Standard Format
Why Play This Format?
Easily accessible cards
Standard uses cards from the most recently released Magic sets making collecting them for your decks easy!
Great for deck building
Standard is a great format to hone your deckbuilding skills and play against friends at home or at your local game store.
Competitive
Looking to be the next World Champion? Standard play is a pathway to Arena Championships and the Pro Tour.
Different Ways to Play
Play Rules/Modifiers
Standard games are one-on-one with a 60 card minimum for the main deck (up to 15 card sideboard). Winner is determined either by best of one, or best of three games. These games should last standard length for a game (about 20 minutes on average).
How does set rotation work? Each year, new Magic sets are released and added to Standard. Once per year, after the fall set Prerelease, the four oldest sets in Standard rotate out.
What Sets Are Legal in Standard?
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Aetherdrift
- Magic: The Gathering® Foundations
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Bloomburrow
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Wilds of Eldraine
- March of the Machine: The Aftermath
- March of the Machine
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- The Brothers' War
- Dominaria United