The following cards are banned in NGA Constructed - Eternal:

• All Special cards, e.g. Bank Vault
• Breath of Catholicon
• Castle of the King
• Fleeting Moment
• Gatherer of Companions
• Hub of the Eternities
• Imminent Storm
• Kingside Knight
• Life Amidst Ruin
• Mountainous Destruction
• Toy Factory
• Umbilical Hydra

The following legendary creatures are banned as commanders:

• Serkhozan the Lost Navigator

Hello, No Goblins Allowed!

There's a thread in YMtC that has been discussing how the You Make the Card section of the wiki is going to be organized. What's caught my attention is a couple of throwaway comments that LilyStorm and CommodoreGruff have made on the first page, where they flirted with the possibility of a "YMtC Standard." In other words, a Constructed format made out of YMtC cards and sets.

I think this is an awesome idea. We generate a huge density of interesting, exciting and just plain fun card designs: wouldn't it be fun to take them to the next level and actually play with them and use them in decks? What's more, there are many sets here and on the old Wizards forums that look incredibly fun – I'm looking at you, Velicta – but can't easily be drafted or played like they were meant to, which is a real downer. A YMtC Constructed format is the logical conclusion that unites all these threads.

But I realized that YMtC is not the only forum that generates a massive amount of creative material. The Magic Expanded Multiverse is home to a staggering wealth of fiction, thanks to the efforts and creative juices of the M:EM team, but very little of it has actually returned to its roots in the card game we all know and love. Jakkard, to give one example, is a fully fledged Wild West setting with dozens of stories but zero cards that I can remember.

Furthermore, though YMtC is full of great innovative designs, we don't design many simple staples for a Constructed format to draw from. if "YMtC Standard" is to come to fruition, it needs a proper core set, full of boring but necessary staples like Banishing Light and Elvish Mystic, to be centered around. Using an existing core set isn't the best solution, because they are designed with an entirely different format in mind, and their splashy power cards – Lightning Bolt, Thragtusk, the canon planeswalkers – may end up overshadowing the cool things we make. And a lot of YMtC cards are simply one-offs, without homes for the Constructed format.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

The picture in my head looks like this. We make a Constructed format called "NGA Constructed" centred around sets created by YMtC. So all the sets listed in our Community Sets forum, as well as things on the old forums and the BCPs if possible, will be legal. In addition to those sets, there's a constantly expanding core set of cards for the format – let's call it "NGA Masters" – designed to act as a foundation for them all to build upon. It will contain all the usual core set suspects, as well as a selection of YMtC cards not designed for any set in particular – such as the Card of the Month winners – and a selection of unique cards designed to showcase parts of the Expanded Multiverse that might never be explored in other sets. Then we turn it into a plugin for something and play the format.

We can do this. I think the idea is cool enough that I'm committed to get it to fruition. But this is for us as a community, so the real question is: what do you all think?