Banned
Windfall
Sorcery · {2}{U}
Rationale
Why banned
Windfall refills your hand while forcing everyone to discard and redraw, a cheap and explosive card-advantage engine that powers combo and lock shells — especially alongside fast artifact mana. Banned at the format's founding as an overpowered draw-and-combo enabler.
Oracle text
What the card does
! This card is currently banned in Premodern. The oracle text is shown for reference only.
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Format authority
Cited from premodernmagic.com
Per Martin Berlin's Premodern format-authority site: premodernmagic.com/rules . premodernmtg.com mirrors the canonical banlist within 24 hours of any update.
Full analysis
The combo, the data, and the new metagame
Banned 2003-05-26. Rationale: Windfall refills your hand while forcing everyone to discard and redraw, a cheap and explosive card-advantage engine that powers combo and lock shells — especially alongside fast artifact mana. Banned at the format’s founding as an overpowered draw-and-combo enabler. Source: Martin Berlin, premodernmagic.com.
See also: /windfall/