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Magic Another Game Engine
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Modular Rules System #4705

Open ruler501 opened 6 years ago

ruler501 commented 6 years ago

While reading issue #4696 I started thinking that a modular rules/variants system that lets you add and remove modifications like commander in command zone, or color identity, singleton, etc could be very useful.

It would allow players to enforce deck building and rules restrictions for the most part instead of just going to singleton. This could make playing more casual unofficial formats easier.

Things that I've seen as potential rules that could be added and removed are: Commander in command zone(ensuring there is only one card in sideboard) Color identity of cards in deck subset of the commanders(requires only one card in sideboard) Allowed commander card types(legendary creature default, could also be planeswalker or arbitrary legendary or arbitrary creature) Card rarity restrictions(Common only for pauper like formats for instance) Minimum deck size Maximum deck size Max Copies of a card in a deck Cmc restrictions(max or min or a checkbox from 0 to 16 for which are allowed) Starting life total Starting hand size Poison counter kill amount Custom ban list

Zzooouhh commented 6 years ago

Modular rules for freeform formats could be a good idea, however it should stay in freeform only.

ruler501 commented 6 years ago

I fully agree and it should be completely obvious to anyone trying to join what exactly the rules changes are to reduce the chances of someone modifying it to be unfair without informing the other players. It could be its own custom format name in the games listing, something like Freeform would work if it wasn't already used or even just Modular.