Classic Tournament Format
This format is also known as the "Type 1" tournament format.
Legal Card Sets
Decks can be composed of cards from any edition or
expansion. This currently means:
- Alpha
- Beta
- Unlimited
- Revised
- 4th Edition
- 5th Edition
- 6th Edition
- 7th Edition
- Arabian Nights
- Antiquities
- Legends
- The Dark
- Fallen Empires
- Chronicles
- Ice Age
- Homelands
- Alliances
- Mirage
- Visions
- Weatherlight
- Tempest
- Stronghold
- Exodus
- Urza's Saga
- Urza's Legacy
- Urza's Destiny
- Mercadian Masques
- Nemesis
- Prophecy
- Invasion
- Planeshift
- Apocalypse
- Odyssey
- Torment
- Judgment
Banned List
The following cards are banned in this format even though
they are in legal sets:
- Amulet of Quoz
- Bronze Tablet
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Falling Star
- Jeweled Bird
- Rebirth
- Tempest Efreet
- Timmerian Fiends
Restricted List
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Berserk
- Black Lotus
- Black Vise
- Braingeyser
- Channel
- Crop Rotation
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Doomsday
- Dream Halls
- Enlightened Tutor
- Fact or Fiction
- Fastbond
- Fork
- Frantic Search
- Grim Monolith
- Hurkyl's Recall
- Library of Alexandria
- Lotus Petal
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mind Over Matter
- Mind Twist
- Mox Diamond
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Recall
- Regrowth
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Stroke of Genius
- Time Spiral
- Time Walk
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Vampiric Tutor
- Voltaic Key
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will