Rainbow Stairwell

Rainbow stairwell is very constructed about how you create your deck, which makes the deck building more interesting.

your deck has the following rules

Exactly 60 cards
6 cards from each color and 6 cards that are colorless
One of each card maximum
You must have 1 of each CMC on each color going from 1 to 6
So CMC and color or lack of it is already set for 30 cards out of 60. Leaving you the rest for mana base and chance to add some CMC’s twice.

Which color stairwell do you think is the most important?
Green for mana fix or perhaps blue for card advantage?

Emperor

Emperor is played with 3 player teams.

Emperor sits in the middle and he’s generals on both sides of the Emperor

Emperors have range of influence of 2 so since the beginning of the game they can affect only till the opposing generals. Generals have range of 1 so in the beginning they can only affect the general directly in front of him.

Players play separately so no shared life totals, libraries or anything but it is possible to deploy creatures, giving each creature the following ability “{T}: Target teammate gains control of this creature. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.” If a player is eliminated from the game so is all their cards, so you a general about to go down can’t leave his army to Emperor but they will disappear with the dying general.

You only win as a team if the opposing general is defeated.

What do you think would be the best Emperor deck to lead your generals to victory?

Storm crow Highlander

Storm crow Highlander is a commander variant with following restrictions:

Aside from the normal 100 cards including commander you have one Storm crow in your deck
sideboard of 15 cards.
Your storm crow is of the same color as your commander.
You start game with storm crow in game.
You do not lose from going to 0 lifes, decking out, 21 commander damage or 15 poison counters until a storm crow gets a hit on you.
If your starting storm crow would be removed it phases out and all counters, enchantments and equipments are removed from it.

https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Storm_Crow_Highlander

Tiny Leaders

Tiny leaders is a variation of the Commander but with following restrictions:

All cards in deck must have converted mana cost 3 or less
You have a commander that costs 3 or less.
Normal commander singleton rule
Each deck is done with 50 cards including Commander
Game starts with 25 life

Star

Star is multiplayer format designed for 5 players.

Each player takes a single color deck and a place on table according to the color star at back of the deck.
You win only by having your enemy color decks defeated.
You can attack anyone and target spells at anyone.

Little variations that you could have for bit change:

Have each player a tri-color deck with friendly colors [W(gu)] Bant, [U(rw)] Esper, [B(br)] Grixis, [R(rg)] Jund, [G(rw)] Naya
Have each player have a tri-color deck with enemy colors [W(bg)] Abzan, [U(rw)] Jeskai, [B(gu)] Sultai, [R(wb)] Mardu, [G(ur)]Temur
Have each player play with the allied dual color decks [W(u)] [U(b)] [B(r)] [R(g)] [G(w)]
Have each player play with the enemy dual color decks [W(b)] [U(r)] [B(g)] [R(w)] [G(u)]

or as we played it:

Each player can play any deck
if the 2 players in front of you die you win.

Which color would you rather have in the color wheel? Would you rather play a game in mono color wheel or one of the variations?

Brawl

Brawl is a 60 card Commander using only cards from standard so rules for creating your deck would be

1 Legendary creature or planeswalker that allows using it as a commander.
59 other cards with no more than 1 of each card except for basic lands, each of these cards must have same color identity as your commander.
All cards in your deck must be standard legal

When you have more than 2 players each player starts with life total of 30, if only 2 players then 25 is your starting life total.
First mulligan is to 7 cards
If your commander dies or is exiled you can set it to commander zone, each time you play it after first it costs 2 colorless mana more/times it has died.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/game-info/gameplay/formats/brawl

What would be your favorite Brawl commander from the current standard cards?

Pauper

Pauper is a additional rule for creating decks or even cubes.

In Pauper no cards that are have not been printed as common are legal. So no rares, no mythic rares and no uncommons, unless they have been separately printed also as commons.

Which pauper deck do you think is the most powerful?

Two headed Giant

Two headed Giant is a way to play either Constructed or Limited games.

In Two headed Giant you play together with another player against 2 other players

You share life total and start at 30 lifes
You take turns together, you attack and block together.
First mulligan is to 7 cards
You do not share mana or cards.
Cards that target Each opponent counts it from both players so it works twice.

What would be the best team up of 2 decks?

Commander

In Commander you have the following rules for constracting your deck:

– You need to have legendary “Commander” creature or Planeswalker.
– You will have at least 99 other cards that have no colors that your commander does not have.
– No card appears more than once with the exception of basic lands.

What is your favorite for Commander?

Highlander

There is several variants of Highlander rules (mainly ban lists) but most of them have the following rules

You can only have 1 card of each type except for basic lands.

Your deck must have at least 100 cards in it.