Elder Dragon Highlander

[SomeRandomDude]

Elder Dragon Highlander is a cool format I've been looking at and it goes something like this.

    Commander FFA is a rule set for Magic Online players, much like Two-Headed Giant or Emperor. It is based on the offline Elder Dragon Highlander rule set, which you can read more about here. Commander FFA is a variant of multiplayer free-for-all and can only be played with the 100 Card Singleton format described below.

    In Commander rules, each player has a starting life total of 40 rather than the usual 20. A player chooses a legendary creature, called a commander, and builds a deck including his or her commander. Only colorless cards and cards of the commander's color(S) may be included in the deck. Note that split cards and hybrid cards count as all of their colors. Aside from these deck building restrictions, your commander works differently from other cards in-game as identified below.

    Before the game begins, each player removes his or her commander from the game. If a player's commander would go to the graveyard from anywhere, he or she may choose to remove it from the game instead. A player may play his or her commander from the removed from the game zone for its normal costs plus an additional 2 for each previous time it has been played this way. If a player would add mana to his or her mana pool that's a color his or her commander is not, colorless mana is added instead. In addition to the normal Magic loss conditions, if a player is dealt 21 points of combat damage from a single commander over the course of the game, that player loses the game.

    Commanders are immune from the "legend rule," so don't worry if your commander is the same as someone else's.

So...I'm thinking this could be pretty fun. I'm particularly thinking of using Gaddock Teeg as the commander, any thoughts?

[FM]

Commanders tend to be a bit... bigger, and more... colored. Helps a lot more.

[TheJord]

Doran would be mine

[Elf_Lvr]

Horde of Notions. All color!

That actually sounds pretty cool.

What do you guys think the best would be? I might side with Doran.

[FM]

Depends on what you want to play, really. I'd probably use the 5-colored scarecrow from Shadowmoor.

[SomeRandomDude]

Commanders tend to be a bit... bigger, and more... colored. Helps a lot more.

Well...I was thinking Gaddock Teeg b/c you can turn him out on turn 2, as opposed to my other candidate, Numot.

[FM]

But he dies horribly, and then all of a sudden you're bound to a GW deck with a useless commander costing 12 mana.

[Elf_Lvr]

What about a deck based on Maralen? Sure, it'd have to be mono-black, but fetching could be an amazing thing in Highlander, eh?

Unfortunately, the 21-damage loss doesn't trigger off her ability. Maybe a Brion deck would do it, though! It'd be easy(er) to get that much damage off of him as commander.

[SomeRandomDude]

Or just swing to 40.