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

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!

[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.

[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.

[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).

[lonsmithicus]

This was really good. Just what I've been curious about for years. I even tried to find it a few times and couldn't but now finally well done. I remember playing with 4 strip mines, 4 berserks, with kird apes giant growths unstable mutations and Black Vice and it was way too good. I thought Strip Mine was restricted sooner along with black vice and berserk but I guess it was just berserk getting restricted that made me take the deck apart.

[Sabith]

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.

[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.