Banned and Restricted Announcement

What Magic: The Gathering cards will receive the ban hammer? What formats will be affected?

Wizards of the Coast has made an announcement of an announcement with a scheduled Banned and Restricted announcement focused on Standard on May 29, 2023 – right after the major tournament Arena Championship 3. Prompted by the change to the…

Recently, a change to Standard rotation was announced to be a 3 year cycle from a 2 year cycle in an attempt to revitalize the Standard format at the tabletop levels. Following this news, Wizards of the Coast answered some…

There could be a Banned and Restricted announcement on the cards for Monday October 10, 2022! What formats and cards could be affected? The MTG Arena Zone team weighs in on the possibilities!

This morning, Wizards of the Coast took the MTG community by surprise by announcing a new set of Banned and Restricted changes, mostly focused on a card that players who’ve been around in the Arena for a while will be…

On Thursday, Wizards of the Coast announced a surprise banning in the Pauper format through a video on YouTube and a discussion later in the evening on their Weekly MTG stream. Three cards were removed from Pauper (Atog, , and…

Yesterday, the internet discovered that a ban announcement page had been created, and many suspected that would be the target based on its extremely heavy metagame representation. Today, it has come to pass: Brainstorm is Suspended in Historic. Ever since…

[UPDATE: The Announcement has been made- Brainstorm is Suspended in Historic.] Clever minds in the Magic social media sphere have discovered that banned and restricted announcements from Wizards of the Coast are usually created the day before they go public.…

The Strixhaven Championship which just took place over the last weekend was dominated by Jeskai Turns, a deck that was largely focused around casting and recasting . The Mystical Archive from Strixhaven has brought many powerful cards to Historic, but…

Once again, our predictions came to pass, but I don’t think this was particularly surprising to anyone. Wizards of the Coast has released their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, and as expected, half of the obscenely powerful combo has been banned. The…

Update: Announcement is now out – is banned. It appears that the Wizards of the Coast website has a banned and restricted announcement article queued up and ready to go for May 19th, which usually goes live at 8 AM…

Wizards of the Coast has released their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, as announced with their Secret Lair post, and there are a ton of changes to Historic and to older formats! On Arena, this will be effective from today, February 15th,…

Wizards of the Coast has released their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, and the speculation was proven right! This will be effective from today, October 12th, so get crafting before the Arena client update comes out soon! Remember that anything banned (but…

Update October 12, 2020: The announcement is out! After the conclusion of the 2020 Season Grand Finals (click on the link for our full coverage of the tournament), where we saw five of the top 8 Standard decklists dominate the…

Wizards of the Coast has released their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, banning Uro, Titan of from the Standard format as forecasted last Wednesday. This will be effective from today, September 28, so we have a small window to craft the card…

Hello my precious Warriors, Wizards, Clerics and Rogues! It was a bit over a week ago that Zendikar Rising hit MTG Arena, and we already have an exciting announcement of an announcement which was posted by the official Magic: The…

Wizards of the Coast has just confirmed that the next Magic: The Gathering banned and restricted announcement will be made on August 24th, and will include changes to the Historic format. For reference, see the below the current list of…

Wizards of the Coast has made their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, making changes to multiple formats. MTG Arena will also be affected as of July 16th 2020 (coinciding with Jumpstart’s release) in the Historic format only. The changes will…

Wizards of the Coast has just confirmed that the next Magic: The Gathering banned and restricted announcement will be made on July 13th, and will include changes to the Historic, Pioneer, Modern, and Pauper formats. For now, there will be…

Wizards of the Coast has published their long-awaited Banned and Restricted Announcement today, with changes to every single format with the Companion nerf, and to two specifically with bans MTG Arena will be affected from June 4th 2020, when the…

Wizards of the Coast has just confirmed that the next Magic: The Gathering banned and restricted announcement will be made on June 1st, and will be discussing changes to the Standard and Historic formats. In a shocking twist, they allude…

Wizards of the Coast has made their Banned and Restricted Announcement today, making changes to multiple formats. MTG Arena is also affected as of March 21, 2020 (when the update arrives) in the format only. Legacy and Vintage also received…

Wizards of the Coast has just confirmed that the next Magic: The Gathering banned and restricted announcement will be made on May 18, and will be discussing changes to the Vintage, Legacy and formats. This means that there will not…

As forecast last week, will be banned from once Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths hits MTG Arena on April 16, 2020. This is because of its innate Companion deck building restriction that does not really apply to singleton formats, and believed…

Wizards of the Coast has just confirmed that the next Magic: The Gathering banned and restricted announcement will be made on April 13, and will be discussing the new card in – even before its release. No other changes will…