Banned in Historic Brawl for being overly prevalent in main decks and for exploiting or pushing against the format's primary elements, such as gameplay focused on a single important permanent. Wizards judged that rebalancing the card would either be unsatisfying or fail to address the issue.

Banned as a homogenizing, efficient, and polar card: a colorless mana accelerant that costs no mana fits in any deck and gives proactive players easy advantages while punishing reactive ones. Powerful colorless cards and lands are inherently more homogenizing since every deck can include them.

No ban details recorded.

One of four Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards preemptively added to the Historic Brawl banned list when the set released on MTG Arena.

Banned as a homogenizing, efficient, and polar card: a colorless mana accelerant that costs no mana fits in any deck and gives proactive players easy advantages while punishing reactive ones. Powerful colorless cards are inherently more homogenizing since every deck can include them.

One of four Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards preemptively added to the Historic Brawl banned list when the set released on MTG Arena.

Wizards' Brawl philosophy is that no single card should easily shut down a wide class of commanders, and Drannith Magistrate falls into that category by stopping opponents from casting their commander. It was banned for taking away the fun and self-expression of building around a commander.

Banned in Historic Brawl for being overly prevalent in main decks and for exploiting or pushing against the format's primary elements, including Singleton deckbuilding, which Field of the Dead directly rewards. Wizards judged that rebalancing the card would either be unsatisfying or fail to address the issue.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update targeting free countermagic: the quantity and quality of effective counterspells had grown beyond what Wizards considered reasonable, fundamentally shifting when it is safe to play out a hand and limiting commander diversity.

Added to the Historic Brawl banned list in MTG Arena's August 2020 State of the Game update, which announced the ban without a card-specific explanation; Wizards had previously flagged it as a card able to lock out certain commanders when discussing Brawl bans.

Brawl's rules already require singleton deckbuilding, so Lutri's companion restriction imposed no cost - any blue-red deck could include it as a free extra card. It was banned preemptively the day it was previewed because that undermined the companion design's intended trade-off.

Banned as a homogenizing and polar card: as a generic counterspell it was an auto-include in any blue deck, and drawing it in the opening hand had an outsized effect on who won the game.

Banned in Historic Brawl from the format's introduction on MTG Arena; Wizards listed it on the initial banned list without a card-specific explanation, alongside other name-a-card denial effects like Runed Halo and Sorcerous Spyglass.

One of four Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards preemptively added to the Historic Brawl banned list when the set released on MTG Arena.

Banned in Historic Brawl from the format's introduction on MTG Arena; Wizards listed it on the initial banned list without a card-specific explanation. The card had previously been banned in Arena's best-of-one queues over non-interactive extra-turn loops.

No ban details recorded.

Preemptively banned when The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts came to Arena: like other effects that disable named cards directly, Revoker's ability to turn off an opposing commander goes against the intent of the format.

No ban details recorded.

Added to both the Standard Brawl and Historic Brawl banned lists in MTG Arena's August 2020 State of the Game update, which announced the bans without a card-specific explanation; it is a name-a-card protection effect of the kind Wizards has removed from Brawl.

Its low colorless cost made it a ubiquitous and disliked way for any deck to shut down planeswalker commanders, often before they hit the battlefield, clashing with one of Brawl's signature features. Wizards later cited this ban as the example of its philosophy that no single card should easily shut down a wide class of commanders.

Banned as overwhelmingly homogenizing: any deck can include it as a land with no deckbuilding or gameplay cost, and it becomes polar when its target is land-shy, preventing them from casting spells altogether.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update targeting free countermagic: the quantity and quality of effective counterspells had grown beyond what Wizards considered reasonable, fundamentally shifting when it is safe to play out a hand and limiting commander diversity.

One of four Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards preemptively added to the Historic Brawl banned list when the set released on MTG Arena.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update with other extra-turn spells: Wizards' match data showed they often lead to repetitive games and hurt the overall experience for all players.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update with other extra-turn spells: Wizards' match data showed they often lead to repetitive games and hurt the overall experience for all players.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update targeting fast mana: efficient ramp creates a strategic advantage, limits the viability of cheaper commanders, and speeds up the format, with colorless sources especially problematic because they fit in every deck.

Banned in Historic Brawl for being overly prevalent in main decks and for exploiting or pushing against the format's primary elements, including its color restrictions, which a powerful colorless card ignores. Wizards judged that rebalancing the card would either be unsatisfying or fail to address the issue.

Banned in the June 2026 Brawl update targeting free countermagic: the quantity and quality of effective counterspells had grown beyond what Wizards considered reasonable, fundamentally shifting when it is safe to play out a hand and limiting commander diversity.