Banned and Restricted Update, January 15 2018
Effective from January 19th, the following cards are banned in Standard:
R&D has been carefully monitoring the evolution of the Standard environment since the rotation with the release of Ixalan. While the play patterns are generally healthy and games are strategically deep, the environment has been dominated for several months by two archetypes: Temur Energy and Ramunap Red. Together these two archetypes represent more than 40% of the competitive metagame, and both boast significantly positive records against the rest of the field (in terms of non-mirror-match win percentage). This is despite the best efforts of the metagame to adapt and counter these decks.
Based on this, what do you think will show up on the top of the interests tomorrow?
For the full explanation, refer to the official announcement by WotC.
