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Magic The Gathering Vintage Banned & Restricted Card List

Vintage Format is yet another format in Magic The Gathering's massive list of formats.
By Ryan Easby | 
First Published September 15, 2023, 16:43
Magic The Gathering Vintage Banned & Restricted Card List
Wizards of the Coast

Magic The Gathering's Vintage Format is a popular alternative to both Standard and Modern format that has no set rotation at all and a huge swathe of cards that you can choose to add to your deck. But such a huge selection of cards also comes with the understanding that certain cards are simply too powerful to be played at all, or in more than one copy, and we've got the full list of Vintage Format restricted and banned cards.

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Magic The Gathering Vintage Format Banned & Restricted List

Banned Cards

    • Adriana's Valor
    • Advantageous Proclaimation
    • Assemble the Rank and Vile
    • Backup Plan
    • Brago's Favor
    • Double Stroke
    • Echoing Boon
    • Emissary's Ploy
    • Hired Heist
    • Hold the Perimeter
    • Hymn of the Wilds
    • Immediate Action
    • Incendiary Dissent
    • Iterative Analysis
    • Muzzio's Preparations
    • Natural Unity
    • Power Play
    • Secret Summoning
    • Secrets of Paradise
    • Sentinel Dispatch
    • Sovereign's Realm
    • Summoner's Bond
    • Unexpected Potential
    • Weight Advantage
    • Worldknit
    • Amulet of Quoz
    • Bronze Tablet
    • Contract from Below
    • Darkpact
    • Demonic Attorney
    • Jeweled Bird
    • Rebirth
    • Tempest Efreet
    • Timmerian Fiends
    • Invoke Prejudice
    • Cleanse
    • Stone-Throwing Devils
    • Pradesh Gypsies
    • Jihad
    • Imprison
    • Crusade
    • Chaos Orb
    • Falling Star
    • Sharazad

Restricted Cards

  • Ancestral Recall
  • Balance
  • Black Lotus
  • Brainstorm
  • Chalice of the Void
  • Channel
  • Demonic Consultation
  • Demonic Tutor
  • Dig Through Time
  • Flash
  • Gitaxian Probe
  • Golgari Grave-Troll
  • Gush
  • Imperial Seal
  • Karn, the Great Creator
  • Library of Alexandria
  • Lion's Eye Diamond
  • Lodestone Golem
  • Lotus Petal
  • Mana Crypt
  • Mana Vault
  • Memory Jar
  • Mental Misstep
  • Merchant Scroll
  • Mind's Desire
  • Monastery Mentor
  • Mox Emerald
  • Mox Jet
  • Mox Pearl
  • Mox Sapphire
  • Mystic Forge 
  • Mystical Tutor
  • Narset, Parter of Veils
  • Necropotence
  • Ponder
  • Sol Ring
  • Strip Mine
  • Thorn of Amethyst
  • Time Vault
  • Time Walk
  • Timetwister
  • Tinker
  • Tolarian Academy
  • Treasure Cruise
  • Trinisphere
  • Vampiric Tutor
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Windfall 
  • Yawgmoth's Will
Ryan Easby

Written by Ryan Easby

Ryan is a freelancer, writing for sites such as Fanbyte, PCGamesN, RetroDodo & more. He’s also been featured in the Daily Star, giving a five-star review to Midnight Suns. When he’s not playing a Kaizo Mario hack or replaying a Pokemon game, you can find him engrossed in a single-player story title like Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy VII Remake. If he’s not playing a game, he’s probably unraveling the timeline of a comic book.