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At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.
Formerly banned
Banned on the earliest list; unbanned 16 May 2018.
- Unbanned in Premodern
- 16 May 2018
- Status today
- legal
- Research
- Research confidence: High confidence
- First printed
- First printed in Limited Edition Alpha (5 August 1993); Premodern-legal via Fourth Edition.
Official reasoning
No official reason published. No published reason for the unban (only the date is stated).
Community & historical context (not an official statement)
Restricted in Type 1/Type 2 Feb 1996; Vintage unrestricted Apr 1996, re-restricted Jul 1997, unrestricted Jun 2007; Extended initial ban 1997; Legacy unbanned Oct 2015. MTG Wiki: Vise had kept Necropotence in check before its 1996 restriction.[1, 2, 3]
Premodern changes
Other formats (Wizards)
Historical context, not Premodern decisions.
- VintageRestricted
- StandardRestricted
- VintageUnrestricted
- LegacyBanned
- StandardBanned
- VintageRestricted
- ExtendedBanned
- VintageUnrestricted
- LegacyUnbanned
Sources
- MTG Wiki: Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
- MTGBans.info per-card timelines (effective dates; site's AI-generated rationales NOT used)
- MTG Wiki: Black Summer (Necro Summer)
- Wayback: premodernmagic.com/banned-watched/ 2018-05-06 (34 banned, 5 watched)
- Wayback: premodernmagic.com/banned-watched/ 2018-05-11
- Ban list update June 2018 (Martin Berlin, 2018-06-25)
- Scryfall card data (printings, release dates)
Research as of 18 October 2026.
In our decks
Not in any of our curated decklists yet. Find similar cards.
Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Black Vise (main or sideboard): 2,950 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 6.4%
- +1.9 ppup 43.8% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 6.2%
- +0.0 ppflat over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 188
- 98% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 3.6
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Sligh / Burn31% of lists · 94
- Stasis100% of lists · 70
- Mono Red Control65% of lists · 11
- Oath of Druids5% of lists · 7
- Unclassified3% of lists · 6
Printings (11)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
