January 29, 2026: Exclusive *Winterspell* Card Reveals Theres a definite chill in the air, but our friends from Disneys *Frozen* dont mind
Hell be there to answer some more rules questions again as hes done previously
As Wizards acknowledges in the post: "the most played archetypes have remained largely the same over the past months." With this week's changes, though, fans will be expecting a major shift to MTG Standard's competitive meta, as all three of these Standard bans will impact the same popular deck archetype: Red/Blue snow decks that rely on Goldspan Dragon to ramp and Aldrund's Epiphany to close out the game
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs
Its a great commander to run against token decks that generate a lot of weaker creatures since youre easily able to wipe the board and create an army of your own tokens in the process
Prioritize rare and mythic (dual) lands : Any MTG deck gets a lot better when your land-base is good, and nothing helps that more than high-rarity dual lands, like shock lands or fetch lands