Pre-Innistrad Legacy

Vision

Pre-Innistrad Legacy is the format as it was at the height of the game's Golden Age. Decks are varied and extremely diverse, with a great deal of room for deckbuilding creativity. Though decks are certainly powerful, the most efficient or format-warping offenders have either already been banned or have yet to be printed. The format is both more open and operates at a more relaxed pace than Legacy has witnessed since.

Rules

Pre-WAR Legacy uses all the normal rules for playing ordinary Legacy. This explicitly includes using the current "Legend" rule and "London" mulligan rule. The only difference is the use of a different banned and restricted list; differences will be in boldface font for emphasis.


The following cards are banned:

  • Cards with a name originally printed in the War of the Spark expansion, or any set released at a later date (September 30, 2011).

  • 9 cards that reference "playing for ante."

  • Ancestral Recall

  • Balance

  • Bazaar of Baghdad

  • Black Lotus

  • Black Vise

  • Channel

  • Chaos Orb

  • Demonic Consultation

  • Demonic Tutor

  • Earthcraft

  • Falling Star

  • Fastbond

  • Flash

  • Frantic Search

  • Goblin Recruiter

  • Gush

  • Hermit Druid

  • Imperial Seal

  • Land Tax

  • Library of Alexandria

  • Mana Crypt

  • Mana Drain

  • Mana Vault

  • Memory Jar

  • Mental Misstep

  • Mind Twist

  • Mind’s Desire

  • Mishra’s Workshop

  • Mox Emerald

  • Mox Jet

  • Mox Pearl

  • Mox Ruby

  • Mox Sapphire

  • Mystical Tutor

  • Necropotence

  • Oath of Druids

  • Shahrazad

  • Skullclamp

  • Sol Ring

  • Strip Mine

  • Survival of the Fittest

  • Time Vault

  • Time Walk

  • Timetwister

  • Tinker

  • Tolarian Academy

  • Vampiric Tutor

  • Wheel of Fortune

  • Windfall

  • Worldgorger Dragon

  • Yawgmoth's Bargain

  • Yawgmoth's Will


The following cards currently banned in Legacy are not banned in Pre-Innistrad Legacy:

  • Gitaxian Probe

  • Sensei's Divining Top


For ease of reference, the most recent sets that added cards to the format (i.e.: Legacy-legal sets preceding War of the Spark and having original printings) are as follows:

  • Magic 2012 (M12)

  • Commander (CMD)

  • New Phyrexia (NPH)

  • Mirrodin Besieged (MBS)

  • Scars of Mirrodin (SOM)

  • Magic 2011 (M11)

  • Rise of the Eldrazi (ROE)

  • Worldwake (WWK)

  • Zendikar (ZEN)