Yaloron
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The new freeform Commander option is awesome and opens up a lot of new possibilities!
Unfortunately while the deck building restrictions are very few and allow a ton of different commander sub formats to be played in theory, the fixed life totals (20 for single player/40 for multiplayer) clash with many different rules sets of commander variants played in paper. This is relevant e.g. for multiplayer Oathbreaker, Brawl or Pauper EDH.
It would be great if while creating a game there was an option to adjust the starting life totals so it's actually possible to play all our favorite commander variants like we know them from paper.
A workaround which is possibly easier to implement in the short term would be to allow Vanguards in freeform commander decks. There are both Vanguards which let you start with +5 life and with -5 life, and since all commander variants I know of use life totals that are multiples of 5, this would allow players to play with their preferred life totals by adding the appropriate number of Vanguards to their deck. (There are already so few deck building restrictions that all games rely on players not abusing the deck building part, making Vanguards legal wouldn't change much here.)
Unfortunately while the deck building restrictions are very few and allow a ton of different commander sub formats to be played in theory, the fixed life totals (20 for single player/40 for multiplayer) clash with many different rules sets of commander variants played in paper. This is relevant e.g. for multiplayer Oathbreaker, Brawl or Pauper EDH.
It would be great if while creating a game there was an option to adjust the starting life totals so it's actually possible to play all our favorite commander variants like we know them from paper.
A workaround which is possibly easier to implement in the short term would be to allow Vanguards in freeform commander decks. There are both Vanguards which let you start with +5 life and with -5 life, and since all commander variants I know of use life totals that are multiples of 5, this would allow players to play with their preferred life totals by adding the appropriate number of Vanguards to their deck. (There are already so few deck building restrictions that all games rely on players not abusing the deck building part, making Vanguards legal wouldn't change much here.)
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