Attacking in a huge game.

[Paraluke]

I played a format called "star" with my friends.

[NuclearChicken]

Those formats sound fun and interesting. How do you play them?

[Gorzo]

"Kings and Knights" is a team format. Each team selects a king. The other players are his knights. Teams take turns together, like in 2-headed giant, but each player has their own separate life total (20). However the king cannot attack or be attacked in combat until his knight(s) are slain. The king may, however use spells, as well as be targeted by them.  So, you want to strike down the knights as fast as possible, or by the time you get to the king, he will have amassed an unstoppable force.

"Star" or "Pentagram" is a 5-man format where each of the 5 players plays a different mono-color deck of the 5 colors. You are enemies with you enemy colors (the farthest away on the pentagram on the back of the magic card) and allied with the adjacent 2. You win when no players have any enemies left alive.

Ex: you are white. Your enemies are black and red, and your allies are blue and green. Blue will be fighting red with you, but is allied with black and won't help you. Blue is also fighting against your other ally, green. Green is helping you fight black, but is allied with red. Red and black are both trying to kill you, but must worry about the ally of yours they are fighting as well.  It's pretty damn fun.

[Mentonin]

Couldn't you just mill the king or kill him with spells, abilities or combos?

[Gorzo]

Couldn't you just mill the king or kill him with spells, abilities or combos?

You could. So as the king, you'd need to carefully select/build your deck to protect you and your knight(s). And if someone is breaking the spirit if the game by turn 2 {channel}+{Fireball}ing the opposing king, for example, house rule some bannings or combo limits. This is kitchen table casual, it's about fun, not going full-spike.

[Paraluke]

Yea quite right on the "star" just that we do not fix as mono colors, but the winning condition and concept is the same otherwise.

[Gorzo]

Yea quite right on the "star" just that we do not fix as mono colors, but the winning condition and concept is the same otherwise.

Yeah, it can be played without color, and just use table position as allies/enemies. It's a really fun format.

Another fun multiplayer casual format is "Assassin." Write each player's name on a scrap, toss em in a hat, and hand them out. These are your assassin contracts. Keep the names hidden from others, but see who you have drawn. That person is your target. If you kill a player, you take their contracts. If you obtain your own contract, you are free to attack anyone at your whim.

You can attack anyone at anytime, but whenever someone attacks a player, or targets a player or their permanents, the defending player can call out the attacker to the public. The attacker must reveal his contract. If the contract is indeed the defending player (or is the attacker's own contract), the defending player loses the game. If the contract is neither on the defending player nor does the attacker have his own contract, the attacker loses the game.

Assassin is fun, I played it a couple times. star was probably a bit more fun, but assassin is a good option if you have 6 or more players, which is too many for a pentagram game.

[Wackaman9001]

"Kings and Knights" is a team format. Each team selects a king. The other players are his knights. Teams take turns together, like in 2-headed giant, but each player has their own separate life total (20). However the king cannot attack or be attacked in combat until his knight(s) are slain. The king may, however use spells, as well as be targeted by them.  So, you want to strike down the knights as fast as possible, or by the time you get to the king, he will have amassed an unstoppable force.

I've always heard that as emperor, its great fun to play with edh too if you use reach of 2 for the king and 1 for knights. The only problem with playing like this is getting 6 people and splitting teams evenly in power