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Standard Tournament Format

This format is also known as the "Type 2" tournament format.

This page contains updates through the 03/01/2008 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:
Tenth Edition
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 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.

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
There are currently no cards banned in this format.

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



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