Standard/Trivia

Standard/Trivia

 

Timeline

 

Trivia

 

Most cards legal at one time: 2,166

• 2166 cards: -In 2022, from Apr 28/29 2022 - Sep 1/9 2022 (dates vary for digital or paper), legal sets included Zendikar Rising, Kaldheim, Strixhaven, D&D Forgotten Realms, Midnight Hunt, Crimson Vow, Neon Dynasty, and Streets of New Capenna.
• 2152 cards (2150 playable): -In 2021, from early July – mid Sep (paper vs online dates vary), legal sets Throne of Eldraine through D&D Forgotten Realms, which include many exclusive cards not available in draft boosters, minus 8 banned cards and 29 duplicates. The count is 2150 if you subtract the 2 Brawl cards from ELD that require a Commander to be useful.
• 2142 cards: -In 2008, from Jul 25th – Oct 2nd, legal sets included Coldsnap, Time Spiral (with 121 additional timeshifted cards), Planar Chaos, Future Sight, 10th Edition, Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, and Eventide.

Fewest cards legal at one time: 509.

• 509: -1995, Jan 10th – Apr 19th, right after Type II first announced.

Up to Oct 1995, when deck construction rules changed, legal card pools were less than 1000. Since then, the smallest card pool was:

• 969: -Oct 2009 - Feb 2010, Shards of Alara through Zendikar

Most cards banned at one time: 12.

• 1997, Jan 1st – Mar 4th, after restricted list discontinued. Banned List: Balance, Black Vise, Bronze Tablet, Channel, Ivory Tower, Jeweled Bird, Land Tax, Mind Twist, Rebirth, Strip Mine, Tempest Efreet, Timmerian Fiends. However, 41 cards were restricted from Oct 1995 to Nov 1996, before the banned list was created.
• 1999, Jul 1st – Oct 31st: 10 cards banned
• 2020, Aug 3 – Sep 24 : 10 cards banned
• 2005, Mar 20 – Oct 19 : 9 cards banned
• 2020, Oct 12 – Sep 23 : 8 cards banned
• 2018, Jan 19 – Oct 4 : 7 cards banned

Most cards banned from a single set: 10.

• 1997, Jan 1st – Apr 23rd, after restricted list discontinued. 10 cards on the banned list were from 4th edition: Balance, Black Vise, Bronze Tablet, Channel, Ivory Tower, Land Tax, Mind Twist, Rebirth, Strip Mine, Tempest Efreet.

Longest period of time with no banned cards

• oct 20 2005 - jun 30 2011 (5 years 8+ months)
• sep 30 2011 - jan 19 2017 (5 years 3+ months)

Most Reprinted Card in Standard:

• Naturalize, Pacifism (18 sets as of ONE)
• Negate, Mind Rot (17 sets as of ONE)
• Cancel, Disenchant, Giant Growth (16 sets as of ONE)
• Giant Spider, Unsummon (15 sets as of ONE)
• Shock, Gravedigger, Serra Angel, Shatter (14 sets as of ONE)

Card with the longest window of uninterrupted legality:

• Mind Rot: 19 years 4 months. May 2001 - Sep 2021.
• Giant Spider: 17 years 10 months. Jan 1995 - Oct 2012.
• Pacifism: 17 years 3 months. Jun 1999 - Sep 2016.
• Negate: 14+ years and counting. Feb 2008 - present (16+ years: will be legal at least until rotation fall 2024).
• Naturalize: 13 years 10 months. Nov 2002 - Sep 2016.

Cards with shortest time of legality before getting a ban (or a rule change):

• Omnath, Locus of Creation: 17/25 days (paper/online)
• Memory Jar: 31 days (emergency ban was announced 10 days after it became legal)
• Companion mechanic: 46 days (the rules were changed)
• Oko, Thief of Crowns and Once Upon a Time: 49 days
• Tolarian Academy and Windfall: 61 days
• Felidar Guardian: 88 days
• Field of the Dead: 105 days
• Smuggler's Copter, Rampaging Ferocidon: 112 days

Most days spent on the ban list

• Bronze Tablet, Rebirth, Tempest Efreet: 728 days
• Omnath, Locus of Creation: 696 days
• Amulet of Quoz: somewhere between 673-703 days, exact date of Ice Age legality unknown
• Oko, Thief of Crowns, Once Upon a Time: 671 (paper) 667 (Arena)
• Tolarian Academy, Windfall: 670 days

Most-duplicated single card in a single standard environment: Woodland Stream

• 6 sets included Woodland Stream (KLD, AKH, HOU, XLN, RIX, M19)