Tuesdays/Sundays Magic Restrictions and Rewordings

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Our Restricted List

Restricted cards are limited to one copy per full 60 cards in the deck. i.e. you can have 2 in a 120 card deck, 3 in 180 and the usual 4 card limit for 240+.
There is an exception for World Championship decks (because Gav announces them and often skips them) and new deck ideas being shown off (Overrunn and big green creatures is not a new idea!).

Restrictions should be for cards that are affecting our environment in a bad way when they benefit from the greater consistency that multiple copies in a deck brings.

Legal Card Sets

All sets with a normal card back including Unglued, Portal and Starter.
World Championship decks may be used and single cards from World Championship decks may be used in a normal deck if they are backed with a normal card in such a way that they're not detectable.
Proxy Snow-Covered and Basic lands are allowed.

Current Restrictions

  • Armadillo Cloak
  • Dark Ritual
  • Empyrial Armor
  • Fact or Fiction
  • Limited Resources
  • Masticore
  • Overrun
  • Priest Of Titania
  • Rancor
  • Sol Ring
  • Strip Mine

Proposed Restrictions

  • Balance
  • Black Vise
  • Channel
  • Demonic Tutor
  • Hymn to Tourach
  • Muscle Sliver
  • Rishadan Port
  • Sadistic Glee
  • Skullclamp
  • Swamp
  • Voltaic Key

Rewordings

Cards reworded to make them work better in our multi-player environment.

Impending Disaster (Red Enchantment from Urza's Legacy)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 3½ times the number of players (round up) or more lands in play, sacrifice Impending Disaster. If you do, destroy all lands.

Limited Resources (White Enchantment from Exodus)
When Limited Resources comes into play, each player chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest.
Players can't play lands if there are 5 times the number of players or more lands in play.

Transcendence (White Enchantment from Torment)
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. When you have your starting life total or more life, you lose the game. Whenever you lose life, you gain 2 life for each 1 life you lost. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.) Affects all players on your team in a multiplayer game.

Official Lists

The Official Restricted/Banned Lists which we have talked about following. Feel free to propose any of these that fit the restriction criteria.

Vintage (Type 1)

All Magic card sets, any extension of the core set, and all promotional cards.

Banned Cards

September 2005

  • Any Ante Card
  • Chaos Orb
  • Falling Star
Restricted Cards

September 2005

  • Ancestral Recall
  • Balance (proposed)
  • Black Lotus
  • Black Vise (proposed)
  • Burning Wish
  • Channel (proposed)
  • Chrome Mox
  • Crop Rotation
  • Demonic Consultation
  • Demonic Tutor (proposed)
  • Dream Halls
  • Enlightened Tutor
  • Entomb
  • Fact or Fiction (proposed)
  • Fastbond
  • Frantic Search
  • Grim Monolith
  • Gush
  • Imperial Seal
  • Library of Alexandria
  • Lion's Eye Diamond
  • Lotus Petal
  • Mana Crypt
  • Mana Vault
  • Memory Jar
  • Mind Twist
  • Mind's Desire
  • Mox Diamond
  • Mox Emerald
  • Mox Jet
  • Mox Pearl
  • Mox Ruby
  • Mox Sapphire
  • Mystical Tutor
  • Necropotence
  • Personal Tutor
  • Regrowth
  • Sol Ring (restricted)
  • Strip Mine (restricted)
  • Time Spiral
  • Time Walk
  • Timetwister
  • Tinker
  • Tolarian Academy
  • Trinisphere
  • Vampiric Tutor
  • Voltaic Key (proposed)
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Windfall
  • Yawgmoth's Bargain
  • Yawgmoth's Will
Legacy (Type 1.5)

All Magic card sets, any extension of the core set, and all promotional cards.

Banned Cards

September 2005

  • Amulet of Quoz
  • Ancestral Recall
  • Balance (proposed)
  • Bazaar of Baghdad
  • Black Lotus
  • Black Vise (proposed)
  • Bronze Tablet
  • Channel (proposed)
  • Chaos Orb
  • Contract from Below
  • Darkpact
  • Demonic Attorney
  • Demonic Consultation
  • Demonic Tutor (proposed)
  • Dream Halls
  • Earthcraft
  • Entomb
  • Falling Star
  • Fastbond
  • Frantic Search
  • Goblin Recruiter
  • Grim Monolith
  • Gush
  • Hermit Druid
  • Illusionary Mask
  • Imperial Seal
  • Jeweled Bird
  • Land Tax
  • Library of Alexandria
  • Mana Crypt
  • Mana Drain
  • Mana Vault
  • Memory Jar
  • Metalworker
  • Mind Over Matter
  • Mind Twist
  • Mind's Desire
  • Mishra's Workshop
  • Mox Emerald
  • Mox Jet
  • Mox Pearl
  • Mox Ruby
  • Mox Sapphire
  • Mystical Tutor
  • Necropotence
  • Oath of Druids
  • Personal Tutor
  • Rebirth
  • Replenish
  • Skullclamp (proposed)
  • Sol Ring (restricted)
  • Strip Mine (restricted)
  • Tempest Efreet
  • Time Spiral
  • Time Walk
  • Timetwister
  • Timmerian Fiends
  • Tinker
  • Tolarian Academy
  • Vampiric Tutor
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Windfall
  • Worldgorger Dragon
  • Yawgmoth's Bargain
  • Yawgmoth's Will
Extended

6th Ed*, 7th Ed, 8th Ed, Tempest Block*, Urza's Block*, Mercadian Masques Block*, Invasion Block, Odyssey Block, Onslaught Block, Mirrodin Block, Kamigawa Block
*These sets rotate out of Extended on October 20, 2005

Banned Cards

September 2005

  • Aether Vial
  • Ancient Tomb
  • Dark Ritual (restricted)
  • Disciple of the Vault
  • Dream Halls
  • Earthcraft
  • Entomb
  • Frantic Search
  • Goblin Lackey
  • Goblin Recruiter
  • Grim Monolith
  • Hermit Druid
  • Lotus Petal
  • Memory Jar
  • Mind Over Matter
  • Oath of Druids
  • Replenish
  • Skullclamp (proposed)
  • Survival of the Fittest
  • Time Spiral
  • Tinker
  • Tolarian Academy
  • Windfall
  • Yawgmoth's Bargain
  • Yawgmoth's Will
Standard

Two most recent blocks and current Core set.

Banned Cards

September 2005

  • Ancient Den
  • Arcbound Ravager
  • Darksteel Citadel
  • Disciple of the Vault
  • Great Furnace
  • Seat of the Synod
  • Skullclamp (proposed)
  • Tree of Tales
  • Vault of Whispers

Two-Headed Giant Constructed
Banned Cards

September 2005

  • Erayo, Soratami Ascendant

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