Core Set 2021 – Banlist & official Banlist Updates
Maybe you heard it: WotC has banned seven cards, even more: they erased these cards from existence. You can read the article here.
The reason is because of Racism. The images on these cards, the card names by themselves or the topic of these cards can be seen as racistic or discriminating.
We are absolutely against any kind of racism, and we understand and respect WotC’s decision and will follow the bannings/cease of existence of these cards.
We nethertheless think that about 24 years long this wasn’t that much of a problem, but nowadays, people search for political correctness. We are talking about a fantasy game, too: and the depiction of wrong, evil and bad things are part of such a world: no one would hopefully take a magic card for real, and practice a human „Sacrifice„. It is also a fact that there were Crusades in this world, and maybe on Magic planes as well – and yes, they were based on ill-beliefs and brought misery, sorrow and harm, but to neglect that there exist Crusades (Imprisonments, etc.) may be in our eyes a bit of an awkward solution (It is better to learn from the wrongs instead of hiding/covering up the problems). We never heard about a player being offended by a Stone-Throwing Devils, too, especially when imagining playing against an evil overlord who controls dozens of demons, devils and tries to conquer and enslave worlds.
Banned cards from Core 2021
Besides the eradication of the cards mentioned above (we don’t add them to our banned list as they are no longer searchable in gatherer/scryfall etc. and cease to exist), we carry on with our Philosophy of no extra turns and no turn endings in Teamplay Team Commander (as both players of the team would be effected). (Side Note: turn endings at least not against the player’s own will – Sundial of the Infinite).
The cards can be found under „cards which grant extra turns“.
The following cards are newly banned:
Have Fun and Good Games ! – The Teamcommander-Team