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Commander is a series of supplemental Magic: the Gathering card game products. Its mechanics are derived from a fan-created format known as " Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH)". [2] The official Commander format is "the only sanctioned format maintained by an outside entity" other than Wizards of the Coast. [3] [4]
The rules of Magic have been changed frequently over the years by the manufacturer, Wizards of the Coast, mostly in minor ways. However, major rules overhauls have also been done a few times. In its most-played form, Magic is a game where two players bring their own set of cards, called a deck, and play each other. Players start by drawing a ...
Mental Magic is a format in which cards may be played as any card in the game with the same mana cost. Mini-Magic is a constructed variant where decks are built with a maximum card limit of 15 and a maximum hand size of 3. Because of the small deck size, the state-based action causing a player to lose when they attempt to draw a card from their ...
Flip. Flip is a keyword action that deals with specially printed cards known as "flip cards". Each of these cards has two sets of normal card attributes (e.g. name, rules text, power and toughness): one right-side-up above the card's image and one upside-down (with no mana cost) below the image.
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors. Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired using a set of rules ...
The Elo [a] rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating system over the previously used Harkness system, [1] but is also used as a rating ...
Magic 2010 was released on July 17, 2009. It is the eleventh core set for Magic: The Gathering.It is the first Core Set since Limited Edition Beta (which included two cards accidentally left out of the original Limited Edition Alpha) to feature new cards; every core set between Beta and Magic 2010 had contained only reprints from previous sets.
Buchholz system. The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz (died c. 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments ( Hooper & Whyld 1992 ). It was originally developed as an auxiliary scoring method, but more recently it has been used as a tie-breaking system.