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The Academy card pool consists of all standard Magic: The Gathering cards released by Wizards of the Coast that are legal for tournament play. This means that silver-bordered, gold-bordered, acorn-stamped, and one-off cards (e.g. the Heroes of the Realm) cards are excluded.
The following cards are banned from Academy by dint of their being banned in Commander:
- Cards that use the ante mechanic (full list here)
- Cards with the Conspiracy card type (full list here)
- Cards that Wizards of the Coast has removed from constructed formats (full list here)
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Biorhythm
- Black Lotus
- Braids, Cabal Minion
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Coalition Victory
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Gifts Ungiven
- Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
- Griselbrand
- Hullbreacher
- Iona, Shield of Emeria
- Karakas
- Leovold, Emissary of Trest
- Library of Alexandria
- Limited Resources
- Lutri, the Spellchaser
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Panoptic Mirror
- Paradox Engine
- Primeval Titan
- Prophet of Kruphix
- Recurring Nightmare
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Shahrazad
- Sway of the Stars
- Sundering Titan
- Sylvan Primordial
- Time Vault
- Time Walk
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Trade Secrets
- Upheaval
- Yawgmoth’s Bargain
The Commander banlist is updated quarterly, with announcements published the Monday before an expansion's prerelease.
The following cards are banned specifically in Academy:
- None
The Academy banlist is reviewed at each meeting of the Board of Visitors.