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Chess

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Colored Life

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Creaturefest

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Deck Points

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Effects Magic

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Elder Legend Dragon Wars

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Gauntlet

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Godzilla

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Highlander

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King's Magic

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Legend of the Five Colors

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Legend's Magic

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Pauper's Magic

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Race Wars

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Rainbow Stairwell

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Rated One Star

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Scavenger Hunt

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Squandered Magic

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Star

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Type B

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Auction Draft

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Back Draft

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Grand Master

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Monte Carlo Draft

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Pack Game

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Quest for the Mirari

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Rochester, Two Player

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Rotisserie Draft

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Allies: Teamwork & Betrayal

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Apex Man

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Assassins

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Blitz

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Blitz, Super

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Blitzkrieg

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Bullseye

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Chaos

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Contract Magic

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Cutthroat

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Diving Intervention

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Don't Settle for Less

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Dreams & Nightmares

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Emperor

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Fish Fiddling

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Five Player Collapse

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Free for All

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Gambling Magic

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Hat

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High Life w/No Mana

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Highest Life

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Imperfect Summoning

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Iron Mage

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Iron Man

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It

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Kangaroo Court

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Kill the Man with the Ball

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Liar's Damage

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Lich War

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Magic Combat with Dice

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Magic Tech

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Magic: the Eternal Struggle

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Melee

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Melee, Grand

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Midnight Magic

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Musical Chairs

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Negative Life

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No Land Magic

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RandoMagic

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Real Magic

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Rotate

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Shifter Magic

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Siege

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Slaves

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Slot Magic

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Tag Team

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Teams

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Tug of War

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Two Headed Giant

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Vanguard

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Wheel of Fortune

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Zero Sum

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Dien's Arena Magic

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End of the World

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Magical War

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Mental Magic

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One Deck

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Deep IQ

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Demolition

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Fortress

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Mountain Magic

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Solitaire 

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Wipe Out

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Castle

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Frontier Magic

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Magic: the Board Game

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Adventure

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Mageopoly

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Magic: the Ascension

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Magic: the Chessing

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Magic: the Conquest

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Magic: the RPG v2.0

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War of Dominia

 

Vanguard

Rules

Vanguard Magic is an extension of normal Magic. Each person will assume the role of a character of his choice. Whatever character they choose will give them special abilities. These abilities cannot be removed from play. In addition to the abilities of each character they will also determine how much life you start with and your hand size, max size and starting size. Here are the characters that you may choose from:

Card Name Max Hand Size Starting Life Ability

Barrin

+0

+6

You may sacrifice a permanent to return any creature to its owner’s hand. Play this ability as an instant

Crovax

+2

+0

Whenever any of your creatures damages any creature or player, gain 1 life.

Eladamri

-1

+15

You may redirect to yourself any amount of damage dealt to creatures your control

Ertai

-1

+4

Your creatures can’t be the target of your opponents’ spells or abilities

Gerrard

-4

+0

During your draw phase, draw an additional card.

Greven il-Vec

-1

+2

Whenever any of your creatures damages any creature, bury the damaged creature.

Hanna

+1

-5

Your spells cost 1 less to play

Karn

+1

+6

Each of your non-creature artifacts is also an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its total casting cost.

Lyna

+2

-4

All creatures you control gain shadow.

Maraxus

+1

+2

Your creatures get +1/+0

Mirri

+0

+5

Each of your basic lands may be tapped to produce any color of mana instead of its normal type.

Multani

-3

-2

All creatures you control get +X/+0 where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Oracle

+1

+9

You may untap any attacking creatures you control and remove them from combat.

Rofellos

-2

+4

Whenever a creature you control is put into a graveyard from play, draw a card

Selenia

+1

+7

Attacking doesn’t cause your creatures to tap

Sidar Kondo

-1

+12

3: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Sisay

-2

-3

Whenever you tap a land for mana, it produces one additional mana of the same type

Sliver Queen, Brood Mother

+0

+8

3: Put a Sliver token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 colorless creature.

Squee

+3

-4

Your opponents play with their hands face up.

Starke

+0

-2

During your draw phase, you may draw an additional card and then put any card in your hand on the bottom of your library.

Tahngarth

-1

+7

Your creatures are unaffected by summoning sickness.

Takara

+3

-8

Sacrifice a creature: Takara deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Volrath

+2

-3

Whenever any of your creatures is put into your graveyard from play, you may put that creature on top of your library.

Deck Construction

Standard deck construction rules apply for this variant.

Sideboard

You can have a 15-card sideboard in Constructed and in Limited the cards you don’t use are your sideboard.

Banned & Restricted List

When playing this variant it is usually decided what Type you will be playing. So, if you are playing Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, or Extended Vanguard then, follow that format’s Banned and Restricted List.

Mulligan Rules

Standard “Paris” Mulligan is used for this variant.

Before each game begins, a player may, for any reason, reshuffle and redraw his hand, drawing one less card. This may be repeated as often as the player wishes, until he has no cards left in his and. After the participant, who plays first, mulligans as often as he likes, the decision of whether to mulligan passes to the other player. Once a player passes the opportunity to mulligan, that player may not change his mind.

History

In July 1997, Wizards of the Coast released the first Vanguard set to game shops to be used as an Arena Format. These were released as oversized 5" x 3.5" card. Later, in January 1998 they release Vanguard II, once again to be used as an Arena Format. The third and final set was release in November 1998 for the Arena Format.