Banned from playing standard Uro, Titan’s of Nature’s Wrath, Wizards of the Coast is one of the most dominant formatting cards. Banning wildland reclamation and other cards before the new standard rotation wasn’t enough. Today’s ban comes after the release of the game’s latest expansion pack, Zendikar’s heightTitan of Nature’s Wrath, who introduced the Omnath Card, Locus of Creation, a powerful bonus for sloping floors that use Uro. While Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath has been a staple on Standard’s strongest floors since it debuted in Theros: After death Hired earlier this year, he’s teaming up with Omnath, Locus of Creation has created an obvious metagame glitch. The trigger that The Legendary Creature fired upon entering the battlefield, which puts out his control card and three lives, proved difficult to answer. For the player to be able to bring Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath back from the graveyard using the Escape mechanic made tomb removal a necessity in the sideboard, if not the main deck, of all standard competitive floors.

“We have been closely monitoring the emerging Zendikar Rising Standard format during its first week of availability Magic: The Gathering Arena And the Magic Online, Magic: the gathering Designer Ian Duke demonstrates on the game’s website. “ With millions of games already being played on digital platforms, early data and results from last weekend’s events showed that the multi-colored ramps featuring Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, Lotus Cobra and Omnath, Locus of Creation is a problem with the new metagame after Rotation.

“While Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath was a powerful and controversial energy in a pre-spin benchmark environment, we wanted to allow the metagame to adapt to the final set of standard changes and impending spin before deciding whether to let it remain a part of the environment going forward. The end events confirmed this. The week that Omnath’s four-color floors dominated early play, and even the floors created to try to conquer those floors used the powerful behemoth.

“In order to weaken the post-spin ramp strategies, we choose to block Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath in Standard. Our goal is to lower these floors to a level that is still attractive and competitive, but where the metagame of natural forces is enough to keep them in check. In general, we prefer this method. On going beyond the mark and removing the original model from expiration date. Nevertheless, we have definitely noticed the strong results of this weekend for the four-color Omnath collection and will continue to see how this strategy and overall metagame are being modified in the coming weeks. ”

Blocking is becoming more and more common in Magic: the gathering In the years that followed Magic: The Gathering Arena It debuted, with 19 banned cards from Standard since 2017, after no ban before that since 2011. The game’s popularity means people are playing it. Charm More than ever, collecting metagame data is easier than ever. This is part of the reason for this ban days later Zendikar’s height Paper out Charm.

“It’s unusual for us to make a change to this early in the season, but in this case we’re targeting a card that has shown signs of being problematic in the past and has continued to show its dominance during last weekend’s events,” he writes. “Additionally, the speed with which high-level digital play attacks new formats, particularly when digital play is the only high-level gameplay available, means that descriptive games advance beyond the early stages much faster than they have been previously. We prefer to make this change now so that players can continue to get the most out of their post-spin benchmark, which is one of the most exciting times in Charm To explore and innovate. “

Duke also notes that this round of Prohibition considerations focused on Standard and Historic, the only two modes available to play in Magic: The Gathering Arena. Wizards of the Coast will monitor other formats for future updates.