Magic the gathering's banning of 7 cards due to "racism" (2020)
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Magic the gathering's banning of 7 cards due to "racism" (2020) by 
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-13 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-13 +Created 1970-01-01Official announcement: magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depictions-racism-magic-2020-06-10
List of cards with images: www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/wizards-bans-7-cards-that-depict-racism-including-invoke-prejudice/
- Invoke prejudice: depicts the Ku Klux Klan. Card's title clearly criticizes them "prejudice".
- Stone-Throwing Devils: not sure about this one: boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/54341/what-is-offensive-about-the-card-stone-throwing-devils
- Cleanse: it does not seem to have any reference to black people, image depicts fantastic animals. There are hundreds of cards that talk about black since it is one of the 5 colors of magic.
- Pradesh Gypsies: does not appear to suggest any bad things about gypsies, on the contrary
- Jihad: does not appear to suggest any bad things about Islam, on the contrary
- Imprison: depicts a black slave. Let's pretend it never happened.
- Crusade: pretend it never happened
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