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Seven Cards Are Banned In Magic: The Gathering's Standard Format, And There's No Prizes For Guessing What Got Hit

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Another wave of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering bans has come into effect, and there are a l𓃲ot of changes coming to Standard format. As of today, seven cards have been banned fromဣ Standard, which is the most we've had at once since 2020.

Across all formats, there are ten bans today, affecting Historic, Pioneer Best-of-One, and Alchemy, on top of all the changes coming to Standard. This makes it the largest ban wave since all the way back in 2005, according to our 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:TCG Lead Joe Parlock.

Here Are The MTG Bans Coming Into Effect Today

These are all the cards that can no longer be played in the affected for♐mats.

Standard

Cori-Steel Cutter
Abuelo's Awakening
Monstrous Rage
Heartfire Hero
Up the Beanstalk
Hopeless Nightmare
This Town Ain't Big Enough

Alchemy

Cori-Steel Cutter

Pioneer Best-of-One on MTG Arena

Tibalt's Trickery

Historic

Counterspell

There's a full detailing why all of these changes were made, but most of the focus is on Standard, as this format is seeing the most changes. H🌃ere, we are told that these cards are being banned because they either allow for "unhealthy play patterns" or "restrict viable deck-building options". All in all, the aim is to make Standard more fun to play until the next wave of bans in November.

"Seven is a lot of cards, even for our 'early rotation' window, and especially so since it has been over two years since any cards at all were banned in Standard," says lead play designer Jadine Klomparens. "Our last banned and restricted announc꧙ement was roughly three months ago, shortly after the release of Aetherdrift. At that time, Standard was looking fun and healthy. [...] The release of Tarkir: Dragonstorm in April had a dramatic effect on the Standard metagame, propelling Izzet Prowess to the top of the metagame on the wings of Cori-Steel Cutter."

Klomparens says that this deck accounted for 40 percent of the Standard metagame at a recent event, so it's un📖derstandable why these bans are being put in place. As the blog post explains, these cards were just getting played too much, and controlling the rest of the meta right now, as everyone else has to play around th🏅em.

However, another point our TCG Lead raises is that Vivi Ornetier has not been included in the bans, despite being part of๊ the problem. With that said, the sheer quantity of bans in Standard does make it clear that the team is eager to shift the meta.

The next 💞wave of bans will come later this year on November 24.