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Banned and restricted cards in Premodern

33 cards Lists checked on
Card Status Price
Amulet of Quoz Amulet of Quoz
Banned
from $0.73
Balance Balance
Banned
from $0.82
Brainstorm Brainstorm
Banned
from $1.78
Bronze Tablet Bronze Tablet
Banned
from $0.37
Channel Channel
Banned
from $0.26
Demonic Consultation Demonic Consultation
Banned
from $8.87
Earthcraft Earthcraft
Banned
from $158.31
Entomb Entomb
Banned
from $17.23
Flash Flash
Banned
from $1.81
Force of Will Force of Will
Banned
from $64.48
Goblin Recruiter Goblin Recruiter
Banned
from $4.67
Grim Monolith Grim Monolith
Banned
from $394.55
Jeweled Bird Jeweled Bird
Banned
from $0.63
Land Tax Land Tax
Banned
from $12.79
Mana Vault Mana Vault
Banned
from $84.83
Memory Jar Memory Jar
Banned
from $21.29
Mind Twist Mind Twist
Banned
from $1.85
Mind's Desire Mind's Desire
Banned
from $0.95
Mystical Tutor Mystical Tutor
Banned
from $11.25
Necropotence Necropotence
Banned
from $22.18
Parallax Tide Parallax Tide
Banned
from $9.90
Rebirth Rebirth
Banned
from $0.38
Strip Mine Strip Mine
Banned
from $9.37
Tempest Efreet Tempest Efreet
Banned
from $0.35
Tendrils of Agony Tendrils of Agony
Banned
from $0.43
Time Spiral Time Spiral
Banned
from $63.82
Timmerian Fiends Timmerian Fiends
Banned
from $0.67
Tolarian Academy Tolarian Academy
Banned
from $90.95
Vampiric Tutor Vampiric Tutor
Banned
from $51.79
Windfall Windfall
Banned
from $5.25
Worldgorger Dragon Worldgorger Dragon
Banned
from $1.53
Yawgmoth's Bargain Yawgmoth's Bargain
Banned
from $6.70
Yawgmoth's Will Yawgmoth's Will
Banned
from $146.98

The Premodern banlist covers the format played with the sets up to 2003. It is not sanctioned by Wizards of the Coast, so its forbidden cards do not appear in the official list: this page gathers them and keeps them checked alongside the other formats.

A banlist Wizards does not publish

Premodern is played with the sets up to 2003 and is not a sanctioned format: it was born in the community, which maintains its rules and its list. That is why its forbidden cards do not appear in the official list of tournament formats, and finding them gathered in one place is less trivial than it sounds. The list resembles the Legacy of the era when combo decks were nearly unbeatable, and it mostly serves to stop the format from shrinking to a handful of strategies that win before turn three.

How to check a Premodern deck

Before settling a list it is worth checking the cards in the other formats you might play them in: the complete banlist gathers every list on one page, and from there you reach the Legacy banlist and the Vintage banlist. To see what the latest change did to the tables there are the Premodern decks and the Premodern tournaments, while the spoilers of the sets on the way are where you see, ahead of time, the cards that may push towards the next intervention.

Frequently asked questions about the Premodern banlist

Who maintains the Premodern banlist?

The community that created the format: not being sanctioned by Wizards of the Coast, Premodern has rules and a list of its own, managed independently.

Which expansions can be played in Premodern?

The sets up to 2003. The list of forbidden cards reflects that era, and mostly keeps the format from shrinking to the few combinations that win before turn three.