Wizards announced additions to the banned and restricted lists today for both Standard and Modern formats.
Effective Date: January 20, 2017
Magic Online Effective Date: January 11, 2017
On the chopping block for Standard is…
Emrakul, the Promised End – Banned.
Smuggler’s Copter – Banned.
Reflector Mage – Banned.
The full list of cards banned in Standard is here.
Modern looses the following…
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Golgari Grave-Troll – Banned.
The full list of cards banned in Modern is here.
…we banned three cards in Standard—Smuggler’s Copter; Emrakul, the Promised End; and Reflector Mage—to improve and diversify the Standard environment. These changes were driven by play data that demonstrated an imbalance in Standard as well as anecdotal evidence that players found these specific cards to limit their ability to stay competitive with creative, fun, diverse decks. Let’s look at these card by card.
Emrakul, the Promised End—Created to be scarily powerful, Emrakul, the Promised End delivered on that promise too well. Emrakul faced too little resistance and ended games too easily. She was the world-ending, all-powerful monster she was in the story, which was too much for Standard.
Smuggler’s Copter—Simply put, Smuggler’s Copter is too efficient and shows up in too many decks, diminishing the format’s diversity. We want Planeswalkers, sorcery-speed removal, and a variety of vehicles to be viable options, and believe removing Smuggler’s Copter will allow them to flourish again. Of the top archetypes in Standard, very few didn’t play four copies of Smuggler’s Copter, stifling many creative, fun options. Smuggler’s Copter was the result of a new card type pushed too far, and, as such, is now banned.
Reflector Mage—Our data showed the White-Blue Flash deck was too powerful against the field, and Reflector Mage has been on players’ lists of most-disliked cards since the days of Collected Company. Other cards were discussed to check White-Blue Flash, but Reflector Mage came up time and time again as both frustrating and a targeted way to diminish the White-Blue Flash deck.
Gitaxian Probe—Gitaxian Probe increased the number of third-turn kills in a few ways, but particularly by giving perfect information (and a card) to decks that often have to make strategic decisions about going “all-in.” This hurt the ability of reactive decks to effectively bluff or for the aggressive deck to miss-sequence their turn. Ultimately, the card did too much for too little cost.
Golgari Grave-Troll—Dredge, the mechanic and the deck, has a negative impact on Modern by pushing the format too far toward a battle of sideboards. With the printing of Cathartic Reunion and Prized Amalgam, the deck once again became unhealthy for the format. While those cards were discussed, the real offender always has been the dredge mechanic itself.