Grief
Timeline
Rationale
Grief is banned in Modern to improve the overall fun and playability of the format, citing the card's ability to make the game experience harsh, particularly through multiple one-mana ways to return the card and negating early answers to key creatures. Similarly, the card is banned in Legacy due to the powerful combination it forms with reanimation strategies like Reanimate and Animate Dead. The combination presents a threat that allows players to circumvent anti-graveyard cards and has allowed the increasingly popular Dimir Reanimator to maintain an edge the format has struggled to self-correct against.
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