June 24, 2024, Banned and Restricted Announcement - No changes in all formats
June 24, 2024, Banned and Restricted Announcement - No changes in all formats
Announcing no changes and updates for formats as of June 24, 2024.
Brawl players picked up many new tools with Modern Horizons 3
Is Brawl no longer 60 Card Singleton Standard cards only?
I think they quietly renamed Historic Brawl to "Brawl" and then Brawl became "Standard Brawl". That's just from what I've seen online but I don't if that's formal or anything.
Interesting that they considered banning Atraxa or Knight-Errant from Standard. While I wouldn't shed a tear for either one, I can't honestly say that the format is unbalanced right now. Those decks are strong but beatable, and their metagame shares are reasonable.
In fact, I've been playing Poison Burn for so long that I actually look forward to facing Domain Ramp. And I think losing the triomes, and thus the potential for turn-two Leylines, will slow the deck down by a lot.
On the other hand, I don't understand the argument that losing Voldaren Epicure will significantly hurt Boros Convoke. I hardly ever see that deck play Knight-Errant on turn 2, and yet I still lose to it plenty. If I could ban one card from the deck, I'd choose Imodane's Recruiter, or maybe Warden of the Inner Sky.
Epicure means that they have two different 1 drops that make an artifact which they can turn into 3 goblins the following turn.
With only one 1 drop, there probably isn't the value in running Gleeful Demolition. Which makes their starts much less explosive.