001 - The Basic Idea:

The Background:

Now for about two months I've been "working" on a "new" way to play our favorite TCG Magic - the Gathering.

The basic idea started back around the Timespiral-block when there was nothing like Commander, that we knew about. No Blogs, that we could read, no articles and no youtube-content. Just basic one on one MTG (at that time T2, standard). 

So my friends and I just threw together our bulk-cards and formed one single deck with approximately 500+ cards, that we had just laying around.

There were no rules for constructing the deck.
And there were just a few for Playing:

1. there is just one library
2. there is just one graveyard
3. it's a multiplayer-format
4. normal MTG-rules apply

There were no planned synergies, tribal mechanics, combos in that pile. We called it "the Highlander" because we heard about that format but didn't know what that was.

I remember it containing cards like Elvish Piper, Shivan Dragon and even one copy of Rhystic Study from back when it was worth basically nothing.

It was the most basic way of playing laidback Magic and it felt good to have use for all those cards nobody found a place for in their competitive decks.

If you knew how to play Magic, you could play this deck. There was no unequal power level, no set-rotation. It was an out-of-the-box experience for everyone to just sit down and play.

Years have passed, we all had quit MTG and some of us started around 2019 again to play some commander.

But that Highlander-deck has since been lost.