German Highlander deck changed to Commander ban list and 20 life no Commander rules

[Terminator2018]

There is no German Highlander thread so posting it here since similiar that 100 cards deck and every card except basic lands have to be different from each other.

Ok my German Highlander deck with Commander ban list to make it legal in German Highlander simply change Strip Mine to Wasteland
and Sol Ring to one more land.

This deck is made for
NO Commander rules or Commander Zone for fun have played Commander at least once there exist one Commander
valid creature.
For 20 life and not 40 life. German Highlander has 20 life.

However since in our home rules we play with this with tough semi hardcore/casual Legacy
rules I am allowed to use Commander Ban List in 20 lie environment.

Imagine a Commander deck for 20 life and no Commander Zone or Commander specific rules. In Highlander
there is one free mulligan for a 100 cards deck though.

2 Artifact:
Sol Ring
Zuran Orb (you would never use this artifact in 40 life environment this is made for 20 life environment)

14 Creature:
Baleful Strix
Bone Shredder
DeathRite Shaman
Flametongue Kavu
Fulminator Mage
Keldon Vandals
Keranos, God of Storms
Nekrataal
Shriekmaw
Snapcaster Mage
Sol'Kanar the Svamp King
Stormbreath Dragon
Thundermaw Hellkite
Vendilion Clique

1 Enchantment
Control Magic

30 Instant
Brainstorm
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Daze
Diabolic Edict
Dig Through Time
Dissolve
Electrolyze
Exclude
Fact or Fiction
Foil
Forbid
Force of Will
Go For The Throat
Impulse
Incinerate
Kolaghan's Command
Lightning Bolt
Magma Jet
Mana Drain
Mana Leak
Mindbreak Trap (at highest level of Highlander you can even encounter a Storm deck)
Rakdos Charm (graveyard hate sometimes useful)
Recoil
Shattering Pulse
Smother (for 40 life enviroment I would change this to Terminate)
Spell Pierce
Spell Snare
Tribute to Hunger
Undermine

35 Land
Badlands
Blood Crypt
Bloodstaine Mire
City of Brass
Creeping Tar Pit
Darkslick Shores
Faerie Conclave
Floodeed Strand
Ghitu Encampment
8 Island
Lavaclaw Reaches
Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
Steam Vents
Strip Mine
1 Swamp
Temple of Deceit
Temple of Ephiphany
Temple of Malice
Underground Sea
Verdant Catacombs
Volcanic Island
Wandering Fumarole
Watery Grave
Wooded Foothills

2 Planeswalker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Liliana Vess

16 Sorcery
Ancestral Vision
Blightning
Bonfire of the Damned
Braingeyser
Chain Lightning
Damnation
Deep Analysis
Demonic Tutor
Dreadbore
Earthquake
Kaervek's Torch
Ponder
Preordain
Pyroclasm
Thoughtseize
Yawghmoth's Will

[Terminator2018]

It is very old school not typical deck in addition the deck idea is POWER and CONTROL therefore I use 3 Scrylands which people usually don't use. This deck is meant for 20 life environment and not 40 life environment and no Commander zone or any other Commander rules except that the deck has to have one Commander valid creature which this deck has.

I play with slight modificiations with this in German Highlander tournaments and then in our home rules with semi
hardcore/casual Legacy decks.

[Ace/Homebrew]

Is German Highlander played 1v1, multiplayer, or both?

[Terminator2018]

Is German Highlander played 1v1, multiplayer, or both?
Officiaal tournaments have duels. This is not supported by Wizards of the Coasts. If you win my country German Highlander you get hundreds of euro in price. Silver and Bronze also get money. If you become 8th even then you get little bit money.

[Terminator2018]

If you win my country German Highlander you get hundreds of euro in price. Silver and Bronze also get money.
ROPECON is not same as Finnish Championship but I only found youttube videos of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCr7E-X3i5o&t=4323s
I explain the semi-final. The player on right would have won with STORM combo Tendrils of Agony, but the other player had Mindbreak Trap (that I also use in my deck)… I show this that at highest level you can even have combo decks.


With my friends I play duels but sometimes also for fun 2 vs 2 or 3 vs 3 players with everyone having 20 life.

I have a few times player multiplayer 3 player all vs each other and did not like it.


We have also in our homerules for multiplayer banned some extra powerful cards for multiplayer like example Standstill.

German Highlander is duels, but with my friend who have semi hardcore/casual Legacy decks I sometimes also play with this deck for fun team play 2 vs 2 or 3 vs 3

[Ace/Homebrew]

Okay! That's helpful to know for anyone that would want to suggest cards. :smile:

Also,

2 Artifact:
Sol Ring
Zuran Orb

14 Creature:
Baleful Strix
Bone Shredder
DeathRite Shaman
Flametongue Kavu
Fulminator Mage
Keldon Vandals
Keranos, God of Storms
Nekrataal
Shriekmaw
Snapcaster Mage
Sol'Kanar the Swamp King
Stormbreath Dragon
Thundermaw Hellkite
Vendilion Clique

1 Enchantment
Control Magic

30 Instant
Brainstorm
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Daze
Diabolic Edict
Dig Through Time
Dissolve
Electrolyze
Exclude
Fact or Fiction
Foil
Forbid
Force of Will
Go For The Throat
Impulse
Incinerate
Kolaghan's Command
Lightning Bolt
Magma Jet
Mana Drain
Mana Leak
Mindbreak Trap
Rakdos Charm
Recoil
Shattering Pulse
Smother
Spell Pierce
Spell Snare
Tribute to Hunger
Undermine

35 Land
Badlands
Blood Crypt
Bloodstaine Mire
City of Brass
Creeping Tar Pit
Darkslick Shores
Faerie Conclave
Floodeed Strand
Ghitu Encampment
8 Island
Lavaclaw Reaches
Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
Steam Vents
Strip Mine
1 Swamp
Temple of Deceit
Temple of Ephiphany
Temple of Malice
Underground Sea
Verdant Catacombs
Volcanic Island
Wandering Fumarole
Watery Grave
Wooded Foothills

2 Planeswalker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Liliana Vess

16 Sorcery
Ancestral Vision
Blightning
Bonfire of the Damned
Braingeyser
Chain Lightning
Damnation
Deep Analysis
Demonic Tutor
Dreadbore
Earthquake
Kaervek's Torch
Ponder
Preordain
Pyroclasm
Thoughtseize
Yawgmoth's Will

[Terminator2018]

Thanks for good replies and sorry for not finding a youtube video in English of German Highlander it is mainly played in Germany and Finland. Canada has for example Canadian Highlander and so on.


I can speak English fluently. I enjoy both movies and music in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk7YZJtmeo
If I see a movie in English language then I can understand the English, without the need to read the subtitles.

[Finn]

Hey, thanks for posting this. I want to be helpful, but I have a hard time understanding the details of the German Highlander format. Without a commander, I find myself wondering what the purpose of the deck is. I'm really having a hard time getting my mind around this.

In considering that difficulty, I wonder if it makes sense to repurpose this thread as an introduction to the format and a place to post all German Highlander decks. Or perhaps we can get Dice_box involved to make a section.

[Ace/Homebrew]

Finn, my understanding (which Terminator should correct if I'm off base) is that German Highlander is like a singlton Legacy 100 card deck.

Terminator's deck is Grixis Control

[Terminator2018]

Finn, my understanding (which Terminator should correct if I'm off base) is that German Highlander is like a singlton Legacy 100 card deck.

Terminator's deck is Grixis Control

Yes well Sol'Kanar the Svamp King make that there is Creature that have
blue and red and black creature so that is like Commander but
there is NO Commander or Commander rules!
deck for 20 life and no Commander Zone or Commander specific rules. In Highlander
there is one free mulligan for a 100 cards deck though.
True you play Grixis Control and have power with:
Mana Drain
Ancestral Vision
Dig Through Time
Keranos, God of Storms
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Liliana Vess
Demonic Tutor
Yawgmoth's Will

It is CONTROL and POWER.

You play 20 life vs 20 life and no Comander rules or Commander play so you can kill your enemy!

[Terminator2018]

Update I posted 2 of my semi casual/hardcore Legacy decks in this thread:
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?32585-Two-of-my-semicasual-hardcore-Legacy-decks-TerminatorCONTROLMerfolk-amp-Spiritmonger


There is a TRUE story also in that threads of one game we played 11th August 2018. In our environment we also have TURN 1 kill combo decks though killing someone turn 1 is rare, but say with combo kill turn 2-4 is not rare.

Therefore so heavy control or otherwise disrupt example discard or land destruction.

With this deck mentioned in this thread I also play with my friends in such an environment. I did not play any game with this German Highlander/Commander deck during 11th and I have several decks so I change what I play with every now and then.