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Sorcery
Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Ban history
Storm engine banned in Vintage/Legacy within weeks of release; Premodern keeps it out.
- Banned in Premodern
- On or before May 2018
- On earliest archived list; likely since 2012 founding
- Category
- Power
- Research
- Research confidence: Medium confidence
- First printed
- First printed in Scourge (26 May 2003).
Why it’s banned
Power level / storm (no published rationale).
Official reason
No official reason published.
Community & historical context (not an official statement)
Analytical/community: the storm spell that casts cards off the top of the library for free; storm's most broken cards in the pool are Desire and Tendrils, leaving Brain Freeze as the legal storm finisher (Draftsim). Restricted in Vintage / banned in Legacy in June 2003, weeks after Scourge; unbanned in Legacy August 2023, still restricted in Vintage.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The story
Mind's Desire (Scourge, May 2003) was restricted in Vintage and banned in Type 1.5 within weeks of release. Legacy freed it only in 2023, but Premodern, with LED, cost reducers and free spells in the pool, has kept it banned on every archived list. No official reason was published; community writers see it (with Tendrils) as storm's most broken pieces.
Premodern changes
- On listOn the earliest archived Premodern ban list.[6]
Other formats (Wizards)
Related cards
Sources
- Draftsim: The Premodern Ban List: All 33 Cards Banned (A.L. Walser, 2026-04-24) — community
- Premodern Chronicles: Premodern Banlist (2026) — community
- MTG Wiki: Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
- MTGBans.info per-card timelines (effective dates; site's AI-generated rationales NOT used)
- MTG Wiki: Vintage
- Wayback: premodernmagic.com/banned-watched/ 2018-05-06 (34 banned, 5 watched)
- Scryfall card data (printings, release dates)
- premodernmagic.com legal sets endpoint
Research as of 18 October 2026.
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Mind's Desire (main or sideboard): 2,950 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
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Printings (7)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
