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Since we were too busy at the booth for me to do my CanLander presentation at #MCVegas, I don't want it to go to waste. So without further ado, 🧵

Picture this. You are going to your friendly local game store to play some Magic: The Gathering with your favorite 100-card deck.

You sit down across from your opponent, shuffling up your deck, greeting them and introducing yourself. You're ready for a fun game of Magic.

You draw your opening hand. In it you find: - A Mox Jet - A Mox Pearl - A Mox Emerald - A White Plume Adventurer - And some other cards You ponder whether or not to keep this opening hand. Three Mox in your 100-card deck?! How can that be?! Aren't those banned in Commander???

Well, my friend, this wonderful opening hand is all possible thanks to a gift from our poutine-making, "Set The Tone"-ing, TimBits-eating, wonderful neighbors to the north! This is my presentation about Canadian Highlander and why I think it's a better 100-card singleton format than Commander.

First off, What is CanLander? It is a 100-card Singleton format like Commander. You have 10 points that you can spend on all of the most broken cards in Magic. Want a Black Lotus? That'll cost you 8 points Sol Ring? 3 points Treasure Cruise? 1 point It's also 1v1, best of three. NOT multiplayer.

Which leads to "What ISN'T CanLander?" Well, it's not not awesome. That's for sure. It's also not Commander. While it is a 100-card singleton format, think of it more like a massive vintage deck. You don't start with 40 life. You start with 20 like traditional Magic and there are no Commanders.

So you might be thinking, "Kris, you've told me what CanLander is and isn't but you haven't told me why CanLander is so awesome?"

Well, first off, like I said - This format is like Vintage Cube Constructed. That means you get to play with all of those bonkers cards that are banned in Commander. Want to spend your 10 points on a Lotus and a Tinker? Go for it! You can also spend your 10 on an Academy, a Nadu, and a Recall.

It plays drastically different than Commander. You don't have those 3 hr long games of Commander because one person decided to reset the board 6 times. You can play a match (Best of three) in the time it would normally take you to play a round of any other tournament format (Legacy, Modern, etc.)