Peasant
The rules below describe Peasant in a vintage setting, If your tournament is in a different format card bannings may be different.
Decks must consist of at least sixty cards, containing:
- Cards from any published Magic set wherein cards were assigned a rarity value by WotC. This includes Starter, and Portal, but does not include promotional cards or cards from pre-built sets like Vangaurd. Unglued and Unhinged are also not allowed due to the fact some cards do not translate well to online play.
- No more than five (5) uncommon cards. In Peasant Magic Tourneys that permit Sideboarding, these cards may be present either in the deck or in the sideboard.
- No rare cards.
- At least 55 common cards.
- There may be no more than four copies of any single card except basic land. Snow-covered land counts as a basic land.
Cards with Different Rarities:
If a card is listed with two different rarities in two different editions, use the most common rating for calculating rarity.
Exceptions:
Strip Mine is officially an uncommon card, even though it had a version that was rated as common. This is a change from the general rule to limit strip mines in tourneys because of power.
Restricted / Banned cards:
Cards that are restricted or banned in Type 1, Type 1.5, and other DCI constructed tournaments are allowed in Peasant Magic, with the following exceptions, up to four (4) copies permitted in a deck. The following cards are banned for purposes of peasant magic due to irrational expense and/or being broken in peasant:
Jeweled Bird
Timmerian Fiends
Bronze Tablet
Brain Freeze
Ali From Cairo
Bazaar of Baghdad
Berserk
Candelabra of Tawnos
Diamond Valley
Juzam Djinn
Library of Alexandria
Mana Drain
Mishra's Workshop
