Tiny Leaders: Reborn

Summary of Changes Underworld Breach – Remains on Watchlist Ketramose, the New Dawn – Banned as Tiny Leader (Commander) Underworld Breach - Remains on Watchlist Since our last Ban and Watch update, Underworld Breach hasn’t really made any big waves in the meta. We could have easily taken it off the watchlist. However, with Ketramose now banned from the CZ, a deck that naturally kept Underworld Breach in check, we’ve decided to take a more cautious approach and keep it under watch a little longer. Ketramose, the New Dawn - Banned as Tiny Leader (Commander) Ketramose, the New Dawn first rose to prominence in the Reborn Rumble tournament series, putting three players in the top 8 of an event almost immediately after releasing. In the following months, its two main pilots never missed a Rumble top 8 until they shook hands and agreed that the deck was too miserable of a play experience to continue playing. The next time Ketramose showed up at a Rumble, it won two events back-to-back. Althou...

  The Philosophy of Tiny Leaders: Reborn At its heart, Tiny Leaders: Reborn (TLR) is built on what we call The Rule of 3 , the idea that every card you play must have a mana value (MV) of three or less . At the format’s inception, The Rule of 3 applied not only to mana value but also to color identity ,  meaning your deck’s commander and all cards had to share a restricted three-color identity or less. With the advent of Tiny Leaders: Reborn, we retired the color identity restriction but kept the MV limitation as the format’s core identity. Over the years, Magic’s card designs have grown increasingly complex. Split cards, adventures, MDFCs, and other multi-part cards pushed us to clarify what we really mean by “every card has MV ≤ 3.” So we asked ourselves: Should TLR legality be based purely on WotC’s official MV definitions, or should we take a stricter approach where each face, half, or option must independently meet the MV ≤ 3 requirement? This led to two competing philoso...