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Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/05/31 14:04:32 )
@Totalanimefan: Modern, Commander and Pauper all sound like good formats then lol. Commander can be the most casual or the most competitive, depending on what you are willing to spend, and Legacy and Vintage which are by default the most expensive formats.
Commander is 100 card Singleton. You can have as many basic lands in your deck as you want but every other card is limited to a single copy (unless a card specifically states you can have more in your deck). One of those 100 cards is your "Commander," which is kept out of your deck and you can play any time you could normally play the card, and every other card in your deck has to follow that Commander's color. So if it's a Blue-Black Commander, you can only use Blue, Black or Colorless cards in your deck.
Vintage and Legacy are also non-rotating formats like Modern except you can use cards from ANY set. Vintage has a restricted-to-one list, but almost no cards are actually banned. Legacy is the same except it actually has banned cards. So in Vintage you can use one-of Black Lotus or whatever, in Legacy it's banned. And some of the staple cards are in excess of $500 or even more. There's a famous Hall-of-Famer named Randy Buehler that plays Vintage and he's got a couple shirts and a playmat that say "My deck costs more than your car." Lol.