Old School 93/94 Constructed

All Old School tournaments at our Grand Prix will use the following rule set.

Updated as of July 24, 2019

Old School events will not be sanctioned events.

Card Legality

Decks must contain cards that were printed in the following sets:

Limited Edition Alpha

Limited Edition Beta

Unlimited

Arabian Nights

Antiquities

Legends

The Dark

Fallen Empires

1994 Book Promos (Arena, Sewers of Estark)

CE/IE

You may play with reprints of cards from these sets (including foils)

Proxies cannot be used.



Deck Construction

Decklist construction rules follow modern rules:

A maindeck of 60+ cards.

A sideboard of 0-15 cards.

A maximum of 4 copies of any card that is not a basic land.

Format and Card Rulings

Old School uses the current Magic rules, with two exceptions.

Mana Burn

Old School continues to use the concept of Mana Burn. The following rule applies to all games:

When a step or phase ends, any unused mana left in a player’s mana pool is lost. That player loses 1 life for each 1 mana lost this way. This is called mana burn. Mana burn is loss of life, not damage, so it can’t be prevented or altered by effects that affect damage. This game action doesn’t use the stack.

Chaos Orb

Chaos Orb is legal in Old School, with specific errata:

Chaos Orb {2}

Artifact

{1}, {T}: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip and rests touching the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Additional Ruling: Once a permanent has been chosen, it may be physically moved in order for the controller of Chaos Orb to have an unobstructed attempt on the permanent.

Banned Cards

The following cards are banned at Old School tournaments at Grand Prix events:

Bronze Tablet

Contract from Below

Darkpact

Demonic Attorney

Jeweled Bird

Rebirth

Tempest Efreet

Restricted Cards

The following cards are restricted at Old School tournaments at Grand Prix events:

Ancestral Recall

Balance

Black Lotus

Braingeyser

Channel

Chaos Orb

Demonic Tutor

Library of Alexandria

Mana Drain

Maze of Ith

Mind Twist

Mox Emerald

Mox Jet

Mox Pearl

Mox Ruby

Mox Sapphire

Recall

Regrowth

Sol Ring

Time Vault

Time Walk

Timetwister

Wheel of Fortune