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The Team
Who Are We?
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Effie Jønland
Pronouns: She/Her
Country: Norway
City: Trondheim
First Gladiator Deck: Izzet Control
Favourite Archetype: Storm (but I'm bad at it)
Pet Card: Big Score
Social: Twitter@LittleFXRadio
Ellesandra Avaidon
Pronouns: Se/Syr
Country: USA
City: Orlando, FL
First Gladiator Deck: 4-Colour Blood
Favourite Archetype: Yes
Pet Card: Hidetsugu's Second Rite
Social: Twitter@Ellesandra_MTGA
Justin Koehler
Pronouns: He/Him
Country: USA
City: Chicago
First Gladiator Deck: The Rock
Favourite Archetype: The Rock
Pet Card: Vraska, Golgari Queen
Social: Just find me in the Discord.
Mila
Pronouns: She/Her
Country: USA
City: Morgantown
First Gladiator Deck: Sultai Midrange (apparently????)
Favourite Archetype: Aggro
Pet Card: Mila, Crafty Companion
Social: Twitch@DwaginFodder
The Format Rules
- Decks must contain a minimum of 100 cards.
- Like other highlander variants, Gladiator is a singleton format.
- Each nonland card must have a unique English name, with the exception of basic lands.
- However, cards with rules text that set their own deckbuilding rules like Persistent Petitioners or Seven Dwarves are an exception to this rule.
- Matches are played in best of three games.
- Starting life total is 20 life.
- There are no sideboards, and so no sideboarding between games.
- No sideboards means that creatures cannot be chosen as your Companion (e.g., Lurrus of the Dream-Den, Jegantha, the Wellspring) Cards with the Companion ability are still legal in the format.
- Spells and abilities that reference “outside the game” like Fae of Wishes and Mastermind’s Acquisition have no targets and are functionless. You may still include these cards in your deck.
- Gladiator is not a Commander format, and does not include a Commander or any color requirements for deckbuilding.
- Spells and abilities that reference “your commander” like Command Tower and Tome of Legends will not have a commander to reference, and those parts of the card will not function. You may still include these cards in your deck.
- The available card pool features every card available on MTG Arena, with the exception of the banlist.
- This includes Alchemy cards and other digital-only cards.
- Cards rebalanced for Arena play that share the exact English name of a paper card are not legal. These cards are distinguished by an Arena “A” symbol in the top left corner.