I am just getting back into this game.
The last time I had played was 1997 so the modern game is very different.
The new restricted formats are an interesting twist.
Pauper – 60 or more cards, only if they have ever been common.
Commander – 1 Commander and 99 cards. No duplicated cards except for basic lands. There are a few exclusions.
The mana burn rule has been removed so you don’t need to have sinks for using up all of the spare mana you have floating around.
Mulligans help avoid the no land/all land hands.
The second step of the Mtg Online tutorial opponent could have been using my first Pauper deck, with Raging Goblins and Goblin Grenade!
I started to build my own commander decks from my collection. Only when checking the counts of the cards I found that the following two were banned:
- Balance
- Limited Resources
I can see how devastating Limited Resources could be in multiplayer commander! Only having 10 lands across all of the players could mess up most decks.
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