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==Notable cards== ===Banned and restricted cards=== *<c>Tibalt's Trickery</c>, while intended as a high-risk high-reward counterspell for red, proved highly exploitable β players would counter their own spells in order to cheat expensive cards into play. Modern was the most vulnerable format for this exploit, thanks to [[cascade]] guaranteeing a hit, and thus a ban quickly ensued.<ref name="February 2021">{{DailyRef|news/february-15-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement|February 15, 2021 Banned and Restricted Announcement|[[Ian Duke]]|February 15, 2021}}</ref> The impact on Historic was minimal at first, but with the introduction of cascade to Arena via ''[[Jumpstart: Historic Horizons]]'', Tibalt's Trickery decks came to dominate the Historic metagame. After several months, the card was banned from Historic.<ref name="BR2021013">{{DailyRef|news/october-13-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement|October 13, 2021 Banned and Restricted Announcement|[[Wizards of the Coast]]|October 13, 2021}}</ref> Months later, [[Explorer]] banned the card within weeks of the format's introduction;<ref name="BR20220511">{{DailyRef|magic-digital/may-11-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement|May 11, 2022 Banned and Restricted Announcement|[[Wizards of the Coast]]|May 11, 2022}}</ref> it proved powerful enough that [[Timeless]] restricted the card from the very start of the format.<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg-arena/introducing-timeless-a-new-mtg-arena-format|Introducing Timeless, a new MTG Arena format|[[Dave Finseth]]|December 4, 2023}}</ref> *<c>Alrund's Epiphany</c> is similar to <c>Nexus of Fate</c> as an extra-turn spell that impacted [[Standard]]. It released to moderate success, due to the highly aggressive, tempo-based meta of the time that made a 6-7 mana spell a risky investment. This changed with the fall 2021 rotation knocking the tempo decks out of the meta, followed by the release of <c>Galvanic Iteration</c> in ''[[Innistrad: Midnight Hunt]]''. The second half of 2021 saw a large share of blue/red control decks that sought to outlast the opponent long enough to cast and copy many Epiphanies, then kill them with the bird tokens. Despite similar decks comprising a majority of contenders at the [[2021 World Championship]], Wizards of the Coast declined to take action to diversify the metagame, stating that they would wait to see ''[[Innistrad: Crimson Vow]]'''s impact on the meta.<ref>{{DailyRef|news/october-13-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement|October 13, 2021 Banned and Restricted Announcement|Jay Parker & Donald Smith|October 13, 2021}}</ref> Unfortunately, ''Crimson Vow'' only made things worse, augmenting extra-turns decks with <c>Alchemist's Gambit</c> and <c>Hullbreaker Horror</c>. With the creation of [[Alchemy]], the card was nerfed in that format to <c>A-Alrund's Epiphany</c>, but the original card's tyranny over Standard remained until its ban on January 25, 2022.<ref name="January252022BannedAndRestricted">{{DailyRef|news/january-25-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement|January 25, 2022 Banned and Restricted Announcement|[[Ian Duke]] & Jay Parker|January 25, 2022}}</ref> *<c>Faceless Haven</c> was well-received for the first half of ''Kaldheim'''s lifetime in Standard. In the Standard 2022 preview queue, it combined with <c>The Book of Exalted Deeds</c> to allow players to control a land that prevented them from losing, resulting in that card's temporary ban until rotation. As Alrund's Epiphany decks came to dominate the meta, monocolored aggro decks rose to oppose them, decks in which Faceless Haven proved problematic as a creature resistant to removal with a low opportunity cost. Faceless Haven was banned alongside Alrund's Epiphany in January 2022.
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