The Chaos Orcs Fest The TWO TOWERS

Premodern Cube

Side Event - Sat 25 November, 2023 (After Swiss Rounds)

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Tournament Rules & Structure

This section contains all the information about the structure of the tournaments, the rules it will abide, and any special notes/restrictions set by the organiser.

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Rules

Format

Premodern

More information in the Format section below.

Cube List

Here is the Cube list!
⚠️ Spoiler Alert!
Don't look at the list, if you want to play as a real draft-player!

Info & Structure

Important Dates and Registration

Registrations are now officially closed

Tournament Rules, Format, and More

Format of the tournament

Premodern  ‐  Constructed Format

Premodern is a community-created constructed format invented by Martin Berlin in 2012 consisting of the sets from Fourth Edition to Scourge. The card pool thus roughly spans the period inbetween the formats 93/94 and Modern. A rule of thumb for the card pool is: all cards with the old frame printed between 1995 and 2003, which were standard legal at some point during this period. Despite the nostalgic flavour of the format, in Premodern all reprints are allowed, regardless of the frame or the art of the card wrt. the original art.

This format extends the standard Premodern pool of cards, by allowing all Gold Border Cards to be played and featured in decks.

Allowed Sets

The tournament will allow cards from the following sets (and reprints!)

Color Legend:
  • : Core
  • : Expansion
  • :
  • Promo, Spellbook, Memorabilia, Premium_Deck
  • : Other

The following special/non-english sets are also allowed:
Foreign Black Border;  Summer Magic / Edgar;  Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border;  Chronicles Foreign Black Border;  Renaissance;  Rinascimento;  Portal;  Anthologies;  Deckmasters; 

Reprint Policy

All reprints are allowed in this format, with no restrictions on the card art nor the frame nor language.

For example:

  • Birds of Paradise 4ed is allowed (Old Art, Old Frame)
  • Birds of Paradise FBB is allowed (Old Art, Old Frame, not English)
  • Birds of Paradise 9ed is allowed (New Art, New Frame)
  • Birds of Paradise DMR is allowed (Old Art, New Frame).
  • Demonic Tutor FBB is not allowed (Not Premodern Legal)
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