DCI Banned and Restricted List Announcement

Announcement Date: December 1, 2001

Effective Date: January 1, 2002

Standard

No changes

Extended

No changes

OdysseyTM Block

No changes

Type 1

Restricted
Fact or Fiction

Type 1.5
(All cards on the Type 1 Banned and Restricted Lists are banned in Type 1.5)

Banned
Fact or Fiction

Watch List Update

No changes

Current Watch List

Force of Will

Explanation of Changes

Combining card drawing, tutoring, and graveyard-filing power, 
Fact or Fiction is clearly a potent card. When you throw in the fact that
it is an instant and has only one blue mana in its casting cost, 
Fact or Fiction becomes too strong for the Classic environment.