Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Pauper
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Alchemy
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Historic
Timeless
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Brawl
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Howdy, gamers!
My name is Carmen Klomparens, and I’m a senior game designer on Magic‘s Play Design team. Time to gather ’round for 2026’s second banned and restricted announcement. In the first announcement of this year, tabletop 60-card formats saw stability and we announced a number of refreshes for MTG Arena. Today’s announcement is a bit closer to the previous one than the updates we’ve had over the last couple of years and is in line with our current…