Star Rules Clarification

There have been some questions about the upcoming Star Event. Here are some answers. : )If you still have questions, please send me an email at ominoj37@yahoo.com.

1)Decks are minimum 60 cards (no max), Standard Format with no sideboards unless your deck has a way to access them in the first (and only) game of each round. Starting life totals are 20. Starting hand size is seven. Since it is one game per round, each player can use one free mulligan, but then must lose a card as normal for additional mulligans.

2)All cards must be of the same color. Artifacts and colorless are okay. Gold cards are not allowed. Cards with activation costs different from their mana cost (like cavern thoctar, a green card with a red costed ability) are not allowed. Lands must match the color of the deck (forests for a green deck). No lands that produce a different color are allowed (so no raging ravines). Colorless lands (like dread statuary and techtonic edge) and lands that fetch other lands (terramorphic expanse, verdant catacombs, etc) are okay, but remember they will only be able to get one kind of basic land (whatever matches your deck's color).

3)Cards that benefit you in any way from a different color than your own are not allowed. Wild Nacatl is not allowed (but you are not allowed to have plains or forests anyway. Skeletonize is similiarly banned since it gives a red deck access to a black creature.

4)"Hoser" cards (great sable stag, flashfreeze, celestial purge, etc) that punish another color are fine. There is no guarantee, though, that we will have a perfect mix of colors at the event. Your enemies may include ally colors or even a deck the same color as you. We will do our best to have perfect stars with one of each color each round, but if half the field is mono black there is only so much that can be done.

5)We will play 45 minute rounds. When time is called active palyer will finish their turn and then each other player will receive one turn. Number of rounds will depend on turnout. Each round you will earn points by defeating your opponents and keeping your allies alive. At the end of the round, one point will be awarded for each ally alive and two points for each enemey defeated. However, to avoid collusion, if no one is defeated at the end of the round, no one will receive any points in that particular star "pod".

6)To encourage diversity, the player(s) who bring the least played color will receive an additional league point regardless of performance. In the case of a tie, both colors would earn points for the players.


In Star, five players each represent one of the five colors of Magic (white, blue, black, red, and green) by playing a deck featuring only cards of that color. Decks may not include any cards that reference a different color or a basic land that produces a different color of mana.

Players sit in a star pattern identical to the one on the back of every Magic: The Gathering card. The player with the white deck takes the first time and then play continues clockwise around the table.


A color, and the player representing it, wins when its two enemy colors have been eliminated regardless of who eliminated them. This means a player may be able to win even after being eliminated from play! Each player can attack any other player (even their allies), and each player can target any player, permanent, spell, or anything else in the game. Decks are usually built following Standard deck-construction rules