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DCI Banned and Restricted List Announcement
Announcement Date: September 1, 1999
Effective Date: October 1, 1999
Standard
No changes
Extended
Dream Halls is banned
Earthcraft is banned
Lotus Petal is banned
Mind Over Matter is banned
Yawgmoth's Will is banned
Important note: See below for a change to the Extended format.
Urza-Block
No changes
Type 1
Divine Intervention is unbanned
Ivory Tower is unrestricted
Mirror Universe is unrestricted
Shahrazad is unbanned
Underworld Dreams is unrestricted
Crop Rotation is restricted
Doomsday is restricted
Dream Halls is restricted
Enlightened Tutor is restricted
Frantic Search is restricted
Grim Monolith is restricted
Hurkyl's Recall is restricted
Lotus Petal is restricted
Mana Crypt is restricted
Mana Vault is restricted
Mind Over Matter is restricted
Mox Diamond is restricted
Mystical Tutor is restricted
Tinker is restricted
Vampiric Tutor is restricted
Voltaic Key is restricted
Yawgmoth's Bargain is restricted
Yawgmoth's Will is restricted
Type 1.5
(All cards on the Type 1 Banned and Restricted Lists are banned in Type 1.5)
Divine Intervention is unbanned
Ivory Tower is unbanned
Mirror Universe is unbanned
Shahrazad is unbanned
Underworld Dreams is unbanned
Crop Rotation is banned
Doomsday is banned
Dream Halls is banned
Enlightened Tutor is banned
Frantic Search is banned
Grim Monolith is banned
Hurkyl's Recall is banned
Lotus Petal is banned
Mana Crypt is banned
Mana Vault is banned
Mind Over Matter is banned
Mox Diamond is banned
Mystical Tutor is banned
Tinker is banned
Vampiric Tutor is banned
Voltaic Key is banned
Yawgmoth's Bargain is banned
Yawgmoth's Will is banned
Extended Format Change
Beginning October 1, 1999, cards from the following sets may not be played in
the Extended format:
Revised Edition (third edition)
Fourth Edition
The Dark
Fallen Empires
However, the ten cards listed below, commonly called "dual lands," will
continue to be allowed in the Extended format:
Badlands
Bayou
Plateau
Savannah
Scrubland
Taiga
Tropical Island
Tundra
Underground Sea
Volcanic Island
Explanation of Banned and Restricted List Changes
Type 1 and Type 1.5 Formats
Removals from Banned and Restricted Lists
Our goal is to have as few cards as possible banned and restricted in all of
our formats. To that end, Wizards of the Coast R&D and the DCI feel that the
five cards listed are no longer a threat to the Type 1 tournament
environment.
New Restrictions
Over the past year, the Type 1 format has been dominated by very fast
combination decks. Using these decks, players can win so quickly that they
have little or no interaction with their opponents other than a finishing
Fireball or Stroke of Genius. Although combo decks are an important part of
any tournament environment, they shouldn't be so fast that opponents can do
nothing to stop them. The new restrictions, designed to slow down fast combo
decks, can be grouped into three broad categories: fast mana, combo engines,
and combo searchers.
Fast mana:
Grim Monolith
Lotus Petal
Mana Crypt
Mana Vault
Mox Diamond
Voltaic Key
Combo engines:
Doomsday
Dream Halls
Hurkyl's Recall
Mind Over Matter
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Yawgmoth's Will
Combo searchers:
Crop Rotation
Enlightened Tutor
Frantic Search
Mystical Tutor
Tinker
Vampiric Tutor
Extended Format
The current Extended environment is also suffering from the domination of
combo decks at the expense of player interaction.
Fast mana:
Lotus Petal
Combo engines:
Dream Halls
Earthcraft
Mind Over Matter
Yawgmoth's Will
Explanation of Extended Format Change
When the Extended format was first created, we intended older expansions to
rotate out of the environment, but at a much slower rate than the Standard
rotation. The advantages to this rotation are fewer banned cards and players
across the world having equal access to the cards still in the environment.
The disadvantage is that some key cards, such as the "dual lands" from
Revised Edition, could no longer be played in the format.
Many consider the dual lands to be the primary element that sets the Extended
format apart from the Standard format. We believe that eventually dual lands
will no longer be the main element differentiating Extended and
Standard-players will begin to miss other cards instead, such as Living
Death, Cursed Scroll, Rancor, and so on. Until that time, however, the DCI
has decided to keep the dual lands in the format.
The following expansions will rotate out of the Extended format on October 1:
Revised Edition, Fourth Edition, The Dark, and Fallen Empires. The ten dual
lands will be legal until the next Extended set rotation (which will occur
sometime in the next two to three years). By the time dual lands rotate out
of Extended, the DCI will be supporting another format (most probably a
casual format) in which they can be played. In addition to set rotation,
several cards have been added to the Extended Banned List to ensure that
combo decks are kept in check in the new environment.
These changes should make Extended a little more accessible to new Magic
markets, which is essential for the long-term growth of the format. In the
short term, the Extended format will go through some necessary growing pains.
The Extended format will continue to be one of the DCI's main formats.
Watch List Update
Voltaic Key has been added to the R&D and DCI "Watch List" for possible DCI
action in the Standard format.