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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by counterspell@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

Heirloom Format

  • Inspired by the MTGO budget format Heirloom but with paper price limits

  • Minimum deck size: 60 cards

  • No more than 4 copies of any card, except basic lands

  • Cards can be of any rarity

  • The legal card pool rotates a month after each Standard set release based on card price thresholds checked on Scryfall with the following search:

f:vintage ((rarity:c and eur<=0.1) or (rarity:u and eur<=0.2) or ((rarity:r or rarity:m) and eur<=0.3)) and tix<=0.05
  • Common cards under 0.1 EUR/0.05 tix

  • Uncommon cards under 0.2 EUR/0.1 tix

  • Rare cards under 0.3 EUR/0.2 tix

  • Mythic cards under 0.6 EUR/0.5 tix

  • Very low barrier to entry with decks costing less than $10, unlike Pauper where some "budget" decks still cost $60+

  • If the format was popular enough to influence card prices, rotations would ban the most used cards, preventing the metagame from becoming stagnant

  • Lets you play with cards that are bad in other formats but become viable here

  • Encourages creativity in deckbuilding with quirky card choices

  • Games decided by wits and luck rather than coin

I'm excited to hear your ideas for cheap MTG formats!

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[-] mike@mtgzone.com 11 points 10 months ago

This is great, I just want to throw out that MTG Online has "Penny Dreadful" as a format:

Penny Dreadful is an unofficial Magic Online budget format where the legality rules include only cards that cost 0.02 ticket - roughly one penny.

I like your idea a lot! I would certainly play this a ton.

[-] momocchi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Penny Dreadful is such a fun format. Never have time to play mtgo anymore but that is by far my most played format on there

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