Ever since I started playing Magic back in whenever-the-hells, like mid 2001, I have not been able to decide on my opinion of the Medallion cycle. Pearl Medallion and friends, you know what I'm saying.

At a glance they are worse than just playing things that make mana, right - producing is better than pseudo-producing , arguably, in particular in a format that is predominantly defined by 3-color decks.

However, I have to say that this opinion is not the result of any actual playtesting. So I sort of carried the mythology around with me, inherited from the people who taught me the game, that they were "strictly worse" than other mana producers.

Years and years later a friend bought me DotP'13 for Steam, and many of those decks included Medallions, so I figured - what the hell, it's a silly variant of Magic anyway, I will try it. And really... they seem pretty all right.

Now most of those lists are mono- or dual-colored, and so again, in a format like EDH perhaps the net effect is diminished significantly. However, it occurs to me that in any turn where you cast more than one spell with colorless in its casting cost, the card has 'generated' more mana for you than most of the other 2 casting-cost mana rocks in the format.

Has anyone here ever given Medallions a real fair shake in EDH, and if yes -- what was your experience?