Choose Your Own Standard

[cupajoe]

Just curious to see what other Sourcers thought of the idea


If you're not familiar with it, it was played at the Invitational with hints that it could be a sanctioned format.....Here's what it is

Choose any two blocks (don't have to be consecutive blocks)

Choose any basic edition, I believe beginning with Fifth Ed

Make a deck with the above cardpool

Banned list is the Legacy banned list plus any cards banned in block (so all cards banned in Urza's block play are also banned in CYOS, for instance)

Coldsnap goes with the Ice Age block....Homelands, Fallen Empires and previous expansions are not allowed in the format (unless individual cards reprinted in a basic set)

Personally, I love the idea and since I'm a casual player who only rarely goes to tournaments, I love the seemingly balanced power curve of the format....You also still get to use most of your older cards.....

I also believe the diversity of decks will be incredible....You'll have no idea what to expect


The downside I see is that it would be somewhat difficult for the TO to determine if you had an illegal deck.....Plus, I could also see confusion amongst players about what cards were allowed in their decks etc.....

But still, all in all, I would love to see it become a sanctioned format and I'd probably play it over Legacy.....

[Mordenkain]

I have hard time trying to figure out why you are posting this is on a legacy community board?

Anyways, personally i would go with some odessey + onslaught/urza block. Psychatog decks are always fun, and the urza block have lots of crazy cards to abuse with tog (i think/hope).

[cupajoe]

I posted it here because, if it becomes sanctioned, it would be a similar format to Legacy, from the standpoint that you can use most of your old cards.....

And I thought it would be interesting to see how other people felt about it.....

[Nihil Credo]

IMO that format still needs lots of work before it can become an interesting idea. Even with the current 'ban everything that was ever banned' rule, decks in that format are built by starting with 2-3 of the most powerful cards ever printed - like Legacy - followed by 'padding' the deck with every decent cards you can find in your sets - decidedly unlike Legacy, and the reason why that format won't ever have the diversity of Legacy, or even Extended.