MTR 6.5 Vintage Format Deck Construction

Vintage decks may consist of cards from all Magic card sets, plus the following cards: Sewers of Estark, Windseeker Centaur, and Nalathni Dragon.

Cards from expansions and special sets (like From the Vault, Magic: The Gathering — Commander, Duel Decks, Conspiracy, etc.) are legal in the Vintage format on the date of release of the expansion or special set.

Cards don’t have to be released in normal sets in order to be legal in Vintage. Any time a card is printed in any set, it is legal on the release of that set. Note that this does not include cards obtained at a Prerelease; those are legal on the set’s release date.

These are the cards banned in Vintage. Any of these are illegal to be played in Vintage tournaments. Generally speaking, they fall into three categories: cards dealing with the Ante zone (e.g. Demonic Attorney), cards dealing with physical manipulation of cards (e.g. Chaos Orb), and Conspiracies (e.g. Backup Plan).

The following cards are banned in Vintage tournaments:

All cards with the card type “Conspiracy” (25 cards)
All cards that reference “playing for ante” (9 cards)
Cards whose art, text, name, or combination thereof that are racially or culturally offensive are
banned in all formats. This list is a work in progress. Click here for the list.
Chaos Orb
Falling Star
Shahrazad

The following cards are restricted in Vintage tournaments:

This is the only restricted list in Magic. These cards are generally the most powerful allowed in Vintage, and only one of each card can be played in a player’s library or sideboard (but not in both).