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Magic: The Gathering formats are various ways in which the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game can be played. Each format provides rules for deck construction and gameplay, with many confining the pool of permitted cards to those released in a specified group of Magic card sets .
Some of these formats use rules or sets of cards that differ from those used in sanctioned tournament play. [10] One of the most popular formats of Magic is Commander, which is a casual sanctioned format. [11] [12] [13] Formats can be further divided into Constructed and Limited formats.
Eternal Masters is a Magic compilation set released in June 2016. Similar to the Modern Masters sets, it reprints cards, but from all of Magic's history rather than restricting itself to the Modern format, thus aiming itself at casual formats such as Cube as well as the Vintage and Legacy formats. [8]
This prompted the company to keep on experimenting in this realm and creating the Universes Beyond product line. "Universes Within" is the popular name given to cards that are functional reprints of Universes Beyond cards, made to fit within the lore of Magic: The Gathering. Most cards are legal in the Vintage, Legacy and Commander formats.
The Fourth Edition of Magic: The Gathering was the tenth set released for the game, and the fourth base set. The set was released in April 1995 and contained 378 cards. It was the first set to reprint cards from the expansions Legends and The Dark. Fourth Edition cards have white borders. The set has no expansion symbol.
The format is commonly played as a sanctioned event on Magic: The Gathering Online and on Magic: The Gathering Arena. It was a highly requested addition to Arena [41] [42] [43] but the "variant never took off on paper". [44]
In Magic: The Gathering, a player may have a playing deck and an optional sideboard or "side". [3] In a constructed deck format, a sideboard may have up to 15 cards, and the playing deck and sideboard combined may have no more than four copies of one card excepting basic lands.
Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. [1] Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast , Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023 [update] .