Getting Into EDH: “But I Only Play Standard!”

EDH is one of the singularly easy formats to get into for several reasons:

* Lack of lengthy banned/restricted list
* Four-of playsets of cards are unnecessary
* Power levels do no need to be absurd for casual play

As a result almost anyone can do it. Here, for example, is an almost Standard-legal decklist for casual EDH that will give a group of players a run for their money. If you’re a FNM player who’s never thought to give EDH a try due to a lack of back-logo of cards, try this one on for size (and let me know if you do).

I Assume an WUB General Will Arrive In “Action”
An Almost-Standard Legal EDH Deck by Neale Talbot

// General

Sharuum, The Hegemon (until a standard-legal General arrives)

// Mana Acceleration / Draw

1 Sphere of the Suns
1 Pilgrim’s Eye
1 Khalni Gem
1 Prophetic Prism
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Seer’s Sundial
1 Blue Sun’s Zenith

// Stoneforge Mystic Package

1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Sword of Body and Mind
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Vengeance
1 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Bonehoard

// Trinket Mage Package

1 Trinket Mage
1 Chimeric Mass
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Expedition Map
1 Mox Opal
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Brittle Effigy

// Treasure Mage Package

1 Treasure Mage
1 Contagion Engine
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Mindslaver
1 Platinum Emperion
1 Spine of Ish Sah

// Utility Cards

1 Go For The Throat
1 Doom Blade
1 Dispense Justice
1 Jace’s Ingenuity
1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
1 Recurring Insight
1 Revoke Existence

// Creature Bombs

1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1 Carnifex Demon
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
1 Thada Adel, Acquisitor
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Sunblast Angel

// Combo Pieces

1 Koldotha Forgemaster
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Thopter Assembly
1 Razor Hippogriff
1 Sun Titan
1 Cadaver Imp
1 Mimic Vat

// Planeswalker Package

1 Venser, the Sojourner
1 Jace Beleren
1 Jace, the Mindsculptor
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Gideon Jura
1 Sorin Markov

// Control Package

1 Domestication
1 Corrupted Conscience
1 Mind Control
1 Volition Reins
1 Black Sun’s Zenith
1 Contagion Engine
1 Phyrexian Rebirth

// 37 Lands

1 Bojuka Bog
1 Halimar Depths
1 Celestial Colonnade
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Seachrome Coast
1 Jwar Isle Refuge
1 Sejiri Refuge
1 Underground Cataombs
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mystifying Maze
1 Reliquary Tower
10 Island
7 Swamp
7 Plains