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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. [4] [5] Previous versions of the rules required the optional sideboard to contain exactly 15 cards, [6] and for players to agree to their use before a match. [7]
[2] [4]: 50 One of the "Magic Golden Rules" is: "Whenever a card's text directly contradicts these rules, the card takes precedence". [2] According to CNET, the game has many variants; "Magic tends to embrace all that house ruling, making it official when it catches on. Commander started as a fan-created format, after all."
Mental Magic is a format in which cards may be played as any card in the game with the same mana cost. [104] Mini-Magic is a constructed variant where decks are built with a maximum card limit of 15 and a maximum hand size of 3. Because of the small deck size, the state-based action causing a player to lose when they attempt to draw a card from ...
Cards in Magic: The Gathering have a consistent format, with half of the face of the card showing the card's art, and the other half listing the card's mechanics, often relying on commonly-reused keywords to simplify the card's text. [15] Cards fall into generally two classes: lands and spells. [citation needed] Lands produce mana, or magical ...
Gameplay of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering is fueled by each player's deck of cards, which constitute the resources that player can call upon to battle their opponents in any given game. With more than 20,000 unique cards in the game, a considerable number of different decks can be constructed.
Aftermath is an ability that appears on instant and sorcery split cards (a card with two separate card images printed on its face next to one another). Only one of the pair of images contains the aftermath ability. [5]: 156 The half of the pair without the aftermath ability can be cast from the player's hand as normal.
At the center of the university is the library known as the Biblioplex. [7] [8] This library contains both the Hall of Oracles and the Mystical Archive.This archive "is said to contain a copy of every spell ever created in the Multiverse"; [7] this provides a lore explanation for the Mystical Archive cards where "all the uncommons are reprints of Standard-legal instants and sorceries, while ...
[11] [12] In 2021, Dot eSports highlighted that "Commander has become one of the biggest formats in Magic over the past five years, even leading to Wizards of the Coast dubbing 2020 as 'The Year of Commander.' The format is a boon for novice and experienced deckbuilders to craft thematic decks centered around Magic’s over 1,200 Legendary ...