Banned and Restricted Announcement – March 31, 2025

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-announcement-march-31-2025

Modern:

  • Underworld Breach is banned.

Legacy:

  • Sowing Mycospawn is banned.
  • Troll of Khazad-dûm is banned.

Pauper:

  • Basking Broodscale is banned.

  • Kuldotha Rebirth is banned.

  • Deadly Dispute is banned.

  • Prophetic Prisim is unbanned.

  • High Tide is unbanned.

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4 Comments

mike@mtgzone.com · 8 pts · 1y

I personally think these are all positive bans. It’s unfortunate that bans are needed every cycle lately, but these are all good ones to me.

Breach is a card that should never have been printed. Yawgmoth’s Will was already insane, and printing the same thing for 1 mana cheaper was a huge mistake imo. This is just now finally catching up to reality. There was talk of banning Mox Opal but I think that is too premature when the obvious issue right now is Breach.

Sowing Mycospawn should never have been printed. And Troll was enabling too much efficiency for Blue/Black decks. I think both of those were the right hits right now. I know there’s tons of talk about banning Reanimate, Daze, Entomb, etc but these are absolutely the right hits for now in my opinion. I think waiting to see what a format without Troll looks like is better than hastily banning any of the core cards. I’d like to see Bowmasters gone next.

Lumun@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Good bans. I still hate long standard but not much to be done about that.

7yrael@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I‘ve actually started to like long standard, but imo this calls for more supensions (Not necessarily bans) keeping the 4-5 S-Tier decks in check to leverage on the huge card pool and take a chance at a really good meta with more variance than ever.

Lumun@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y

The format balance is healthy but it's just boring seeing the engine/staple cards for so long. Beans and Rage are perfectly fine power-wise but they just set the deck types way too much and everything has to conform to those cards. Sure, the threats have changed but the framework is stagnant