![]() ![]() While not as old as the pentagrammed once-upon-a-time face of Magic: The Gathering, there is also no doubting the raw power of Skullclamp. As much as I lean on the #PlayLessTutors train, even I have trouble not smiling and chuckling to myself when someone casts this and an opponent at the table asks what they went and got. Whether it's being riffle shuffled forcefully at Magic Fests or fetching that much-needed half of your Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead combo, there is no doubt that Demonic Tutor is and always has been one of the most powerful and iconic cards in Magic. It should come as little surprise, then, to find Demonic Tutor at number three on this list. ![]() EDH, on the other hand, was made specifically with old cards like this in mind that were unplayable in practically every other format. In similar fashion, the Extended format also wanted nothing to do with the best tutor in Magic, adding it to the format's initial banlist in July of 1997. I apologize to all those who I've just made feel old know that I'm among you. When Legacy was created in 1996, it was under a set of rules that bound it strictly to the Restricted List of Vintage, and as a result, Demonic Tutor has never once been allowed in the format, for 23 years straight. As is tradition, all results are ordered by how many decks they are included in on EDHREC. ![]() Ante/Conspiracy Cards: They're all banned in EDH anyway, but I knew that people were going to ask.Ĭriteria: Cards that have been banned in another official format at some time, but are not currently banned in the EDH format.Cards are going to move on and off of it more frequently, which isn't necessarily the case for other formats, where the ban lists are more carefully slow-going. To quote them directly, "unlike how we handle banning cards, we plan to use the flexibility that the digital format provides to move cards onto and off of the suspension list more commonly." In other words, there's no stakes in the Historic Suspended List. The Historic "Suspended" List: While it is cool to see a budding ban list from a new format, there's a reason that Wizards of the Coast decided not to call it a ban list.The Restricted List from Vintage: Sure, there really isn't a banned list for Vintage outside of stuff like Chaos Orb, but in my opinion, at least, banned is banned, and 'restricted' just isn't gonna cut it.In this instance, we aren't counting the following as "banned" for the purposes of our list: There are some caveats here, as you might have guessed. With that in mind, let's dig into the best of the best of banned cards that you can still play in Commander! We all know and have opinions about the current banned list of EDH (free Recurring Nightmare !), but there are lots of cards that are playable in our favorite format that have been deemed too powerful for others. Now that we have all this data, what on Earth are we going to do with it? Well, I don't know about you, but I say we put on our collective Spike hats and find out the most broken cards you can play in Commander! Top 10 Cards That Have Been Banned, but Not in EDH. Well, after two attempts and hours of work, I think I got it all put together, and am fairly proud of the results. ![]() If you hang around the r/magicTCG subreddit, you might have seen a couple posts attempting to put together a spreadsheet of every ban in Magic's history the other week. Welcome to Too-Specific Top 10, where if there isn’t a category to rank our pet card at the top of, we’ll just make one up! (Did you know that Recurring Nightmare is the only banned card that returns itself to your hand before anyone can even do anything about it?) ( Gitaxian Probe | Art by Chippy) A Ban by Any Other Format ![]()
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