Banned and Restricted Announcement – November 10, 2025
Standard
- Vivi Ornitier is banned.
- Screaming Nemesis is banned.
- Proft's Eidetic Memory is banned.
Pioneer
- Heartfire Hero is banned.
Legacy
- Entomb is banned.
- Nadu, Winged Wisdom is banned.
Historic
- Force of Negation is pre-banned.
- Frantic Search is pre-banned.
- Mystical Tutor is pre-banned.
- Entomb is pre-banned.
- Dark Depths is pre-banned.
Brawl
- Strip Mine is banned.
- Mana Drain is banned.
- Chrome Mox is banned.
- Ancient Tomb is banned.
Pauper
- High Tide is banned.
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Pauper Whoa, High Tide is re-banned already? I wasn't watching the tournaments - my understanding it was fairly popular but not actually winning anything. Ah, found their writeup:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/explanation-of-the-pauper-high-tide-ban-for-november-10-2025
Okay, long dawdling turns result in an un-fun play pattern. Certainly some truth to that.
Good that Vivi is finally banned but between UB, the rapid fire release schedule and WotC's repeated mismanagement of the format I still don't have enough interest to come back to Standard
Anyone else kind of shocked to see Profts banned?
Personally, I'm glad Nemesis and Vivi got banned but I don't think this is even close to enough to get Standard playable again.
Standard stopped being playable or interesting to me since after EoE. The UB sets killed my interest entirely.
I think it has been in a bad spot since Bloomburrow, personally. Never really recovered from the addition of the mice and monstrous rage and by the time the cards were banned, there were too many other dominant things ready to come in and replace it.
As a format, I agree. Standard's power balance got obliterated after Bloomburrow and Duskmourn. Still, I held hope they'd eventually get it back under control, but it's only gotten worse since then it seems.
Well this is going to make me tweak a couple Brawl decks. Mana Drain was fun but is still super imbalanced. was nice to have a way to screw mana ramp over though. Don't quite understand why Chrome Mox got banned though.
Chrome Mox is a permanent I've chosen to remove from my opponents' boards many times.
It's a ramp source you can play AND USE on T1, as well as every subsequent turn. Compare this to, say, Elvish Mystic, which can't be used the turn it is played, or most mana rocks, which cannot be played T1. Something like Utopia Sprawl is a little more flexible than those other cards, in that you can play it on T1 if you want, but won't get the ramp from it until later, or you can play it on a later turn and get the ramp immediately.
Chrome Mox is more powerful than any of those.
When can I sell my Mana Crypt? lol