King's Side

Queen's Side

King

Queen

Qualifications for each card:

• King or Queen: Must be a non-wall creature with a casting cost of 5 or more. A Legend is recommended but not required. (Morphling, Fallen Angel, Serra Angel)

• Bishop: Must be a non-wall creature with power equal to or greater then its toughness. Must have a power greater then the Knight of its color. (Force of Nature, Skizzik, Drifting Djinn)

• Knight: Must be a non-wall creature with combined power and toughness equal to 6 or less. The knight must also have one of the following combat abilities: Banding, First Strike, Flanking, Flying, Haste, Protection, Rampage, Shadow, or Trample. It also must have a power greater then the pawn of its color. (Black Knight, Soltari Priest, Shivan Raptor)

• Rook: Must be a Wall. (Wall of Nets, Wall of Ice, Fog Bank)

• Pawn: Must have a casting cost of 3 or less. It must also have a combined power and toughness of 3 or less. Power and/or toughness cannot be “inflatable”. It cannot have a tapping ability other than one that provides mana of the King or Queen’s Color only. If the pawn has not special abilities (i.e. just a vanilla creature), then its combined power and toughness can be 4 or less and there is no restriction on casting cost. All pawns for each side must be the same card. (Tundra Wolves, Llanowar Elves, Nightscape Familiar)

• King’s Wizard: Must be a creature of the King and/or Queen’s color. This is the only gold color creature that you can have in your deck. The wizard must have an ability that requires tapping as part of the activation cost. This creature may never attack or block unless forced to by a spell or ability. The power and toughness may not be greater then 4/4. (Tradewind Rider, Royal Assassin, Goblin Wizard)

• Queen’s Artifact: Can be any non-creature artifact. If it produces mana it may only be of the King and/or Queen’s color or colorless mana. (Cursed Scroll, Urza’s Blueprints, Forcefield)

• 18 Non-Creature Cards: These 18 cards must be from the King and/or Queen’s colors. You may not have more then 2 copies of any of these cards.

• 24+ Lands: All land cards in your deck must produce mana of the color of your King and/or Queen if they produce colored mana. This means that you can play land that produces colorless mana. You may have up to 4 non-basic lands in your deck but only one copy of each. You may also include a Legendary Land. This land does not count toward your 4 non-basic lands but may not be a copy of any of them. You may have any number of basic lands in your deck. 

Use the following errata when playing this variant:

• All Legendary cards lose their legendary status (i.e. there can be two of the same legends in play at the same time).

• All Pawns have the following errata:

All pawns have haste.

All pawns have the text “at the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove this card from the game to put a creature card, of the same color, from the graveyard into play TAPPED. You may not put the King into play this way."

• All Rooks have the following errata:

All Rooks have the text “Castling (at the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card to your hand and put a King or Queen, of the same color, into play TAPPED from your hand. You may only use Castling once per game.)

• All Kings have the following errata:

All Kings have the text “Castling (at the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card to your hand and put a Rook, of the same color, into play TAPPED from your hand. You may only use Castling once per game.)

All Kings have the text “When ~This~ card is put into the graveyard from play, you loses half of your life rounded down.”

• All of the King’s creatures have the following errata:

All of the King’s creatures have the text “Sacrifice the Queen, T: Counter target spell or effect that would cause the King to leave play.”