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Extended Tournament Format

This page contains updates through the 03/01/2008 tournament announcement.

Legal Card Sets
Decks can be composed of cards from any edition from the following sets:
Seventh Edition
Eighth Edition
Ninth Edition
Tenth Edition
Invasion
Planeshift
Apocalypse
Odyssey
Torment
Judgment
Onslaught
Legions
Scourge
Mirrodin
Darksteel
Fifth Dawn
Champions of Kamigawa
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Saviors of Kamigawa
Ravnica
Guildpact
Dissension
Coldsnap
Time Spiral
Planar Chaos
Future Sight
Lorwyn

Cards with a non-standard back are not allowed, but other printings of legal cards are allowed.

New card sets become effective on the 20th day of the month of their introduction.

The following sets will rotate out with the Oct 2008 large set release: Seventh Edition, Invasion, Planeshift, Apacalypse, Odyssey, Torment, Judgement.

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.


Banned List
The following cards are banned in this format:
AEther VialEntombSkullclamp
Disciple of the Vault--

Restricted List
There are no cards that are restricted to no more than one in your deck.



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