Changelog History

Changes from 24.09.2024

Dockside isn’t normally quite as explosive in the early game as the other two cards, but it can still go mana-positive on turn 2 and start generating substantial treasures after that. It’s been on the border for years, and we’ve shied away from taking action in the past because the card has scaled well with the power level of the table, but it’s a frequent contributor to the more egregious snowballing starts.

Nadu, Winged Wisdom is banned

Part of the problem is the way in which Nadu wins, where it takes a really long time to do non-deterministic sequences that can’t be shortcut and might eventually fizzle out. These aren’t dedicated combo lines that you have to build a deck around; dropping Nadu into a “normal” Simic shell still runs the risk of grinding the game down to a slog of resource accrual. It interacts badly with cards that are staples of casual play, most notably Lightning Greaves, meaning that decks where it gets thrown into without abuse intent can still create a situation where the player is monopolizing all the time in the game. That’s not an experience we want to risk, so Nadu gets itself another ban.

Nadu, Winged Wisdom is unbanned as Commander

Nadu is now globally banned.

Changes from 09.07.2024

Lord Windgrace is banned as Commander

A lands centric deck has by definition less attack vectors. With its -3 ability Lord Windgrace automatically pays its commander taxes. That makes it really hard to counter any deck strategy by opponents, implemented with Lord Windgrace.

Nadu, Winged Wisdom is banned as Commander

The ability of Nadu counts every creature and leads to explosive turns when triggered multiple times each turn. When available

Changes from 27.03.2024

Garruk Wildspeaker is banned

In a Multiplayer game constantly untapping 2 mana of your allies to accellerate thier play is to powerful.

Changes from 03.10.2023

Akroma's Will is banned

Can single-handedly win the game as it provides too much burst damage paired with strong protection. This combined in one card offers strong flexibility offensively and defensively.

Ancient Tomb is banned

Only fast mana land “without” disadvantages. This card is in the same classification as fast mana artifact like Sol Ring. The impact of the two damage is to insignificant especially in the early game in the HG2 constellation.

Changes from 29.09.2023

Ignite Memories is banned

Mind's Desire is banned

Mordor on the March is banned

Volcanic Awakening is banned

Acererak the Archlich is banned as Commander

Acererak as a Commander strongly emphasises combos to finish the game. There are many card combos possible with this card. Because the Dungeon mechanics cannot be efficient interrupted makes this so consistent.

Storm Cards:

In a multiplayer setup like 2HG it is to easy to increase the storm-count, therefore most of the storm cards become to strong and favours combo decks that only needs their team members to play spells regardless of the effects.

Changes from 07.03.2023

Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is banned

This card generate to explosive mana in a primary green colored deck.

Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is unbanned as Commander

Purphoros, God of the Forge is banned

The static ability and the fact that a indestructable enchantment is very hard to remove makes this card to good in every token deck playing a lot of token generation.

Purphoros, God of the Forge is unbanned as Commander

Changes from 01.01.2023

Torment of Hailfire is banned

The card effect scales to much in the late game, leaving the opponents only the choice of sacrificing their board or losing the game by live loss.

Life from the Loam off watch list

Expropriate is banned

In a multiplayer game this card offers to much value no matter what all players choose.

Changes from 21.08.2022

Hullbreacher is banned

Mimic Vat is unbanned

Purphoros, God of the Forge is unbanned

Kenrith, the Returned King is banned as Commander

Changes from 26.09.2021

God-Pharaoh's Statue is banned

Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is banned

Changes from 04.07.2021

Inevitable Betrayal is banned

Lutri, the Spellchaser is banned

Jeweled Lotus is banned

This card can give you five mana on turn 2, Jeweled Lotus does it without even needing a good hand. Though you’re restricted in what you can do with the mana, four- and five-mana Commanders can pack a significant punch nowadays, often draw cards to make up for the one-shot mana, and defensive abilities such as Ward can’t be interacted with that early in the game.

Changes from 01.10.2020

Iona, Shield of Emeria is banned

Tendrils of Agony is banned

Dragonstorm is banned

Changes from 01.09.2019

Scheming Symmetry is banned

Paradox Engine is banned

Mana Crypt is banned

Coming down for no mana on turn 1, it’s quite possible to have the explosive start of Mana Crypt into a signet or talisman, land, and another signet, leaving that player untapping 5 mana on turn 2.

Mana Vault is banned

Sol Ring is banned