Ban List Update
- Deflecting swat is banned
- Fierce guardianship is banned
- Mox amber is banned
- Mox opal is banned
- Lion's eye diamond is banned
- Maddening hex is banned
- Court of cunning is banned
Deflecting
swat/Fierce guardianship
The
use of these free cards, allowing very simple protection of the general or the
game plan, proved too oppressive for the format.
These
two cards were found to be integrated into almost all the decks playing these
two colors, offering a determining free effect, under a condition extremely
easy to obtain in this format.
The
existence of these cards only reinforced the power of combo decks like Emry,
Lurker of the Loch.
Mox
amber, Mox opal et Lion's eye diamond
On
02/26/2018, we had banned diamond and chrome moxes, believing that fast and
free mana were harmful to the format.
Since
then, mox amber has been edited, fitting into a large majority of decks and
making, among other things, any 1 mana general virtually free.
Additionally,
as new strategies emerged, such as Emry decks, or those exploiting Underworld
Breach, access to these free artifacts proved their dominance over the format.
Maddening
hex
Maddening
hex is a particularly aggressive red card created for the multiplayer EDH
format.
The
card is extremely oppressive, inflicting an average of 3.5 damage with each
activation (determined at random).
In
addition, its enchantment status means that there are only few answers and
makes a free triggers ability in a majority of cases.
The
massive impact that the card produces, in an already aggressive color, makes
the card too powerful to stay in the format
Court
of cunning
Court
of cunning is a special card whose mechanics can backfire on its owner.
However, this counterpart is easily circumvented by the strategies in which the
card is played : grinding, fast strategies, in which the card will participate
in the victory in all cases, or blue control strategies that can easily ensure
to keep the monarch. , because often accompanied by color with a large number
of (mass) removal.
If
Court of Cunning is not handled quickly, the game will be easily won by its
owner.