Pauper and Peasant Card Legalities

[cltrn81]

I keep seeing this pauper word.....what does it mean?

[Spikepit]

Decks where commons are the only legal selection, no uncommons, rares or mythics.

[Validan]

Hmm I thought it was common and uncommon lol oops

[BlackJester]

Hmm I thought it was common and uncommon lol oops

I think that's peasant.

[Validan]

Haven't ever even heard of peasant

[BlackJester]

Haven't ever even heard of peasant

From Daily MtG (official):

Peasant Magic
The peasant mage doesn’t have a lot of supernatural resources at his beck and call. He makes do with petty charms, simple incantations, and hope. In Peasant Magic, the player must make decks out of predominantly common cards. On one hand, deck construction is very constrained: decks may contain no more than five uncommon cards, and rare cards are not allowed at all. If playing with a sideboard, the deck and the sideboard must both conform to these strictures, the total construct having no more than five uncommon cards and zero rares.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/58

[BlackJester]

Pauper Magic:

Pauper is a Magic Online format in which all cards used must have been printed at the common rarity in a Magic Online set or product. Common promo cards are only legal if the card has been printed at the common rarity in a set or product. Other than that, the usual rules for Constructed decks apply (a minimum deck size of 60 cards in the main deck, an optional 15-card sideboard, and so on). If a common version of a particular card was ever released on Magic Online, any versions of that card printed at other rarities are also legal in this format.

[SethWildCard]

Just a note: kings magic is the opposite, either all rares or mostly.

[BlackJester]

LOL  That's what a lot of the guys I play with do!  Does that include basic land too?  Are you allowed any, or does it have to be all rare lands too?

[SethWildCard]

Basic lands are the only card I have seen in any variant that deck construction rules don't apply to. For kings, no, as many basics as you want. Side note: in urzas saga standard I played sneak attack, all my cards were rare except for a couple basic lands.

[BlackJester]

Basic lands are the only card I have seen in any variant that deck construction rules don't apply to. For kings, no, as many basics as you want. Side note: in urzas saga standard I played sneak attack, all my cards were rare except for a couple basic lands.

Nice!  I could see a king's magic rule where all of your basics had to be full art from unglued, unhinged, or Zendikar. XD