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Standard Format

Standard Format was announced by Decipher on March 25, 2003 and implemented for official tournaments on April 15, 2003. Until the end of Decipher's support for sanctioned events, this was the preferred format for high level tournaments. When it was announced, the card pool was all currently released cards minus the cards that were on the Standard Format Exclusion List or X-List for short. Sites were selected from the current block. The intent of Standard Format was to create a competitive format that was free of many of the abusive cards that helped to create a stale gameplay environment in spite of an increasing card pool.

As the game evolved and more sets were released, Standard Format changed. Cards were added to and removed from the X-list as abusive combos or over-powered cards were discovered and taken advantage of by players. Several of the most popular formats played today include various snapshots of the Standard Format. These include:

Towers Standard - Sets 1-6, Towers Block Sites

   * Standard Format from July 9, 2003 (The Ents of Fangorn expansion became tournament legal) to November 12, 2003 (The Return of the King Base Set became tournament legal)

King Standard - Sets 1-7, Sites from Set 7

   * Standard format from January 12, 2004 (Addition of The Palantir of Orthanc to the X-List) to March 17, 2004 (The Siege of Gondor expansion became tournament legal)

Movie Block - Sets 1-10, King Block Sites

   * Standard format from August 3, 2004 (Addition of Memories of Darkness to the X-List) to November 10, 2004 (The Shadows expansion became tournament legal)

The final version of Standard included cards from Sets 7-19 using sites from sets 11-18 and the X-List

[Announcement of the Standard Format]

[First Standard Format Exclusion List (X-List)]

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Sets
Official Sets	Movie Block	Fellowship Block			Towers Block			King Block
	Movie Block	Fellowship of the Ring	Mines of Moria	Realms of the Elf-Lords	The Two Towers	Battle of Helm's Deep	Ents of Fangorn	Return of the King	Siege of Gondor	Mount Doom	Reflections

	War of the Ring Block	Shadows			Black Rider		Bloodlines		Expanded Middle-Earth

	Hunters Block	The Hunters		The Wraith Collection		Rise of Saruman		Treachery & Deceit		Age's End

Unofficial Sets	The Hobbit Draft Game Packs	Hobbit Draft Game Main Deck			Hobbit Draft Game Shadow Packs			Hobbit Draft Game Supplementary Packs

Formats

Block Formats
Official Formats	Fellowship Block	Towers Block	King Block	War of the Ring Block	Hunters Block
	Towers Standard
	King Standard
	Movie Block
		War of the Ring Standard
			Standard
	Expanded
	Open
Unofficial Formats

Non-Block Formats
Official Formats
Unofficial Formats	Austrian	Culture Shock	Poor Man's

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 =Standard Format=
-Standard Format was announced by Decipher on March 25, 2003 and implemented for official tournaments on April 15, 2003.  Until the end of Decipher's support for sanctioned events, this was the preferred format for high level tournaments.  When it was announced, the card pool was all currently released cards minus the cards that were on the Standard Format Exclusion List or[[x-list|X-List]] for short.  Sites were selected from the current block.  The intent of Standard Format was to create a competitive format that was free of many of the abusive cards that helped to create a stale gameplay environment in spite of an increasing card pool.
+Standard Format was announced by Decipher on March 25, 2003 and implemented for official tournaments on April 15, 2003.  Until the end of Decipher's support for sanctioned events, this was the preferred format for high level tournaments.  When it was announced, the card pool was all currently released cards minus the cards that were on the Standard Format Exclusion List or [[x-list|X-List]] for short.  Sites were selected from the current block.  The intent of Standard Format was to create a competitive format that was free of many of the abusive cards that helped to create a stale gameplay environment in spite of an increasing card pool.
-As the game evolved and more sets were released, Standard Format changed.  Cards were added to and removed from the[[X-list]] as abusive combos or over-powered cards were discovered and taken advantage of by players.  Several of the most popular formats played today include various snapshots of the Standard Format.  These include:
+As the game evolved and more sets were released, Standard Format changed.  Cards were added to and removed from the [[X-list]] as abusive combos or over-powered cards were discovered and taken advantage of by players.  Several of the most popular formats played today include various snapshots of the Standard Format.  These include:
-*[[Towers Standard Format|Towers Standard]] - Sets 1-6, Towers Block Sites
+* [[Towers Standard Format|Towers Standard]] - Sets 1-6, Towers Block Sites
      * Standard Format from July 9, 2003 (The Ents of Fangorn expansion became tournament legal) to November 12, 2003 (The Return of the King Base Set became tournament legal)
-*[[King Standard]] - Sets 1-7, Sites from Set 7
+* [[King Standard]] - Sets 1-7, Sites from Set 7
-     * Standard format from January 12, 2004 (Addition of The Palantir of Orthanc to the[[X-List]]) to March 17, 2004 (The Siege of Gondor expansion became tournament legal)
+     * Standard format from January 12, 2004 (Addition of The Palantir of Orthanc to the [[X-List]]) to March 17, 2004 (The Siege of Gondor expansion became tournament legal)
-*[[Movie Block]] - Sets 1-10, King Block Sites
+* [[Movie Block]] - Sets 1-10, King Block Sites
-     * Standard format from August 3, 2004 (Addition of Memories of Darkness to the[[X-List]]) to November 10, 2004 (The Shadows expansion became tournament legal)
+     * Standard format from August 3, 2004 (Addition of Memories of Darkness to the [[X-List]]) to November 10, 2004 (The Shadows expansion became tournament legal)
-The final version of Standard included cards from Sets 7-19 using sites from sets 11-18 and the[[x-list|X-List]]
+The final version of Standard included cards from Sets 7-19 using sites from sets 11-18 and the [[x-list|X-List]]
-[[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402125243/http://www.dgma.com/content/default.asp?id=====361|DGMA Announcement of the Standard Format]]
+* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402125243/http://www.dgma.com/content/default.asp?id=====361|DGMA Announcement of the Standard Format]]
 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030819062227/http://www.dgma.com:80/content/default.asp?id=====363|DGMA First Standard Format Exclusion List (X-List)]]

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