The “Banned and Restricted” announcements for MTG tend to polarize the community. Bans are an important part of the formation and maintenance of constructed formats, and a huge part of the Magic ecosystem. They rightfully get a lot of chatter...
Read moreOne of the ways that WotC keeps Modern under control is by periodically banning cards that have become too powerful for the format to keep in check. Today I share some stories behind the banning of every card on Modern’s banlist and why they...
Read moreYet another B&R is upon us, folks. We speculated, and now we have some answers. The banhammer has skipped Standard once again, but we’ve got some major changes to Modern, Pioneer, and even Pauper.
Read moreIn addition to having an extremely limited card pool of Standard-legal sets from Fourth Edition to Scourge, Premodern has a small ban list aimed at the most powerful strategies that maintains the identity of the format.
Read moreAnother Banned and Restricted announcement is upon us, and it brings enormous changes to Standard.
Read moreIt’s time for another Banned & Restricted announcement. In a move that pretty much everyone who played the format coming, Standard caught a few bans that will invariably bring balance to the format. Pioneer will be affected comparably...
Read moreThe Game Changers list got a small overhaul in April, just a few months after the system was officially announced. Will more changes be made to the list in the June 30 Banned and Restricted announcement?
Read moreAfter dominating Modern since Modern Horizons 3, Nadu, Winged Wisdom has finally been banned.
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