Banlist Policy
🚫Banlist Philosophy
- Nomad follows the Legacy format ban list as a baseline for card legality and power balance.
- All Nomad-specific gameplay restrictions (e.g., no tokens, no counters, no extra game pieces) are enforced on top of the Legacy ban list.
- Cards legal in Legacy but disallowed by Nomad’s rules (e.g., Bitterblossom, Wasteland, Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath) are also banned.
- Because Nomad is a singleton format, players may use one copy of any legal card unless it is banned under these combined restrictions.
Given the singelton nature of the format some of the legacy cards might not be as degenerate in this format. Notable cards on Legacy banlist that aren't Banned in Nomad:
- Arcum's Astrolabe
- Expressive Iteration
- Gitaxian Probe
- Gush
- Mana Drain
- Mind Twist
- Skull Clamp
- Sowing Mycospawn
| Card Name | Ban Reason | Source |
|---|---|---|
| All Planeswalkers | Uses loyalty counters | Nomad |
| All Persist creatures | Uses -1/-1 counters | Nomad |
| All Undying creatures | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Suspend cards | Uses time counters | Nomad |
| All Saga cards | Uses lore counters | Nomad |
| All Energy cards | Uses energy counters | Nomad |
| All Infect/Poison/Toxic cards | Uses poison counters | Nomad |
| All Dungeon cards | Uses external cards | Nomad |
| All Sticker/Attraction cards | Uses external components | Nomad |
| All Copy effects requiring tracking | Requires extra objects | Nomad |
| All Sunburst cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Outlast cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Fabricate cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Adapt cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All cards that create tokens | Token generation | Nomad |
| All Graft cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Modular cards | Uses +1/+1 counters | Nomad |
| All Living weapon like cards | Token generation | Nomad |