Battle of the 2's

Rules

Standard Magic: the Gathering Rules apply.

Deck Construction

Each player chooses one of the following Type 2 formats and builds a legal constructed deck. Some cards were added to the banned list because of the power they have:

7^th Ed., Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment.
7^th Ed., Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, Prophecy, Invasion, Planeshift, and Apocalypse.
6^th Ed., Urza’s Saga, Urza’s Legacy, Urza’s Destiny, Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, and Prophecy
	Banned: Time Spiral, Tolarian Academy, Windfall, Memory Jar, and Fluctuator.
5^th Ed., Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus, Urza’s Saga, Urza’s Legacy, and Urza’s Destiny.
	Banned: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Fluctuator, Lotus Petal, Memory Jar, Mind Over Matter, Recurring Nightmare, Time Spiral, Tolarian Academy, Yawgmoth’s Bargain, and Windfall.
5^th Ed., Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight, Tempest, Stronghold, and Exodus.
	Banned: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, and Squandered Resources.
4^th Ed., Ice Age, Homelands, Fallen Empires, Alliances, Mirage, Visions, and Weatherlight.
	Banned: Channel and Mind Twist.
	Restricted: Balance, Black Vise, Hypnotic Spectre, Hymn to Tourach, Ivory Tower, Land Tax, Squanderer Resources, Strip Mine, Thawing Glaciers, and Zuran Orb.

Sideboard

You may have a 15-card sideboard for this variant.

Banned & Restricted List

See Deck Construction section.

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 hand. 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

This format was taken from the 2000 Event Horizons Invitational.

Benjamin Cohen originally developed it.

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