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This game type came to me when I was trying to build a middle-of-the-line deck to play against a friend of mine who is an experienced beginner and wanted a challenge.  This game type would have 4deck-building rules:

1) You cannot use cards that were released after the Priests expansion (because those cards don't really have a rarity)

2) No Ultra-rares

3) No Promos

4) No Haman's Plot

All other rules of the game would be the same. This leads to some really fun decks that use a lot of fun cards that don't get used as much, while still being competitive and challenging.  This is intended for T1 but I don't see why it couldn't be used in T2 as well.  I call it "Common Man" because it uses cards that everyone has access to and players at all levels could put together a semi-competitive deck under these rules.  Give it a try, it's a lot of fun!

*Booster Draft and Sealed Deck wave hello*

It is similar to booster and sealed, but this is an open category, which makes it completely different....

Booster normally uses mostly packs before Priests.

and a tin. all of which are post-priests.

but the difference is that this is an open category, so you get to use any cards you want, not just whatever you get out of packs during booster, it makes it radically different than booster and for some interesting decks because you can't use ultra rares and promos.

not necessarily, because there are a lot of card out there that stop FBTN, like holy of holies, golden calf, asherah poll, confusion of mind, and trap of the devil, that stop FBTN, and the ways you would normally get around those, like DoN and captured ark, you can't use, making it so that you have to kill artifacts with your defense.  This game type also lends itself to more balanced decks, because there is less speed and CBN enhancements to rely on, you need more defense, and therefore you have more ways to counter FBTN

Why would people use the old king Amaziah?

I actually think this a very good idea

It's a nice idea. I agree with the people who are pointing out it would be no less centralized, but it'd be fun to get to use Stonewall again! Also, bear in mind there is no iteration of New Jerusalem that is neither Promo nor Ultra-Rare, so speed won't be as effective.

I think that would be an effective offense, I would also put in ET and AoC possibly.  I thinks that the FBTN counters will be great enough to make it hard for FBTN to steamroll other deck types, since there are many, many counters to it and those counters are hard to kill given the deck-building limitations. 

I also made a small change to the rules so that the "ultra-rares" that don't have the gold border can be used, giving access to a lot of warriors cards

Like KoT? Oh dear...

Like the idea otherwise.

I think I'll change it back...where could you find a list of ultra-rares that aren't gold bordered?

Edit: I looked it up, here are the only ultra-rares that aren't gold-bordered (all of these are from warriors):
Michael
Ark of the Covenant
King of Tyrus
Harvest time
New Jerusalem
Belt of Truth
Breastplate of Righteousness
Helmet of Salvation
Pillar of Fire
Shield of Faith

Out of these the only one that would make any kind of noticeable change to the game would by the addition of New Jerusalem imo, so I would be find with adding them