Here you have lists with banned magic cards in each format and the allowed sets. If a MTG card is restricted it means you can only play 1 of it in your deck. A banned Magic: the Gathering card may not be played at all in the format.
The Formats:
We also have a page explaining non-conventional formats: Special Other Fun Magic: the Gathering Formats.
Permitted / Legal Sets:
- 10th Edition
- Coldsnap
- Time Spiral
- Planar Chaos
- Future Sight
- Lorwyn
Permitted Sets:
- Invasion
- Planeshift
- 7th Edition
- Apocalypse
- Odyssey
- Torment
- Judgment
- Onslaught
- Legions
- Scourge
- 8th Edition
- Mirrodin
- Darksteel
- Fifth Dawn
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- 9th Edition
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Guildpact
- Dissension
- Coldsnap
- Time Spiral
- Planar Chaos
- Future Sight
- Lorwyn
List of Banned Cards:
- Aether Vial
- Disciple of the Vault
- Entomb
- Skullclamp
Permitted Sets:
- All basic sets
- All extensions of the basic set
- All promotional cards released by Wizards of the Coast
- All limited-edition or large expansion sets
- Portal, Portal Second Age, Portal Three Kingdoms, Starter 1999 and Starter 2000
List of Restricted Cards:
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Black Lotus
- Black Vise (unrestricted June 20)
- Burning Wish
- Channel
- Chrome Mox
- Crop Rotation
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dream Halls
- Enlightened Tutor
- Entomb
- Fact or Fiction
- Fastbond
- Frantic Search
- Gifts Ungiven (effective June 20)
- Grim Monolith
- Gush (unrestricted June 20)
- Imperial Seal
- Library of Alexandria
- Lion's Eye Diamond
- Lotus Petal
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mind Twist (unrestricted June 20)
- Mind's Desire
- Mox Diamond
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Personal Tutor
- Regrowth
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Stroke of Genius
- Time Spiral
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Vampiric Tutor
- Voltaic Key (unrestricted June 20)
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
List of Banned Cards:
- Amulet of Quoz
- Bronze Tablet
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Falling Star
- Jeweled Bird
- Rebirth
- Tempest Efreet
- Timmerian Fiends
Permitted Sets:
- All basic sets
- All extensions of the basic set
- All promotional cards released by Wizards of the Coast
- All limited-edition or large expansion sets
- Portal, Portal Second Age, Portal Three Kingdoms, Starter 1999 and Starter 2000
List of Banned Cards:
- Amulet of Quoz
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Black Vise
- Bronze Tablet
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Channel
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dream Halls
- Earthcraft
- Entomb
- Fastbond
- Falling Star
- Flash (effective June 20)
- Frantic Search
- Goblin Recruiter
- Grim Monolith
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Imperial Seal
- Illusionary Mask
- Jeweled Bird
- Library of Alexandria
- Land Tax
- Oath of Druids
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mana Drain
- Metalworker
- Mishra's Workshop
- Mind Over Matter (unbanned June 20)
- Mind Twist
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Necropotence
- Rebirth
- Replenish (unbanned June 20)
- Skullclamp
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Tempest Efreet
- Timmerian Fiends
- Time Spiral
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Vampiric Tutor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
- Worldgorger Dragon
The sets of each block:
Time Spiral Block (Time Spiral, Planar Chaos, Future Sight)
Ravnica Block (Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, Dissension)
Kamigawa Block (Champions, Betrayers and Saviors of Kamigawa)
Mirrodin Block (Mirrodin, Darksteel, Fifth Dawn)
Onslaught Block (Onslaught, Legions, Scourge)
Odyssey Block (Odyssey, Torment, Judgement)
Invasion Block (Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse)
Masques Block (Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, Propecy)
Urza Block (Urza's Saga, Urza's Legacy, and Urza's Destiny)
Rath Cycle Block (Tempest, Stronghold, and Exodus)
Mirage Block (Mirage, Visions, and Weatherlight)
Ice Age Block (Ice Age, Alliances, and Coldsnap)
Banned cards in Block:
The following cards are banned in Mirrodin Block tournaments:- AEther Vial
- Ancient Den
- Arcbound Ravager
- Darksteel Citadel
- Disciple of the Vault
- Great Furnace
- Seat of the Synod
- Tree of Tales
- Vault of Whispers
- Skullclamp
In Onslaught Block, Odyssey Block and Invasion block there are no banned cards.
The following cards are banned in Masques Block tournaments:
- Lin Sivvi Deviant Hero
- Rishadan Port
The following cards are banned in Urza Block tournaments:
- Gaea's Cradle
- Memory Jar
- Serra's Sanctum
- Time Spiral
- Tolarian Academy
- Voltaic Key
- Windfall
The following card is banned in Rath Cycle Block tournaments:
- Cursed Scroll
The following card is banned in Mirage Block tournaments:
- Squandered Resources
The following cards are banned in Ice Age Block tournaments:
- Amulet of Quoz
- Thawing Glaciers
- Zuran Orb
