Rules and Ban List

  The Peasant format, is an unofficial format from Magic the Gathering created in 2001 by Robert Baronowski. The Peasant was created to provide a competitive format that is accessible in terms of budget to as many people as possible. 

When the format was created, each community was free to create its own Ban List. With the increasing sucess of the Peasant in France and Germany, this two communities expressed the wish to play the same format and agree on common rules and Ban List. Since 2015, the Peasant format has thus followed unique rules worldwide.

Changes to the rules and Ban list are debated and voted by a committee. The details of their activites, debates, and decisions are available in the section : Committee Announcements. 

1. A Peasant deck (including sideboard) follows standard deck construction rules: a minimum of 60 cards with no more than four copies of any individual card. It may only contain cards with the rarities Common, Basic Land, or Uncommon. Cards in the deck (sideboard included) with the Uncommon rarity are limited to five.

2. A card’s rarity is determined according to its rarity listed on Gatherer.

2.1. A card is considered Common or Basic Land if it has at least one printing with that rarity on Gatherer.

2.2. A card is considered Uncommon if it has no printing as a Common or Basic Land on Gatherer, and has at least one printing as an Uncommon.

3. A deck may contain more than five Uncommon cards only if it includes cards that explicitly allow more than five copies of themselves to be included in a deck (e.g., Nazgûl, Templar Knight). In this case, all Uncommon cards in the deck must have the same card name as listed on Gatherer.

4. Only cards legal in Vintage (formerly Type 1) are allowed, provided they meet the above rarity conditions.

Rarity Clarifications:

• A card cannot be included in a deck if it does not have a printing at Common, Basic Land, or Uncommon rarity as defined above (e.g., a card only ever printed as Rare on Gatherer is not legal).

• The Renaissance and Anthologies sets are not used to determine a card’s rarity (these sets are not listed on Gatherer).

• The rarity of cards from the Conjure mechanic is not considered when establishing rarity (as these cards do not appear on Gatherer).

• Digital-only editions are taken into account when determining rarity, as long as they are listed on Gatherer. Since there can be a delay before digital cards appear there, it may be useful to consult an external site like scryfall.com until the edition is listed on Gatherer.

• Digital-only sets refer to those exclusive to Magic: The Gathering Online and Magic: The Gathering Arena.

 Legal Card Clarifications:

• Cards from Commander and Planechase sets are allowed (since they are Vintage-legal).

• Cards from Unglued, Unhinged, and Unstable are not allowed (they are not Vintage-legal).

• Cards that reference stickers, attractions, or have the acorn-shaped holofoil from the Unfinity set are not allowed (they are not Vintage-legal).