Banned, Reserved, and Restricted Lists

One of the greatest aspects of Warlord since its first printing in 2001 to present day is its replayability. A major contribution to that replayability is having a wide variety of decks and strategies to choose from. It is a focus and the responsibility of Kingswood Games and The Guardians player committee to ensure that there are a healthy number of deck options available to players engaged in tournament play regardless of format.

When a card or deck reaches the point where a player’s only option is to use that card or pilot that deck - or build their deck specifically to beat it - then the card or deck may receive a spot in a format’s banned, reserved, or restricted list. By doing this, formats and metagames can avoid stagnation and present players with a variety of viable strategies.

Banned, reserved, and restricted lists only apply to the format they reference, so that a card might be banned in Alliance, but legal in Ancients. Additionally, banned, reserved, and restricted lists do not affect Limited formats (draft & sealed), but do apply to Constructed formats.

Banned Cards

If a card is listed as banned in a specific format, then you may not include that card in deck construction. If you include a banned card in your deck it will no longer be legal for use in any official tournaments for that format.

Furthermore, you may not bring a banned card into play under any circumstance including any in-game effect.

Reserved Cards

Reserved cards may not begin the game in play through starting armies or any in-game effect. Reserved cards are typically level 1 and 2 characters, but any card that may start in play due to a card effect could become reserved.

Restricted Cards

If a card is listed as restricted, then your deck may only include one copy. This restriction only applies during deckbuilding.

* Cards can appear on both the reserved and restricted lists within the same format. In this case a player may only include one copy of that card in their deck -and- may not start with that card in play through any means.

Ancients Banned, Reserved, & Restricted Cards

The following cards are Banned, which means you may not include them in your deck or bring them into play:

  • A Prophecy Fulfilled

  • Amber Gargoyle

  • Apprentice Ramah

  • Arcane Qor-teth

  • Brother Averil

  • Children of Yscar

  • Daedelia

  • Day of the Raven

  • Field of Bones

  • Gravity Flux

  • Healer’s Pact

  • Jautya Syne

  • Lilah

  • Limited Wish

  • Locked Ring

  • Malrog’s Lair

  • Medusan Lord’s Guile

  • Medusan Lord’s Might

  • Mirror Magic

  • Negotiated Surrender

  • Olivark the Quiet

  • One Last Time

  • Orm Al’Ghast

  • Overwhelm

  • Phoenix Feather

  • Rouse

  • Sakarian Manticore

  • Shadan Alder

  • Sword of Chaos

  • The Restless

  • Wyvern’s Flames

The following cards are Reserved, which means they may not start the game in play through any means:

  • Archer Tower

  • Ardanaalis

  • Cocoran

  • Brel

  • Edwann Ruthard

  • Makusog Cavalry

  • Nelwys

  • Ring of Blasting

  • Ring of Guile

  • Ring of Mending

  • Ring of Piercing

The following cards are Restricted, which means you may only include one copy in your deck:

  • Archer Tower

  • Helm of Undying

  • Improved Invisibility

  • Incentives

  • Into the Tunnels

  • Kapix

  • Nepheline Gargoyle

  • Nightmaster Rress

  • Nodwick

  • Paradigm Shift

  • Perfect Self

  • Phantasm

  • Suicidal Charge

  • Supply

  • Toren Yscar

  • Trade Routes

  • Yeg-Igryll’s Altar