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Type 4 (“Limited Infinity”) Rules

by Kenneth Nagle

1. Players have infinite mana.
2. Players can only play one spell per turn. (Note that many actions like playing a land, cycling a card, Ninjutsu, Forecast, and Elvish Piper’s ability naturally do not count as playing a spell.)

My House Rules:

1. Using an ‘alternate cost’ or paying a reduced mana cost allows you an additional spell that turn (Includes Morph, Convoke, Bringers, Avatar of Woe, pitching to Force of Will).
2. Starting and maximum hand size of 5.
3. Players agree to a deck size, typically 40 or 60 cards, a starting life total, typically 20, and acquire their deck by Booster Drafting, Rochester Drafting, or simply dealing themselves a random pile.
4. Players can still ‘mana burn’, which is important for cards like Altar of Shadows. When two players want to do an ability ‘infinitely’, the more ‘defensive’ ability wins. This happens when, for example, your Quicksilver Elemental wants to copy my Jareth, Leonine Titan and I don’t want to let you. While there are active/inactive player infinite loop rules, they aren’t as intuitive as the ‘defensive’ ability wins rule.

In Team play:

1. The starting team plays first, the opposing team draws first.
2. Mindslaver is banned.

In Free-For-All play:

1. The starting player both plays first and draws first.

My personal deck has been developed to:

1. Win through creature combat damage.
2. Relatively mild burn spells.
3. Very few repeatable creature kill or ‘unsolvables’, including Fevered Convulsions and Eight-and-a-Half-Tails.
4. No ultra-swingy effects, including Nezumi Graverobber, Draining Whelk, Blatant Thievery, and Kaervek the Merciless.
5. No easy mass card drawing, including Whispers of the Muse and Fact or Fiction. Some cards were cut simply because they take too long, such as Gifts Ungiven and Sensei’s Divining Top.

For more information about Limited Infinity, check out this 2004 feature article by Stephen Menendian.