Legacy 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 Legacy 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 Legacy. 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 Prereleases; those are legal on the set’s release date.
The following cards are banned in Legacy tournaments:
- All cards with the card type “Conspiracy” (25 cards)
- All cards that reference “playing for ante” (9 cards)
- Ancestral Recall
- Arcum’s Astrolabe
- Balance
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Deathrite Shaman
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dig Through Time
- Dreadhorde Arcanist
- Earthcraft
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Frantic Search
- Gitaxian Probe
- Goblin Recruiter
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Imperial Seal
- Library of Alexandria
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mental Misstep
- Mind Twist
- Mind’s Desire (unbanned effective August 7, 2023)
- Mishra’s Workshop
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Shappire
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Oko, Thief of Crowns
- 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
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker