168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering’s Standard format is getting another change tജo how sets rotate, only a few years after it was increased from two years to three.

Starting in 2027, Standard will rotate with the first release of the year, rather in the Autumn as it traditionally has. While that sounds a long way off, it means bad news for some of the game’s most recent releaseꦦs.

Announced at MagicCon Vegas’ preview panel, this is intended to make set rotation more intuitive for begi༒nners and less invested players. As the first set of the year launches in either January or February, rotation will effectively be based on calendar year, rather than the ‘Magic Year’ that runs from Autumn to Autumn.

Rotation is how Magic: The Gathering decides which cards are legal in its premiere fo♐rmat, Standard. Intended to be a way to keep things fresh and preserve balance, sets will eventually rotate out of Standard. However, cards that leave Standardꩵ will still be legal in formats like Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Legacy, and Commander.

Unfortunately, this means Bloomburrow and Duskmourn: House Of Horror, the game’s two most recent sets that have proved massively popular with fans, will have a shorteཧr time in Stan♊dard than expected.

They were previously scheduled to rotate out in Autumn 2027, but wi꧅ll now leave Standard up to nine months earlier, depending on 🗹when the first set of that year launches.

Standard Is Changing In A Big Way

The oldest Standard-legal sets (Dominaria United, The Brothers’ War, Phyre🐠xia: All Will Be One, March Of The Machine) will still be rotating out in Autumn 2025, with the launch of Edge Of Eternities.

To avoid the awkward situation where there's two rotations only a few months apart, it🍃 will not be happening at all in 2026, leaving Wilds of Eldraine, The Lost Caverns Of Ixalan, Murders At Karlov Manor, Outlaws Of Thunder Junction, and The Big Score all legal for a bit longer, before rotating out with Bloomburrow and the other sets.

Rotation isn’t the only big change hitting Standard legality. The panel also revealed that set legality is being simplified from next year, with sets either being legal only in the Eternal formats (Commander, Vintage, and Legacy), or legal in everything. Universes Beyond setsꦇ ♔will be considered the latter, meaning Final Fantasy, Spider-Man, and an unannounced thir🍸d Universes Beyond release, will all be legal in Standard.

Together, these changes signify a huge change in Standard. Wizards has been trying to coax people back into playing it since numbers dropped off during the pandemic, and simplifying which cards are legal and for howꦡ long could be the changes needed to convince people to play.

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Magic: The Gathering

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🌺 Magic: The Ga🎶thering

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🅘 August 5, 1993 🐻

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wizards of the Coast

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Created by Richard Garfield in 1993, Magic: The Gathering (MTG) has become one of the biggest tabletop collectible card games in the world. Taking on the role of a Planeswalker, players build decks of cards and do battle with other players. In excess of 100 additional sets have added new cards to the library, while the brand has expanded in🙈to video games, comics, and more.

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