Fun Balanced and Affordable Magic the Gathering format
Decks must be built using only cards from one block.
No more than 4 of a card, except for basic lands.
Deck must contain at least 60 cards.
No Rare or Mythic Cards. See the Full Rules for detail
Decks must contain no more than 12 uncommon cards.
Sideboarding is done slightly differently, see the Full Rules for details
A small Banned List is maintained in order to keep the format fun fair and balanced.
We wanted to develop a “wide” format, by which we mean a format with the largest possible number of valid decks for people to play. Too often it feels like standard, pauper, modern, and legacy formats devolve into a handful of established deck-lists with minimal variation.
The idea of selecting one block to build from, means that players have to work creatively within a limited cardpool, while still allowing playing cards from the entire history of Magic.
Have you ever had on of those Drafts where the archetype you wanted to play was wide open and you ended up with a great deck. Well that’s what we wanted block casual to feel like when you play it.
A Block Casual deck can be built using cards from any ONE of the following blocks. Blocks can contain one or more sets of cards.
| Ixalan | 187 | |
| Amonkhet | 366 | |
| Kaladesh | 323 | |
| Shadows over Innistrad | 397 | |
| Battle for Zendikar | 309 | |
| Magic Origins | 192 | |
| Khans of Tarkir | 492 | |
| Magic 2015 Core Set | 191 | |
| Theros | 401 | |
| Magic 2014 Core Set | 161 | |
| Return to Ravnica | 482 | |
| Magic 2013 | 161 | |
| Innistrad | 464 | |
| Magic 2012 | 161 | |
| Scars of Mirrodin | 381 | |
| Magic 2011 | 161 | |
| Zendikar | 421 | |
| Magic 2010 | 161 | |
| Alara | 361 | |
| Shadowmoor | 321 | |
| Lorwyn | 301 | |
| Tenth Edition | 242 | |
| Time Spiral | 438 | |
| Ravnica | 433 | |
| Ninth Edition | 228 | |
| Kamigawa | 431 | |
| Mirrodin | 416/2 | |
| Eighth Edition | 226 | |
| Onslaught | 419 | |
| Odyssey | 418 | |
| Seventh Edition | 220 | |
| Invasion | 428 | |
| Masques | 418 | |
| Classic Sixth Edition | 220 | |
| Urza's | 418 | |
| Tempest | 418 | |
| Mirage | 454 | |
| Fifth Edition | 297 | |
| Ice Age | 505 | |
| Fourth Edition | 242 | |
| Revised Edition | 170 | |
| Unlimited Edition | 170 | |
| Limited Edition Beta | 170 | |
| Limited Edition Alpha | 169 |
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The [card]Spider Spawning[/card] combo deck is something I was very interested to try out in Block Casual, and given that it was possible to build this deck in Innistrad draft, I thought it should be easy enough to port the very effective deck over into constructed. To be fair it was exactly decks like this Block Casual was developed for, those ...
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