DCI(TM) Banned and Restricted List Announcement

Announcement Date: March 1, 2003
Effective Date: April 1, 2003

Standard:
No changes

Extended:
No changes

OnslaughtTM Block:
No changes

Type 1:
Berserk is unrestricted
Hurkyll's Recall is unrestricted
Recall is unrestricted

Earthcraft is restricted
Entomb is restricted

Type 1.5:
(All cards on the Type 1 Banned and Restricted Lists are banned in Type 1.5)
Berserk is unbanned
Hurkyl's Recall is unbanned
Recall is unbanned

Earthcraft is banned
Entomb is banned

Here is an explanation of the changes from Magic R&D:

UNRESTRICT

Recall
The fact that people are generally not playing a single copy of this
restricted card, combined with the fact that there are better ways to
get cards out of your graveyard, indicate that Recall should no longer
be restricted.

Hurkyl's Recall
Hurkyl's Recall no longer generates the ridiculous amounts of mana that
it used to before the restriction of Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, and 
Grim Monolith. Without all of these artifacts that can easily produce
more mana than they cost, we feel that Hurkyl's Recall no longer needs
to be restricted. Further, we see Hurkyl's Recall as a nice potential
sideboard card against many of the artifact-heavy decks.

Berserk
Berserk has been on the restricted list for a long, long time. We feel
that the thousands of extra cards and decks that have been added to
Type 1 have rendered this card less of a threat than it used to be. 
In addition, we think that unrestricting this card will open up many 
new deck archetypes to type 1.

RESTRICT

Entomb
Every good "tutor" card is restricted in type 1. Entomb is one of the
best tutors left in Type 1, and it now joins Demonic Tutor, 
Demonic Consultation, Enlightened Tutor, etc. on the restricted list.

Earthcraft
Earthcraft joins the many other combo cards that are restricted in Type 1.