Standard Tournament Format
This format is also known as the "Type 2" tournament format.
This page contains updates through the 12/01/03 tournament announcement.
Legal Card Sets
Decks can be composed of cards from the current edition plus the two most
recent "blocks" of expansion sets. This currently means Eighth Edition
plus Onslaught/Legions/Scourge and Mirrodin.
Collector's Edition cards are not allowed. Promotional cards are not 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.
The policy for removal of sets is that each new edition of the
base set replaces the previous edition. A new standalone set will start
a new block, and thereby replace the oldest "block" in use.
A new limited expansion will add itself to the current "block.
For example, when Urza's Saga was released, it caused the
Mirage/Visions/Weatherlight block to rotate out.
Banned List
There are no cards (from the legal sets) that are banned.
Restricted List
There are no cards that are restricted to no more than one in your deck.
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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