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Sorcery
Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.
At the academy, "show and tell" too often becomes "run and hide."
Formerly banned
On the founding list as a Bargain safeguard; unbanned Oct 2022.
- Unbanned in Premodern
- 3 October 2022
- Status today
- legal
- Research
- Research confidence: High confidence
- First printed
- First printed in Urza's Saga (12 October 1998).
Official reasoning
Risk of a too-strong deck judged not significant; Dream Halls (TurboZvi) combo seen as fragile and easy to disrupt.
Context (not an official statement)
No bans/restrictions in Standard/Extended/Legacy/Vintage in the MTG Wiki timeline (only a 2024 pre-emptive Historic ban of a later printing).[1]
Premodern changes
Sources
- MTG Wiki: Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
- Ban List Update 2022 (Martin Berlin, 2022-10-05)
- Ban List Update 2019 (Martin Berlin, 2019-08-20)
- Wayback: ban list API 2021-08-11 (32 cards incl. Show and Tell)
- Wayback: ban list API 2023-04-12 (31 cards)
- 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 Show and Tell (main or sideboard): 2,950 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.9%
- −0.4 ppdown 31.3% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 1.2%
- +0.8 ppup 179.1% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 26
- 65% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 2.8
- 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)
- Unclassified5% of lists · 12
- Reanimator21% of lists · 6
- Aluren17% of lists · 4
- Tinker13% of lists · 4
Printings (6)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
