

The opponent is then forced to remove either of the two creatures generated by this card as they create so much value from just casting it with 3 mana. Imagine all the enter the battlefield effects you can take advantage of if not removed immediately. Last is having its flip card faced up with Reflection of Kiki-Jiki having the powerful ability of creating a token copy of anything on your board, giving it haste and sacrificing it until end of turn. With just the trigger on attack of the token, you're already getting so much value off of it, while having the turn of looting up to two cards.

At first upon cast, Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki creates a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman token with “Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token.” This then ramps you immediately to your next turn of having 5 mana on curve instead of 3. The saga provides 2 creatures and a chance to loot and dig through your deck in each of its stages. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki is banned.įable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki is found in all of the metadecks involving the color Red because of how much value it gives to the player with just 3 mana.The following cards will be banned for the current Standard format of Magic: The Gathering and Magic: The Gathering Arena. Now, they will be ineffective from Standard format as they will be added to the ban list effective on for Tabletop and Magic Online, and for MTG Arena. It creates too much value that is not punishable, which then makes the game easier for users of the cards to gain advantage. Wizards of the Coast has officially released their succeeding ban list as they have seen the rise of some cards to be too overpowered in the current format. Another card became so much of a staple that almost all decks involved this artifact vehicle because of the card draw it generates, otherwise in their side-deck. There are two notable cards that would always be in any Rakdos deck because they are too value generating to have, given their cost is not that high.

Most of the released cards formed the perfect Midrange Rakdos deck where most of metadecks were built. Here's the details on all of the included cards for Magic: The Gathering's ban list for Standard Format.Įver since Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty was released, there were a lot of amazing cards that were too powerful or too value generating for players not to play them in their deck. The official announcement for MTG Standard Format ban list is here and there are three key cards that will be removed to balance the game.
