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MANY WAYS TO PLAY

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    STANDARD

    The Standard format uses the most recently released Magic sets.
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    BOOSTER DRAFT

    Players open booster packs and take turns picking cards from boosters to then build into 40-card decks.
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    SEALED DECK

    Each player opens six booster packs and competes with a 40-card deck made from those cards.
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Constructed

   
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    STANDARD

    The Standard format uses the most recently released Magic sets.
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    MODERN

    Cards from Core Set Eighth Edition and Mirrodin through today are legal in this format. Again, decks require a minimum of sixty cards and may have a sideboard of up to fifteen cards.
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    COMMANDER

    Each player chooses a legendary creature to be their “commander” and makes a 99-card deck around that creature.
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    LEGACY

    Allows cards from all legal sets, but bans certain cards for power level reasons.
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    VINTAGE

    The most powerful of constructed formats, this format allows the “Power Nine” to be played.
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    BRAWL

    Choose your champion! Brawl is a little like Standard, a little like Commander, and a uniquely exciting deck-brewing challenge.
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    TEAM UNIFIED CONSTRUCTED

    Build three 60-card decks with a four-of limit across all three decks in this fun and challenging format.
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    BLOCK

    Each block of expansions has its own constructed format which only allows cards released in that block’s expansions. Additionally, each deck must contain at least sixty cards.
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    Two Headed Giant

    In Constructed, Two-Headed Giant has unified Constructed rules. This means that across the two decks, only four copies of any non-basic land card are allowed to be shared between them.
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    PAUPER

    Restricts decks to only cards with the common rarity.
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    PIONEER

    Nonrotating format featuring cards from Return to Ravnica and forward
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Limited

   
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    BOOSTER DRAFT

    Players open booster packs and take turns picking cards from boosters to then build into 40-card decks.
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    SEALED DECK

    Each player opens six booster packs and competes with a 40-card deck made from those cards.
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    Conspiracy Format

    Conspiracy is a multiplayer Booster Draft format that's fun to play with friends and easy to run.
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    Team Booster Draft

    Draft your 40-card deck with an eye not just the strength of your own deck, but also your teammates’ and opponents’ decks.
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    Team Sealed Deck

    Team Sealed combines the fun of Sealed Deck with two of your friends, letting you build powerful 40-card decks to be used in an exciting team format!
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MAGIC ONLINE SPECIFIC FORMATS

   
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    FREEFORM

    All sets and cards are allowed in this 40-card minimum format.
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    MOMIR BASIC

    Decks must have exactly 60 basic lands and one “Momir Vig” Vanguard card.
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    PLANESWALKER

    Limited to gold-bordered cards, available in Magic Online Planeswalker deck packs.
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    Commander 1v1

    Optimized for two-player games, Commander 1v1 offers the same deck construction rules as Commander with a unique banned card list.
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