Sleeper Agent (format)
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| Type | Constructed |
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Sleeper Agent is a Magic Arena-specific constructed singleton format for Magic: The Gathering.[1]
Description
In this format, featured in Magic: The Gathering Arena events, each player begins the game with a Sleeper Agent emblem that has the following ability:
Sleeper Agent
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a creature card in your hand at random. It perpetually becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types. Whenever a Phyrexian you control deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters.
Other than that, the usual rules for singleton decks apply:
- Minimum of 60 cards in the main deck (maximum 250 cards for main decks)
- Up to 15 cards in your sideboard, if used
- No more than one copy of any individual card in your main deck and sideboard combined (except basic lands)
Banned list
The following cards are banned in Sleeper Agent.[2]
- Agent of Treachery
- Brainstorm
- Channel
- Counterspell
- Dark Ritual
- Demonic Tutor
- Field of the Dead
- Lightning Bolt
- Lutri, the Spellchaser
- Memory Lapse
- Natural Order
- Nexus of Fate
- Oko, Thief of Crowns
- Once Upon a Time
- Swords to Plowshares
- Tainted Pact
- Thassa's Oracle
- Tibalt's Trickery
- Time Warp
- Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
- Veil of Summer
- Wilderness Reclamation
References
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 7, 2022). "MTG Arena Announcements, September 7, 2022". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 7, 2022). "Sleeper Agent". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.