Way back in October 2021, Wizards acknowledged that they “aware of some players’ concerns about the impact of certain individual cards on metagame diversity, such as Alrund’s Epiphany and Esika’s Chariot.” However, they ultimately decided to leave Standard alone in the hope that both Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow would help shift the metagame.

Our goal is to create some churn among the current top decks, open up additional angles from which to attack the metagame, and leave room for more experimentation and innovation with the release of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.” Alrund’s Epiphany To address this, Wizards is making “a set of changes targeted at some of the top decks, including Blue-Red Epiphany and other blue control decks, Mono-White Aggro, and Mono-Green Aggro. “While a good number of decks are seeing success on the MTG Arena ladders,” Wizards said, “and each has strengths and weakness against the others, the most played archetypes have remained largely the same over the past months.” Wizards of the Coast has banned Alrund’s Epiphany, Divide by Zero, and Faceless Haven in Magic: The Gathering’s Standard format.

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