Hey guys,
my feeling is that our beloved highlander format is slowly dying.
The first big hit for my local scene here was the creation of commander therefore a lot or more casual players moved on.
For our area (southern Germany) the major tournament organized by JK former known as GP went from a breething 1nce a year 150 player event
to a 8 person event largely because the organizer did not listen to the community and did events with hall entries and without "event" feeling
like artists lots of stores etc (hit the other formats there as well < 50 modern and legacy with hundreds before).
Now there is magic online duel commander out there as well and there is canadian highlander that got some popularity.
I think there should be a non commander competitive singleton format. But I doubt that there is room for multiple of those formats.
A couple of years ago I made the statement for the first time to try to unite the different singleton formats worldwide into 1 community driven format.
Personal I see the canadian version as the way to go because of various reasons:
- it allows any card which is why I and most of the long term highlander players I know love the format (nowhere else you see so many different cards out of the history of magic interact)
- most of the stupid discussions / conflict that we had in the european highlander format were about bannings / unbannings
- my deck was banned
- the card I invested in was banned
- I have to fear my deck get's banned
- card x should have stayed in the format
- ...
- it also has no commander and 20 life
Someone / some of the european guy(s) may go into the canadian council and work in future on the global competitive highlander format
My recommendation is get together, start a online league / tournament to explore the format, survive.
Anyone sharing my feelings?
my feeling is that our beloved highlander format is slowly dying.
The first big hit for my local scene here was the creation of commander therefore a lot or more casual players moved on.
For our area (southern Germany) the major tournament organized by JK former known as GP went from a breething 1nce a year 150 player event
to a 8 person event largely because the organizer did not listen to the community and did events with hall entries and without "event" feeling
like artists lots of stores etc (hit the other formats there as well < 50 modern and legacy with hundreds before).
Now there is magic online duel commander out there as well and there is canadian highlander that got some popularity.
I think there should be a non commander competitive singleton format. But I doubt that there is room for multiple of those formats.
A couple of years ago I made the statement for the first time to try to unite the different singleton formats worldwide into 1 community driven format.
Personal I see the canadian version as the way to go because of various reasons:
- it allows any card which is why I and most of the long term highlander players I know love the format (nowhere else you see so many different cards out of the history of magic interact)
- most of the stupid discussions / conflict that we had in the european highlander format were about bannings / unbannings
- my deck was banned
- the card I invested in was banned
- I have to fear my deck get's banned
- card x should have stayed in the format
- ...
- it also has no commander and 20 life
Someone / some of the european guy(s) may go into the canadian council and work in future on the global competitive highlander format
My recommendation is get together, start a online league / tournament to explore the format, survive.
Anyone sharing my feelings?