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Magic: The Gathering Magic can be played by two or more players in various formats, which fall into two categories: constructed and limited. Limited formats involve players building a deck spontaneously out of a pool of random cards with a minimum deck size of 40 cards. In constructed, players created decks from cards they own, usually 60 cards with no more than 4 of any given card. Magic is played in person with printed cards, or using a deck of virtual cards through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online, or on a smartphone or tablet, or through other programs.
Magic: The Gathering formats The Standard format is continually one of the most popular formats in the constructed deck tournament scene. It is the format most commonly found at Friday Night Magic tournaments, played weekly at many hobby shops. Standard's former name was "Type 2". This format generally consists of the most recent three or four "Block" releases. The release of the first set of a new Block in Autumn (usually the first Friday in October) triggers a rotation; the new Block becomes Standard legal, and the oldest two blocks rotate out. (The previous rule was using two recent "Block" releases plus any core sets released between the older set of the block and the first set that would make that block rotated out). The current Standard set includes the Ixalan block, Dominaria, Guilds of Ravnica and Core Set 2019. [8] Additionally, cards appeared in Welcome Deck 2017 and cards from Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling (only applied to events inside People's Republic of China) are also legal in current Standard.