why are mtg cards banned?
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Banned Cards Cards are usually banned from play if they enable a deck or play style that heavily skews the play environment. What does that mean? If the card were legal, a competitive player either must be playing it, or must be specifically targeting it with his or her own strategies.
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Silver-Bordered Cards now Legal in Commander. The EDH Rules Commitee has declared all silver-bordered cards to be legal in Commander until the next banned list update (January 15). This includes, Unstable, Unhinged, Unglued, and even the holiday-themed cards.
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But I heard that there were some legal Egyptian God Cards! While the original prints were Illegal, Konami made rereleases of these Egyptian God cards that are actually playable and are completely legal to play in tournaments (and they lack the "This card cannot be used in a Duel" text).
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You can get banned for selling or buying cards for PTCGO.
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Inclusion in the Mystery Booster set doesn't change what formats a card is legal in. Most of its cards are not legal in the Standard format, and many are not legal in the Modern format.
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Limited. In the OCG and the TCG Advanced and Traditional Formats, Limited (制限 Seigen) cards are cards that players are allowed only one copy of in their Main Deck, Side Deck, and Extra Deck combined.
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There are no sanctioned EDH events. Whether or not he can use a gold-bordered card is entirely up to the organizer of said non-sanctioned event.
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Whereas MTG is a funds-intensive game, it is the farthest thing away from a waste of money. Although cards and decks cost a little amount of money, there is a lot of value not only in investing in the cards but in playing the game.
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SCG and Gold member cards (with photo) are not transferable and only the member can use this card for access.
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After winning 9,000+ chips, the player character will be banned from playing games in the Gomorrah. They can still use its other functions, like the bar, but cannot gamble on its tables anymore. This ban is permanent.
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There are 56 cards within the Magic: The Gathering—Commander (2017 Edition) decks that are completely new to the Magic game. These cards are legal for play in the Commander, Vintage, and Legacy formats. They aren't legal for play in the Standard or Modern formats.
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Like in magic, yugioh supports decks that use cards of a similar monster type and/or attribute with special support cards. Magic in all reality I much more expensive than yugioh. MTG has a resource system, whereas YGO has only a normal summon.
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The reason Zuran Orb was banned in its day is simply because players weren't as good. As a zero-cost artifact it could go in any deck. And since it could save you from dying for a turn or more, it went in many. The problem is that sacrificing lands for life isn't a good strategy.
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"Mana weaving" doesn't actually accomplish anything, unless you're accidentally or purposefully cheating. Judges routinely prohibit "mana weaving" because the down side of disrupting someone's pointless pre-game ritual is much smaller than the upside of guaranteeing a fairer game.
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US citizens are banned from BitMEX due to local laws in the US – basically the broker platform isn't authorized by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), which is the base requirement for any trading platform to offer service in the US.
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Emrakul, the Promised End Emrakul was banned because she ended games too easily when cast. Games could be won after she was cast but it was extremely difficult to do so. When you played against an Emrakul deck she was always looming over the game and as soon as she was cast, the usually came to an end.
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In order to improve the health of game play and to weaken Urza decks and other top decks, Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned in Modern. ... We considered options that would further weaken Urza-based artifact decks, while still allowing for decks based around that general strategy.