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Chess Magic Online 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.
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Banned
& Restricted List
Banned
Any card that does
any of the following:
Paper Magic Version
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