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New Format! Blade and Sorcery- Banned List & Rules

Casual Casual Multiplayer

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Creature (393)

Enchantment (235)

Instant (76)

Unknown (25)

Planeswalker (16)

Artifact (151)

Sorcery (130)

Land (58)


MTG Blade and Sorcery

A Commander variant aimed at strategic diversity and compelling focused gameplay

Rules

Blade and Sorcery inherits the base Commander ruleset and mechanics with the following changes:

1)     Commanders can be any legal legendary creature or planeswalker

2)     Each player starts with 30 life (multiplayer), 25 life (1v1)

3)     Commander damage is set to 13. Infect damage is set to 13.

4)     Each players deck is made up of 80 singleton cards (no repeat except basic lands)

5)     Each player is allowed 1 free mulligan. Starting hands with less than 2 lands can get more free mulligans (Must show before mulligan) DONT ABUSE

6)     At the start of the game, each player can scry the top card of their library.

7)     If not acting first, you may scry an additional 1 card for every player acting before you (multiplayer games only)

8)     Monarch mechanic is introduced once one player has 10 permanents on the battlefield if not already in the game.

9)     Every 3rd turn, players gain an power below. Each power can only be chosen once per player and is cast at the beginning of the pre-combat main phase. (Turns 3,6,9,12 and so on) Note: for other card interactions, this does not count towards the first spell of a turn.

Powers

· Scry 2, Draw 2 cards.

· Search your library for up to 2 basic land cards. Put 1 onto the battlefield tapped and the other in your hand. Shuffle your library.

· Destroy target non-legendary creature, the creature’s controller puts a 2/2 Bird with flying on the battlefield.

· Exile target instant or sorcery with converted mana cost 3 or less in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn.

·  Divide 2 +1/+1 counter on target creatures, Proliferate.

·  Return target non-commander permanent to its owner’s hand. Draw a card.

· Create a treasure token. Gain 3 Life

· Your commander tax is zero for this turn.

· Put a 3/3 Beast Token on the Battlefield. Gain 2 Life

· Tap or Untap target permanent you control. Draw a card.

· Reveal the top 4 cards of your library. You may put all land cards revealed this way into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard

· Discard 2 cards, Draw 2 cards. You lose 2 life.

· Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Banned List

·        Cards with Conspiracy card type

·        Cards referencing the Ante mechanic.

·        All Fetchlands

·        All cards on the Reserve List

·  All Silver-bordered and acorn cards: unglued, etc.

· All cards removed by WotC from constructed formats

·   Additional cards are banned- see full list of banned cards below

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