Card legality
Players may only use cards as specified in rule 3.3 of the Magic: The Gathering Tournament Rules. However, gold- and square-bordered cards are also allowed in Archon tournaments as long as they are not distinguishable from the rest of your deck. This can be achieved by using opaque sleeves, for example. The following cards may not be used in Archon:
- Silver-borderd cards.
- Cards with an acorn security stamp.
- Conspiracy cards.
- Oversized and other miscellaneous cards such as Planechase Planes, Archenemy Schemes, Vanguard cards, Helvault cards, etc.
- Cards removed from constructed formats by Wizards for being racially or culturally offensive.
- Cards that reference “playing for ante”.
- Cards that require some sort of physical skill, such as Chaos Orb and Falling Star.
- Cards that create subgames
Banned in Archon
The following cards are banned in Archon:
Banned as a commander
The following cards can not be played as commanders, but they are still legal otherwise:
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
- Edgar Markov
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch
- Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
- Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
- Nadu, Winged Wisdom
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
- Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
- Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow
Banned as a companion
The following companion cards can not be your companion, but they are still legal otherwise:
Banned as a partner
The following partner cards can only be played as a commander on their own, but they are still legal otherwise:
BANNED AS A PARTNER PAIRING
The following partner cards can be played with any other partner except the pairings listed below and the banned as a partner cards listed above: