Rainbow Stairwell EDH

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Rainbow Stairwell EDH

This format variation is a blended format with Rainbow Stairwell

Rainbow Stairwell

Rainbow Stairwell is a 60/61 card singleton format where:

- 1 card of each CMC (1-6) in each "color" (WUBRG-Colorless) for 36 cards.
- Traditionally, no multi-color or hybrid cards are allowed
-- Variants allow Hybrid to slot in either of their color
-- Variants allow the "Colorless" 1-6 to become either "Gold" or "Colorless/Gold" depending on what the playgroup wants

Land: (this is easily the most contentious portion of the format in my experience)
One of the following schemes
Traditional
- 3 of each basic land and 1 10-card cycle of duals for 61 Card decks
Alternates:
- 5 of each basic land for 61 cards
- 4 of each basic and 4 non-basics of choice for 60 cards

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Rainbow Stairwell EDH

In addition to the EDH deck construction rules, Rainbow Stairwell EDH requires:
- General with WUBRG CI
- 5 of each basic land
- 1 cycle (10) of multi-color lands (e.g. Rav Gate Cycle, Khans life lands, or Shock lands for more affluent players)
- 8 "Any color"/Colorless/Utility lands
- 8 Colorless CMC 1-8
- 8 White CMC 1-8
- 8 Blue CMC 1-8
- 8 Black CMC 1-8
- 8 Red CMC 1-8
- 8 Green CMC 1-8
- 8 Gold CMC 1-8

Discussion points:
- Playgroups should decide if all players must use the same "cycle" of duals
- Playgroups should decide if cards should slot only by casting cost or Color Identity (e.g. Embodiment of Spring as U or Gold due to it's GU Color ID )
- Playgroups should decide if they want to allow Hybrid Cards to slot only in the gold category or in either of their Hybrid categories (e.g Worldpurge as W or U and/or Gold)
- Playgroups should decide if they want to change the CMC ranges
--Alternates include CMC 0-7 or sliding scale (where any category must be 8 consecutive CMC, but not all colors must match - e.g. W 1-8, U 0-7, B 2-9, etc...)
- Playgroups shoud decide if X spells are allowed or not, and if they will have their own slot or fill their CMC slot (e.g. all Categories 1-7, X - or - a card like Tribal Unity could simply fill the 3 CMC green slot)

Example Deck

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In this example, cards are placed by Color Identity except Hybrid is allowed to slot in either color, but not Gold. "X" spells were not allowed.

General Horde of Notions - Rainbow Stairwell Elementals

5x Plains
5x Island
5x Swamp
5x Mountain
5x Forest

Land Cycle
Celestial Colonnade
Shambling Vent
Creeping Tar Pit
Wandering Fumarole
Lavaclaw Reaches
Hissing Quagmire
Raging Ravine
Needle Spires
Stirring Wildwood
Lumbering Falls

Land
Flamekin Village
Command Tower
Opal Palace
Path of Ancestry
Primal Beyond
Reliquary Tower
Terrain Generator
Thawing Glaciers

Colorless
Expedition Map
Darksteel Garrison
Crucible of Worlds
Ghirapur Orrery
Prismatic Geoscope
Obelisk of Urd
Scour from Existence
Eldrazi Conscription

White
Reconnaissance
Hoofprints of the Stag
Terra Eternal
Marshal's Anthem
Planar Outburst
True Conviction
Fated Retribution
Archangel's Light

Blue
Wind Zendikon
Military Intelligence
Rhystic Study
Master of Waves
Mulldrifter
Aethersnipe
Thundercloud Elemental
Worldpurge

Black
Foul-Tongue Shriek
Cover of Darkness
Retreat to Hagra
Ashling, the Extinguisher
Patriarch's Bidding
Dread
Hedonist's Trove
Baleful Force

Red
Flamekin Harbinger
Brighthearth Banneret
Incandescent Soulstoke
Embodiment of Fury
Malignus
Rage Reflection
Hateflayer
Living Inferno

Green
Burgeoning
Prismatic Omen
Fertilid
Timbermare
Embodiment of Insight
Grave Sifter
Zendikar Resurgent
Liege of the Tangle

Gold
Embodiment of Spring
Hull Breach
Animar, Soul of Elements
Gruul War Chant
Urban Evolution
Rubblehulk
Omnath, Locus of Rage
Maelstrom Wanderer

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