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Sorcery
Time Spiral
Banned4 generic, blue, blueUrza's Saga #103Banned in Premodern (power) · why?Reserved
Sorcery
Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.
Ban history
Free draw-seven from Combo Winter; one of the draw spells Premodern bans by policy.
- Banned in Premodern
- On or before May 2018
- On earliest archived list; likely since 2012 founding
- Category
- Power
- Research
- Research confidence: High confidence
- First printed
- First printed in Urza's Saga (12 October 1998).
Why it’s banned
Power level / draw-seven (official framing 2019).
Official reason
Berlin (2019): the ban list "already includes powerful draw spells like Time Spiral, Windfall and Memory Jar, while being more tolerant to fast mana and tutors."
Context (not an official statement)
Analytical/community: a refill that untaps six lands, effectively free with fast mana (Draftsim). Combo Winter: banned in Standard and Type 1.5, restricted in Vintage in March 1999; banned in Extended June 1999; Vintage-unrestricted 2008 and Legacy-unbanned 2010/11.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The story
Time Spiral (Urza's Saga, 1998) was a Combo Winter casualty, banned in Standard and Type 1.5 and restricted in Vintage in March 1999, then banned in Extended. Wizards later freed it in Vintage (2008) and Legacy (2010). Premodern has kept it banned on every archived list; Berlin's 2019 post names it with Windfall and Memory Jar as the powerful draw spells the list deliberately excludes.
Premodern changes
- On listOn the earliest archived Premodern ban list.[6]
Other formats (Wizards)
Historical context, not Premodern decisions.
- StandardBanned
- VintageRestricted
- LegacyBanned
- ExtendedBanned
- VintageUnrestricted
- LegacyUnbanned
Related cards
Sources
- Ban List Update 2019 (Martin Berlin, 2019-08-20)
- Draftsim: The Premodern Ban List: All 33 Cards Banned (A.L. Walser, 2026-04-24) — community
- MTG Wiki: Combo Winter
- MTG Wiki: Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
- MTGBans.info per-card timelines (effective dates; site's AI-generated rationales NOT used)
- 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 Time Spiral (main or sideboard): 2,544 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
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Printings (1)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
