Banned and restricted cards/Timeline

The DCI announces bannings and restrictions of cards for their sanctioned formats around the 20th of a month every three months, with these changes taking effect on the 1st of the following month. The following is a list of these announcements and their changes in chronological order. Formats which are not mentioned have seen no changes made to them in the respective announcements.

1999

March

• Standard: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Fluctuator, Lotus Petal, Recurring Nightmare andTime Spiral are banned.
• Urza block Constructed: Time Spiral and Windfall are banned.
• Type 1.5: Candelabra of Tawnos, Copy Artifact, Maze of Ith and Mishra's Workshop are unbanned.
  • Time Spiral is banned.
• Type 1: Maze of Ith is unrestricted.
  • Time Spiral is restricted.

June

• Standard: Mind Over Matter is banned.
• Extended: Time Spiral is banned.
• Urza block Constructed: Gaea's Cradle, Serra's Sanctum, Tolarian Academy and Voltaic Key are banned.

September

• Extended: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Lotus Petal, Mind Over Matter and Yawgmoth's Will are banned.
• Type 1: Divine Intervention and Shahrazad are unbanned.
  • Ivory Tower, Mirror Universe and Underworld Dreams are unrestricted.
  • Crop Rotation<c>, <c>Doomstday, Dream Halls, Enlightened Tutor, Frantic Search, Grim Monolith, Hurkyl's Recall, Lotus Petal, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mind Over Matter, Mox Diamond, Mystical Tutor, Tinker, Vampiric Tutor, Voltaic Key, Yawgmoth's Bargain and Yawgmoth's Will are restricted.
• Type 1.5: Divine Intervention, Ivory Tower, Mirror Universe, Shahrazad and Underworld Dreams are unbanned.
  • Crop Rotation<c>, <c>Doomstday, Dream Halls, Enlightened Tutor, Frantic Search, Grim Monolith, Hurkyl's Recall, Lotus Petal, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Mind Over Matter, Mox Diamond, Mystical Tutor, Tinker, Vampiric Tutor, Voltaic Key, Yawgmoth's Bargain and Yawgmoth's Will are banned.

2000

March

• Extended: Dark Ritual and Mana Vault are banned.

June

• Masques block constructed: Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero and Rishadan Port are banned.

September

• Type 1: Channel and Mind Twist are restricted (unbanned).
  • Demonic Consultationt and Necropotenence are restricted.
• Type 1.5: Demonic Consultationt and Necropotenence are banned.

2001

March

• Extended: Necropotence, Replenish, Survival of the Fittest and Demonic Consultation are banned.

December

• Type 1: Fact or Fiction is restricted.
• Type 1.5: Fact or Fiction is banned.

2002

No changes were made during the year.

2003

March

• Type 1: Berserk, Hurkyll's Recall and Recall are restricted.
  • Earthcraft and Entomb are restricted.
• Type 1.5: Berserk, Hurkyll's Recall, and Recall are unbanned.
  • Earthcraft and Entomb are banned.

June

• Type 1: Gush and Mind's Desire are banned.
• Type 1.5: Gush and Mind's Desire are banned.

September

• Extended: Goblin Lackey, Entomb, and Frantic Search are banned.

December

• Extended: Goblin Recruiter, Grim Monolith, Tinker, Hermit Druid, Ancient Tomb, and Oath of Druids are banned.
• Type 1: Burning Wish, Chrome Mox, and Lion's Eye Diamond are restricted.
• Type 1.5: Burning Wish, Chrome Mox, and Lion's Eye Diamond are banned.

2004

June

• Standard: Skullclamp is banned.
• Mirrodin block constructed: Skullclamp is banned.

September

• Extended: Metalworker and Skullclamp are banned.
• Vintage: Braingeyser, Doomsday, Earthcraft, and Fork are unrestricted.
• Type 1.5: Format becomes independent of Vintage. For full list of bans and unbans see reference.

December

• Vintage: Stroke of Genius is unrestricted.

2005

March

• Standard: Arcbound Ravager, Disciple of the Vault, Ancient Den, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers are banned.
• Legacy: Imperial Seal is banned.
• Vintage: Trinisphere, Imperial Seal, and Personal Tutor are restricted.
• Starter Level sets Starter 1999, Starter 2000, Portal, Portal Second Age, and Portal Three Kingdoms become legal in Legacy and Vintage in October.

June

• No changes in any non-online format.

September

• Extended: Aether Vial and Disciple of the Vault are banned.
• Legacy: Imperial Seal is banned
• Vintage: Imperial Seal and Personal Tutor are restricted. Mind Over Matter is unrestricted.
• Two-Headed Giant: Erayo, Soratami Ascendant is banned.

December

• No changes in any non-online format.

2006

March

• Mirrodin block constructed: AEther Vial, Ancient Den, Arcbound Ravager, Darksteel Citadel, Disciple of the Vault, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers are banned.

June

• No changes to non-online formats.

September

• No changes in any format.

December

• No changes in any non-online format.

2007

March

• No changes to non-online formats

June

• Vintage: Gifts Ungiven is restricted. Voltaic Key, Black Vise, Mind Twist, and Gush are no longer restricted.
• Legacy: Flash is banned. Mind Over Matter and Replenish are unbanned.

September

• Vintage: Shahrazad is banned.
• Legacy: Shahrazad is banned.

December

• No changes in any non-online format.

2008

March

• Extended: Rotation of the format has been modified.

June

• Vintage: Brainstorm, Flash, Gush, Merchant Scroll, Ponder are restricted.

September

• Extended: Sensei's Divining Top is banned
• Legacy: Time Vault is banned.
• Vintage: Time Vault is restricted. Chrome Mox, Dream Halls, Mox Diamond, Personal Tutor, and Time Spiral are no longer restricted.

December

• Announcement schedule moved from the 1st of every 3rd month to the 20th of every 3rd month.
• No changes in any non-online format.

2009

March

• No changes except for online formats.

June

• Vintage: Thirst for Knowledge is restricted. <c>Crop Rotation, Enlightened Tutor, Entomb, and Grim Monolith are no longer restricted.

September

• Legacy: Dream Halls, Entomb, and Metalworker are no longer banned.

December

• No changes in any non-online format.

2010

March

• No changes to any format.

June

• Change to the Extended rotation.
• Extended: Sword of the Meek and Hypergenesis are banned.
• Legacy: Mystical Tutor is banned. Grim Monolith and Illusionary Mask are no longer banned.

September

• Vintage: Frantic Search and Gush are no longer restricted.

December

• Legacy: Survival of the Fittest is banned. Time Spiral is unbanned.

2011

March

• Two-Headed Giant: Death by Poison counters has been changed so it now takes 15 counters rather than the usual 10.

June

• Standard: Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic are banned.
• An exception to the above is introduced making the War of Attrition event deck legal for Standard constructed play if the decklist has not been modified. The deck contains two copies of Stoneforge Mystic.