Pod Ancients - Format 

The following are the Pod Lists for the Pod Ancients format. Cards in a pod cannot be put into the same deck. Where appropriate, it has been noted which cards have been removed from the lists where they are typically found in standard Ancients. Below the Pod Lists are the updated lists of Banned, Restricted, and Reserved cards. Banned cards may not be played. Only one copy of any Restricted card may be put in a deck. Reserved cards may not start in play.

Pods

  • Rouse (unbanned, now restricted), Helm of Undying

  • Eresh q’Shedim, Duanna (unbanned)

  • King Xod, Locked Ring (unbanned)

  • Sword of Chaos (unbanned), Hex Starsmore

  • Adarymy, Brother Dominy, Shadan Alder (unbanned)

  • Raylor Magicbane, Brother Averill (unbanned)

  • Fo’ttr’ak’ka, Incentives (unrestricted)

  • Caitlyn the Free, One Last Time (unbanned)

  • The Broken Earth, Amber Gargoyle (unbanned)

  • Supply, Cloak of Many Things, Trade Routes (unrestricted)

  • Sir Geoffrey Drac, Blood Beneath Your Wings, Dedication

  • Daedelia (unbanned), Fell Blow, Severed of Flesh, Medusan Lords’ Gambit

  • Ardanaalis (unreserved), Kargaz Dythanus

  • High Priest Nassiral, Amoudasi’s Blaze, Suicidal Charge (unrestricted)

  • The Biting West Wind, Stab

  • Nodwick, Potion of Blurring, Litany of the Dead

  • Malcolm Aedroud, Baraxton’s Graveyard (unbanned)

Reserved

  • Archer Tower

  • Cocoran

  • Brel

  • Edwann Ruthard

  • Makusog Cavalry

  • Nelwys

  • Ring of Blasting

  • Ring of Guile

  • Ring of Mending

  • Ring of Piercing

Restricted

In addition to those listed above, the following cards have been unrestricted: Nightmaster Rress, Perfect Self.

  • Archer Tower

  • Helm of Undying

  • Improved Invisibility

  • Into the Tunnels

  • Kapix

  • Nepheline Gargoyle

  • Nodwick

  • Paradigm Shift

  • Phantasm

  • Rouse

  • Supply

  • Toren Yscar

  • Yeg-Igryll’s Altar

Banned

In addition to those listed above, the following card has been unbanned: Jautya Syne. Tournaments in the Pod Ancients format require that you pick one character before the tournament to be your target for Jautya in every game in the tournament. This character must be selected at deck submission and no other character can be chosen in any game during the tournament.

  • Any and all cards related to specific “Medusan Lords.”

  • Any and all cards related to specific “Destiny Lords.”

  • A Prophecy Fulfilled

  • Apprentice Ramah

  • Arcane Qor-Teth

  • Children of Yscar

  • Day of the Raven

  • Fields of Bone

  • Gravity Flux

  • Healer’s Pact

  • Lilah

  • Limited Wish

  • Malrog’s Lair

  • Medusan Lord’s Guile

  • Medusan Lord’s Might

  • Mirror Magic

  • Negotiated Surrender

  • Olivark the Quiet

  • Orm Al’Ghast

  • Overwhelm

  • Phoenix Feather

  • Sakarian Manticore

  • The Restless

  • Wyvern’s Flames