Notable Cards
- Memory Jar — After many powerful cards from Urza's Saga and a few preceding sets were banned, the DCI was wary of more such combo cards. As Randy Buehler states in an article about the banning "players began leaving the game in droves" due to the dominating presence of combo decks at the time (nicknamed "Combo Winter"). Memory Jar was expected to herald new combo decks and mere days after Urza's Legacy became tournament legal an extremely fast combo deck built around Jar was showing up. The DCI decided that another three months of combo decks dominating the tournament scene wouldn't do and banned the card outside the usual schedule in what has been the only "emergency banning" in the history of the game.
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