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Instant
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Motivation was high in the academy once students realized flunking their exams could kill them.
Formerly banned
Unbanned Aug 2019; now the engine of Frantic Storm / Frantic Returns.
- Unbanned in Premodern
- 20 August 2019
- Status today
- legal
- Research
- Research confidence: High confidence
- First printed
- First printed in Urza's Legacy (15 February 1999).
Official reasoning
“High Tide is not in Premodern though, and in the testing that I've done with the card... it has not shown to be broken.”
Premodern changes
Other formats (Wizards)
Historical context, not Premodern decisions.
- VintageRestricted
- LegacyBanned
- ExtendedBanned
- VintageUnrestricted
- PauperBanned
Sources
- MTG Wiki: Banned and restricted cards/Timeline
- MTGBans.info per-card timelines (effective dates; site's AI-generated rationales NOT used)
- MTG Wiki: Legacy
- Wayback: premodernmagic.com/banned-watched/ 2018-05-06 (34 banned, 5 watched)
- Ban List Update 2019 (Martin Berlin, 2019-08-20)
- Scryfall card data (printings, release dates)
Research as of 18 October 2026.
In our decks
Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Frantic Search (main or sideboard): 4,173 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 6.7%
- −1.8 ppdown 21.3% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 7.4%
- +1.6 ppup 28.4% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 281
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 3.0
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Replenish100% of lists · 212
- Unclassified8% of lists · 33
- Madness30% of lists · 16
- Survival11% of lists · 13
- Enchantress1% of lists · 3
- Reanimator4% of lists · 2
Printings (16)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
