Vintage Format Deck Construction
Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.
With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic. (The five Ice Age snow-covered lands -- Snow-Covered Plains, Snow-Covered Island, Snow-Covered Swamp, Snow-Covered Mountain, and Snow-Covered Forest -- are also basic lands. Note that snow-covered lands are permitted only in formats that allow the Ice Age set to be used.)
The following cards are banned in Vintage tournaments:
* Any ante card
* Chaos Orb
* Falling Star
The following cards are restricted* in Vintage tournaments:
* Ancestral Recall
* Balance
* Black Lotus
* Black Vise
* Burning Wish
* Channel
* Chrome Mox
* Crop Rotation
* Demonic Consultation
* Demonic Tutor
* Dream Halls
* Enlightened Tutor
* Entomb
* Fact or Fiction
* 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
* Strip Mine
* Time Spiral
* Time Walk
* Timetwister
* Tinker
* Tolarian Academy
* Trinisphere
* Vampiric Tutor
* Voltaic Key
* Wheel of Fortune
* Windfall
* Yawgmoth’s Bargain
* Yawgmoth’s Will
Official information about Constructed formats and the Standard format can be found in the Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules.
*Restricted Card: A card that is limited by the DCI to one per deck in the indicated format. For example, the card Black Lotus is restricted in DCI-sanctioned Vintage Magic tournaments. This means that only one Black Lotus is allowed per deck, including sideboard, in the Vintage format.
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