Hello happiest of folks! Commander has gotten a great and well-earned spot at the top of the Casual Formats. But, if you're getting tired of it, these formats today are all great for kitchen table and multiplayer games!

Honorable Mention #1. (#7 Overall) - Alphabet Magic

Alphabet Magic is pretty simple! What letter does your name start with? Mine's is "A" for Abe. Therefore, I can only use cards that start with "A"! I built a Boros colored Angel deck for Commander around Archangel Avacyn!

Honorable Mention #2. (#6. Overall) - Acid Magic (5PH)

Online Magic had a bunch of formats that were often versions of real-life options. This combines 3 of them! The "5" stands for the Five-Color format, the "P" for Pauper and then the "H" is Highlander. Combine them! This was played online as a format called "PPS" but in real life save for Pauper those are named differently. This is my name for the Format in real life. Give it a try!

#5. Peasant and Pauper

The first majority Commons format was Peasant that allowed 5 uncommons. I loved that a lot and I was on the Peasant Ruling Council that made rules changes. Then when it was moved to online, its name was changed to Pauper and was all commons since that was easier to implement and for those reasons it's the default one today. Love both loads!

#4. Rainbow Stairwell

This amazingly awesome format is next! Here's how it works - you've got 36 cards and then 24 lands which can be anything. The 36 cards must be six of each color and then 6 colorless too. Then they must be in order from 1 to 6 and then stop, so no zero or 7-drops - all Highlander by default. No multicolored or split cards but yes to other off-color things like kicker. As an example, your White could be Swords to Plowshares, Disenchant, Loran of the Third Path or Generous Gift, Wrath of God, Rout and such, in a control brew. For aggro it could be Isamaru, Hound of Konda, White Knight, and such - make sense? Then colorless can be artifacts like Sol Ring or spells or planeswalkers like Ugin or Karn and other stuff. Make sense?

#3. Type Four (T4)

Ah yes, this fun limited (sorta) format. You make a stack and then draft or split it, like a Cube. You have infinite mana! Great! You can also make any amount of mana for kicker or activated abilities. But you cannot play more than one spell per turn. But then if you use an alternate cost, you can use it, like Force of Will's alternate cost too or just cycling like Decree of Silence to counter. Since this format can use anything, don't use X spells or Shivan Dragon. The key is to use things that aren't typically pricey, so just toss in whatever you like and all counters as well as Wraths and targeted removal and mass recursion and play! No lands are dropped but some like Kor Haven work well in the format.

#2. Five-Color (5C)

This has to be here. This format defined the early era of Magic, and I've written hundreds of articles on it. I was on the Five-Color Ruling Council for years too, and would open up my votes and post on them regularly too. It's 300 cards, 25 of each color, and then gold or split only count for one of their colors too. They have their own B&R list here - http://5-color.com/banned.html and I'd add to it the B&R list for Commander too since it hasn't been updated for a while. It's also where Chaos Orb is legal! Love it, and then next?

#1. Highlander

Hello happy folks and welcome to the top spot on my list! This makes every format better - Five-Color? Type Four? Pauper? It's baked into Commander too. Called Singleton online, it's amazing all up and down the block. You know it and you adore it, it's... Highlander!

There we go! Did you enjoy my Top non-Commanders to check out? Which one are you most ready for? What do you love that I missed? Let me know!