5-Color (format)

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5-Color (format)
DCI Sanctioned
Paper No
Magic Online Yes
Magic Arena No
Rules
Type Constructed
Multiplayer No
Add. rules see article
5-Color
 
Sample decks
 

5-Color is a constructed format, similar to Commander and a spiritual predecessor to it, though unlike Commander it was not primarily a multiplayer format. It was supported on Magic Online for a substantial period, under the name "Prismatic".

Unlike most formats, even casual formats, playing with ante was explicitly supported and encouraged by the rules committee.[1] This did not apply in the Magic Online version.

5-Color

An example of a typical 5-Color manabase, complete with "Scribble" Ante.

A 5-Color deck has a minimum size of 300 cards, and every deck must contain at least 25 cards of each color. Each multicolored card counts as any one of its colors.[1]

Mulligans

Due to the large deck size, additional mulligan rules were added (supplementing the standard Paris mulligan). A player could use the 'original' DCI mulligan rule and claim a free mulligan by revealing a hand containing 0 or 7 lands, and additionally if it contained exactly 1 land; after those were completed, they could use the Paris mulligan. However, each of those three conditions was usable once only, and if the free mulligan was taken, the other player was permitted to take a free mulligan as well. The land-count mulligan was not usable after taking Paris mulligans.[1]

Rules Commitee

Abe Sargent being one member.

Contract from Below

Powerful card, a huge chunk of the banlist was in place because of it. Caused a schism in the community which ultimately probably lead to the format's decline.

Invitational

Was a format used in 2003? Magic Invitational/

Prismatic

Prismatic was a DCI-sanctioned casual format on Magic Online. Construction rules and a special "Big Deck" mulligan rule were the same as described above. Prismatic was based on the Classic and later [[. All sets and Promotional cards were allowed. Official support for prismatic ended on November 11 2015[2]

Banned

Ante and manual dexterity cards are banned as well as the following cards:[3]


References

  1. ↑ a b c [5-Color rules https://web.archive.org/web/20221204105550/http://5-color.com/]
  2. ↑ https://magic.wizards.com/en/MTGO/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-announcements-october-27-2015
  3. ↑ http://www.mtgoacademy.com/deckbuilding-rules-and-banned-restricted-lists/#9
DCI
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