Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
The DCI announces bans and restrictions of cards for their sanctioned formats if they deemed necessary to do so. In normal cases, these announcements are made on Mondays and take effect within a few days.
Previously, such announcements used to be made in a scheduled basis (usually two to three months) with coherence of Standard legal sets and major tournaments like the Pro Tour[1][2].
The following is a list of these announcements and their changes in chronological order. Formats which are not mentioned have seen no changes made to them in the respective announcements.
1994[edit | edit source]
The concept of formats doesn't yet exist as of this time. Vintage (Type 1) and Standard (Type 2) will be introduced in 1995.
January 25th[edit | edit source]
Formation of the original DCI banned/restricted list.[3][4] Ali from Cairo, Ancestral Recall, Berserk, Black Lotus, Braingeyser, Dingus Egg, Gauntlet of Might, Icy Manipulator, Mox Emerald, Mox Jet, Mox Pearl, Mox Ruby, Mox Sapphire, Orcish Oriflamme, Rukh Egg, Sol Ring, Timetwister, Time Vault, and Time Walk are restricted ("Limited"). Ante cards and Shahrazad are banned.[5][6][7] Use of cards from any of the expansion sets (at that time Arabian Nights) are banned unless the referee consents to their use (this would later be changed to allowed "unless expressly disallowed by the head judge prior to the event").[8]
February 23rd[edit | edit source]
Orcish Oriflamme and Rukh Egg are unrestricted.[9]
March 23rd[edit | edit source]
Channel, Copy Artifact, Demonic Tutor, Regrowth, and Wheel of Fortune are restricted. Icy Manipulator is unrestricted. Time Vault is banned.[9]
May[edit | edit source]
Candelabra of Tawnos, Feldon's Cane, Ivory Tower, and Library of Alexandria are restricted. Dingus Egg and Gauntlet of Might are unrestricted.[9]
June 13th[edit | edit source]
Mishra's Workshop is restricted.[9]
August[edit | edit source]
Chaos Orb, Falling Star, Mind Twist, Mirror Universe, Recall, Sword of the Ages, Underworld Dreams are restricted. For flavor reasons, all legendary cards (of type "Summon Legends"—then called Legends—or "Legendary Land") were restricted. Divine Intervention is banned.[10]
October 10th[edit | edit source]
Maze of Ith is restricted.[9]
1995[edit | edit source]
Creation of Standard (then called "Type 2") on January 10, inheriting banned and restricted lists from Vintage. Legal standard expansions are then the most current basic set (Revised Edition at the time) and the latest two Magic expansions only (The Dark and Fallen Empires). Unlike in Vintage, the head judge cannot ban cards from any such legal expansion.[11]
April 19th[edit | edit source]
October[edit | edit source]
- Standard: new deck construction rules. Standard (Type 2) can be composed of cards from the most recent edition of Magic The Gathering (Fourth Edition at the time), white border extensions (Chronicles), and all available limited edition expansions (Ice Age, Fallen Empires, and soon Homelands).[14]
November[edit | edit source]
- Legendary cards are unrestricted.[15]
- Vintage: Zuran Orb is restricted. Channel is banned. Chaos Orb is banned. Falling Star is banned.
- Standard: Zuran Orb is restricted. Channel is banned.
1996[edit | edit source]
February[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Mind Twist is banned. Black Vise is restricted.
- Vintage: Mind Twist is banned. Black Vise is restricted.[9]
April[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Feldon's Cane and Recall are unrestricted.
- Vintage: Time Vault is unbanned. Ali from Cairo, Black Vise, and Sword of the Ages are unrestricted.[9]
Card Errata[edit | edit source]
- Time Vault now adds a time counter to itself when a turn is skipped for its cost. Taking an extra turn requires the removal of a time counter.
May[edit | edit source]
Legacy is created (then called Type 1.5). "Type 1.5 tournament decks may be constructed from Magic: The Gathering cards from the Limited (first edition, with black border) series, the Unlimited (second edition), Revised (third edition), Fourth Edition, any Magic: The Gathering expansion (unless expressly disallowed by the head judge prior to the event), and promotional cards released by Wizards of the Coast in magazines or through books." There are no restricted cards. The list of banned cards is the sum of all cards that are either restricted or banned in Vintage or Standard.[16]
July[edit | edit source]
October[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Hymn to Tourach and Strip Mine are restricted.[17]
- Legacy: Fastbond Hymn to Tourach and Strip Mine are banned.[9] The head judge can't disallow any Magic expansion anymore.[18]
- Vintage: Fastbond is restricted. The head judge can't disallow any Magic expansion anymore.[18]
1997[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Standard: New deck construction rules. New editions of the basic set replace old versions and are permitted in Standard play thirty days after the release date of the new edition. New standalone expansions (e.g., Ice Age, Mirage, etc.) replace previous stand-alone expansions and are permitted in Standard play thirty days after the release date of the new edition. Limited-edition expansions are replaced thirty days after the release date of the next limited-edition expansion which has a release date of more than 10 months later than the release date of the outgoing limited-edition expansion.[19]
- Standard: All cards on the restricted list are moved to the banned list.[20]
May[edit | edit source]
- Ice Age block: Thawing Glaciers and Zuran Orb are banned.[9]
June[edit | edit source]
July[edit | edit source]
- Standard: New deck construction rules. Standard decks can be composed of cards from the most recent edition of Magic: The Gathering (then Fifth Edition) and all sets from the two most recent "blocks" of expansions (at the time the Ice Age block which originally contained Homelands instead of Coldsnap, and the Mirage block).[22]
- Extended: Extended, announced in May, is now officially sanctioned.[23] Initial banned list includes all cards from Limited Edition, Unlimited Edition, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, and Legends which have not been reprinted in a more recent set, plus ante cards, and additionally: Demonic Tutor, Balance, Fastbond, Regrowth, Black Vise, Ivory Tower, Serendib Efreet, Braingeyser, Sol Ring, Juggernaut, Strip Mine, Channel, Kird Ape, Mana Crypt, Maze of Ith, Wheel of Fortune, Mind Twist, and Zuran Orb are banned.[24]
- Vintage: Black Vise is restricted.
- Mirage block: Squandered Resources is banned.[9]
October[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Hypnotic Specter is banned. Juggernaut is unbanned.
- Vintage: Candelabra of Tawnos, Copy Artifact, Feldon's Cane, Mishra's Workshop, and Zuran Orb are unrestricted.[9]
1998[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Strip Mine is restricted.[9]
July[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Land Tax is banned.[9]
- Tempest block: Cursed Scroll is banned.
December[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Tolarian Academy and Windfall are banned.
- Extended: Tolarian Academy and Windfall are banned.
- Braingeyser is unbanned.
- Legacy: Stroke of Genius, Tolarian Academy, and Windfall are banned.
- Feldon's Cane is unbanned.
- Vintage: Stroke of Genius, Tolarian Academy, and Windfall are restricted.[25]
1999[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Fluctuator, Lotus Petal, Recurring Nightmare, and Time Spiral are banned. Memory Jar is banned retroactively in mid March.
- Extended: Memory Jar is banned. This was retroactively added to the March 1st bannings as an emergency ban in mid March.[26][27]
- Urza's block Constructed: Time Spiral, Memory Jar, and Windfall are banned.
- Legacy: Candelabra of Tawnos, Copy Artifact, Maze of Ith, Zuran Orb, and Mishra's Workshop are unbanned.
- Time Spiral and Memory Jar are banned.
- Vintage: Maze of Ith is unrestricted. Memory Jar is restricted.[28]
- Time Spiral is restricted.[29]
June[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Mind Over Matter is banned.
- Extended: Time Spiral is banned.
- Urza block Constructed: Gaea's Cradle, Serra's Sanctum, Tolarian Academy, and Voltaic Key are banned.[30]
Card Errata[edit | edit source]
- The errata issued for the “free” creatures (“When <this permanent> comes into play, if you played it from your hand, …”) applies to two additional cards: Karmic Guide and Treachery.
August 1st[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Yawgmoth's Bargain is banned.
Card Errata[edit | edit source]
- Iridescent Drake receives the same erratum as the "free" creatures. It should read, "When Iridescent Drake comes into play, if you played it from your hand, return target enchant creature card from a graveyard to play enchanting Iridescent Drake. (You control that enchantment.)"
- Lion's Eye Diamond should read, "Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as an instant." This erratum causes Lion's Eye Diamond to function as it did under Fifth Edition rules.
- Lotus Vale should read, "When Lotus Vale comes into play, you may sacrifice two untapped lands. If you don't, sacrifice Lotus Vale. If you do, Lotus Vale gains '
: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.'" This erratum causes Lotus Vale to function as it did under Fifth Edition rules; you can't tap it for mana without first sacrificing two untapped lands.
- Scorched Ruins should read, "When Scorched Ruins comes into play, you may sacrifice two untapped lands. If you don't, sacrifice Scorched Ruins. If you do, Scorched Ruins gains '
: Add four colorless mana to your mana pool.'" This erratum causes Scorched Ruins to function as it did under Fifth Edition rules; you can't tap it for mana without first sacrificing two untapped lands.
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Lotus Petal, Mind Over Matter, and Yawgmoth's Will are banned.
- Vintage: Divine Intervention and Shahrazad are unbanned.
- Ivory Tower, Mirror Universe, and Underworld Dreams are unrestricted.
- Crop Rotation, Doomsday, Dream Halls, Enlightened Tutor, Frantic Search, Grim Monolith, Hurkyl's Recall, Lotus Petal, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mind Over Matter, Mox Diamond, Mystical Tutor, Tinker, Vampiric Tutor, Voltaic Key, Yawgmoth's Bargain, and Yawgmoth's Will are restricted.
- Legacy: Divine Intervention, Ivory Tower, Mirror Universe, Shahrazad, and Underworld Dreams are unbanned.
2000[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Dark Ritual and Mana Vault are banned.[32]
June[edit | edit source]
- Masques block constructed: Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero and Rishadan Port are banned.[33]
September[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Channel and Mind Twist are restricted (unbanned).
- Demonic Consultation and Necropotence are restricted.
- Legacy: Demonic Consultation and Necropotence are banned.[34]
2001[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Necropotence, Replenish, Survival of the Fittest, and Demonic Consultation are banned.[35]
December[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Fact or Fiction is restricted.
- Legacy: Fact or Fiction is banned.[36]
2002[edit | edit source]
No changes were made during the year.
2003[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Berserk, Hurkyl's Recall, and Recall are unrestricted.
- Earthcraft and Entomb are restricted.
- Legacy: Berserk, Hurkyl's Recall, and Recall are unbanned.
- Earthcraft and Entomb are banned.[37]
June[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Gush and Mind's Desire are restricted.
- Legacy: Gush and Mind's Desire are banned.[38]
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Goblin Lackey, Entomb, and Frantic Search are banned.[39]
December[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Goblin Recruiter, Grim Monolith, Tinker, Hermit Druid, Ancient Tomb, and Oath of Druids are banned.
- Vintage: Burning Wish, Chrome Mox, and Lion's Eye Diamond are restricted.
- Legacy: Burning Wish, Chrome Mox, and Lion's Eye Diamond are banned.[40]
2004[edit | edit source]
June[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Skullclamp is banned.
- Mirrodin block constructed: Skullclamp is banned.[41]
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Metalworker and Skullclamp are banned.
- Vintage: Braingeyser, Doomsday, Earthcraft, and Fork are unrestricted.
- Legacy: Format becomes independent of Vintage.[42] Cards that were already banned in Type 1.5 continue to be banned in Legacy, with the following exceptions:
- Unbanned : Braingeyser, Burning Wish, Chrome Mox, Crop Rotation, Doomsday, Enlightened Tutor, Fact or Fiction, Fork, Lion's Eye Diamond, Lotus Petal, Mox Diamond, Mystical Tutor, Regrowth, Stroke of Genius, and Voltaic Key.
- Added to the banned list : Bazaar of Baghdad, Goblin Recruiter, Hermit Druid, Illusionary Mask, Land Tax, Mana Drain, Metalworker, Mishra's Workshop, Oath of Druids, Replenish, Skullclamp, and Worldgorger Dragon.
December[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Stroke of Genius is unrestricted.[43]
2005[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Arcbound Ravager, Disciple of the Vault, Darksteel Citadel, Ancient Den, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers are banned.
- Vintage: Trinisphere is restricted.[44]
June[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[45]
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Aether Vial and Disciple of the Vault are banned.
- Legacy: Imperial Seal is banned
- Vintage: Imperial Seal and Personal Tutor are restricted. Mind Over Matter is unrestricted.
- Two-Headed Giant: Erayo, Soratami Ascendant is banned.[46]
October[edit | edit source]
- Legacy and Vintage: Starter Level sets Starter 1999, Starter 2000, Portal, Portal Second Age, and Portal Three Kingdoms become legal.[44]
December[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[47]
2006[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Mirrodin block constructed: Aether Vial, Ancient Den, Arcbound Ravager, Darksteel Citadel, Disciple of the Vault, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers are banned.[48]
June[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[49]
September[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any format.[50]
December[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[51]
2007[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[52]
June[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Gifts Ungiven is restricted. Voltaic Key, Black Vise, Mind Twist, and Gush are unrestricted.
- Legacy: Flash is banned. Mind Over Matter and Replenish are unbanned.[53]
September[edit | edit source]
December[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[55]
2008[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
June[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Brainstorm, Flash, Gush, Merchant Scroll, Ponder are restricted.[57]
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Sensei's Divining Top is banned.
- Legacy: Time Vault is banned.
- Vintage: Time Vault is restricted. Chrome Mox, Dream Halls, Mox Diamond, Personal Tutor, and Time Spiral are unrestricted.[58]
December[edit | edit source]
- Announcement schedule moved from the 1st of every third month to the 20th of every third month.
- No changes in any non-online format.[59]
2009[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- No changes except for online formats.[60]
June[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Thirst for Knowledge is restricted. Crop Rotation, Enlightened Tutor, Entomb, and Grim Monolith are unrestricted.[61]
September[edit | edit source]
- Legacy: Dream Halls, Entomb, and Metalworker are unbanned.[62]
December[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any non-online format.[63]
2010[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- No changes in any format.[64]
June[edit | edit source]
- Change to the Extended rotation.
- Extended: Sword of the Meek and Hypergenesis are banned.
- Legacy: Mystical Tutor is banned. Grim Monolith and Illusionary Mask are unbanned.[65]
September[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Frantic Search and Gush are unrestricted.[66]
December[edit | edit source]
- Legacy: Survival of the Fittest is banned. Time Spiral is unbanned.[67]
2011[edit | edit source]
June[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic are banned.
- An exception to the above is introduced, making the War of Attrition event deck legal for Standard constructed play if the decklist has not been modified. The deck contains two copies of Stoneforge Mystic.[68]
August[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Becomes a sanctioned paper format from an online format. The initial ban list is: Ancestral Vision, Ancient Den, Bitterblossom, Chrome Mox, Dark Depths, Dread Return, Glimpse of Nature, Golgari Grave-Troll, Great Furnace, Hypergenesis, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Mental Misstep, Seat of the Synod, Sensei's Divining Top, Skullclamp, Stoneforge Mystic, Sword of the Meek, Tree of Tales, Umezawa's Jitte, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and Vault of Whispers.[69]
September[edit | edit source]
- Extended: Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Mental Misstep, Ponder, Preordain, and Stoneforge Mystic are banned.
- Modern: Blazing Shoal, Cloudpost, Green Sun's Zenith, Ponder, Preordain, and Rite of Flame are banned.
- Legacy: Mental Misstep is banned.
- Vintage: Fact or Fiction is unrestricted.[70]
December[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Punishing Fire and Wild Nacatl are banned.[71]
2012[edit | edit source]
March[edit | edit source]
- Innistrad Block Constructed: Intangible Virtue and Lingering Souls are banned.[72]
June[edit | edit source]
September[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle is unbanned.
- Vintage: Burning Wish is unrestricted.[1]
2013[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Bloodbraid Elf and Seething Song are banned.[74]
- Pauper (Magic Online): Empty the Warrens, Grapeshot, and Invigorate are banned.[75]
May[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Second Sunrise is banned.
- Vintage: Regrowth is unrestricted.[76]
September[edit | edit source]
- Pauper: Cloudpost and Temporal Fissure are banned.[77]
2014[edit | edit source]
February[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Deathrite Shaman is banned. Bitterblossom and Wild Nacatl are unbanned.[78]
June[edit | edit source]
- Legacy and Vintage: Cards with Conspiracy card type are preemptively banned.[79]
2015[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Dig Through Time, Treasure Cruise, and Birthing Pod are banned. Golgari Grave-Troll is unbanned.
- Legacy: Treasure Cruise is banned. Worldgorger Dragon is unbanned.
- Vintage: Treasure Cruise is restricted. Gifts Ungiven is unrestricted.[80]
March[edit | edit source]
- Pauper: Treasure Cruise is banned.
- Singleton: Skullclamp is banned.[81]
September[edit | edit source]
- Legacy: Dig Through Time is banned. Black Vise is unbanned.
- Vintage: Chalice of the Void and Dig Through Time are restricted. Thirst for Knowledge is unrestricted.[82]
2016[edit | edit source]
- Modification of Magic Tournament Rules: The 34 cards that play with ante or have the Conspiracy card type (both banned in all Constructed/Eternal formats) are simplified into two entries in respective ban lists.
January[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Splinter Twin and Summer Bloom are banned.
- Pauper: Cloud of Faeries is banned.[83]
April[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Eye of Ugin is banned. Ancestral Vision and Sword of the Meek are unbanned.
- Vintage: Lodestone Golem is restricted.[84]
November[edit | edit source]
- Pauper: Peregrine Drake is banned.[85]
2017[edit | edit source]
Announcement schedule changed to Monday following each expansion's prerelease event as well as fifth Monday after the Pro Tour of respective expansion.[86] The schedule was scaled back and revised in June 2017: Banned and restricted announcements are decoupled from set releases and the competitive schedule. Instead updates are announced on a scheduled basis, which mostly in 2-3 months span.[87]
January[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Emrakul, the Promised End, Smuggler's Copter, and Reflector Mage are banned.[88]
- Modern: Gitaxian Probe and Golgari Grave-Troll are banned.[86]
April[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Felidar Guardian is banned. The initial announcement was that there would be no changes to Standard; an addendum banning Felidar Guardian came two days later.[89]
- Legacy: Sensei's Divining Top is banned.[90]
- Vintage: Gitaxian Probe and Gush are restricted.
June[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Aetherworks Marvel is banned.[87]
August[edit | edit source]
- Vintage: Thorn of Amethyst and Monastery Mentor are restricted. Yawgmoth's Bargain is unrestricted.
2018[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Attune with Aether, Rogue Refiner, Ramunap Ruins, and Rampaging Ferocidon are banned.[91]
February[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Bloodbraid Elf are unbanned.[92]
May[edit | edit source]
- Brawl: separation from the Standard banned list. Aetherworks Marvel, Attune with Aether, Felidar Guardian, Rampaging Ferocidon, Ramunap Ruins, and Rogue Refiner are all unbanned. Smuggler's Copter stays banned. Baral, Chief of Compliance and Sorcerous Spyglass are banned.[93]
July[edit | edit source]
- Legacy: Deathrite Shaman and Gitaxian Probe are banned.[94]
2019[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Krark-Clan Ironworks is banned.[95]
February[edit | edit source]
- Arena Standard: Nexus of Fate is banned.[96]
May[edit | edit source]
- Pauper: Gush, Gitaxian Probe, and Daze are banned.[97]
June[edit | edit source]
- Pauper: With the sanctioning and unification of Pauper, High Tide, Hymn to Tourach, and Sinkhole are added to the banned list.[98]
July[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Bridge from Below is banned.[99]
August[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Rampaging Ferocidon is unbanned. However, it remains banned in Arena Standard.
- Modern: Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and Faithless Looting are banned. Stoneforge Mystic is unbanned.
- Vintage: Karn, the Great Creator, Mental Misstep, Golgari Grave-Troll, and Mystic Forge are restricted. Fastbond is unrestricted.[100]
October[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Field of the Dead is banned.
- Pauper: Arcum's Astrolabe is banned.[101]
- Pioneer: Introduced as a format for tabletop and Magic Online. Banlist changes will be announced every Monday, separate from the other formats. The fetch lands Bloodstained Mire, Flooded Strand, Polluted Delta, Windswept Heath and Wooded Foothills are banned.[102]
November[edit | edit source]
- Pioneer:
- Week 1: Felidar Guardian, Leyline of Abundance and Oath of Nissa are banned.[103]
- Week 2: Veil of Summer is banned.[104]
- Brawl: Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned.[105][106]
- Standard: Oko, Thief of Crowns, Once Upon a Time and Veil of Summer are banned.[106]
- Legacy: Wrenn and Six is banned.[106]
- Vintage: Narset, Parter of Veils is restricted.[106]
- Historic: Introduced as a format for Magic Arena. Nexus of Fate is banned in BO1.
December[edit | edit source]
- Pioneer:
- Week 1: Field of the Dead, Once Upon a Time and Smuggler's Copter are banned.[107]
- Week 3: Oko, Thief of Crowns and Nexus of Fate are banned.[108]
- Historic: Field of the Dead, Oko, Thief of Crowns, Once Upon a Time, and Veil of Summer are suspended.
2020[edit | edit source]
Starting from this year, banned and restricted announcements are no longer made on a fixed schedule. Changes may occur on any given Monday. In addition, Pioneer will no longer make a weekly banned list update and sync up with current updates in other formats.[109]
January[edit | edit source]
- Modern: Oko, Thief of Crowns, Mox Opal, and Mycosynth Lattice are banned.[110]
March[edit | edit source]
- Brawl: Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is banned.
- Legacy: Underworld Breach is banned.
- Historic: Oko, Thief of Crowns, Once Upon a Time, and Veil of Summer are banned. Field of the Dead is made legal.
- Modern: Once Upon a Time is banned.[111]
April[edit | edit source]
- Commander: Lutri, the Spellchaser and Flash are banned.[112][113][114] Lutri's ban announcement was preemptively made right after it was spoiled.
- Brawl: Lutri, the Spellchaser is banned the day at the release of Ikoria in digital form.[115]
May[edit | edit source]
- Brawl: Drannith Magistrate and Winota, Joiner of Forces are banned.[116]
- Legacy: Lurrus of the Dream-Den and Zirda, the Dawnwaker are banned.[116]
- Vintage: Lurrus of the Dream-Den is banned. It is the first power level ban in Vintage since 1996, as if it were to be restricted its companion mechanic would have made restricting it meaningless.[116]
- Commander: With the legal card definition synced up with other constructed formats, the previous "non-legal" cards (i.e. banned cards in Vintage prior to Lurrus of the Dream-Den) are banned instead.[117]. This in response to the banning of Lurrus of the Dream-Den in Vintage, which the rules committee decided could remain legal in Commander.
June[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Agent of Treachery and Fires of Invention[118] are banned.
- Historic: Agent of Treachery and Fires of Invention[118] are suspended. Winota, Joiner of Forces is emergency suspended.[119]
On June 10, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. WotC made an announcement that "cards whose art, text, name, or combination thereof that are racially or culturally offensive" are banned in sanctioned events.[120] Seven cards were banned immediately when the announcement was made, and their card images and flavor texts were removed from the Gatherer database. This ban also applied to Commander and some non-sanctioned formats.
July[edit | edit source]
- Historic: Agent of Treachery, Fires of Invention,and Winota, Joiner of Forces are banned. Nexus of Fate which was banned in Bo1 is also banned in Bo3. Burning-Tree Emissary is suspended.[121]
- Modern: Arcum's Astrolabe is banned.[121]
- Pauper: Expedition Map and Mystic Sanctuary are banned.[121]
- Pioneer: Oath of Nissa is unbanned.[121]
August[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Cauldron Familiar, Growth Spiral, Teferi, Time Raveler and Wilderness Reclamation are banned.[122]
- Brawl:
- Week 2: Teferi, Time Raveler is banned.[122]
- Week 3: Runed Halo is banned.[123]
- Historic:
- Week 2: Teferi, Time Raveler and Wilderness Reclamation are suspended.[122]
- Week 3: Runed Halo and Gideon's Intervention are banned in Historic Brawl.[123]
- Week 4: Field of the Dead is banned.[124]
- Pioneer: Inverter of Truth, Kethis, the Hidden Hand, Underworld Breach and Walking Ballista are banned.[122]
September[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath is banned.[125]
October[edit | edit source]
- Standard: Omnath, Locus of Creation, Lucky Clover, and Escape to the Wilds are banned.[126]
- Historic: Omnath, Locus of Creation is suspended. Teferi, Time Raveler and Wilderness Reclamation are banned. Burning-Tree Emissary is unsuspended[126]
- Brawl: Omnath, Locus of Creation is banned.[126]
2021[edit | edit source]
January[edit | edit source]
February[edit | edit source]
- Historic: Omnath, Locus of Creation and Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath are banned.[128]
- Pioneer: Balustrade Spy, Teferi, Time Raveler, Undercity Informer, Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and Wilderness Reclamation are banned [128].
- Modern: Field of the Dead, Mystic Sanctuary, Simian Spirit Guide, Tibalt's Trickery and Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath are banned [128]
- Legacy: Arcum's Astrolabe, Dreadhorde Arcanist and Oko, Thief of Crowns are banned.[128]
- Vintage: Lurrus of the Dream-Den is unbanned.[128]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ a b Erik Lauer (September 20, 2012). "DCI B&R List Announcement—September 20, 2012". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (February 17, 2003). "Banned on the Run". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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