Thursday, September 20, 2012

September 20th: DCI Banned and Restricted List Announcement

So for those paying attention today is the quarterly period where wizards of the coast decides to change how they do specific things and if specific cards should be banned and unbanned as usual, so without further ado let's find out what wizards of the coast decided to unban or ban perhaps.

Standard, Legacy and Extended: No Changes

Well this isn't too expected, standard didn't need to be changed and legacy's way too diverse a format to have anything changed, considering legacy has Land Tax back from the last B&R list announcement and extended's a dead format pretty much.

Modern: Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle is Unbanned

This is nice, meaning we just say saw this card rise from a 2 dollar card, to a 5 dollar card literally over night due to this announcement, it's going to be interesting to see if Valakut stays controllable when the next B&R announcement hits.

Vintage: Burning Wish is Unrestricted

Whoa, this is perhaps the bigger of the two, wizards just went and unrestricted this beast for this format, so meaning we will probably start seeing it a lot more but there are very few vintage tournaments these days to speak of.

So apparently the banned and restricted list announcement is moving to a specific day after the prerelease of a new set, starting of course with Gatecrash, the set prerelease's will have a announcement the Monday after each one as of now, meaning we no longer have to worry about specific dates of course, as well there was a few changes to the rules and that stuff, read them at the following link below.

Wizards Ban List Announcement

It also has a explanation behind each unbanned card this time around, but that's all she wrote, until next time this is vergil signing off.

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