Heritage 97 MTG
Description of the format:
Heritage 97 is a Magic the Gathering Format that mixes old School and the first sets of premodern. This allows to play games that have the Old School classic mtg feel but with added variety and mechanics the came to be during the next few years of the game. The objective of this casually created format is to create a very diverse meta in which lots of decks are playable and most importantly: enjoyable. This format is also heavily inspired in the Legacy96 format created also by spanish players.
Common question: Why is Weatherlight not included?
Rules:
Heritage 97 works with the current Magic the Gathering rules as of September 2025, with a few exceptions:
Mana burn exists, note that mana pools only empties at the end of phases, not steps.
Mishra's Factory has an errata:
Mishra's Factory: Land
Mishra’s Factory doesn’t assign damage if tapped as a blocker.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It’s still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Deck building rules:
Each deck must be 60 card minimum, and the sideboard can be composed of up to 15 cards. There must not more than 4 copies of any given card with the same english name in the main deck and sideboard together, except for basic lands, and no more than 1 copy of any restricted card.
Legal Sets:
Alpha
Beta
Unlimited
Collector’s Edition (CED)
International Collector’s Edition (CEI)
Arabian Nights
Antiquities
Revised
Legends
The Dark
Fallen Empires
Harper Prism Book Promos
Fourth Edition
Ice Age
Chronicles
Homelands
Alliances
Mirage
Visions
Fifth Edition
Only prints from the legal sets are allowed (proxies are fully allowed as long as they represent legal cards, printed or drawn by hand, as we want everyone to be able to choose from every card for their decks, as this is a casually run format)
Discord Server
See Banlist
See cards in legal sets on scryfall
Tournaments might be played both online or in paper.
