Ban List Update : Dominaria

• Mox Diamond is banned
• Chrome Mox is banned
• Sword of Body and Mind is unbanned

Mox Diamond and Chrome Mox

As for the duel commander, the balance of the Moxes relies on the sacrifice of active ressource at games starts. However, the commander is a redundant resource available all game long, and in the Tiny Leaders 1 or 2 lands + mox means most of the time that you will be able to play your commander as early as turn 2.
Most commanders will make a direct impact on games such as giving you immediate new ressources as remplacement, or needing more than 1 card to handle with. These decks are able to make profitable the moxes even in mid games where they recycle them for card advantage (ex : liliana of the veil +1 ability, jace vryn’s prodige, brainstorm shuffling...)
The combination of the characteristics of these 2 moxes (not requiring strict building like Opal or Amber) along Tiny explosiveness and commander repeatable ressource creates an undesireble variance.
For creating an imbalance in the games and too often determine the outcome of games, those two cards (Mox Diamond + Chrome Mox) are now banned.


Sword of Body and Mind

Considering :

- This Sword like all the others needs a creature to be equipped. Like for the other swords, it will take almost 3 to 4 turns to be able to kill and opponent (maybe 2 only if equipped on a double-strike creature).
- Most tournament results seems to show Control decks are really well positioned in metagame, and the decks based on agressives creatures are in the second half of tournament (except Aggro/Burn, Combo based creature and Midrange Strats)
- Milling opponent is as in all EDH formats isn’t the best idea in many matchups (using a lot their discard pile)
- This Sword have two of the worst color protection against targeted anticreature spells and abilities
We think it is healthy to allow this again, keeping a eye on tournament results.
Sword of Body and Mind is now allowed in your decks.