

Cards that raise power level concerns are instead restricted to one per deck. Rather, banned cards in Vintage are those that involve ante, manual dexterity (e.g. – Chaos Orb), or subgames (e.g. Unlike in the other formats, the DCI does not ban cards in Vintage for power level reasons. Vintage maintains a small banned list and a larger restricted list. Vintage - The Vintage format, formerly known as Type 1, allows cards from all sets that are legal for constructed play (known as an "Eternal" format).

As to the banning of individual cards within a format, Wizards Banned/Restricted list for each format is continually updated. There are six constructed formats, and although Wizards doesn't have a good reference to how/why sets rotate into and out of formats, Wikipedia does a good job of enumerating them, and describing what sets are legal for each format.
