Commander / Tiny Leaders / Pauper
COMMANDER
100 Card Commander is a specialty format in which every card is effectively restricted; with the exception of basic land cards, a player’s deck may not contain more than one of any individual card.
Players’ decks must contain exactly 100 cards in the main deck, and an optional sideboard must contain up to 15 cards.
Players must choose a legendary creature as the "Commander" for their deck.
A card's color identity is its color plus the color of any mana symbols in the card's rules text.
A card's color identity is established before the game begins, and cannot be changed by game effects.
The Commander's color identity restricts what cards may appear in the deck.
A deck may not generate mana outside its colors.
If an effect would generate mana of an illegal color, it generates colorless mana instead.
A Commander deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the Commander.
With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same English name.
Commander is played with vintage legal cards, with some exceptions: cards are legal as of their set's prerelease
The following legends may not be used as a Commander:
Braids, Cabal Minion
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
Kokusho, the Evening Star
The following cards are banned from the format:
25 cards with the Card Type “Conspiracy.”
9 cards that reference "playing for ante."
Ancestral Recall
Balance
Biorhythm
Black Lotus
Braids, Cabal Minion
Chaos Orb
Coalition Victory
Channel
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
Falling Star
Fastbond
Gifts Ungiven
Griselbrand
Karakas
Leovold, Emissary of Trest
Library of Alexandria
Limited Resources
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Painter's Servant
Panoptic Mirror
Primeval Titan
Prophet of Kruphix
Recurring Nightmare
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Shahrazad
Sundering Titan
Sway of the Stars
Sylvan Primordial
Time Vault
Time Walk
Tinker
Tolarian Academy
Trade Secrets
Upheaval
Worldfire
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Tiny Leaders
Tiny Leaders is a smaller version of Comander with 50 cards instead of 100
All cards must have a converted mana cost of 3 or less.
Each player chooses a legendary creature (or suitable Planeswalker) which is called their Commander or General. Decks may use other legendary creatures as well.
No cards in the deck of any player may have a color identity that is not a subset of the color identity of his or her general. The color identity of a card is composed of every colored mana symbol that appears on that card — whether in the mana cost or the rules text.
Except for basic lands, player may not use more than one copy of any card.
Each deck must contain exactly 50 cards including the General.
Players start with 25 life.
There is no Commander damage win condition.
The following cards are banned in Tiny Leaders
All Ante and Manual Dexterity cards
Ancestral Recall
Balance
Black Lotus
Black Vise
Channel
Counterbalance
Demonic Tutor
Earthcraft
Edric, Spymaster of Trest
Fastbond
Goblin Recruiter
Grindstone
Hermit Druid
High Tide
Imperial Seal
Library of Alexandria
Karakas
Mana Crypt
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Metalworker
Mind Twist
Mishra's Workshop
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Necropotence
Shahrazad
Skullclamp
Sol Ring
Strip Mine
Survival of the Fittest
Sword of Body and Mind
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Time Vault
Time Walk
Timetwister
Tolarian Academy
Umezawa's Jitte
Vampiric Tutor
Wheel of Fortune
Yawgmoth's Will
Additionally, these Legendary creatures cannot be used as Commanders:
Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Pauper
In this Magic Online format, all cards must have been printed at common rarity in a Magic Online set or product. Common promo cards are only legal if the card meets that qualification.
If a common version of a particular card was ever released on Magic Online, any version of that card is legal in this format.
Example: Counterspell was a common card in Seventh Edition Core Set online. Counterspell was reprinted in Masters Edition II with an uncommon expansion symbol. Both versions of the card can now be used in pauper.
Other than that, the usual rules for constructed decks apply:
Minimum of 60 cards in the main deck
(There is no maximum size for main decks)
Up to 15 cards in your sideboard, if used
No more than 4 of any individual card in the main deck and sideboard combined (with the exception of basic lands)
The following cards are banned in this format:
Cloud of Faeries
Cloudpost
Cranial Plating
Empty the Warrens
Frantic Search
Grapeshot
Invigorate
Peregrine Drake
Temporal Fissure
Treasure Cruise