Some types of cards, supertypes, subtypes or mechanics have been removed or changed either because of flavor reasons or rules modifications.
Obsolete card types
- Enchant Artifact
- Enchant Creature
- Enchant Dead Creature
- Enchant Land
- Enchant World
- Interrupt
- Mana source
- Summon
Obsolete artifact supertypes
Obsolete subtypes (creature/tribal)
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Obsolete keywords
Some keywords still exist but got replaced by better concepts and will therefore probably never be reprinted.
- Fading, replaced by Vanishing
- Fear, replaced by Intimidate, replaced by Menace as black/red evergreen evasion ability.
- Shroud, replaced by Hexproof
- Regenerate, replaced by Indestructible (until end of turn) [1]
Obsolete concepts
- Batches, replaced by the the stack.
- Bury, replaced by destroy and sacrifice
- Damage using the stack
- Mana burn
- Mana cost symbols
and 
, only used in Unglued - Carrying mana over to an other phase
- Phase abilities. Some older cards used the phrase “during [phase], [action]. Replaced with abilities that trigger at the beginning of a step or phase.
- Phased-out zone, replaced with the phased-out status
- Indestructible (as in "is indestructible"), became a keyword ability with the same name ("has indestructible").
Obsolete terminology
- "Caster", replaced by "controller"
- "Casting cost", replaced by "mana cost"
- "In-play zone", replaced by "battlefield"
- "Comes into play", replaced by "enters the battlefield"
- "Leaves play", replaced by "leaves the battlefield"
- "Remove(d) from the game", replaced by "exile(d)".
- "Unblockable", replaced by "can't be blocked".
Obsolete counters
- +0/+1 counter
- +0/+2 counter
- +1/+0 counter
- +1/+2 counter
- +2/+0 counter
- +2/+2 counter
- -0/-1 counter
- -0/-2 counter
- -1/-0 counter
- -2/-1 counter
- -2/-2 counter
References
- ↑ Error on call to {{WebRef}}: Parameters url and title must be specifiedMark Rosewater (2016-09-16). "". Tumblr.
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