New Format Idea: Shelf

Modern Aggro Control Midrange Theme/Gimmick

bananamaniaman

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Hate the rotation of Standard and the speed, predictability, and oppressively dominant archetypes of modern? Feel like Legacy and Vintage are too high for your budget? Then take your old standard deck off your closet shelf and help develop this new format!

Try Shelf, the new format where you never have to fear about losing value from Standard rotation!

What is Shelf?

In Shelf, you can take a deck that is or once was in Standard, and duel it against other decks that were or are in Standard. For example, you can play a deck of Mirrodon-Kamigawa deck versus an Innistrad-Return to Ravnica deck. The rules are as follows:

• Decks in this format contain only cards from 8th edtion and beyond.
• You can only use cards that were once in Standard together.
• Your opponent can use a different Standard than the one you are playing with.
• To sum it up, this format is Standard, but you can pick which Standard you want to play with.

Banned List

The banned list for now is cards that were banned in their respective Standards. Here is a list of those cards courtesy of OtakulordAndrew:

1. Ancient Den
2. Arcbound Ravager
3. Darksteel Citadel (Only banned in Mirroden Standard)
4. Disciple of the Vault
5. Great Furnace
6. Jace, the Mind Sculptor
7. Seat of the Synod
8. Skullclamp
9. Stoneforge Mystic
10. Tree of Tales
11. Vault of Whispers
This list can change . If you have any thoughts, please comment.

How you can make this a reality

If you like this format and want it to become a real thing, here's how to make it a reality:

1. Comment and give feedback - Your feedback really helps! If it hadn't been for your comments, this project couldn't have come so far!
2. Make decks! - This is one of the best ways to help the format grow. Making decks will give us an understanding of how this format might play, and it also spreads the word.
3. Tell your friends - If you think your friends would love this format, then tell them! Remember, the more people that know about this, the bigger chances it has of succeeding.
4. Help test it - As I have said before, testing the format by making decks can really help us.

If you make a deck

1. If you make a deck, first of all, thanks, and be sure to post it here to show us!
2. Make sure your deck is format Standard.
3. Link the format in your description, so people will understand what Shelf is upon viewing your deck!
4. Make sure to list the cards in your deck from the printing of the set that they were legal in from your chosen Standard (so people don't get confused whether or not you're allowed to use the card.

Resources

1. Spread sheet liked here to each block set in chronological order to make deck building much easier, credits to TheFoilAjani and Nef!
2. Ashockfan's spreadsheet detailing the current known top tier decks with sample lists.
3. The youtubers Forest Bear Studios made a video playing Shelf (without the ban list), check it out!
4. Mtgshelf.com - Our website (in development)
5. Here's the Shelf discord, where we discuss all sorts of things, such as deck brewing and the metagame.
6. This is the spreadsheet for our first tournament. AwesomeName won with his deck,Fun Faeries! (New Format-Shelf)

Credits

Many people have been very supportive and committed to Shelf. Here are some shout outs to you guys! (in no particular order)

• bananamaniaman - Creator
• AwesomeName - Co-creator, manager, coder for page, creator of description, tested in tournament
• TheFoilAjani - TheFoilAjani has helped so much with this. He organized and played in the tournament, created our spreadsheet with all of the "standards", purchased and made our site (in development), told ForestBearStudios about Shelf which got it featured on YouTube, and has been active in the discussion on the comments.

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• wolfging - Suggestor of the name Shelf
• Atony1400 - For the partnership between his page The Cheap Deck Club.
• OtakulordAndrew - Creator of original draft of the banlist
• Ashockfan - Participated and tested in tournament.
• Nef - Helped with spreadsheet
• BloodoftheBloodMoon- Tested in tournament (previously ryanjoha in case you don't recognize the username)
• Voxzorz - Tested in Tournament
• Derpachus - Tested in torunament
• Gattison
• electromancer

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Cards	0
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