Ice Age, the set in which Zuran Orb was printed, actually briefly left Standard before returning to Standard! As you can see, bannings in Standard usually signify a serious anomaly in the power level of a card. It turns out returning all your investment, gaining a bunch of life, and being a busted threat that they must deal with is still good in other format! While we saw new decks emerging, ultimately the top decks were able to adapt … Historic and Brawl Sections by Jay Parker. Siege Rhino has made Abzan the preferred BGx deck. Omnath alone refunds the card you spend on it and gains a bunch of life, but once you throw Fabled Passage into the mix, it also pays for itself the turn you play it, allowing you to have some incredibly busted turns. This will be effective from today, October 12th, so get crafting before the Arena client update comes out soon! Again this was more of people complaining about Omnath because they didn’t put answers in the deck. Those lists are maintained on the format pages themselves. Note: Remember that Historic has suspensions rather than bans, so these cards will later be unsuspended or moved onto the permanent banlist, and are currently in the limbo where Wizards figure out which they deserve. . Banned: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Fluctuator, Lotus Petal, Recurring Nightmare, and Time Spiral; Memory Jar was added later that month as part of an emergency ban. [Players] either played against a steady stream of combo decks, or they didn't play at all [. A brief history of the Standard banned list can be found here. To ensure greater diversity and health for the Historic meta, Omnath, Locus of Creation is suspended in Historic. Remember, the Equipment card type had just been introduced and was still brand new. The “Banned and Restricted” announcements for MTG are pretty polarizing within the community. I agree with your assessment about BBE. It’s no surprise to see them fully banned, and I’m glad. Without Omnath in the environment, ladder play data makes it clear that Adventure decks would remain as the strongest strategy. (I definitely anticipate seeing a Pioneer ban for it at some point here too, and Modern isn’t impossible either). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). While we did see a marked decline in the win rate of Four-Color Ramp after the banning of Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, particularly against red and green aggressive decks and Blue-Black Rogues, Omnath ramp decks continue to have a warping effect on the metagame. [1] "Combo Winter" was the name given to the era after the release of Urza's Saga, when the competitive Magic metagame was overrun by aggressive, overpowered combo decks. Even the recent Uro ban barely slowed these decks down, and thankfully it seems as though Wizards has decided to hit the problem directly this time round. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. In celebration of the upcoming Pro Tour and the ripples Magic Origins is sure to make on the format, let's take a look back at the history of the Standard Ban List. This banning also had an interesting and unique caveat. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Jace, the Mind Sculptor | Art by Jason Chan, Banned: Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic. 2. Why print something that is over powered and yet there are answers to these spells? Mind's Desire got banned in Legacy and Restricted in Vintage 6 days after it was printed. . And perhaps the return of Historic Mono Red Aggro as well? . Though win rates for these decks are lower in Historic than Standard, we are still seeing the meta share of decks using Omnath, Locus of Creation increasing steadily, particularly in Best-of-Three (where it is currently the most played deck). Posted in Arcana Urza's Saga was four months old when Memory Jar came out in Urza's Legacy. The list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, is here. The best and latest MTG deck lists. Players began leaving the game in droves. In celebration of the upcoming Pro Tour and the ripples Magic Origins is sure to make on the format, let's take a look back at the history of the Standard Ban List. Extended: Memory Jaris banned. It is no surprise that Omnath was by far the most played Brawl deck with the highest winrate; previous best decks like Niv-Mizzet, Reborn, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, and Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God were all doing far too weak a thing to keep up with the massive mana and card advantage Omnath gave you. Standard: Dream Halls, Earthcraft, Fluctuator, Lotus Petal, Recurring Nightmare, and Time Spiral are banned. While it’s common in a small-field invitational tournament for players to test together and converge on a few decks, in this case the field was a striking 23 Omnath decks out of a total of 32. In an article addressing the banning, Aaron Forsythe explained how Skullclamp slipped through the cracks during development. Omnath, Locus of Creation is a card that has always felt like it does far too much, and is a victim of the design approach where it feels recently as though Wizards has been trying to make cards that do absolutely everything, and where there’s no investment for playing them because they have so much immediate effect. We also have three current suspensions in Historic to resolve. Tolarian Academy is an infamously broken card that generated massive amounts of mana, given how many powerful artifacts saw play at the time. I would certainly expect so. With players emptying their hands incredibly quickly thanks to all of the cheap artifacts, playing Windfall often translated into "Turn one: your opponent discards seven cards and draws seven cards. Back in the old days, we’d pay 5 mana just to draw three cards, and we were happy with our lot!