No it hasn’t always been in the rules, we used to play in official tournaments with loaded decks, I think someone abused it with a certain rare card now that I’m trying to remember.
It was a rule since very, very close to the beginning. We’re talking 4th or 5th set ever released. I’m not sure what official tournaments you were playing it, but they were either ignoring the rules or they were in the first year or two of the game being released.
This was early 90s and we had a collectible card shop that ran all types of tourneys in the space in front of the mall. They were sanctioned/official from what I recall. Rule books were available and everything.
Black lotus, channel, fireball. That was the crazy meta abuse with a 1 turn kill. By the third turn you’d have to have a terrible draw in order to not win.
I thought, though I could be wrong because it was a thousand years ago, that the 4 card rule came between beta and unlimited, but it could have been unlimited and revised. I started with beta and it definitely wasn’t in effect then. Folks coming at you with a hand full of lotuses, dark rituals, moxes, and fireballs.
No it hasn’t always been in the rules, we used to play in official tournaments with loaded decks, I think someone abused it with a certain rare card now that I’m trying to remember.
It was a rule since very, very close to the beginning. We’re talking 4th or 5th set ever released. I’m not sure what official tournaments you were playing it, but they were either ignoring the rules or they were in the first year or two of the game being released.
This was early 90s and we had a collectible card shop that ran all types of tourneys in the space in front of the mall. They were sanctioned/official from what I recall. Rule books were available and everything.
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/n1znlv/1998_mtg_tournament_guide/
1998 and I’m not seeing anything about 4 card limits.
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Black lotus, channel, fireball. That was the crazy meta abuse with a 1 turn kill. By the third turn you’d have to have a terrible draw in order to not win.
I thought, though I could be wrong because it was a thousand years ago, that the 4 card rule came between beta and unlimited, but it could have been unlimited and revised. I started with beta and it definitely wasn’t in effect then. Folks coming at you with a hand full of lotuses, dark rituals, moxes, and fireballs.