Tuesday, June 11, 2013

MTG Modern: Updated Banned List

Modern MTG is a constructed format that allows expansion sets and core sets from Eighth Edition forward, having a short ban list of cards which can never be legal on this format. The modern format thus encompasses all cards that have been printed in a set using the modern Card Frame. The format was officially codified on August 12, 2011, when the format of Pro Tour Philadelphia was changed from Extended to Modern.


Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards or less.

With the exception of basic land cards, a player's combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic, as are their snow-covered counterparts — Snow-Covered Plains, Snow-Covered Island, Snow-Covered Swamp, Snow-Covered Mountain, and Snow-Covered Forest


The Banned list

As of February 7, 2014, the following cards are banned in Modern tournaments:

  •     Ancestral Vision
  •     Ancient Den
  •     Bitterblossom (unbanned effective February 7, 2014)
  •     Blazing Shoal
  •     Bloodbraid Elf
  •     Chrome Mox
  •     Cloudpost
  •     Dark Depths
  •     Deathrite Shaman (banned effective February 7, 2014)
  •     Dread Return
  •     Glimpse of Nature
  •     Golgari Grave-Troll
  •     Great Furnace
  •     Green Sun's Zenith
  •     Hypergenesis
  •     Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  •     Mental Misstep
  •     Ponder
  •     Preordain
  •     Punishing Fire
  •     Rite of Flame
  •     Seat of the Synod
  •     Second Sunrise
  •     Seething Song
  •     Sensei's Divining Top
  •     Stoneforge Mystic
  •     Skullclamp
  •     Sword of the Meek
  •     Tree of Tales
  •     Umezawa's Jitte
  •     Vault of Whispers
  •     Wild Nacatl (unbanned effective February 7, 2014)

If there are any new cards added to the ban list I'll be sure to add them here.
The list is checked and updated weekly.

If you have any questions and or suggestions feel free to post your comments on this thread. Thank you! :)

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