STANDARD. Reclamation has warped Standard to such an extent that the entire format has felt stale and tedious for months on end for much of the Standard player base, and it has been pointed out that Fires was banned for enabling too many absurd midgame turns and allowing you to cheat on mana to a ludicrous degree, which is precisely what Reclamation does (and often even better, especially in multiples!). Teferi, Time Raveler is a card so irritating to play against, so warps the rules of Magic while in play, that it has inspired far more complaints than even much more powerful cards like Oko, Thief of Crowns. Teferi was as incredible a disruptive tool in Historic as Standard, but could also do some broken things in Bant Scapeshift and Kethis Combo, allowing you to flood the board with Field of the Dead Zombies end of turn or have a completely undisrupted combo turn, while often costing much less than 3 mana, in Kethis. However we do want to give an update to the community on a few cards we are actively playtesting. Effective June 10th, 2020, Wizards of the Coast is removing seven cards from all their constructed formats. At that time, the environment had just seen the results of Players Tours 3 and 4, the companion rules change was recent, and Core Set 2021 had just entered the format. That was the ideal that Wizards had in mind, but that wasn’t the reality of the situation…. Banning Growth Spiral instead of Uro is just imbecile at best, a scam at worse (something that WotC is used to do, ban-wise, right now); Suprisingly I played against a bunch of Azorious Control decks too! 4- Banning Growth Spiral is also pretty lazy. Commander legends previews 2020-10-26; RC Statement on secret lair: the walking dead 2020-10-02; September 2020 quarterly update 2020-09-21; Gavin’s Format of the Month – August 2020: Sideboards 2020-08-01; New Voices: Yet another Golos Deck Tech 2020-07-27 While the reduction in tabletop tournaments due to the need for social distancing shortly after Pioneer’s launch earlier this year is certainly a factor, we’ve also seen a decline in Pioneer play rates on Magic Online throughout the course of the year. Such shells as Mono White Aggro have had a powerful aggressive plan backed up by this two card combo where both pieces are good anyway, and that has pushed them over the top. I built a Gruul Kaheera Fires deck, consuming quite a few rare and mythic wildcards (probably about 12 and 12) to build it since I wanted to see Kaheera succeed as a companion. While I personally believe that Uro is more of a problem and will remain so, and that Bant Ramp, the second best Growth Spiral deck in a format where Growth Spiral was really the only reasonable thing to play if you wanted consistent wins, is likely to grab Reclamation’s reins as best deck (because it still has Uro and is favoured against aggro as a result with very little effort), I still welcome the Growth Spiral ban and I certainly expect Bant to be weaker without it. I suspect Wizards is now looking to rectify that by swinging the banhammer at the best combo decks. The MTG Arena State of the Game address for August 2020 has released, and it’s jam-packed with information. Click here to see those. You can also check out the official list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, here. August 24, 2020 Banned and Restricted Announcement. Having watched the progress of this deck closely, we feel that this trend is unlikely to change. Historic and Brawl Sections by Jay Parker. Magic Online Banned and Restricted Policies. Ramp decks using Growth Spiral together made up 68% of the day 1 metagame at the Players Tour Finals and represent approximately 25–30% of the metagame at Mythic ranking on the Arena ladder. The list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, is here. Ramp decks, not just Reclamation, have been the best thing to do in Standard for most of this year, and Growth Spiral is in every single one as a 4-of. Is this the “sucks to be you, bottom feeder who doesn’t want to invest $150 a season”? A draft and strategy specialist, of special mention are his limited reviews and draft coaching service. Our intent is to dramatically reduce instances where players risk losing to a combo kill when tapping out in the early- to mid-game. No other formats will be impacted. We are seeing this deck put up significant numbers, representing over 10% of Best-of-Three games while maintaining concerning win rates. Lotus Breach is a deck that seeks to untap Lotus Field repeatedly to generate colossal amounts of mana, then use Underworld Breach to kill your opponents with basically anything (because it’s not very hard to win the game when you have unlimited mana) but usually a card as innocuous as Tome Scour. We also feel that Field of the Dead is unlikely to be a healthy part of the format anytime soon, so suspension is the wrong approach. I do not think these words are enough to fully sum up the depths of my hatred for this card; it is by far the worst of the four and has actively reduced my enjoyment of Standard more than any other card in recent times. But this kind of situations shake the confidence of the tabletop players on the WotC. Yep! This set of changes is a deviation from our usual banned-list philosophy for Standard, and as such, we consider it an experiment. We emphasize that these changes are, to a large degree, a product of the times and the current focus on digital play. Cards that reference “playing with ante”. That said, there are two places where we feel we have enough information that we should take action: Wilderness Reclamation and Teferi, Time Raveler. Saves a lot of headaches . This is perhaps one of the most impactful Standard bannings that Magic has ever seen. Omnath, Locus of Creation: suspended While Monday's banned and restricted announcement is certainly a taste of what's to come, it's somehow August already, which means rotation is right around the corner. Be gone Cat nobody will miss the hundreads of triggers making 20min+ games , And can’t talk about Reclamation cause last time I checked nobody played that in Bo1 , And Growth Spiral was nice though – pretty useful . Updated August 4, 2020. Banned List Update – October 2nd; Banned List Update – July 10th; Banned List Update: 04/24/2020; IKORIA – In a world of monsters, Jeskai’s the limit : Companion Rulings; Archives. There’s got to be a better way to help. In particular, its high win rate against slower decks has made the format as a whole lean more toward aggressive strategies. Commander legends previews 2020-10-26; RC Statement on secret lair: the walking dead 2020-10-02; September 2020 quarterly update 2020-09-21; Gavin’s Format of the Month – August 2020: Sideboards 2020-08-01; New Voices: Yet another Golos Deck Tech 2020-07-27 The official website and your best resource for MTG duel Commander games. Further, the number of triggers generated by these decks can be cumbersome for both players in digital play. It’s a more all-in combo deck than Inverter, but is much faster and can more consistently set up its combo. We want to ensure that Pioneer can deliver an enjoyable play experience to players who are looking for an accessible, nonrotating format that’s closer to Standard in power level and offers a variety of archetypes and decks to choose from. MTG Arena’s metas move a lot faster than the old paper ones ever did; it makes sense to have a far more dynamic banlist for a far more dynamic environment. Therefore, we’re making bans targeted at weakening decks that have been strong and popular at the highest levels of competitive play and at some cards and combos that have overstayed their welcome in the eyes of much of the Standard community. Recently, I started building a Temur Reclamation deck including rare and mythic wildcards and just started playing it this weekend. At many points in the last couple of years, it has felt as though you could not play cards that cost 3 or more (outside of aggro decks, which were good against Teferi so they didn’t care) that didn’t give you some kind of advantage if Teferi bounced them, and you certainly couldn’t play very many counterspells apart from Mystical Dispute, which was so heavily played because it was one of the best answers to him. :) Further individual explanations: One word to introduce those changes: except the Ikoria cards, all other changes are structurally linked. 3- Banning a card because it is annoying to play against it online is dumb. Here is the summary of today’s post and a round up of what’s to come in the upcoming patch as well as features in development: Introduction of Amonkhet Remastered cards to the Historic card pool will be the main focus of the update. Then the ban at the end of the month occurred and I only recouped some of those wildcards. October 12, 2020. What about a bump on vault, especially if the vault can actually come up 3-10x faster? 5- Banning cards piss of players that pay to get the physical cards. There always has to be a best deck in any Standard environment, but those of the last couple of years have had unprecedented levels of dominance. July 10th Banned List Update. I also buy many cards just because I like to collect and I like the art on MtG, usually. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In the last banned and restricted list update, we chose not to make any changes to Standard. In addition, we see a similar impact in Brawl to that described in the other formats. MTG Arena’s monthly update is coming on Thursday August 13, 2020! What’s on the docket? Well yea in Bo1 Mono Red is everywhere since Sacrifice Cat took a big hit! Ultimate Edition 2 will be available Spring 2021 at WPN stores around the world. The third territory from which Teferi has been unceremoniously banished forthwith, he was even more annoying in Brawl as a card that could be perpetually recurred at such a cheap cost. In Historic, we also find that the power of the reduced capability for interaction that Teferi, Time Raveler brings scales with the power of the interaction he’s preventing and the board he’s consequently protecting. Dimir Inverter was a deck that used Inverter of Truth to take out most of its library, and then used Thassa’s Oracle or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries to win the game instantly. Nexus of Fate relied completely and totally on Wilderness Reclamation, and the card was unreasonable in Historic for the same reasons as it was in Standard – getting to double your mana using a single card is just an inherently broken thing to do. Follow him on Twitter and check out his content at https://mtgazone.com/drifter. We did consider several other cards as alternative bans aimed at these same decks. Banned Cards. Much community discussion followed that update, prompting us to take a further look at the need for change in Pioneer. Yea I haven’t played paper in like 10y+ … online is much better for many reasons! Mtgdecks.net ©2009-2020. This has to be one of the most anticipated Magic: The Gathering Modern banned and restricted announcements in quite a while. We understand that this represents a large change to the Pioneer environment, and, frankly, that’s the intent. @WotC The Historic metagame is moving quickly right now; the addition of new cards through Jumpstart is having a large impact, as will Amonkhet Remastered when it arrives soon. There’s also the nice quality of life issue that banning Cauldron Familiar fixes, because it took a truly exhausting number of clicks and far too much time to execute on Magic Arena…. There are many of these new decks we are watching closely, but our strong preference in times like this is to give the meta time to develop naturally. There hasn’t been a deck quite as dominant as Hogaak since “Eldrazi Winter.”Everyone’s sideboard is packed full of graveyard hate, and it still isn’t enough to stop it. This material is provided "as is", with absolutely no warranty expressed or implied. Several things of note: 1- None of this cards is broken per se, like Oko was (although Teferi was almost up there), Trigger happy bannings are bad in many ways; 1st MtG is still a tabletop game (more less), 2nd you had a long time to do something about it, or did you miss watching MC VII? Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Finally, we’ll also be removing Teferi, Time Raveler from the environment. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Maybe the ban grants extra wildcards (as has been done) and a bump on the vault for each card in our collection in decks that exist in our collection prior to the announcement, especially if I crafted just for that deck? We look forward to hearing community feedback on this approach and will continue to keep an eye on the metagame going forward. EDH Update – Banned List Changes. Standard. 2019 was terrible, and 2020 is going worse, ban-wise. On Magic Story and Regionally Blocked Stories, Announcing Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition 2. These bans are primarily aimed at disrupting Inverter of Truth decks; Underworld Breach decks; the Heliod, Sun-Crowned plus Walking Ballista combo; and Kethis, the Hidden Hand combo decks. Joshua H. on AUGUST 2020 RULES – BANNED/RESTRICTED UPDATE; Shymoren on AUGUST 2020 RULES ... « Battle For Zendikar / September 2015 banlist / update. We touched on Wilderness Reclamation in our last banned and restricted list update, saying that, while it was powerful, we were only seeing it in problematic decks alongside Nexus of Fate. ; On Monday 8/24 there will be a Banned & Restricted list update for the Historic format. We’ve heard feedback that the frequency at which one finds themselves facing an opposing combo deck restricts deck-building options and can make play experiences unenjoyable. Read below for commentary, with official explanations of the changes below that. Carlos on AUGUST 2020 RULES – BANNED/RESTRICTED UPDATE; EL on AUGUST 2020 RULES – BANNED/RESTRICTED UPDATE; Concerned Citizen on AUGUST 2020 RULES – BANNED/RESTRICTED UPDATE; ... « Magic Origins banlist update. Another archetype that has maintained a high win rate over a long period of time is Black-Red (or Jund) Sacrifice, featuring the Cauldron Familiar and Witch’s Oven combo. They discuss Amonkhet Remastered and the upcoming previews, the Rotation and Renewal for 2021, and a whole host of changes coming to MTG Arena!There’s a brief discussion on Jumpstart, Brawl, and some Quality of Life updates for the game as a whole. Commander legends previews 2020-10-26; RC Statement on secret lair: the walking dead 2020-10-02; September 2020 quarterly update 2020-09-21; Gavin’s Format of the Month – August 2020: Sideboards 2020-08-01; New Voices: Yet another Golos Deck Tech 2020-07-27 Drifter is our site’s content manager and main editor! The nature of the announcement and the reason for the bans are inextricably linked. Unlike the other three combo decks I mention, this combo is entirely unaffected by graveyard hate, which gives it a lot of resiliency and potency in Pioneer, where players tend to pack a lot of that. Therefore, we’re choosing to ban Inverter of Truth, Underworld Breach, Walking Ballista, and Kethis, the Hidden Hand in Pioneer. I also saw much more Flash decks – even in Bo1 – mostly Simic and Dimir. Jul. November 2020; October 2020; July 2020; April 2020; January 2020; December 2019; November 2019; October 2019; August 2019; July 2019; June 2019; May 2019 It’s heavily played in the meta because UGx decks are broken, and have been for a while now. While Cat Oven has not been in the best deck really at any point, it has always formed of the core of several good ones, and I suspect Wizards felt it would be too oppressive without Growth Spiral’s looming presence. Until then, we wish you all many good games! Not only did they decide to make changes to just Standard, but they touched on Historic, Pioneer and Brawl as well. Submit a support request to Wizards, and I’m sure they’ll sort it out: https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. As a result of this we have seen both the popularity and win rate of Field of the Dead decks steadily climb, and it is currently one of the most played Best-of-One decks and, by far, the most popular Best-of-Three deck. Many decks in Standard play as many as 29-30 lands mainly to ensure that their Growth Spirals and Uros always have lands to put into play, because being ahead of your opponents on mana in a Standard environment with so many good 4 and 5 drop plays is enough to absolutely crush your opponents and keep pace with any fast deck, while going over the top of the slower ones. Growth Spiral has enabled Reclamation’s dominance almost as much as the namesake enchantment, being the best card to draw in any opening hand, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Thassa’s Oracle was one that we discussed as a lighter touch for weakening Inverter and Breach decks. MTG Arena Zone © 2020. While we’d considered banning Teferi, Time Raveler in past updates, one reason we didn’t was evidence that it was helping hold Wilderness Reclamation decks in check. Walking Ballista, a powerful card that has seen tons of play by itself, was pushed over the top with the printing of Heliod, Sun-Crowned. Commander Legends releases on November 20, 2020. I disagree to a big extent with this bans. With Wilderness Reclamation leaving the environment, we feel it’s also time for the Standard metagame to move on without Teferi, Time Raveler. Now, the deck is nerfed again but only getting some of the wildcards back and not even the rares I have the hardest time accumulating. You can learn more about our database at our Google Dataset. All right. Since then, we’ve seen a Temur Reclamation list grow steadily in Historic that leverages both Expansion // Explosion and Field of the Dead. Ultimately, how much fun players are having with the environment is the most important driving force behind B&R updates, and so we’re choosing to ban four cards to shake things up and push the competitive metagame away from combo decks. Get better monkeys to test the cards before releasing product. Wilderness Reclamation is banned.. Growth Spiral is banned.. Teferi, Time Raveler is banned.. Cauldron Familiar is banned.. Banning cards after over an year in the meta is lazy af; Kethis decks are currently among the top 5–0 trophy winners in Magic Online Pioneer leagues, despite being a modest portion of the field. This Week in Magic Arena Updates the Mastery System, Again. Teferi, Time Raveler is one of the most played commanders in Brawl, appearing in over 10% of games, and he has one of the highest win rates. However, Inverter decks are still capable of winning with Jace, Wielder of Mysteries alone, and it isn’t clear that a Thassa’s Oracle ban would be enough to push Inverter decks out of the competitive metagame. #commander ban list, #iona shield of emeria, ... August 2020; July 2020; June 2020; May 2020; April 2020; March 2020; February 2020; January 2020; December 2019; wow gj wotc you just made more people just want to drop mtga since everyone is gonna be playing mono u and flash decks galore with no way to win unreal. Posted in News on August 24, 2020 This effect scales with the ubiquity of Field of the Dead decks, and recent sets have given the deck several powerful additions, including Cultivate, Explore, and, most recently, Hour of Promise. Outside of the very top levels of competitive play, including throughout most of the MTG Arena traditional Standard ladder, we’re seeing a good distribution of deck diversity and win rates. on August 24, 2020. MTG Arena effective date: July 16, 2020. 13. I didn’t know shit about pioneer till I read that, format seems cool, they need to put it on arena already, Traditional Standard (BO3) Metagame Tier List, Traditional Historic (BO3) Metagame Tier List. While we saw new decks emerging, ultimately the top decks were able to adapt and retain their metagame share. Some recent versions of the Underworld Breach deck even forgo Thassa’s Oracle entirely. I can see your point. “Craft the Standard cards you don’t own if you want them for free!” I wish I hadn’t followed this advice….I crafted 4x Teferi this morning before the ban, and I didn’t get any of my wildcards back now that the ban’s in effect , That is strange, you should have done if you crafted them before the ban. Banned List Update – October 2nd; Banned List Update – July 10th; Banned List Update: 04/24/2020; IKORIA – In a world of monsters, Jeskai’s the limit : Companion Rulings; Archives. Yeah I don’t play in paper for sometime now, although I keep doing drafts because they’re cool. Next month, Standard bids farewell to Guilds of Ravnica, Ravnica Allegiance, War of the Spark, and Core Set 2020 as Zendikar rises once more. Unlike the Standard variant, there was a lot less play involved in the Historic version – it was consistent and efficient enough that it did the same thing most games, and could cast Explosion early, often, and for huge amounts. Merci pour la toupie, ca fait vraiment plaisir ! Those lists are maintained on the format pages themselves. Here’s the full list of cards in every format: Standard. Over the last three months, Duel Commander events have been more numerous and more populated. This isn’t necessarily indicative of how we’ll announce and implement in the future, and we’re continuing to look at how we balance giving players advance notice versus staying agile with respect to changing metagames. Last Updated – November 6, 2020 Previous Updates – October 2nd,2020 July 10th, 2020 Jan 2020, October 2020, August 2019, April 2020. The next announcement will be published on August 24, 2020 (applying on August 28, 2020). The August 3rd, 2020 Banned and Restricted announcement is live! As a singleton format, Brawl requires you to run more cards to meet the deck requirement, and often you would end up having to include cards that Teferi was absurdly good against, such as expensive artifacts and creatures that didn’t do anything the turn they came into play, counterspells, or cards like Emergent Ultimatum which flat out did not work, so you’d often be down 1-2 cards in your games against Teferi decks. The Standard variant rewarded skill, had tons of interesting lines, and was fun to play, while the Historic variant was just broken nonsense. Green Ramp was targeted by many early bans, which greatly reduced its power, and for pretty much this entire year, Pioneer has been the land of combo decks that are uninteractive, difficult to disrupt, and unfun to play against (the trifecta of complaints that always surround combo decks), and as a result a lot of its early advocates have run far away from it. 24 Responses so far. Fantastic commentary! The two form an infinite combo – if you give Ballista lifelink while it has two counters on it and you have Heliod out, you can remove a counter to ping your opponent which immediately nets you another counter, and allows you to deal infinite damage. As the newest paper format, Pioneer started life as a format from which cards were banned almost weekly, as Wizards tried to flesh it out. Announcement is now up! As with all suspensions, we will be closely monitoring the impact this has on the format. The deck has been taking down plenty of Magic Online Challenges of late, and it seems that Wizards is unwilling to ban several of Pioneer’s best combo decks only to have a new one immediately take up their mantle! Posted in News We will be following suit in Oathbreaker. Let’s take a look at the banlist update from July 2nd 2018 (before we started getting regular updates because of the turbulent nature of recent card design) to now. There will be an Arena update today, with the bans going live then. In order to bring a greater diversity to the Historic meta, Field of the Dead is banned. For example, 4 rare wildcards for Fires of Invention plus 8 “rare bumps” and 12 “mythic bumps” on my vault. In the case of Cauldron Familiar, we’re taking the opportunity not only to improve the metagame short term but also remove a balance risk and undesirable play pattern leading into next year. I was confused as to why they had banned Nexus of Fate in the Historic banlist announcement last month, because in Magic, it has almost always been correct to ban the enablers rather than the payoffs – the power level of decks has generally been centred around those; they determine a deck’s efficiency and speed, and are generally harder to replace. I know many of you lovely readers on our site don’t know much about Pioneer, so let me fill you in! It’s clear that many players who have been, or could be, interested in Pioneer are ready for a change. Posted in News But in an era of social distancing, the proportion of Standard play occurring on digital platforms has increased substantially. Wizards of the Coast shocked the Magic: The Gathering community today with a new MTG banned and restricted list update that placed a staggering 11 cards on the banned or suspended list across four different formats. Omnath, Locus of Creation: banned; Lucky Clover: banned; Escape to the Wilds: banned; Historic. Early on, it was one of the most popular Magic formats and much of the paper population was filled with hope for it; it included some much beloved sets, starting with Return to Ravnica, one of the earliest sets in which I played Standard and a time I cherished, where Control, Aggro, and Midrange were all popular and powerful strategies without any being too oppressive. Today we recap Wizards of the Coast’s update to the Magic the Gathering B&R List. Bans can be super annoying if they ban cards from the deck you just spend weeks crafting! August 3, 2020 Standard Bans: 12 Deck Archetypes to Prepare for the Post-Ban Metagame Standard There always has to be a best deck in any Standard environment, but those of the last couple of years have had unprecedented levels of dominance. Although we continue to see many different decks have success in Pioneer, and no decks with problematic win rates against the field, we do see that combo decks as a group make up a large portion of the competitive metagame. “MTGO […] While win rate data may not point to change being needed, a different, more important set of data does: player participation. For formats that exist in tabletop as well as Magic Online, banned and restricted announcements are announced on Mondays by Tabletop Studio (R&D), and are effective … I spoke enough about why I dislike Teferi, Time Raveler in the Standard section, but let me add on that the prospect of an eternal format polluted perpetually by his presence saddened me, and I am even more glad that he is gone here, since at least he would’ve rotated out of Standard shortly. For now, there will be no changes to Standard or Brawl – Historic is the only Arena format affected. New changes to the EDH banned list! With that in mind, we view this set of changes as an early rotation for those cards to help freshen up the remaining summer metagame. Use the links below to view any of those pages. We s upport the message they are sending through this action, and stand with them in attempts to foster a more inclusive and positive culture. With last month’s Standard banned and restricted update, we highlighted that we’d continue to monitor the Standard metagame as well as Omnath, Locus of Creation decks and would make further changes if necessary. While Kethis combo decks are a relatively new reemergence in the metagame, we’re seeing signs that these decks are already problematic and would become more so if other top decks were weakened. November 2020; October 2020; July 2020; April 2020; January 2020; December 2019; November 2019; October 2019; August 2019; July 2019; June 2019; May 2019 — Magic: The Gathering (@wizards_magic) August 21, 2020. In what manner is a Simic Manamorphose broken that it needs to be banned. No changes at this time ...ish. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Craft the Standard cards you don’t own if you want them for free!” I wish I hadn’t followed this advice….I crafted 4x Teferi this morning before the ban, and I didn’t get any of my wildcards back now that the ban’s in effect , August 3, 2020 Standard Bans: 12 Deck Archetypes to Prepare for the Post-Ban Metagame, https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. 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