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Old Frame Legacy Tribal Wars

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Deck construction

Cards per deck

At least 60 plus a 15 cards sideboard. At least ⅓ of your main deck must be of a particular creature type. At the start of each game, your main deck must still have at least ⅓ of a particular type.

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 (every Old Frame set except Unglued).

Reprint rules

All regular-sized reprints done by Wizards of the Coast with art that existed by Scourge and that use the Old Frame (Alpha to Scourge) are allowed, including those that were not originally tournament-legal (Collectors’ Edition, International Edition, 30th Anniversary Edition, and gold-bordered Pro Tour and World Championship cards). Organizers may at their discretion also allow the use of Modern frame cards and Old Frame reprints with art that did not exist by Scourge.

Rules

Contemporary rules and errata are followed.

Banned Cards

List of Tribes

These are the different creature types for cards printed between Alpha and Scourge. It may not be possible to build a deck with any of these tribes, as there may not be enough of them. For example, there are only three different Antelopes, or there is only one Camel, Cockatrice or Dreadnought. There are also some creature types not included because there are no creatures with that type, but there are cards that create tokens of them, like Caribou Range for Caribous or Icatian Town for Citizens, and several cards for Saprolings.

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