04/01/2026 Banned and restricted announcement

Announcement Date:04/01/2026
Effective Date:04/01/2026

Rousing Refrain

As the signature red card in Huge Readers, this mana acceleration card has been a staple in the deck since its release.

As announced in December 2025, the Committee had been investigating player perceptions of this card. The results showed that while there is no doubt this card serves as a means for the player going second to close the gap with the player going first, conversely, it is extremely difficult to overcome the advantage gained by the player going first when they cast it. Consequently, negative feedback was more prevalent.
We believe that a card creating such a situation is unacceptable for the Power Level:Friendly, and we are adding it to the Colossal List.

Kodama of the East Tree

This creature has long been used to create various green loop combos.

Although it was written that the Mana Value must be “or less,” this card served not only as a utility spell for playing lands from your hand in conjunction with token generation, but was also used as a winning strategy by combining Field of the Dead with bounce lands, in a powerful combo with Breaching Dragonstorm, and, more recently, in a combo with Eusocial Engineering.

Although it has long been used as a representative green creature, we felt that this card—which synergizes with virtually every other card—was not suitable for the Power Level:Friendly, so we have decided to move it to the Power Level:Colossal.

Keruga, the Macrosage

Following the decision in the commander format to unban Lutri, the Spellchaser and restrict it to use only as a companion, we are also changing the restriction on Keluga in Huge Leaders to ban it only as a companion.

In 2021, when considering whether to ban Keluga only as a companion or to ban it outright, we opted for the latter because of the precedent set by Lutri.
Since Lutri’s ban was lifted, we determined that Keluga’s ban should also be lifted.

Dracogenesis

I would like to explain why we have lifted the ban on this card exclusively for Power Level:Colossal.

As mentioned earlier, Dracogenesis was a card that simply had no opportunity to be played. Considering the risk of free casting with Tiamat from the Command Zone, we determined at the time that it was unacceptable even for Power Level:Colossal.
However, this also meant that by banning the card rather than allowing it in Power Level:Colossal—without ever having a chance to play it—we were unable to fully assess its true potential.

So, we decided to unban it in Power Level:Colossal for now and see how things go. If this card ends up ruining Power Level:Colossal and making it boring, we’ll consider banning it again.

Breaching Dragonstorm

Essentially, this is a card that was deemed to be Creative Technique and added to the Colossal List.

When I think about the future of red decks in Power Level:Friendly, I’m concerned that the loss of Refrain of Frenzy will significantly weaken them.
Additionally, since Kodama of the East Tree has been added to the Colossal List, we determined that lifting the ban on this card would not cause any major issues.