What is Classic Legacy?

Classic Legacy is an unofficial Magic the Gathering format, created in 2020 by Lluís Cortès, an Old School player from Barcelona. It is a tribute to what he considers to be the golden era of the official Legacy format, with Rise of the Eldrazi as the last legal expansion.

You can check out the list of legal sets here. Note that all reprints of the cards originally printed in this sets are legal, although first prints are preferred. For example, Onslaught fetch lands are preferred over Khans of Tarkir ones.

As you probably know by now, there are not restricted cards in Legacy, so if the card is legal, the you may always run the playset. Isn’t it cool? The banned cards list is here.

Our community

You can meet other Classic Legacy players joining or following the these social media profiles:

Rules

Classic Legacy tournaments are played with contemporary Magic: the Gathering rules:

  • The London Mulligan is used.
  • There is NO mana burn.
  • Combat damage does not use the stack.

As for the reprint policy: all reprints of legal cards are allowed, although we highly recommend the use of prints from the original legal sets.

Legal sets

  • Alpha

  • Beta

  • Arabian Nights

  • Unlimited

  • Antiquities

  • Revised

  • Legends

  • The Dark

  • Fallen Empires

  • Fourth Edition

  • Ice Age

  • Homelands

  • Alliances

  • Mirage

  • Visions

  • Fifth Edition

  • Portal

  • Weatherlight

  • Tempest

  • Stronghold

  • Portal Second Age

  • Exodus

  • Urza’s Saga

  • Urza’s Legacy

  • Sixth Edition

  • Portal Three Kingdoms

  • Urza’s Destiny

  • Mercadian Masques

  • Nemesis

  • Prophecy

  • Invasion

  • Planeshift

  • Seventh Edition

  • Apocalypse

  • Odyssey

  • Torment

  • Judgment

  • Onslaught

  • Legions

  • Scourge

  • Eighth Edition

  • Mirrodin

  • Darksteel

  • Fifth Dawn

  • Champions of Kamigawa

  • Betrayers of Kamigawa

  • Saviors of Kamigawa

  • Ninth Edition

  • Ravnica: City of Guilds

  • Guildpact

  • Dissension

  • Coldsnap

  • Time Spiral

  • Planar Chaos

  • Future Sight

  • Tenth Edition

  • Lorwyn

  • Morningtide

  • Shadowmoor

  • Eventide

  • Shards of Alara

  • Conflux

  • Alara Reborn

  • M10

  • Zendikar

  • Worldwake

  • Rise of the Eldrazi

Banned cards

Amulet of Quoz

Amulet of Quoz

Ancestral Recall

Ancestral Recall

Balance

Balance

Bazaar of Baghdad

Bazaar of Baghdad

Black Lotus

Black Lotus

Black Vise

Black Vise

Bronze Tablet

Bronze Tablet

Channel

Channel

Chaos Orb

Chaos Orb

Contract from Below

Contract from Below

Darkpact

Darkpact

Demonic Attorney

Demonic Attorney

Demonic Consultation

Demonic Consultation

Demonic Tutor

Demonic Tutor

Earthcraft

Earthcraft

Falling Star

Falling Star

Fastbond

Fastbond

Flash

Flash

Frantic Search

Frantic Search

Goblin Recruiter

Goblin Recruiter

Gush

Gush

Hermit Druid

Hermit Druid

Imperial Seal

Imperial Seal

Jeweled Bird

Jeweled Bird

Library of Alexandria

Library of Alexandria

Mana Crypt

Mana Crypt

Mana Drain

Mana Drain

Mana Vault

Mana Vault

Memory Jar

Memory Jar

Mind Twist

Mind Twist

Mind’s Desire

Mind’s Desire

Mishra’s Workshop

Mishra’s Workshop

Mox Emerald

Mox Emerald

Mox Jet

Mox Jet

Mox Pearl

Mox Pearl

Mox Ruby

Mox Ruby

Mox Sapphire

Mox Sapphire

Mystical Tutor

Mystical Tutor

Necropotence

Necropotence

Oath of Druids

Oath of Druids

Rebirth

Rebirth

Regrowth

Regrowth

Shahrazad

Shahrazad

Skullclamp

Skullclamp

Sol Ring

Sol Ring

Strip Mine

Strip Mine

Tempest Efreet

Tempest Efreet

Time Vault

Time Vault

Time Walk

Time Walk

Timetwister

Timetwister

Timmerian Fiends

Timmerian Fiends

Tinker

Tinker

Tolarian Academy

Tolarian Academy

Vampiric Tutor

Vampiric Tutor

Vengevine

Vengevine

Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune

Windfall

Windfall

Worldgorger Dragon

Worldgorger Dragon

Yawgmoth’s Bargain

Yawgmoth’s Bargain

Yawgmoth’s Will

Yawgmoth’s Will