June 29, 2026 B&R Announcement

[Oversoul]

Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 29, 2026

See statements regarding Legacy, Pauper, and Brawl. Changes will be effective June 29, 2026.

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Standard
No changes

Pioneer
No changes

Modern
No changes

Legacy
Candelabra of Tawnos is banned.

Vintage
No changes

Pauper
Seeker of Skybreak is banned.

Alchemy
No changes

Historic
No changes

Timeless
No changes

Brawl
Force of Will is banned.
Subtlety is banned.
Wash Away is banned.
Ugin's Labyrinth is banned.
Time Warp is banned.
Temporal Manipulation is banned.

Competitive Brawl
No changes

Changes effective as of June 29, 2026. View the list of all banned and restricted cards by format.

Next announcement: August 10, 2026

 

[Oversoul]

This is looking like a bad comedy I would have written about a hypothetical future of Legacy. They can barely wait more than a month before banning another card!

 

[saprolingtoken]

This is looking like a bad comedy I would have written about a hypothetical future of Legacy. They can barely wait more than a month before banning another card!

It feels a bit like Boomers always telling younger generations to "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" in that trying to maintain a staus quo of 2012 Legacy is increasingly, comically, going to happen and make the format a disaster as a result. You see that in the cards that are banned and the ones that are not banned. There will never be a new Mirrodin-esque sea change when current WotC is in charge... unless it sells a ton of packs for the current quarter.