What changed for magic items in the 2024 D&D rules

This compares the mechanical fields — the ones that change how something behaves at the table. It deliberately does not report that the wording changed: the 2024 SRD rewrote almost every spell description into a new format, so “the text is different” is true of nearly everything and tells you nothing.

A field is skipped where either edition leaves it blank, because that is a gap in the source data rather than a change to the game.

Magic items that changed (16)

Compared on: Rarity, Attunement.

Magic item	What	2014	2024
Armor of Resistance	Attunement	yes	no
Armor of Vulnerability	Attunement	yes	no
Broom of Flying	Attunement	no	yes
Cloak of the Manta Ray	Attunement	no	yes
Eyes of the Eagle	Attunement	yes	no
Feather Token	Rarity	Rare	Uncommon
Figurine of Wondrous Power (Ebony Fly)	Attunement	yes	no
Hammer of Thunderbolts	Attunement	no	yes
Horn of Valhalla	Rarity	Rare	Legendary
Instant Fortress	Attunement	no	yes
Periapt of Health	Attunement	no	yes
Periapt of Proof against Poison	Attunement	no	yes
Potion of Invisibility	Rarity	Very Rare	Rare
Ring of Resistance	Attunement	yes	no
Staff of Swarming Insects	Rarity	Very Rare	Rare
Staff of the Python	Rarity	Very Rare	Uncommon

New in 2024 (153)

In 2014 but not 2024 (53)

Absent from the 2024 SRD. That is not the same as removed from the game — the SRD is a subset of what the books publish.