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==Rules==
==Rules==
*Decks must consist of a minimum of 100 cards.
*Any card from ''[[Limited Edition Alpha (set)|Alpha]]'' up through the latest Magic set can be used (except for banned cards). Cards from the Portal sets, International Collector Editions, and Championship decks can be used provided you put all your cards in opaque sleeves and the International Collector Edition card edges are rounded.  
*Any card from ''[[Limited Edition Alpha (set)|Alpha]]'' up through the latest Magic set can be used (except for banned cards). Cards from the Portal sets, International Collector Editions, and Championship decks can be used provided you put all your cards in opaque sleeves and the International Collector Edition card edges are rounded.  
*There is no restriction on the number of basic and snow-covered basic lands you can include in your deck.
*Special [[mulligan]] rule: From your first hand (that is, before any paris mulligan), you may remove any number of cards from the game, this may not be the entire hand. For each card removed from the game this way, you may draw a card. Then, all removed card are played at the bottom of your library in the order in which they were removed. No abilities are triggered by any of these actions.
*No [[sideboard|sideboards]] are used.
*Special [[mulligan]] rule: If your opening hand consists of 0, 1, or 7 lands, you can show your cards to your opponent reshuffle and draw 7 new cards. If a player chooses to take a special mulligan, he can then choose to take as many normal Paris-mulligans as he chooses by reshuffling and drawing one less card each time.  
*The following cards are banned: <c>Ancestral Recall</c>, <c>Black Lotus</c>, <c>Chaos Orb</c>, <c>Crop Rotation</c>, <c>Dust Bowl</c>, <c>Falling Star</c>, <c>Fastbond</c>, <c>Imperial Seal</c>, <c>Library of Alexandria</c>, <c>Mana Crypt</c>, <c>Mana Vault</c>, <c>Memory Jar</c>, <c>Mind Over Matter</c>, <c>Mind Twist</c>, <c>Mox Emerald</c>, <c>Mox Jet</c>, <c>Mox Pearl</c>, <c>Mox Ruby</c>, <c>Mox Sapphire</c>, <c>Mystical Tutor</c>, <c>Power Artifact</c>, <c>Skullclamp</c>, <c>Sol Ring</c>, <c>Strip Mine</c>, <c>Time Walk</c>, <c>Timetwister</c>, <c>Tinker</c>, <c>Trinisphere</c>, <c>Umezawa's Jitte</c>, <c>Vampiric Tutor</c>, <c>Wheel of Fortune</c>, <c>Worldgorger Dragon</c>, all [[ante]] cards (<c>Amulet of Quoz</c>, <c>Bronze Tablet</c>, <c>Contract from Below</c>, <c>Darkpact</c>, <c>Demonic Attorney</c>, <c>Jeweled Bird</c>, <c>Rebirth</c>, T<c>empest Efreet</c>, <c>Timmerian Fiends</c>), and all cards from ''[[Unglued]]'' and ''[[Unhinged]]'' except for basic lands.


== Deck construction ==
== Deck construction ==
*One legendary, usually multi-colored, creature of at least 6 converted mana cost is chosen as your general. It counts as one of your hundred.  
*A deck may not contain two card's with the same english name except basic land cards.
*All other cards in the deck must be one of the colors of the general or colorless. This includes lands, artifacts. This however doesn't include cards that are additional colors, or alternate colors so, if you general is white-and-green, only white, green, white-and-green and colorless cards are allowed.
*A deck must contain at least 100 cards.
 
*Some cards are entirely banned in tournament formats. Since these are non-DCI-tournaments, they have individual ban lists, e.g. http://www.highlandermagic.info/index.php?id=bannedlist.
== Game play ==
*No [[sideboard|sideboards]] are used.  
*The amount of life a player starts with is 200 divided by the number of players.


== Refrences ==
== References ==
*http://michigan-mtg.com/cgi/forum/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=12
*http://michigan-mtg.com/cgi/forum/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=12
*http://www.highlandermagic.info/index.php?id=deckkonstruktion
*http://www.highlandermagic.info/index.php?id=deckkonstruktion
*http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/393
*http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/393
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Highlander is a Constructed variant which allows only one copy of each card in the deck, with the exception of basic lands.

Rules

  • Any card from Alpha up through the latest Magic set can be used (except for banned cards). Cards from the Portal sets, International Collector Editions, and Championship decks can be used provided you put all your cards in opaque sleeves and the International Collector Edition card edges are rounded.
  • Special mulligan rule: From your first hand (that is, before any paris mulligan), you may remove any number of cards from the game, this may not be the entire hand. For each card removed from the game this way, you may draw a card. Then, all removed card are played at the bottom of your library in the order in which they were removed. No abilities are triggered by any of these actions.

Deck construction

  • A deck may not contain two card's with the same english name except basic land cards.
  • A deck must contain at least 100 cards.
  • Some cards are entirely banned in tournament formats. Since these are non-DCI-tournaments, they have individual ban lists, e.g. http://www.highlandermagic.info/index.php?id=bannedlist.
  • No sideboards are used.

References