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We&#8217;ve got the full list of cards that you can&#8217;t play in competitive Legacy format right here so you can check it against the contents of your deck.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mce-toc\">\n<h2>Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#mcetoc_1ha9ih67g1\">Magic The Gathering Legacy Banlist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"mcetoc_1ha9ih67g1\">Magic The Gathering Legacy Banlist<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancestral Recall<\/li>\n<li>Arcum&#8217;s Astrolabe<\/li>\n<li>Balance<\/li>\n<li>Bazaar of Baghdad<\/li>\n<li>Black Lotus<\/li>\n<li>Channel<\/li>\n<li>Chaos Orb<\/li>\n<li>Deathrite Shaman<\/li>\n<li>Demonic Consulation<\/li>\n<li>Demonic Tutor<\/li>\n<li>Dig Through Time<\/li>\n<li>Dreadhorde Arcanist<\/li>\n<li>Earthcraft&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Expressive Iteration<\/li>\n<li>Falling Star<\/li>\n<li>Fastbond<\/li>\n<li>Flash<\/li>\n<li>Frantic Search<\/li>\n<li>Gitaxian Probe<\/li>\n<li>Goblin Recruiter<\/li>\n<li>Gush<\/li>\n<li>Hermit Druid<\/li>\n<li>Imperial Seal<\/li>\n<li>Library of Alexandria<\/li>\n<li>Lurrus of the Dream-Den<\/li>\n<li>Mana Crypt<\/li>\n<li>Mana Drain<\/li>\n<li>Mana Vault<\/li>\n<li>Memory Jar<\/li>\n<li>Mental Misstep<\/li>\n<li>Mind Twist<\/li>\n<li>Mishra&#8217;s Workshop<\/li>\n<li>Mox Eemerald<\/li>\n<li>Mox Jet<\/li>\n<li>Mox Pearl<\/li>\n<li>Mox Ruby<\/li>\n<li>Mox Sapphire<\/li>\n<li>Mystical Tutor<\/li>\n<li>Necropotence<\/li>\n<li>Oath of Druids<\/li>\n<li>Oko, Thief of Crowns<\/li>\n<li>Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer<\/li>\n<li>Sensei&#8217;s Divining Top<\/li>\n<li>Shahrazad<\/li>\n<li>Skullclamp<\/li>\n<li>Sol Ring<\/li>\n<li>Strip Mine<\/li>\n<li>Survival of the Fittest<\/li>\n<li>Time Vault<\/li>\n<li>Time Walk<\/li>\n<li>Timetwister<\/li>\n<li>Tinker<\/li>\n<li>Tolarian Academy<\/li>\n<li>Treasure Cruise<\/li>\n<li>Underworld Breach<\/li>\n<li>Vampiric Tutor<\/li>\n<li>Wheel of Fortune<\/li>\n<li>White Plume Adventurer<\/li>\n<li>Windfall<\/li>\n<li>Wrenn and Six<\/li>\n<li>Yawgmoth&#8217;s Bargain<\/li>\n<li>Yawgmoth&#8217;s Will<\/li>\n<li>Zirda, The Dawnwaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic The Gathering&#8217;s legacy format has a massive pool of cards that you can choose to put in your deck, and because of this, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12865,"featured_media":53567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mtg","content_type-guide-tutorial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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