Credit for the information below is given to Duncan McGregor and Shendon Menery for development of the format, Gavin Duggan for maintenance of the original source site.
Deck Construction:
- A deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the General.
- An optional sideboard of 10 cards is allowed (10 or none), sideboarding occurs once each player has declared and revealed their General and before the remaining (99) cards of each deck are presented to the opponent for cutting and/or shuffling.
General Rules:
Generals are not subject to the "legend rule". If a General and a non-General creature with the same name are in play, only the non-General is put into the graveyard by state-based effects. If two or more players have the same General and both creatures are in play, neither creature is put into the graveyard.
Banned Generals:
Bosh, Iron Golem
Braids,Cabal Minion
Daughter of Autumn
Kokusho, the Evening Star
Memnarch
Rhys the Exiled
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary (Effective 2010-06-20)
Thelon of Havenwood
Banned Cards: - Ancestral Recall - Mox Sapphire, Ruby, Pearl, Emerald and Jet - Balance - Painter's Servant - Biorhythm - Panoptic Mirror - Black Lotus - Protean Hulk - Channel *NEW* - Recurring Nightmare - Coalition Victory - Staff of Domination *NEW* - Fastbond - Sway of the Stars - Gifts Ungiven - Time Vault - Karakas - Time Walk - Library of Alexandria - Tinker - Limited Resources - Tolarian Academy *NEW* - Lion's Eye Diamond - Upheaval - Magister Sphinx - Worldgorger Dragon - Metal Worker - Yawgmoth's Bargain Shaharazad is legal for play in EDH, even though it's banned in Vintage.