Old Frame Highlander
Deck Construction Rules
- Cards per deck: At least 100. No sideboards are allowed. Decks cannot include more than a copy of any particular card, except for basic lands. When building a deck, up to 10 points may be used. Points are used to add cards from the Points List to your deck.
- Allowed sets: Alpha, Beta, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, Harper Prism Book Promos, Ice Age, Homelands, Alliances, Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight, Portal, Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus, Portal Second Age, Urza’s Saga, Urza’s Legacy, Urza’s Destiny, Portal Three Kingdoms, Starter 1999, Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, Prophecy, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment, Judgment, Onslaught, Legions, and Scourge.
- Reprint rules: Every tournament-legal reprint is allowed.
Rules
Contemporary rules and errata are followed, with a few exceptions:
- Mana burn is in effect.
- Chaos Orb: 1, Tap: 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 360 degrees during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.
(Note: because of how Chaos Orb is worded, with it being destroyed after a flip, it can still be Disenchanted or Shattered in response to the activation, which will nullify the ability to flip, since it is no longer on the battlefield. This is consistent with the wording of Chaos Orb not being sacrificed upon activation, as it probably would with modern templating. Also note that Chaos Orb chooses, but does not target.) - Falling Star: Choose any number of non-overlapping creatures on the battlefield. Flip Falling Star from at least a height of one foot. If Falling Star turns over completely at least 360 degrees during the flip, it deals 3 damage to each chosen creature it lands resting on. Any creatures damaged by Falling Star that are not destroyed become tapped.
(Note: Falling Star chooses upon resolution, but does not target.)
Banned and Restricted Cards
- Banned: Bronze Tablet, Contract from Below, Darkpact, Demonic Attorney, Jeweled Bird, Rebirth, Tempest Efreet.
- Restricted: Every card except for basic lands is restricted.
Points List
6 Points
- Ancestral Recall
- Hermit Druid
5 Points
4 Points
- Demonic Tutor
- Price of Progress
3 Points
2 Points
- Academy Rector
- Balance
- Eladamri’s Call
- Enlightened Tutor
- Entomb
- Grim Tutor
- Imperial Seal
- Library of Alexandria
- Mana Crypt
- Merchant Scroll
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Personal Tutor
- Recurring Nightmare
- Sylvan Tutor
- Tainted Pact
- Time Spiral
- Timetwister
- Transmute Artifact
- Wheel of Fortune
- Worldly Tutor
- Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Point
- Armageddon
- Crop Rotation
- Demonic Consultation
- Diabolic Intent
- Earthcraft
- Flash
- Force of Will
- Gaea’s Cradle
- Gamble
- Goblin Recruiter
- Grim Monolith
- Humility
- Imperial Recruiter
- Land Tax
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Mishra’s Workshop
- Moat
- Ravages of War
- Recall
- Regrowth
- Serra’s Sanctum
- Sterling Grove
- The Abyss
- Tolarian Academy
Media
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