So given the way the year looks so far with double masters sets and what not along with MTG Arena coming around the corner, if wizards were to roll out a new non-rotating format what do you think it would look like? What sets would be the first inclusions and what kind of rules would be in place to allow new cards into it?
My own thoughts are that wizards would probably take some lessons from Modern and change how they introduce new cards to the format. One of the big complaints people often had with modern is that cards like Counterspell could never make it in because of being simply too powerful for standard, and many legacy cards that could come into modern fall into that same kind of trap issue. So if they started a new format, it probably will include cards from a masters set. The other aspect of the set that I think may be different is that it wont take cards directly from standard. Instead, new cards would be introduced to the format specifically through whatever masters type sets were designated for it and the masters set for the format would be released upon the rotation of the standard sets.
My final postulation on the new format is that wizards will run it parallel to modern, not against it, and will run both non-Reserved List legacy cards and modern cards since 100% legacy is just constantly getting harder to play and having a format that at least gives people the ability to play with legacy cards will make it unique compared to modern and standard.
Anyone else have any thoughts on what a new format might look like? Do you think they will just set a new start point or do something more elaborate?
Also as a disclaimer, this post is not suggesting wizards is going to roll out a new format soon. It's just a thought and potential glance into what the future may bring.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I really can't imagine Wizards introducing a non-rotating format that isn't fed by standard. Making new standard sets apply to fewer formats would make them sell worse, and Masters sets don't need any extra pushes. Standard will forever be their baby due to the importance of selling new product, and I'm pretty sure they're convinced that new cards sell better than reprints. That, at least, explains the changes that core sets have undergone in the past eight years.
You focus a lot on implementation, but ultimately I believe that to be secondary to the question of the niche that a new format will fill. Your assumption that a new format will either exist between modern and legacy or be a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from cards across the game is what created your concerns in the first place. Wizards would be more likely to take the path of least resistance instead of going to potentially confusing new territory. As many power-level problems that standard causes by feeding into eternal formats, it'll still most likely be part of new endeavors as well. A new format has to have benefits to both players and the company to succeed without being abandoned or withering up.
By the way, how is the state of Frontier? It had a lot of buzz at its introduction, but I haven't heard much of it since.
I really can't imagine Wizards introducing a non-rotating format that isn't fed by standard. Making new standard sets apply to fewer formats would make them sell worse, and Masters sets don't need any extra pushes. Standard will forever be their baby due to the importance of selling new product, and I'm pretty sure they're convinced that new cards sell better than reprints. That, at least, explains the changes that core sets have undergone in the past eight years.
You focus a lot on implementation, but ultimately I believe that to be secondary to the question of the niche that a new format will fill. Your assumption that a new format will either exist between modern and legacy or be a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from cards across the game is what created your concerns in the first place. Wizards would be more likely to take the path of least resistance instead of going to potentially confusing new territory. As many power-level problems that standard causes by feeding into eternal formats, it'll still most likely be part of new endeavors as well. A new format has to have benefits to both players and the company to succeed without being abandoned or withering up.
By the way, how is the state of Frontier? It had a lot of buzz at its introduction, but I haven't heard much of it since.
Aren't you being a bit presumptuous on things? Have you seen how wizards has managed to keep standard kicking even when it went through Kaladesh and multiple bannings? There is no question as to whether it sticks or not (because honestly, if wizards wants a new format, they will push it and people will play it): this is about how that format may take shape. Hopefully that clarifies things. Also frontier has been doing fine. As a grass roots sort of format pushed by people who aren't really in charge of printing cards it has about the amount of traction one can expect and it's fun in it's own right.
The only format worth hating on is probably Tiny Leaders for obvious reasons found in the formats history.
Actually, I could see them doing something like a format where all cards in modern masters 2013 and up from the modern masters series are legal along with what specialty sets they are printing that are specifically for the new format. Basically it would be like a filter set that designates what would go into it going forward, taking cards from the rotating standard and maybe throwing in a few extras from past sets.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I would support a format where ALL cards printed with the M15 frame in ANY product are legal.
But I believe the next non-rotating format, if there is one, will be BFZ onwards and include only Standard sets.
Pauper has grown leaps and bounds in the past couple of years and that is while being almost completely tied to MTGO. If they would ever cement a paper pauper format by identifying a proper banlist and clarify the early rarity classifications for pauper purposes I think it would be one of the most popular paper formats.
I actually love pauper and wish it would get support in paper. It may not help sell more boxes, but it would help card shops move commons more easily. Also if they do another non-rotating format I don't think they are going to go with the old method of just doing X standard set as the starting point and move forward, but that is an option they probably got on the table.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Wizards doesn't really just make up formats anymore. Vintage and Standard were created by WotC (as Type 1 and Type 2 back in the day) largely for business and logistics reasons. Other formats since then have really grown out of fan support, and then adopted and supported by WotC when interest was great enough. Legacy, Extended, and Modern were all developed because players wanted something between the rapid cycling Standard environment and the extreme expense and brokeness of Vintage.
Right now, the needs of most players seem pretty well met. If Frontier had caught on, I'm sure it would be officially adopted with some changes, just as Modern was adopted from various player groups with some changes. But, the demand for a new format seems quite low at the moment.
I don't think the game needs another non-rotating format. If anything, the game needs a new rotating format.
The only rotating format right now is Standard, and it's a format with a small card pool, compared with the Eternal formats or even Modern.
Modern was meant as a stepping stone bewteen Standard and the Eternal formats, but, as time went by, the jump from Standard to Modern has become a long jump, and will only get worst.
The solution is not to create another stepping stone between Standard and Modern, the solution is to take the current Modern format and start rotating it, in the way that for every two years of new expansion sets, the oldest year in the format rolls out.
This way you guarantee that the stepping stone is always midway and you get something you don't have nowadays, a rotating format with a big card pool.
I like the idea and it does let wizards pick and choose what to keep and what to let go of as the years roll by. Isn't that just extended though? What would make it different?
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3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
The solution is not to create another stepping stone between Standard and Modern, the solution is to take the current Modern format and start rotating it, in the way that for every two years of new expansion sets, the oldest year in the format rolls out.
This way you guarantee that the stepping stone is always midway and you get something you don't have nowadays, a rotating format with a big card pool.
Extended was originally a non-rotating format. Then they changed it to become rotating.
It died. The only difference between your proporsal and the old extended is the 3 year limit, rather than 2. Excluding another year from the format won't suddenly revive extended. Saying that you want a rotating format with a large card pool flies in the face of the lack of interest in extended.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
I think the proposition outlined in the OP sounds an awful lot like EDH/Commander, though obviously without the Highlander and Leader components.
I've mentioned elsewhere that i think Wizards is looking at creating a non-rotating format that starts at Origins and moves forward from there. An earlier poster in this thread mentioned BFZ, which is pretty close, only one set away from my own prediction. I'm not saying that it's written in stone at this point, just that i think it's a goal that R&D is trying to keep in mind. I could see WotC calling the format Contemporary.
I don't see Wizards rolling out multiple sets for different formats at exactly the same time, as Colt speculated above in saying that product for the new format would be released when Standard rotates. They don't like to do multiple releases at exactly the same time.
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They just couldn't put 7th edition into Modern because of the card borders? Seriously? Count me out.
I like the idea and it does let wizards pick and choose what to keep and what to let go of as the years roll by. Isn't that just extended though? What would make it different?
Yeah, it would be something similar to Extended.
I think it would make sense to have another rotating format other than Standard, but I can see how unlikely it is to happen because most players don’t like formats where their cards rotate out.
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I like the idea and it does let wizards pick and choose what to keep and what to let go of as the years roll by. Isn't that just extended though? What would make it different?
Yeah, it would be something similar to Extended.
I think it would make sense to have another rotating format other than Standard, but I can see how unlikely it is to happen because most players don’t like formats where their cards rotate out.
The format can work if the idea is that they keep reprinting cards they want to keep in and let the chaff and undesirables rotate out. They could do that via standard and masters sets.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Shine! the foil only format. No banning no restrictions but every card in your deck must be foiled.
Silver: Think Legacy with silverbordered cards made legal.
Mental magic: Already exsists but would be great to see it endorced. (you get a stack of cards can place any card face down that generates 1 mana of any color. You play random cards but they HAVE to be OTHER cards (so not the card that you see) with the same converted casting cost. Each card may only be played once in a game (this list is combine for you and your opponent!) You may not play a card as the card it is.
No point in making a new rotating format. People do not like rotating formats that are a waste of money.
A format I wouldn't mind seeing is a flash back historic format similar to block constructed that makes use of the current masters sets and maybe the core set. People may say that it would compete with standard, but my rebutal is that if people are tired of the current standard and want something different, or simply don't like the current standard, it gives those players a way to keep playing without having to deep dive into modern or go casual with commander.
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2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
So is Mental Magic based on Richard Garfield, Ph.D.? Or vise versa? Or is that a chicken/egg conundrum?
Richard Garfield, Ph.D is based on the fact that Richard Garfield enjoys playing Mental Magic.
Except in my proposed format, you can use all rarities from masques block until now.
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So is Mental Magic based on Richard Garfield, Ph.D.? Or vise versa? Or is that a chicken/egg conundrum?
And silver-bordered cards, you say? People say the rules are exceedingly long now...
Mental magic was around before the card in question. We used to play it a fair bit at the local shop (since we were broke and cuold use the draft chaff that people threw away to play)
What about a REALLY new format? Instead of just changing which sets are in/out and that kind of "in-the-box" design thinking, with apologies for the cliche, i even made myself cringe, but what about an entirely different way to construct?
Picture this: Cards from 6th ed on allowed (i picked this as the cutoff because it's when the Reserved List ended, but it could be changed, i'm just trying to toss some feces in the general direction of the wall to see if anything sticks); it follows general constructed concepts but with some very significant differences: only 3 of any given card can be in any given deck; deck size minimum is 75 cards (and maybe even set a maximum?); and the format has both banned AND restricted lists. It could potentially (though these might not be a good ideas, please bear in mind i'm just spitballing here) be spiced up by disallowing cards with CMC under 1 or 2 or 3 and/or CMC over 9 or 10?
Any feedback? I'm never afraid to hear that my idea is terrible and would never work, though it'd be nice to also hear why not...
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They just couldn't put 7th edition into Modern because of the card borders? Seriously? Count me out.
Standard is like that sports league where if you have too much experience or past a certain age, you are not allowed to play in the league.
Vintage is like that sports league where anyone can play in the league regardless of experience or age.
Modern is like that sports league where you must be born after a certain year to be eligible.
Some sports league have a rule where a certain number of players must have played fewer than a certain number of games to be eligible, while the rest of the team may have players that have played more than that certain number of games.
You could do a format where a portion of your deck must be in standard. The difference in this format only is that "standard" would be 3 years worth of sets, not 2.
At least 43 cards must be in "standard", and 3 of those 43 cards may be in a set that just rotated out of "standard". The rest of the deck consists of cards 6th edition onwards, not counting Urza's Destiny.
At least 43 cards must draw from:
Battle from Zendikar
Oath of the Gatewatch
Shadows over Innistrad
Eldritch Moon
Kaladesh
Aether Revolt
Amonkhet
Hour of Devastation
Ixalan
Rivals of Ixalan, when it releases
Dominaria, when it releases
Core 2019, when it releases
3 of those 43 cards may be drawn from the above sets in addition to:
Khans of Tarkir
Fate Reforged
Dragons of Tarkir
Magic Origins
The rest of the deck may be drawn from any set 6th edition onwards, excluding Urza's Destiny.
It doesn't matter what sets are legal, or how many cards must be in "standard". The basic point is, part of your deck is rotating.
They already tried that in the 90s. You had to had at least 5 (15? Don't remember exactly) cards from older sets than the current standard.
It didn't take off.
The bookkeeping and deck checking involved would be insane. Ever played pauper or peasant in real life? On of its hindrances to taking off is the deck checking involved. Your proposal is much more complicated than that.
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They already tried that in the 90s. You had to had at least 5 (15? Don't remember exactly) cards from older sets than the current standard.
It didn't take off.
The bookkeeping and deck checking involved would be insane. Ever played pauper or peasant in real life? On of its hindrances to taking off is the deck checking involved. Your proposal is much more complicated than that.
I'm pretty confident that in that standard you were required to play 5 cards from each standard legal set.
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My own thoughts are that wizards would probably take some lessons from Modern and change how they introduce new cards to the format. One of the big complaints people often had with modern is that cards like Counterspell could never make it in because of being simply too powerful for standard, and many legacy cards that could come into modern fall into that same kind of trap issue. So if they started a new format, it probably will include cards from a masters set. The other aspect of the set that I think may be different is that it wont take cards directly from standard. Instead, new cards would be introduced to the format specifically through whatever masters type sets were designated for it and the masters set for the format would be released upon the rotation of the standard sets.
My final postulation on the new format is that wizards will run it parallel to modern, not against it, and will run both non-Reserved List legacy cards and modern cards since 100% legacy is just constantly getting harder to play and having a format that at least gives people the ability to play with legacy cards will make it unique compared to modern and standard.
Anyone else have any thoughts on what a new format might look like? Do you think they will just set a new start point or do something more elaborate?
Also as a disclaimer, this post is not suggesting wizards is going to roll out a new format soon. It's just a thought and potential glance into what the future may bring.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
You focus a lot on implementation, but ultimately I believe that to be secondary to the question of the niche that a new format will fill. Your assumption that a new format will either exist between modern and legacy or be a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from cards across the game is what created your concerns in the first place. Wizards would be more likely to take the path of least resistance instead of going to potentially confusing new territory. As many power-level problems that standard causes by feeding into eternal formats, it'll still most likely be part of new endeavors as well. A new format has to have benefits to both players and the company to succeed without being abandoned or withering up.
By the way, how is the state of Frontier? It had a lot of buzz at its introduction, but I haven't heard much of it since.
Aren't you being a bit presumptuous on things? Have you seen how wizards has managed to keep standard kicking even when it went through Kaladesh and multiple bannings? There is no question as to whether it sticks or not (because honestly, if wizards wants a new format, they will push it and people will play it): this is about how that format may take shape. Hopefully that clarifies things. Also frontier has been doing fine. As a grass roots sort of format pushed by people who aren't really in charge of printing cards it has about the amount of traction one can expect and it's fun in it's own right.
The only format worth hating on is probably Tiny Leaders for obvious reasons found in the formats history.
Actually, I could see them doing something like a format where all cards in modern masters 2013 and up from the modern masters series are legal along with what specialty sets they are printing that are specifically for the new format. Basically it would be like a filter set that designates what would go into it going forward, taking cards from the rotating standard and maybe throwing in a few extras from past sets.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
But I believe the next non-rotating format, if there is one, will be BFZ onwards and include only Standard sets.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Right now, the needs of most players seem pretty well met. If Frontier had caught on, I'm sure it would be officially adopted with some changes, just as Modern was adopted from various player groups with some changes. But, the demand for a new format seems quite low at the moment.
The only rotating format right now is Standard, and it's a format with a small card pool, compared with the Eternal formats or even Modern.
Modern was meant as a stepping stone bewteen Standard and the Eternal formats, but, as time went by, the jump from Standard to Modern has become a long jump, and will only get worst.
The solution is not to create another stepping stone between Standard and Modern, the solution is to take the current Modern format and start rotating it, in the way that for every two years of new expansion sets, the oldest year in the format rolls out.
This way you guarantee that the stepping stone is always midway and you get something you don't have nowadays, a rotating format with a big card pool.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Extended was originally a non-rotating format. Then they changed it to become rotating.
It died. The only difference between your proporsal and the old extended is the 3 year limit, rather than 2. Excluding another year from the format won't suddenly revive extended. Saying that you want a rotating format with a large card pool flies in the face of the lack of interest in extended.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
I've mentioned elsewhere that i think Wizards is looking at creating a non-rotating format that starts at Origins and moves forward from there. An earlier poster in this thread mentioned BFZ, which is pretty close, only one set away from my own prediction. I'm not saying that it's written in stone at this point, just that i think it's a goal that R&D is trying to keep in mind. I could see WotC calling the format Contemporary.
I don't see Wizards rolling out multiple sets for different formats at exactly the same time, as Colt speculated above in saying that product for the new format would be released when Standard rotates. They don't like to do multiple releases at exactly the same time.
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I'll let you know if/when i go back to Standard. I hate pulling cards i can't use.
Yeah, it would be something similar to Extended.
I think it would make sense to have another rotating format other than Standard, but I can see how unlikely it is to happen because most players don’t like formats where their cards rotate out.
commons and uncommons (non-reserved) from alpha to present
All rarities from Masques block forward.
This eliminates the vast majority of broken cards.
Ex. tinker is legal but there aren't any payoffs like memory jar
Supplemental sets like commander, might need to be excluded though.
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The format can work if the idea is that they keep reprinting cards they want to keep in and let the chaff and undesirables rotate out. They could do that via standard and masters sets.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Shine! the foil only format. No banning no restrictions but every card in your deck must be foiled.
Silver: Think Legacy with silverbordered cards made legal.
Mental magic: Already exsists but would be great to see it endorced. (you get a stack of cards can place any card face down that generates 1 mana of any color. You play random cards but they HAVE to be OTHER cards (so not the card that you see) with the same converted casting cost. Each card may only be played once in a game (this list is combine for you and your opponent!) You may not play a card as the card it is.
No point in making a new rotating format. People do not like rotating formats that are a waste of money.
And silver-bordered cards, you say? People say the rules are exceedingly long now...
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I'll let you know if/when i go back to Standard. I hate pulling cards i can't use.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Richard Garfield, Ph.D is based on the fact that Richard Garfield enjoys playing Mental Magic.
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Except in my proposed format, you can use all rarities from masques block until now.
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That is awesome to know. Thank you!
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Grixis Delver
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I'll let you know if/when i go back to Standard. I hate pulling cards i can't use.
Mental magic was around before the card in question. We used to play it a fair bit at the local shop (since we were broke and cuold use the draft chaff that people threw away to play)
Picture this: Cards from 6th ed on allowed (i picked this as the cutoff because it's when the Reserved List ended, but it could be changed, i'm just trying to toss some feces in the general direction of the wall to see if anything sticks); it follows general constructed concepts but with some very significant differences: only 3 of any given card can be in any given deck; deck size minimum is 75 cards (and maybe even set a maximum?); and the format has both banned AND restricted lists. It could potentially (though these might not be a good ideas, please bear in mind i'm just spitballing here) be spiced up by disallowing cards with CMC under 1 or 2 or 3 and/or CMC over 9 or 10?
Any feedback? I'm never afraid to hear that my idea is terrible and would never work, though it'd be nice to also hear why not...
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I'll let you know if/when i go back to Standard. I hate pulling cards i can't use.
Vintage is like that sports league where anyone can play in the league regardless of experience or age.
Modern is like that sports league where you must be born after a certain year to be eligible.
Some sports league have a rule where a certain number of players must have played fewer than a certain number of games to be eligible, while the rest of the team may have players that have played more than that certain number of games.
You could do a format where a portion of your deck must be in standard. The difference in this format only is that "standard" would be 3 years worth of sets, not 2.
At least 43 cards must be in "standard", and 3 of those 43 cards may be in a set that just rotated out of "standard". The rest of the deck consists of cards 6th edition onwards, not counting Urza's Destiny.
At least 43 cards must draw from:
Battle from Zendikar
Oath of the Gatewatch
Shadows over Innistrad
Eldritch Moon
Kaladesh
Aether Revolt
Amonkhet
Hour of Devastation
Ixalan
Rivals of Ixalan, when it releases
Dominaria, when it releases
Core 2019, when it releases
3 of those 43 cards may be drawn from the above sets in addition to:
Khans of Tarkir
Fate Reforged
Dragons of Tarkir
Magic Origins
The rest of the deck may be drawn from any set 6th edition onwards, excluding Urza's Destiny.
It doesn't matter what sets are legal, or how many cards must be in "standard". The basic point is, part of your deck is rotating.
It didn't take off.
The bookkeeping and deck checking involved would be insane. Ever played pauper or peasant in real life? On of its hindrances to taking off is the deck checking involved. Your proposal is much more complicated than that.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
I'm pretty confident that in that standard you were required to play 5 cards from each standard legal set.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation