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Bring out your best vintage decks! Additional Limit(no cards from the power 9)
The term Power Nine refers to a set of nine specific cards in the game of Magic: The Gathering. These cards were only printed early in the game's history and consist of Black Lotus,[1] Mox Pearl, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, and Timetwister.[2]
Vintage rules:


Updated June 18, 2010

Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.

With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic. (The five Ice Age block snow-covered lands -- Snow-Covered Plains, Snow-Covered Island, Snow-Covered Swamp, Snow-Covered Mountain, and Snow-Covered Forest -- are also basic lands. Note that snow-covered lands are permitted only in formats that allow expansions from the Ice Age block to be used.)

Vintage decks may consist of cards from all Magic card sets, any edition of the core set, and all special sets, supplements, and promotional printings released by Wizards of the Coast.

The following cards are banned in Vintage tournaments:

* Amulet of Quoz
* Bronze Tablet
* Chaos Orb
* Contract from Below
* Darkpact
* Demonic Attorney
* Falling Star
* Jeweled Bird
* Rebirth
* Shahrazad
* Tempest Efreet
* Timmerian Fiends

The following cards are restricted* in Vintage tournaments

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* Balance

* Brainstorm
* Burning Wish
* Channel
* Demonic Consultation
* Demonic Tutor
* Fact or Fiction
* Fastbond
* Flash
* Frantic Search
* Gifts Ungiven
* Gush
* Imperial Seal
* Library of Alexandria
* Lion’s Eye Diamond
* Lotus Petal
* Mana Crypt
* Mana Vault
* Memory Jar
* Merchant Scroll
* Mind’s Desire




* Mystical Tutor
* Necropotence
* Ponder
* Regrowth
* Sol Ring
* Strip Mine
* Thirst for Knowledge
* Time Vault


* Tinker
* Tolarian Academy
* Trinisphere
* Vampiric Tutor
* Wheel of Fortune
* Windfall
* Yawgmoth’s Bargain
* Yawgmoth’s Will


Official information about Constructed formats and the Vintage format can be found in the Magic: The Gathering Tournament Rules.

*Restricted Card: A card that is limited by the DCI to one per deck in the indicated format. For example, the card Black Lotus is restricted in DCI-sanctioned Vintage Magic tournaments. This means that only one Sol Ring is allowed per deck, including sideboard, in the Vintage format.