ohio-ante

SIte for the rules of Ohio Ante - Alpha to Alliances

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Legal sets

  • Alpha
  • Beta
  • Unlimited
  • Revised
  • 4th Edition
  • Arabian Nights
  • Antiquities
  • Legends
  • The Dark
  • Fallen Empires
  • Chronicles
  • Homelands
  • Ice Age
  • Alliances

Specially Legal Cards

Ohio Ante - Club Cards

  • Ebon Mox, or other Ebon created cards are allowed. If running an Ebon Mox, you can’t also run a Mox Jet. It is one or the other.
  • Roc Lotus and other Roc Cards ARE permitted in addition to their original printings.

    Enemy Pain Lands

  • Legal. Must use original art and frame.

    Harper Prism Book Promos

  • Mana Crypt, Windseeker Centaur, Giant Badger, Arena, Sewers of Estark, and Nalathni Dragon. Must use original art and frame.

Additional Sets and Cards Allowed (ie. REPRINTS)

  • Ohio Ante allow all non-foil cards from the sets above, that were reprinted IN ANY LANGUAGE with the original frame and original art. So for example, a Chronicles City of Brass, Fifth Edition Wrath of God, Time Spiral Psionic Blast, and Collector’s Edition Mox Ruby would all be legal (original frame + original art), while an Arena 1996 Counterspell would not be legal (different art). The misprinted Revised Serendib Efreet (with Ifh-Biff Efreet’s art, and green border) is of course allowed, because it was printed in one of the original sets in 1994 (Revised).
  • Absolutely no proxies and fake cards allowed, official Club cards excepted.

Deck Construction

Constructed decks must contain a minimum of 60 cards (no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance). With the exception of basic land cards (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest), a player’s deck may not contain more than 4 of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent.

Ante Sideboard

Per event, you can have 10 cards on the side to replace lost cards. These cards can be extra copies of 4x cards in your deck, but your deck must remain legally constructed throughout the event.

Match Structure

Ohio Ante will use a best of 1 game structure.

Ante Mechanics

  • Face down ante at beginning of the match.
  • The owner that loses a card may sign or alter a card before handing it over to the opponent

Banned:

  • Mind Twist

Restricted:

  • Ancestral Recall
  • Balance
  • Black Lotus
  • Braingeyser
  • Channel
  • Chaos Orb
  • Contract from Below
  • Darkpact
  • Demonic Tutor
  • Jeweled Bird
  • Library of Alexandria
  • Mana Drain
  • Mishra’s Factory
  • Mishra’s Workshop
  • Mox Emerald / Ebon Emerald
  • Mox Jet / Ebon Mox
  • Mox Pearl / Ebon Pearl
  • Mox Ruby / Ebon Ruby
  • Mox Sapphire
  • Regrowth
  • Shahrazad
  • Sol Ring
  • Strip Mine
  • Time Walk
  • Timetwister
  • Wheel of Fortune

Notable Rules/Differences from Modern Era of Magic

MANA BURN STILL HAPPENS (as in, players lose 1 point of life for each unused mana in the mana pool at the end of each phase)

THE FOLLOWING CARDS WILL HAVE THE UPDATED EC ORACLE TEXT:

  • Chaos Orb
  • Falling Star
  • Ring of Ma’rûf