Before and After
Banned and Restricted
EDHREC Top 100
Rocks
Dorks
100

A once-ubiquitous red aggro creature that helps your opponents hit their land drops, and a modern take on a soul sister.

Goblin Guide of Souls

100

This card, banned in both legacy and commander, takes additional land drops to a whole new level.

Fastbond

100

A Final Fantasy up-and-comer that has stolen EDHREC's number 1 spot.

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

100

Thank Heliod for this card, otherwise we would all still be saying "put the top card of your library into your graveyard."

Millstone

100

A premier combo piece, until a certain devotee of a certain sea god came along.

Laboratory Maniac

200

A life-losing son and his sacrificing father.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

200

This card was banned in modern for being part of a combo that prevents your opponent from playing the game---I guess they didn't want to let go of Karn.

Mycosynth Lattice

200

Everyone's second favorite tribal commander with an Eminence ability.

Edgar Markov

200

This card is a mediocre mill engine by itself, but a bit of painting can leave your opponent with an empty library.

Grindstone

200

Watch out kids, if you get too nerdy, you'll turn into a... bug? This surprisingly balanced legacy staple fails to find another format to be playable in.

Delver of Secrets

300

A mana rock that relies on your opponents and a tutoring artificer that likes living weapons a little too much.

Fellwar Stoneforge Mystic

300

The red variant of a banned-in-modern cycle that makes it a little too easy to get affinity.

Great Furnace

300

A classic Grixis commander, this card turns wheels into a slugfest for your opponents, allowing you to be the only one taking advantage of its universal Phyrexian Arena effect for free.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

300

Unless you're playing Persistent Petitioners or the like, you'll likely find this legendary artifact useless in Commander.

Thrumming Stone

300

This brother is famous for creating the equivalent of a nuke---all this version of him comes with is a Construct token though (just ignore the other abilities...).

Urza, Lord High Artificer

400

A ramping artifact elk and a valiant mouse that likes to be flinged.

Burnished Hart(Heart)fire Hero

400

This reserved list wheel-in-a-bottle was deemed too powerful, taking a ban in legacy and restrict in vintage.

Memory Jar

400

This Izzet commander triples the damage of your pings---and of course, it has ward (2).

Ghyrson Starn, Kelemorph

400

A mana-hungry board wipe for colorless decks---at least you get to save some of your permanents?

Oblivion Stone

400

This discounting Izzet creature is perhaps what we non-magical beings might call... an electrical engineer.

Goblin Electromancer

500

K'rrik's non-legendary twin and a vanishing clone.

Defiler of Flesh Duplicate

500

This mana-dork-supercharger got banned in pioneer for giving you free ramp and devotion (with enough mulligans, of course).

Leyline of Abundance

500

This regal Mardu commander will make you want to start chump blocking---don't worry if you lose the crown though, as your trusty Assassins will be sure to take it back.

Queen Marchesa

500

Two rocks that come off as a weaker Coveted Jewel---hey, maybe you'll get some meld action in.

The Mightstone and Weakstone

500

A 2-part tutor to the battlefield, this creature even has a real-life job in its name.

Goblin Engineer