List of obsolete terminology

Some types of cards, supertypes, subtypes or mechanics have been removed or changed either because of flavor reasons or rules modifications.

Obsolete card types

• Enchant Artifact
• Enchant Creature
• Enchant Dead Creature
• Enchant Land
• Enchant World
• Interrupt
• Mana source
• Summon

Obsolete artifact supertypes

• Mono
• Poly
• Continuous

Obsolete subtypes (creature/tribal)

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Obsolete keywords

• Landhome stopped being a keyword.
• Substance, never printed, replaced by rules improvements

Some keywords still exist but got replaced by better concepts and will therefore probably never be reprinted.

• Fading, replaced by Vanishing
• Fear, replaced by Intimidate, replaced by Menace as black/red evergreen evasion ability.
• Shroud, replaced by Hexproof
• Regenerate, replaced by Indestructible (until end of turn)

Other obsolete mechanics

• Flip cards, replaced by double-faced cards.

Obsolete concepts

• Batches, replaced by the the stack.
• Bury, replaced by destroy and sacrifice
• Damage using the stack
• Mana burn
• Mana cost symbols and , only used in Unglued
• Carrying mana over to an other phase
• Phase abilities. Some older cards used the phrase “during [phase], [action]. Replaced with abilities that trigger at the beginning of a step or phase.
• Phased-out zone, replaced with the phased-out status
• Indestructible (as in "is indestructible"), became a keyword ability with the same name ("has indestructible").

Obsolete terminology

• "Caster", replaced by "controller"
• "Casting cost", replaced by "mana cost"
• "In-play zone", replaced by "battlefield"
  • "Comes into play", replaced by "enters the battlefield"
  • "Leaves play", replaced by "leaves the battlefield"
• "Remove(d) from the game", replaced by "exile(d)".
• "Unblockable", replaced by "can't be blocked".

Obsolete counters

• +0/+1 counter
• +0/+2 counter
• +1/+0 counter
• +1/+2 counter
• +2/+0 counter
• +2/+2 counter
• -0/-1 counter
• -0/-2 counter
• -1/-0 counter
• -2/-1 counter
• -2/-2 counter