![]() ![]() The release of the first expansion in Autumn will trigger a rotation, rotating out the oldest two blocks. The current Standard allows all cards in the newest three to four story-based blocks (including the Welcome Deck and all exclusive cards Planeswalkers Decks/Deck Builder's Kit released in this period), save for cards on the Standard banned list. As the system received heavy criticism among players, Spring rotation was dropped in 2017 and reverted to format which the oldest 4 sets will be rotated out in each rotation in Autumn. In this system, the number of legal sets would vary less (always five or six, compared to the current five to eight). A Standard with three blocks and two rotations (Spring and Autumn) was adopted between 20 ( Khans of Tarkir/ Fate Reforged and Dragons of Tarkir/ Magic Origins were treated as blocks for the purposes of transition). After Magic Origins, core sets were discontinued and blocks only contained two sets, usually one large and one small. The original Standard format allowed the recent two blocks, plus the most recent core set (two core sets between the last release and the actual rotation). Legal were then the most current basic set ( Revised Edition) and the latest two Magic expansions only ( The Dark and Fallen Empires). When Standard (then called "Type 2") was created on January 10, 1995, it inherited the banned and restricted lists from Vintage (then "Type 1"). With a late fall release instead of a summer release, this functionally means that the shortest-legal set goes from the minimum of 15 months to about 17 months, though each set shrinks their draft rotation time by a few weeks. There will still be a non-premier product released in the summer. Starting in 2021, Wizards of the Coast is trying a new schedule where the premier sets are early fall, late fall, winter, and spring (dates based on Northern Hemisphere seasons.) For example, When Ixalan set released in fall 2017, Battle for Zendikar, Oath of the Gatewatch, Shadows over Innistrad, Eldritch Moon, and Welcome Deck 2016 (which counted as a part Shadows over Innistrad in rotation) rotated out of Standard.īecause of this, no set is Standard-legal for more than two years. For example, fall 2019 rotation caused Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, and Core 2019 (as well as regional exclusive set Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling) to leave Standard.īefore the Three-and-One Model, the two oldest blocks still legal in Standard would rotate out of the format. Since the introduction of Three-and-One Model in 2019 (or effectively in 2018), once a year with the release of a new fall set the four oldest expansion/core sets in Standard, as well as any other Standard-legal set released during that period will rotate out. The following cards are banned in Standard tournaments. Set legality Ĭards from the following sets are currently legal in Standard, except for banned cards: Sets Except for basic land cards, a player's combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four copies of any individual card, counted by the card's English title equivalent. ![]() Sideboards are optional and may contain up to fifteen cards. There is no maximum deck size however, one must be able to shuffle one's deck without assistance. I¨ve decided that Trail of Evidence is probably good, especially with the massive amount of cantrips my build is running, and I believe it's an improvement over mainboard Drake Haven (for the temur build).Standard decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. Ongoing Investigation may be worth it, but to activate it we need tokens which essentially eliminates us needing more tokens to sacrifice. Some other ideas include way overcosted counterspells like Confirm Suspicions. In terms of investigate cards, since this obviously can't run Tireless Tracker (duh), I found that Root Out is probably one of the better ones. I might think about switching the fetches to Wooded Foothills, as the main restrictive card is Indomitable Creativity with triple red. I haven't tested it yet, but I might get around to it today. It is MUCH more expensive as you are pretty much forced to run fetches (specifically green ones for dryad arbor) in three colors. So here is something I very quickly threw together: Temur Emrakul
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