March Banned/Restricted Announcement
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Events>DCI * * * March Banned/Restricted Announcement ———————————— DCI TM Banned and Restricted List Announcement Announcement Date: March 1, 2003 Effective Date: April 1, 2003 Standard: No changes Extended: No changes Onslaught TM Block: No changes Type 1: Berserk is unrestricted Hurkyll’s Recall is unrestricted Recall is unrestricted Earthcraft is restricted Entomb is restricted Type 1.5: (All cards on the Type 1 Banned and Restricted Lists are banned in Type 1.5) Berserk is unbanned Hurkyl’s Recall is unbanned Recall is unbanned Earthcraft is banned Entomb is banned Here is an explanation of the changes from Magic R&D: ### UNRESTRICT Recall The fact that people are generally not playing a single copy of this restricted card, combined with the fact that there are better ways to get cards out of your graveyard, indicate that Recall should no longer be restricted. Hurkyl’s Recall Hurkyl’s Recall no longer generates the ridiculous amounts of mana that it used to before the restriction of Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and Grim Monolith. Without all of these artifacts that can easily produce more mana than they cost, we feel that Hurkyl’s Recall no longer needs to be restricted. Further, we see Hurkyl’s Recall as a nice potential sideboard card against many of the artifact-heavy decks. Berserk Berserk has been on the restricted list for a long, long time. We feel that the thousands of extra cards and decks that have been added to Type 1 have rendered this card less of a threat than it used to be. In addition, we think that unrestricting this card will open up many new deck archetypes to type 1. ### RESTRICT Entomb Every good “tutor” card is restricted in type 1. Entomb is one of the best tutors left in Type 1, and it now joins Demonic Tutor, Demonic Consultation, Enlightened Tutor, etc. on the restricted list. Earthcraft Earthcraft joins the many other combo cards that are restricted in Type 1.
