08/01/2023 Banned and restricted announcement

Announcement Date:08/01/2023

Incarnation Technique

Although it is a 5 mana Sorcery card consisting of a single symbol, it is a brutal card with the potential to win as is just by casting one. we have featured it as a card we are keeping a close eye on in April 2023.

Up until now, we have been constantly considering whether or not this card should be banned. Players are well aware of how powerful this card is, and there is no need to reiterate its power here.
By banning this card, which is arguably the defining card of the format, we hope that it will slow down the speed at which Reanimate decks can end the game a bit.

Spell Swindle

It is one of the few cards in Huge Leaders that gets an extra turn; in April 2023 we had made the following statement.

Hugeleaders consider cards that gain an extra turn to be dangerous, and most of them are still banned today. The exception is Beacon of Tomorrows, which is used as a win condition by almost every deck that includes blue today to ensure a way to get an extra turn.

Until now, it has been too easy for decks containing blue to subplan a winning strategy that reduces the library to a single Beacon of Tomorrow and gains infinite turns. We are banning this in hopes of easing the power balance between the colors.

Spell Swindle

This is blue’s best mana acceleration and counter card, which we featured as a card to keep an eye on in April 2023. As we all know, Huge Leaders is a card that can easily lead to double-action because of the format’s flurry of 5+ mana cards.

One particular problem we saw was that if decks containing blue continue to wait with 5 mana out, other players will be forced to hesitate to play the card. The first player to make a move will only lose money and the game will be deadlocked.

Once again, we do not think it is necessary to just ban powerful cards right away. We don’t want to ban all powerful cards immediately, because cards costing more than 5 mana should be powerful. We believe that taking the stance of banning all powerful cards will lead to a loss of the uniqueness of the format, which is filled with powerful cards that are not usually seen due to their mana content.

Cards currently being watched

With the upcoming release of Commander Masters on 08/04/2023 (JST), new cards will be added to the Huge Leaders card pool, but we will not directly discuss them in this announcement.

《Mishra’s Workshop》

It is a land that becomes more dangerous the more powerful artifacts are added to the card pool. Although this card has been banned and unbanned in the past, we recognize that it is still a card that needs to be watched closely.