Distant Memories Temporarily Banned In Four Formats On Magic Online

An exploitable bug has lead to Distant Memories being temporarily banned in four formats.

By John Hall

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

Distant Memories by Karl Kopinski

Due to an exploitable bug, Distant Memories has been temporarily banned in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander until further notice.

Due to an issue with Distant Memories it has been banned in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander until we can deliver a fix. Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention.
— Magic Online (@MagicOnline) May 22, 2020

Shared on the MagicTCG subreddit by user najdorf, the bug involves the opponent not being given the prompt to put the card selected by Distant Memories into the caster’s hand, at which point the opponent is left with their clock winding down with no way to stop it.

Distant Memories is bugged on mtgo and people are actively exploiting it. Casting it is an auto-win because it is bugged and doesn’t let you pick an option so your clock just runs down.
byu/najdorf inmagicTCG

In addition to the card being removed from Magic Online until the bug can be fixed, many frustrated users have taken to Twitter, demanding punishments be given to players who actively exploited this bug.

Please hand out acording punishments to people that actively abused this.
— Florin-Cristian Loghin (@Malakxy) May 22, 2020

Thought better of my last retweet about the Distant Memories bug. I assume the person wants the attention. I don't really want to help give it to them.
— Saffron Olive (@SaffronOlive) May 22, 2020

Currently, there is no estimate for Distant Memories’ return to legality in any of the four formats.