The Winter Retreat melee challenge will be played again on the Sunday at this year’s Winter Retreat. This is not connected to the grand melee league and anyone is welcome to enter. There is always one table regardless of how many players we have. Last year we had 17 players and things got quite crazy!

The winner of each year chooses the format for the following year. Sue, last year’s winner, has chosen Pauper as the format for this year’s melee.

In the Pauper format only common cards are allowed in your deck. To be eligible, a card must have been printed at common in a Magic expansion. If a card was printed at uncommon in one expansion and common in another (as has happened) the card is still eligible, even if you only have the uncommon printing.

There are no banned cards in Pauper, any black or white bordered common is allowed. There are five restricted cards, you can only have one of in your deck. The restricted cards are:
Cranial Plating
Empty the Warrens
Grapeshot
Frantic Search
Invigorate

Get deck building!