Pre-WAR Legacy

Vision

Pre-WAR Legacy is the format as it was at the height of the format's Silver Age. Deck diversity was extremely high, and the prevalence of powerful decks did not crowd out the opportunity to brew. The format was dynamic and able to check its own most powerful contenders from week to week. The decks of this period are highly efficient but usually required careful piloting through numerous hard decisions to succeed, making for one of the format's most skill-intensive periods.

Rules

Pre-WAR Legacy uses all the normal rules for playing ordinary Legacy. This explicitly includes using the current "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 (May 3, 2019).

  • 25 cards with the Card Type “Conspiracy.”

  • 9 cards that reference "playing for ante."

  • Ancestral Recall

  • Balance

  • Bazaar of Baghdad

  • Black Lotus

  • Channel

  • Chaos Orb

  • Deathrite Shaman

  • Demonic Consultation

  • Demonic Tutor

  • Dig Through Time

  • Earthcraft

  • Falling Star

  • Fastbond

  • Flash

  • Frantic Search

  • Gitaxian Probe

  • Goblin Recruiter

  • Gush

  • Hermit Druid

  • Imperial Seal

  • 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

  • Sensei's Divining Top

  • Shahrazad

  • Skullclamp

  • Sol Ring

  • Strip Mine

  • Survival of the Fittest

  • Time Vault

  • Time Walk

  • Timetwister

  • Tinker

  • Tolarian Academy

  • Treasure Cruise

  • Vampiric Tutor

  • Wheel of Fortune

  • Windfall

  • Yawgmoth's Bargain

  • Yawgmoth's Will


For ease of reference, the ten 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:

  • Ravinca Allegiance (RNA)

  • Game Night (GNT)

  • Guilds of Ravinca (GRN)

  • Commander 2018

  • Core Set 2019 (M19)

  • Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling (GS1)

  • Battlebond (BBD)

  • Dominaria (DOM)

  • Rivals of Ixalan (RIX)

  • Ixalan (XLN)