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Rules & Deck Construction

All decks are must be constructed of two colors. Each color will be divided into two sides: the King’s side and the Queen’s side. The King's Side will be one color and the Queen's Side will be the other. For each side you will have 8 creatures that must meet certain qualifications (see below). You will also have 22 other cards and 24+ basic lands. They are as follows:

King’s Side Queen’s Side
King Queen
Bishop Bishop
Knight Knight
Rook Rook
4 Pawns 4 Pawns
King’s Wizard Queen’s Artifact

Also in the deck you will have 18 Non-Creature Cards and 24+ lands.

Qualifications for each card (for each piece you will have one for each color and 4 of each for the pawns):

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King and Queen: Must be a non-wall creature with a casting cost of 5 or more. A Legend is recommended but not required. (Fallen Angel, Serra Angel)

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Bishop: Must be a non-wall creature with power equal to or greater then its toughness. Must have a power greater then the Knight of its color. (Skizzik, Shivan Dragon)

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Knight: Must be a non-wall creature with combined power and toughness equal to 6 or less(5/1, 4/2, 3/3, 2/3, 2/2...). The knight must also have one of the following combat abilities:  First Strike, Double Strike, Flying, Haste, Protection, Fear, Regeneration, Trample, or have creature type "Knight". It also must have a power greater then the pawn of its color. (White Knight, Voice of All)

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Rook: Must be a Wall. (Wall of Stone, Wall of Ice)

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Pawn: Must have a casting cost of 3 or less. It must also have a combined power and toughness of 3 or less. Power and/or toughness cannot be “inflatable”. That means it cant have any ability that could take it above a combined power and toughness of 3, i.e. kicker, having another creature in play (slivers), Morph, or any ability that can make it bigger. It cannot have a tapping ability other than one that provides mana of the King or Queen’s Color only. If the pawn has not special abilities (i.e. just a vanilla creature), then its combined power and toughness can be 4 or less and there is no restriction on casting cost. All pawns for each side must be the same card. (Tundra Wolves, Llanowar Elves, Nightscape Familiar)

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King’s Wizard: Must be a creature of the King and/or Queen’s color. This is the only gold color creature that you can have in your deck. The wizard must have an ability that requires tapping as part of the activation cost. This creature may never attack or block unless forced to by a spell or ability. The power and toughness may not be greater then 4/4. ( Royal Assassin, Cabal Interrogator)

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Queen’s Artifact: Can be any non-creature artifact. If it produces mana it may only be of the King and/or Queen’s color or colorless mana. (Planar Portal, Rod of Ruin)

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18 Non-Creature Cards: These 18 cards must be from the King and/or Queen’s colors. You may not have more then 2 copies of any card in your deck other then your pawns.

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24+ Lands: All land cards in your deck must produce mana of the color of your King and/or Queen if they produce colored mana. This means that you can play land that produces colorless mana. You may have up to 4 non-basic lands in your deck but only one copy of each. You may have any number of basic land in your deck.   

 Banned & Restricted List

Banned

Any card that does any of the following:

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Damages all creatures in play (Inferno, Crypt Rats).

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Destroys all creatures in play (Wrath of God).

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Any card that takes control of opponent’s card(s) in play, graveyard, or deck (Bribery).

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Any card that generates creatures and/or tokens (Call of the Herd, Squirrel Nest).

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All Wishes.

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