The Original Magic the Gathering Banned and Restricted List: The Timeline Old School 93-94 MTG

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What was the very first Magic: the Gathering card that was banned? Was it Chaos Orb? Ali From Cairo? Black Lotus?
Join me and explore the whole history of bans and restrictions in Magic until the end of 1994 as I showcase all of the original banned and restricted cards!

[@mtgphil42]

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[@Rorschachqp]

For future videos, I would avoid holding a card close to the camera and moving it around...can cause motion sickness for the view and it's a nauseating feeling.

[@mtgphil42]

That's valid criticism, I usually bring in the cards closer so that people are able to read them or see the art better even if they are on mobile, but that can backfire, I can see why.

[@mightyfp]

6:53 I maintain that divine intervention is an ante card and belongs in a discussion with them. Drawing an unwinnable game was a benefit when playing for ante.

[@mtgphil42]

I never thought about it in that way since it doesn't have the ante clause, but come to think of it, it seems right. It's just that it's always easy to make a game end in a draw with Earthquake or so

[@stacy774]

top!

[@MontrealTundraWolves]

Nice one! Brings back memories hehe. I remember playing in the early days with decks including multiple tutors and pretty much always 4 Sol Ring everywhere. Then the restriction came and we were ... ''wooaahh! ok, so we need to play like that now?'' Awesome times and changes that made the game move in a great direction.

[@mtgphil42]

Thank you! Yes, the wild days! I can only imagine how cool it felt, I didn't play paper Magic back then yet. I do agree that most of the changes were definitely moves in the right direction, and this is back when it was much more difficult to process and gather tournament data than it is nowadays. I tried to imagine what would happen if we still have unrestricted everything in Old School Magic by building a classic Channel-Fireball deck kzbin.info/www/bejne/imishHepa7aVntU

[@MontrealTundraWolves]

@@mtgphil42 Yes the reason why we were playing like that was only because we didn't have the info back then and eventually saw it in a magazine from our LGS later in 93. Channel-Fireball was the unbeatable deck and even we decided to ban Channel in our close circle before we got the info hehe.

[@mtgphil42]

@@MontrealTundraWolves Wow, these are great stories for sure! I know that Richard Garfield didn't expect players to buy so many cards and couldn't imagine that such optimal decks would be possible, that's one of the reasons why we had super powerful cards back then

[@joaoalves-rn3yj]

Nice video 👌💪

[@Rorschachqp]

Great idea for a video! I plan on doing this exact same video one day but I will explain how and why each card was Restricted/Banned and what deck played the card. One thing almost no one knows is that half the cards in this topic, the person who discovered the card's true power and put said card/s into a deck and broke the original 60 card constructed format, was one person in Los Angeles. This is especially true all of the cards that were legitimately Restricted due to real power and not Restricted for temporary reasons (like Oriflamme was temporarily Restricted after they "fixed" the mana cost).

[@mtgphil42]

Wow, that sounds really exciting and I only started to wonder about it when I heard Richard Garfield's ideas that he didn't expect people to be buying so many cards that they would essentially be able to build any deck they wanted to. There is very little info on who was actually responsible for decisions, so it would be very interesting to learn. Subscribed for the future :)

[@Rorschachqp]

@@mtgphil42I will write your name down and keep you in the loop. As I am partially disabled, it may take some time. And it will be on my public channel as this is just my private one where I say whatever, wherever. Thank you!

[@Sabith01]

For future videos if there are non-english cards it might be worth popping in an English/modern rules text version somewhere on screen as there were definitely a couple cards I wasn't familiar with. Not having them isn't the end of the world but would be a nice touch.

[@mtgphil42]

Thank you for the feedback! My old videos were in many ways the opposite - I would often explain the card, especially the non-English ones. I wanted to keep this one concise. Displaying the text /English scan would be a good idea.

[@mightyfp]

Pointing to the card and saying its name was more than adequate.