Standard Format Guide
Deck Construction Rules
- Minimum 60 cards in the main deck.
- Optional sideboard of up to 15 cards.
- Your deck and sideboard is not allowed to hold more than four of any individual card in this format, except for basic lands.
- Legal cards include sets currently in the Standard rotation.
- Winner is determined either by best of one, or best of three games.
- These games should last standard length for a game (about 20 minutes on average).
How does set rotation work?
Each year, new Magic sets are released and added to Standard. Once per year, after the fall set Prerelease, the four oldest sets in Standard rotate out.Legal Sets
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Magic: the Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Through the Omenpaths - Digital Only
- Magic: The Gathering | Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Edge of Eternities
- Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Aetherdrift
- Magic: The Gathering® Foundations
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Bloomburrow
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction (including The Big Score)
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Wilds of Eldraine
Banned / Restricted Cards
- Abuelo's Awakening
- Cori-Steel Cutter
- Heartfire Hero
- Hopeless Nightmare
- Leyline of Resonance (only in MTG Arena Best-of-One)
- Monstrous Rage
- Proft's Eiditic Memory
- Screaming Nemesis
- This Town Ain't Big Enough
- Up the Beanstalk
- Vivi Ornitier