Magic: The Gathering @ Guelph

Here we go through the rundown of all the different magic formats that we may play.

Constructed

Type II, Type 2, Type Two (Standard):

Most games you play casually are usually type II, it is one of the most popular play types, a constructed deck of at least 60 cards are played in a best 2-out-of-3 match.

Type II is also call standard at times, it covers cards that are in the last base set, and plus the most recent blocks and any set that came between it.

Type 1.x, 1.5 (Extended):

Some of the games you might play may have older cards, and they probably will belong in the Extended set, unless you were an avid magic player back in the early 90s.

Extended, being a constructed format, will have a 60 card minimum deck that includes cards from:
Type 1.5 (Legacy):

Legacy is eternal format that has a larger banlist then Vintage (Below), hence decreasing the power level in that format.

To check out their banlist, visit Magic's own link at http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=judge/resources/sfrlegacy

Type 1 (Vintage):

Any cards made in the history of Magic may be played in a vintage deck, there are restrictions (one card per deck) and banned cards in this format. 

Constructed - Multiplayer 

Two Headed Giant

Emperor

Chaos

Constructed - Variants

Singleton/ Highlander:

Highlander is a format where your deck can consist of only one of each card, so no multiple copies of any card (Except for basic lands and snow lands).

Limited

Limited is a format where the cards you get are the cards you play with, there is to be no other cards used from outside the one that are handed to you, and since this is the case, decks of 40 cards will be used 

Sealed
Sealed deck will contain 2/3 booster of a set and a tournament deck (75 cards), players shall create a deck out of these cards, the cards that are left over are used as sideboard between games. 

Booster Draft
A draft is a limited form of playing Magic, players sit around in a circle with 3 booster pack and each of them opens up one of them (15 cards, excluding the tips/tricks and basic land).
- Players pick a card from the pack
- They then pass the rest of the pack to the right
- Players receive a pack of cards (now 15-1= 14 cards remaining) from the person sitting on their left
- This process repeats until each player has chosen 15 cards. Repeat this for packs 2 and 3, switching up the passing to the left and to the right again for the two packs.
- In the end, players should have 45 cards to build a 40-card deck (including basic lands, so about 20-25 cards from the 45 cards are used)