Standard format (TCG)
- This article is about the Modified Format in general. If you were looking for specifics about the current iteration of the format, see 2008-09 Modified format.
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The Modified Format is the standard format used in officially-sanctioned Pokémon Trading Card Game events.
The Modified Format was introduced in 2001, when tournaments in the 2001-2002 season were played in a format that only allowed cards from the Team Rocket set on up to Neo Genesis (minus Sneasel from Neo Genesis), at that point in time the most recent English expansion, plus any expansions released afterward on the day of their release as well as many of the most recent promotional cards. The format is altered every year by rotating older sets and promo cards out of the format, keeping the pool of cards usable in a tournament season roughly that of the previous year.
If a card in a Modified-legal expansion is a reprint of an older card, all prints of the card can be played in a Modified-legal deck (i.e. Base Set Potion, whose most recent reprint is in Stormfront), provided that the card has been printed with artwork corresponding to a set that has been released in English. However, some cards are different in wording between older prints and newer prints (i.e. Charizard from the Base Set compared to its Stormfront iteration); those cards require a reference outside the deck in order to use the older prints in a Modified-legal deck, such reference is either a print of the card that doesn't require a reference or a printout of the card's entry from the official Card-Dex. Foreign-language prints of cards also require a local-language reference in a similar manner.
