So I drafted Conspiracy: Take the Crown last night and ended up with an Incendiary Dissent although I wasn't playing red. I decided largely as a joke to name Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore with it since I had no red mana anyway. It came up during the game that you can apparently only name cards legal in the format due to a part of the comprehensive rules. (201.3. If an effect instructs a player to name a card, the player must choose the name of a card that is legal in the format of the game the player is playing.) However, with Spy Kit I could have a card named Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore, so can I still not choose the name because the specific card is not legal in the draft format?
In theory, you do have to follow 201.3. Spy Kit doesn't change what cards are legal in the format. In practice... this is a casual format. If everyone involved agrees to ignore that rule for the sake of giggles, I don't think that would create any problems.
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I'm a former judge (lapsed), who keeps up to date on rules and policy. Keep in mind that judges' answers aren't necessarily more valid than those of people who aren't judges; what matters is we can quote the rules to back up our answers. When in doubt, ask for such quotes.
This does bring up the question of Hidden Agendas in the original Conspiracy, I assume because Lore Seeker existed in the format you could name any card that ever appeared in a booster pack? So no cards that only appeared in precons but basically any other card could be named?
Not really, when drafting your format is decided by what boosters your opening, so if drafting triple conspiracy your format only has conspiracy cards. Lore Seeker can add any other set to this format but only one set per Seeker so by using one to add a Modern Masters pack your format is no Conspiracy/Modern Masters so you can only name cards that show up in those sets. While technically any card can be added there will never be a time when all cards are added.
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Naming a card not in the format (Conspiracy 2 question)