Frontier, The new standard?

A new format, called “Frontier”, uses cards from M15 up to the current set of Magic: the Gathering. Two Japanese game shops, Hareruya and BigMagic, announce back in September 2016 that they will be holding weekly tournaments in the new format. I only recently learned about this format, as my local game shops are thinking of doing something similar. Frontier may even take its place in FNM instead of Standard.

I’ve done a little research on this format by talking to people on the Magic: the Gathering forums, as well as talking to the shop owners near my town. It seems like people were getting a little bored with standard FNM and attendance is a bit on the low side. Some believe it’s because they feel like Standard rotates out too quickly, even though a set is in Standard for a duration of 18 months.

There are currently no cards on the banned list, as far as I know. The cards that appeared in the Planeswalkers Deck, the Welcome Origin 2016 Sample Decks are also legal in this format, however the cards appearing in the Masterpiece Series are not legal.  The other rules still apply as usual; minimum of 60 cards to the deck, there is no maximum deck size but you must be able to shuffle the deck with no help of another and at least 15 card in the sideboard.

What are your feelings about this format?

Is your local game shop planning on, or already, doing this format?

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