Classic Tournament Format
This format is also known as the "Type I" tournament format.
This page contains updates through the 12/01/03 tournament announcement.
Legal Card Sets
Decks can be composed of cards from any edition or expansion of
Magic which use the normal card back (unless the judge says otherwise).
Collector's Edition cards are not allowed. Promotional cards are allowed.
The poker cards are not allowed (despite the April Fools article in the
Duelist). Unglued cards with a silver border are also disallowed.
Portal cards are not allowed unless they have the same name as a
legal card. In this case, they play as the legal card text and not the
Portal card text. Starter cards follow the same rules as
Portal cards.
New card sets become effective on the first day of the month
following their introduction. If a set is released after the 15th day of
a month, then the set's effective date is pushed out to the first of the
second month. For example, a set released on January 8th is legal on
February 1st, and one released on January 25th is legal on March 1st.
Banned List
The following cards are banned in this format:
| Amulet of Quoz | Darkpact | Rebirth |
| Bronze Tablet | Demonic Attorney | Tempest Efreet |
| Chaos Orb | Falling Star | Timmerian Fiends |
| Contract from Below | Jeweled Bird | - |
Restricted List
The following cards are restricted to no more than one in your deck:
| Ancestral Recall | Frantic Search | Mystical Tutor |
| Balance | Grim Monolith | Necropotence |
| Black Lotus | Gush | Regrowth |
| Black Vise | Library of Alexandria | Sol Ring |
| Braingeyser | Lion's Eye Diamond | Strip Mine |
| Burning Wish | Lotus Petal | Stroke of Genius |
| Channel | Mana Crypt | Time Spiral |
| Chrome Mox | Mana Vault | Timetwister |
| Crop Rotation | Memory Jar | Time Walk |
| Demonic Consultation | Mind Over Matter | Tinker |
| Demonic Tutor | Mind's Desire | Tolarian Academy |
| Doomsday | Mind Twist | Vampiric Tutor |
| Dream Halls | Mox Diamond | Voltaic Key |
| Earthcraft | Mox Emerald | Wheel of Fortune |
| Enlightened Tutor | Mox Jet | Windfall |
| Entomb | Mox Pearl | Yawgmoth's Bargain |
| Fact or Fiction | Mox Ruby | Yawgmoth's Will |
| Fastbond | Mox Sapphire | - |
| Fork | - | - |
Other Restrictions
Minimum of 60 cards in a deck. There is no maximum size.
Optional 'sideboard'. If you have one, it must be exactly 15 cards.
No more than 4 of any card which is not a basic land can be in the
combination of deck and sideboard. Cards with different art or in
different languages or from different prints but which are the same card
are considered the same.
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