What, exactly, would any of this accomplish? Again: Removing the card from the DB wouldn't be changing anything, it'd just be lying about how things are. The

What, exactly, would any of this accomplish? Again: Removing the card from the DB wouldn't be changing anything, it'd just be lying about how things are. The card does, in fact, exist. Collectors trying to get a complete set of Legends will try to get their hands on it whether or not Wizards lists it; lying about the card's existence doesn't change that. And banning it is incompatible with that! You can't list as banned a card you don't list at all. But fundamentally, even if we ignore all that, de-listing or banning the card wouldn't accomplish anything. (This is not a card that actually sees tournament play; a ban would be purely symbolic, in addition to setting the bad precedent that cards can be banned for non-gameplay reasons.) Apologizing and acknowledging the mistake is good, obviously, but they clearly have done that when asked about it. I think Mark Rosewater took the right approach above: They can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, but they can't undo them.