Each year at Winter Retreat we have a special grand melee where the winner of the previous Winter Retreat chooses the format for the next one.

Last year’s winner, Eddie C, has determined the format for this year’s grand melee at Winter Retreat shall be:

Two-headed Giant

In this variant, players are put in teams of two, who play with their own deck, but share life totals (each teams starts on 40) and has a shared turn.

Two-headed giant rules

Yes, this does mean we shall require an even number of players. Your deck can be built as per normal, and the teams shall be randomised. This means we’ll ignore the rule about a team’s deck not having more than 4 of any non-basic land as you can’t control who you are paired with.

The normal melee banned and restricted list will apply, along with the single banned card for two-headed giant.