Banlist
Valid until May 15th, 2021.
History
| Ancestral Recall Balance Birthing Pod Black Lotus Chaos Orb Cleanse Crusade Falling Star Flash Gifts Ungiven Imprison Invoke Prejudice Jihad Library of Alexandria Mana Crypt Mana Vault Mind Twist Mox Emerald Mox Jet Mox Pearl Mox Ruby Mox Sapphire Mystical Tutor Natural Order Pradesh Gypsies Sensei’s Divining Top |
Shahrazad Skullclamp Sol Ring Strip Mine Stone-Throwing Devils Survival of the Fittest Time Vault Time Walk Tinker Tolarian Academy Treasure Druise True-Name Nemesis Umezawa’s Jitte Vampiric Tutor All cards from Secret Lair x The Walking Dead All cards referring ante All cards with card type Conspiracy |
Ban watchlist
Cards on this list are candidates for banning on May 15th, 2021.
| Demonic Tutor Dig Through Time Intuition Oath of Druids Oko, Thief of Crowns |
Tainted Pact Thassa’s Oracle Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath Underworld Breach |
Unban watchlist
Cards on this list are candidates for unbanning on May 15th, 2021.
| Skullclamp Tolarian Academy Treasure Cruise Umezawa’s Jitte |
Deck Construction
Each card is allowed only once
One of the defining features of a Highlander deck is that each card is allowed only once, except basic lands and cards that override restrictions, e.g. Persistent Petitioners.
100 card minimum
A Highlander deck has a minimum of 100 cards.
Card pool
Essentially tournament legal Magic cards can be used.
Cards listed in the Highlander banlist are not permitted.
New editions
All new Magic expansions become legal on the release date of the edition.
Sideboard
No sideboard.
Mulligan
The official “London Mulligan” is followed.
103.4. Each player draws a number of cards equal to their starting hand size, which is normally seven. (Some effects can modify a player’s starting hand size.) A player who is dissatisfied with their initial hand may take a mulligan. First, the starting player declares whether they will take a mulligan. Then each other player in turn order does the same. Once each player has made a declaration, all players who decided to take mulligans do so at the same time. To take a mulligan, a player shuffles the cards in their hand back into their library, draws a new hand of cards equal to their starting hand size, then puts a number of those cards equal to the number of times that player has taken a mulligan on the bottom of their library in any order. Once a player chooses not to take a mulligan, the remaining cards become that player’s opening hand, and that player may not take any further mulligans. This process is then repeated until no player takes a mulligan. A player can take mulligans until their opening hand would be zero cards, after which they may not take further mulligans.