Ragavan And Alrund's Epiphany Finally Banned In Magic The Gathering's Latest Banlist Update
Wizards of the Coast has announced it is finally putting an end to Alrund's Epiphany in Magic The Gathering's Standard format. It, and two other cards, are officially banned as of today, with more cards being chopped for other formats.
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In the latest Banned and Restricted announcement, the biggest news is that Alrund's Epiphany is now banned in the Standard format. The card debuted in 2021's Kaldheim, where it sat mostly dormant until the Standard rotation later in the year. Thanks to the high-power answers to it rotating out, as well as the addition of highly synergistic cards like Galvanic Iteration in later sets, Alrund's Epiphany then utterly dominated the metagame for months.
Talking about the ban, Wizards said that Alrund's Epiphany has mostly been a problem at high level, competitive play, rather than in best-of-one matches on Arena. This was most keenly felt at the World Championships late last year, where over half of the top 16 decks used the maximum allowed number of copies of it. The ban is to ensure the competitive scene allows for "more mid-speed and slow archetypes".
Alrund's Epiphany isn't the only card getting banned in Standard. Another popular card in blue control decks was Divide By Zero, which bounced a creature or spell back to its owner's hand. Wizards pointed out an interaction between it and Lier, Disciple of the Drowned and Hullbreaker Horror from the two recent Innistrad sets that allows you to effectively lock your opponent out of the game as a primary reason for the ban.
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