Deck Construction


Magic: Redux is a minimum 60 card maindeck format with a sideboard of up to 15 cards, allowing up to four copies of any card across all printings (unless noted below).

List of allowed sets:

  • Alpha/Beta/Unlimited
  • Arabian Nights
  • Antiquities
  • Legends
  • The Dark
  • Fallen Empires

Restricted (to one per deck):

  • Balance
  • Black Vise
  • Berserk
  • Candelabra of Tawnos
  • Channel
  • Dark Ritual
  • Demonic Tutor
  • Fork
  • Ivory Tower
  • Library of Alexandria
  • Mana Drain
  • Mana Vault
  • Maze of Ith
  • Mind Twist
  • Mishra's Workshop
  • Recall
  • Regrowth
  • Sol Ring
  • Time Vault
  • Time Walk
  • Timetwister
  • Wheel of Fortune

Banned cards:

  • All "ante" cards
  • Ancestral Recall (Replaced with Brainstorm)
  • Black Lotus (Replaced with Lotus Petal)
  • Choas Orb
  • Circle of Protection: Black
  • Circle of Protection: Blue
  • Circle of Protection: Green
  • Circle of Protection: Red
  • Circle of Protection: White
  • City in a Bottle
  • Conversion
  • Deathgrip
  • Falling Star
  • Gloom
  • Lifeforce
  • Mox Emerald (Replaced with Talisman of Unity)
  • Mox Jet (Replaced with Talisman of Indulgence)
  • Mox Pearl (Replaced with Talisman of Progress)
  • Mox Ruby (Replaced with Talisman of Impulse)
  • Mox Sapphire (Replaced with Talisman of Dominance)
  • Power Artifact
  • Shahrazad
  • Strip Mine (Replaced with Wasteland)

Additional cards allowed:

  • Arena (1994 book promo)
  • Brainstorm (Replaces Ancestral Recall)
  • Lotus Petal (Replaces Black Lotus)
  • Nalathni Dragon (1994 promo)
  • Sewers of Estark (1994 book promo)
  • Talisman of Dominance (Replaces Mox Sapphire)
  • Talisman of Impulse (Replaces Mox Ruby)
  • Talisman of Indulgence (Replaces Mox Jet)
  • Talisman of Progress (Replaces Mox Pearl)
  • Talisman of Unity (Replaces Mox Emerald)
  • Wasteland (Replaces Strip Mine)

Optional replacements:

Shocklands are added as OPTIONAL replacements for the Dual Lands. A player may run up to four in any combination of a Dual Land and its corresponding Shockland in their deck. (A deck may contain one Tundra and three Hallowed Fountains for example.)

  • Badlands/Blood Crypt
  • Bayou/Overgrown Tomb
  • Plateau/Sacred Foundry
  • Scrubland/Godless Shrine
  • Savannah/Temple Garden
  • Taiga/Stomping Ground
  • Tropical Island/Breeding Pool
  • Tundra/Hallowed Fountain
  • Underground Sea/Watery Grave
  • Volcanic Island/Steam Vents