With no paper tournaments planned for the future due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly rapid metagame stagnation, Alchemy was developed as a way to rebalance problematic cards and inject some novelty into solved formats. In November 2021, Alchemy, an online-only variant of Standard, was brought forth as a new initiative from MTG Arena.
Starting in Kaladesh and ending with War of the Spark, the Standard Showdown was introduced as a root-level competitive tournament that awarded special prize packs (notably foil rare cards from standard sets) to participants. The release of the first expansion in Autumn will trigger a rotation, rotating out the oldest two blocks. The current Standard allows all cards in the newest three to four story-based blocks (including the Welcome Deck and all exclusive cards Planeswalkers Decks/Deck Builder's Kit released in this period), save for cards on the Standard banned list. As the system received heavy criticism among players, Spring rotation was dropped in 2017 and reverted to format which the oldest 4 sets will be rotated out in each rotation in Autumn. In this system, the number of legal sets would vary less (always five or six, compared to the current five to eight). A Standard with three blocks and two rotations (Spring and Autumn) was adopted between 20 ( Khans of Tarkir/ Fate Reforged and Dragons of Tarkir/ Magic Origins were treated as blocks for transition). After Magic Origins, core sets were discontinued, and blocks only contained two sets, usually one large and one small.
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The original Standard format allowed the recent two blocks plus the most recent core set (two core sets between the last release and the actual rotation). Legal were then the most current basic set ( Revised Edition) and the latest two Magic expansions only ( The Dark and Fallen Empires). When Standard (then called "Type 2") was created on January 10, 1995, it inherited the banned and restricted lists from Vintage (then "Type 1"). Īs of 2023, the rotation for Standard shifted to every three years rather than every two years. With a late fall release instead of a summer release, this functionally means that the shortest-legal set goes from the minimum of 15 months to about 17 months, though each set shrinks its draft rotation time by a few weeks. There will still be a non-premier product released in the summer. Starting in 2021, Wizards of the Coast is trying a new schedule where the premier sets are early fall, late fall, winter, and spring (dates based on Northern Hemisphere seasons.) For example, When Ixalan set released in fall 2017, Battle for Zendikar, Oath of the Gatewatch, Shadows over Innistrad, Eldritch Moon, and Welcome Deck 2016 (which counted as a part Shadows over Innistrad in rotation) rotated out of Standard.
For example, fall 2019 rotation caused Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, and Core 2019 to leave Standard.īefore the Three-and-One Model, the two oldest blocks still legal in Standard would rotate out of the format. Since the introduction of Three-and-One Model in 2019 (or effectively in 2018), once a year with the release of a new fall set the four oldest expansion/core sets in Standard, as well as any other Standard-legal set released during that period will rotate out.
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