Older Versions of Standard Legal Cards
Standard forum
Posted on Dec. 15, 2012, 2:57 a.m. by DocLawless
I went to my first FNM this evening, and I didn't get annihilated! But I do have a question. I get how the Standard legal blocks cycle in and out; it's always the current core set, the current block, and the block before it. But a lot of the cards in the core sets get reprinted in subsequent sets. So let's say my opponent has cards in his deck from M10, which were reprinted in M13. Are the copies of the card from M10 standard legal, or only the most current M13 printing?
Epochalyptik says... #4
As long as a card is legal in a format, any printing of that card is legal in that format. Legality depends on whether or not a card is available in the relevant sets, not whether the card itself was obtained from one of those sets.
December 15, 2012 5:07 a.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #5
Last year everybody has really old Birds of Paradise and Mana Leak s. it makes the deck much cooler, just like using ravnica shocklands in the current standard.
December 15, 2012 9:50 a.m.
DocLawless says... #6
So in a hypothetically, as of yet undiscovered scenario, where the older version of the card has different wording, and that wording is being abused in order to generate an effect the newer version's wording would not allow, we just errata the old cards to use the current wording? I don't actually have an example of that happening, it's just a conspiracy theory.
Like I said, it was my first time going. I didn't want to bring it up every time he cast something ("Wait, that's from M10... wait, that's from Tenth Ed... wait, that's from Worldwake...") because surely one of the other twenty people there would have called him out on it way before I ever came along. Good to know now though! I might be able to save myself a few bucks getting the older shocklands next time I build a deck, if they're reprints.
December 15, 2012 11:31 a.m.
UniTheDino says... #7
Just so you know, the original Ravnica block Shocklands are typically more expensive than the new versions. This is the case for quite a few other cards as well (the old versions are more than the new).
December 15, 2012 12:36 p.m.
DocLawless says... #8
You're right, I was looking at TCGPlayer.com the wrong way.
December 15, 2012 1:03 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #9
Cards always go by their Oracle wording (found on Gatherer), even if the wording of the actual card is different.
Bigburlybill says... #2
Yes. Older versions may still be played as long as there is a version that is standard legal.
December 15, 2012 3:12 a.m.