London Mulligan

[Morganator 2.0]

For those who haven't heard, Mythic Championship II will occur in London from April 26^thto 28^th. They are going to be testing a new mulligan, appropriately called the London Mulligan.

Basically, you draw your full 7, then put cards on the bottom of your library equal to the number of mulligans you took. For example, if it's your first mulligan, you draw seven, then put one card on the bottom, then decide if you want to keep this hand or mulligan again.

I want to know what people think of this. Should we go from our current mulligan rule to this new one? Why or why not?

Link to the article:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/competitive-gaming/mythic-championship-ii-format-and-london-test-2019-02-21

[Soren841]

I run 27 lands in Yidris I like this

[WWolfe]

I'm not sure how I feel about this but won't know until I've tried it. My playgroup is coming over Sunday to play EDH and we've discussed trying this out then.

Of course who knows, even if WOTC makes the change to this mulligan the EDH RC may not.

[Morganator 2.0]

Though not as extreme, I see this having the same issue as the Partial Paris mulligan; it favors combo decks, and combo decks don't need to be favored.

[crimsonking]

With my Grenzo deeck, I'd mulligan down 3 to put my best creatures on the bottom all day long.

[ApothecaryGeist]

Of course who knows, even if WOTC makes the change to this mulligan the EDH RC may not.

The RC has stated that they want to match the regular Magic rules whenever possible and only break from them when absolutely necessary for the format.

So I suspect that if the formal mulligan rule for Magic is changed to London, that EDH will adopt it.  At least at first.  If it causes problems, they may change it later.

I assume that in multi-player the first mulligan would still be "free".

With my Grenzo deeck, I'd mulligan down 3 to put my best creatures on the bottom all day long.

They may have to add on a "shuffle at the end" clause to prevent such shenanigans.

Happy Shuffling!

[Soren841]

It won't really be relevant in casual EDH so they'll use it.

[BoBWiz]

In my multiplayer-play-group we Mulligan the first for free, than you go to 6 + scry or pay 1 life and got 7 again ...


It's said by critics MtG got Problems with consistent mana flow. London Mulligan could fix this problem a bit imo.
I agree with "shuffle at the end".

[robort]

It is going to be interesting to see if the rule is 1st implemented at first into other formats and interesting to see how it is implemented in EDH. I do like the premise and idea though behind this mulligan, sculpting your hand so you at least can play something.

[LordDarkura]

I think it should mostly just be used for competitive events, as that way it becomes less about luck and more about skill, which is important when playing for thousands of dollars.

But at FNM, your just playing for packs. So it's fine if there's a bit more chance involved with that.