Players with decks only using standard legal cards start matches at 8 cards and 45 life.

2) There is a free mulligan you can take at the beginning of each round regardless of what your hand is. After that you mulligan to six and then five and so forth.

3)No sideboards. 100 cards is enough and we are only playing one game a round anyways.

4)Cards that trigger off life totals such as serra ascendant and felidar sovereign are legal but will trigger only if you gain the amount it would normally take to trigger them. So serra ascendant will get bigger after you have gained 10 life from whatever your starting life total was.

5)If the same general tops the overall standings two events in a row they will be banned for one week. If the same pilot was playing them, the will be asked to replace or drop one or more of their colors during the "timeout" week. We will "reset" after that and anyone can play whatever general and/or colors they want the following week (the fourth week in the sequence).

6)To win through 21 general damage it must all be from your general and it must all be combat damage.

The Following is the Banned list we are using for now at ColumbiaFreeMagic

o Amulet of Quoz
o Bronze Tablet
o Contract from Below
o Darkpact
o Demonic Attorney
o Jeweled Bird
o Rebirth
o Tempest Efreet
o Timmerian Fiends

o Chaos Orb
o Falling Star

o Ancestral Recall
o Black Lotus
o Crucible of Worlds
o Gifts Ungiven
o Grindstone
o Karakas
o Mana Crypt
o Mind Twist
o Mindslaver
o Mox Emerald
o Mox Jet
o Mox Pearl
o Mox Ruby
o Mox Sapphire
o Necropotence
o Protean Hulk
o Sol Ring
o Staff of Domination
o Time Walk
o Time Vault
o Tinker
o Upheaval
o Yawgmoth's Bargain

Plus

Armaggedon
Balance
Bazaar of Baghdad
Biorhythm
Cataclysm
Channel
Earthcraft
Emrakuul
Fastbond
Flash
Hermit Druid
Library of Alexandria
Limited Resources
Lion's Eye Diamond
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Memory Jar
Metal Worker
Mishras Workshop
Oath of Druids
Skullclamp
Stripmine
Sway of the Stars
Survival of the Fittest
Tolarian Academy
Timespiral
Ulamog
Wheel of Fortune
Windfall
Worldgorger Dragon
Yawgmoth's Will

Banned as Generals
Braids
Rofellos
Vendillion Clique

Note: Sensei's Divining Top is NOT banned.

Questions, Comments? Send me a message at ominoj37@yahoo.com.