D.13 - Type 1 Tournament Format


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D.13.1- This is also called "Classic" tournament style.

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D.13.2- Decks can be composed of cards from any edition or expansion of Magic which use the normal card back. 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. The Championship decks are not allowed.

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D.13.3- Portal and Starter 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 or Starter card text. [Duelist Magazine #18, Page 44]

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D.13.4- 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. [Tournament Rules 1997/10/01] [bethmo 1999/02/24]

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D.13.5- Minimum of 60 cards in a deck. [Tournament Rules 1997/10/01]

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D.13.6- Optional 'sideboard'. If you have one, it must be exactly 15 cards. [Tournament Rules 1997/10/01]

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D.13.7- No more than 4 of any card (by name) 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. [Tournament Rules 1997/10/01]

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D.13.8- Some cards are 'restricted' so that only one may appear in the combination of deck and sideboard. These cards are: [Update 2003/06/01] Ancestral Recall, Grim Monolith, Regrowth, Balance, Gush, Sol Ring, Black Lotus, Library of Alexandria, Strip Mine, Black Vise, Lotus Petal, Stroke of Genius, Braingeyser, Mana Crypt, Time Spiral, Channel, 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, Mystical Tutor, Frantic Search, Necropotence.

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D.13.9- Some cards are 'banned' so that none may appear in the deck or sideboard. These cards are: [Tournament Rules 1997/10/01] [Update 2000/09/01] Amulet of Quoz, Darkpact, Rebirth, Bronze Tablet, Demonic Attorney, Tempest Efreet, Chaos Orb, Falling Star, Timmerian Fiends, Contract from Below, Jeweled Bird.

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D.13.Ruling.1- Ring of Ma'ruf can only bring in cards from the sideboard or ones that were removed from the game by an effect such as Swords to Plowshares.

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D.13.Ruling.2- Square edged cards from the Collector's Editions are not legal.

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D.13.Ruling.3- Silver bordered cards from Unglued are not legal.

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D.13.Ruling.4- Championship deck cards with the non-standard back are not legal.

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