Sealed

Why Play Sealed?

• No need to bring your own deck, since all deckbuilding happens on the spot
• You can grow your card collection while playing
• Sealed play provides a great opportunity to test your deckbuilding skills
• This format is featured in the Prerelease events of each new set

Sealed Play Overview

The primary format of Prerelease events, sealed play is a limited format that combines the limited card pool aspect of draft play with the more open-ended deckbuilding approach of constructed. Like draft play, everyone starts the event off on equal footing, and like constructed play, this format gives you the opportunity to let your deckbuilding skills shine.

At the beginning of a sealed play event, you will open six booster packs. You must use the cards within those packs to build a deck while adhering to the following rules:

Your deck must consist of exactly one leader, exactly one base, and a minimum 30-card draw deck. Your sideboard includes all of the other cards you opened from your packs.

You can use any common base for your deck, even one that did not come from one of the booster packs you opened. You can only use a rare base if it was in one of the booster packs you opened.

Your draw deck can include any number of copies of the same card.

Typically, the winner of a sealed play match is determined by best-of-three games in a 55-minute round.

While we understand every retail location is unique with various requirements, we encourage running your Sealed events using these recommended tournament settings, but understand if you must change these settings to better suit your stores personal needs.