Magic Tournaments

In the past the Gamers' Guild has been known to hold all kinds of tournaments. Here are some of the rules that the Guild have used for Magic The Gathering tournaments. We are by no means limited to this set of rules. If you have your own, feel free to share with the group!

The Highlander Tournament

There can be only one! One of any card beside basic land that is:

  1. Minimum 40 card deck
  2. Only one of any card beside basic land (swamp, forest, plains, mountain, islands)
  3. The tournament will be a one on one best of three elimination. If there are enough players, losers will be moved into a separate losers bracket.....winners will continue.
  4. Banned cards: All unglued, any ante cards

Expansion War Tournament

It's Fallen Empires vs. Dark vs. Tempest vs.....well you get the idea....

  1. Minimum 40 card deck.
  2. Cards from basic sets cannot be played, all cards must be from the same expansion (have the same symbol). Chronicles cards can be played in their original sets. (Basic land is allowed of course).
  3. Unglued and ante cards are banned.
  4. There are no restricted cards...as long as all cards are from the same expansion, there can be four of any card.

Creature Deck Tournament

Thallids vs. Mercenaries vs. Elementals vs.....well I think you get it by now.

  1. Minimum 60 Cards per deck
  2. No more than 4 of each card (except basic land)
  3. Minimum 12 of one specific creature type (ex: Elementals, Goblins, Soldiers, etc...)
  4. Maximum 8 of any other type of creature
  5. Maximum 5 non-creature specific sorceries
  6. Maximum 5 non-creature specific enchantments
  7. Maximum 12 non-creature specific instants, interrupts, and artifacts
  8. Maximum 2 buyback cards
  9. Restricted Cards (1 per deck)- -Balance -Sol Ring -Fever Convulsions -All Moxes & Black Lotus (Like Anyone has these!!!) -Winds of Wrath -Pox -Maze of Ith -Meekstone -Icy Manipulator -Puppet Strings -Barl�s Cage -Feldon�s Cane -Triassic Egg -Channel -Fork -Demonic Tutor -Regrowth -Virture�s Ruin -Anarchy -Tsunami -Flood -Gloom -Stormfront -Conversion -Choke -Allurin -Curse of Marit Lage -Magnetic Mountain -Lotus Petal -Extinction -Joklhopps
  10. Banned cards- -All Circle of Protections -Wrath of God -Hecatomb -Cursed Totem -Invoke Prejudice -An Zerrin Ruins -Life Force -Deathgrip -All Ante Cards (Rebirth etc.) -Light of Day
  11. Each player is allowed a 15 card side bar.
  12. The tournament will be a one on one best of three elimination. If there are enough players, losers will be moved into a separate losers bracket.....winners will continue.
  13. Each player may choose to mulligan once (put hand into library and reshuffle deck) if he/she draws all or no land at the beginning of each game. If this occurs a second time, the player must keep the hand or forfeit the game.(optional, can be switched w/ Paris Rules Mulligan)
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