Standard/Trivia
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Most cards legal at one time: 3,340[a] — In 2024, from Apr 16/19 2024 - Jul 30/Aug 2 2024 (dates vary for digital or paper), legal sets included Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Streets of New Capenna, Dominaria United, The Brothers' War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, March of the Machine, March of the Machine: The Aftermath, Wilds of Eldraine, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Murders at Karlov Manor, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, and The Big Score.
- 2261 cards: -In 2023, from May 9/11 2023 - Sep 5/8 2023 (dates vary for digital or paper), legal sets included Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Streets of New Capenna, Dominaria United, The Brothers' War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, March of the Machine, and March of the Machine: The Aftermath.[b]
- 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: School of Mages, Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Kamigawa: 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 Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the 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.[1] 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.[1]
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:[c]
- Naturalize, Pacifism, Negate (18 sets as of OTJ)
- Mind Rot (17 sets as of OTJ)
- Cancel, Disenchant, Giant Growth (16 sets as of OTJ)
- Giant Spider, Shock, Unsummon (15 sets as of OTJ)
- Gravedigger, Serra Angel, Shatter (14 sets as of OTJ)
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: 17+ years and counting. Feb 2008 - present (Will be legal until at least the fall rotation in 2025).
- Naturalize: 13 years 10 months. Nov 2002 - Sep 2016.
Cards with shortest time of legality before getting a ban (or a rule change):[d]
- Omnath, Locus of Creation: 17/25 days (paper/online)
- Memory Jar: 31 days (emergency ban was announced 10 days after it became legal)
- Companions: 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 and 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)
Notes
- ↑ Most cards legal at one time excludes any banned cards and only counts cards that are in multiple Standard-legal sets once.
- ↑ This period was the last two-year standard environment prior to the change in rotation schedule. 2023 also included a fifth premier set release for March of the Machine: The Aftermath.
- ↑ Only counting standard-legal sets (starting with Revised). Excluding Anthology sets or Welcome decks. Excludes basic lands.
- ↑ Doesn't include cards that were restricted or were never legal.
References
- ↑ a b Jason Carl (December 3, 1996). "Restricted list banned in type II". Tomas Lindohf. Archived from the original on April 30, 2023.