JULY 18th, 2022
With the enormous number of cards downshifted to common in a draft set, the “rules committee” has voted on how to handle downshifts in general. Originally, downshifts illegalized cards, but with more sets and reprint sets coming out faster than ever before, the amount of turmoil caused by increasingly frequent downshifts is at an all-time high and may continue to rise.
We voted among sticking to the original plan, legalizing downshifts in Masters sets, and legalizing downshifts in general. The simplest solution received a majority of votes: legalizing all downshifts.
This brings a number of old cards into the format, including (but not limited to) these potential heavy-hitters:
- Abrade
- Ashnod’s Altar
- Bone Picker
- Burning-Tree Emissary
- Cauldron Familiar
- Champion of the Flame
- Chromatic Sphere
- Counterspell
- Draconic Roar
- Elves of Deep Shadow
- Everflowing Chalice
- Foundry Inspector
- Goblin Matron
- Groundskeeper
- Gut Shot
- Harrow
- Hordeling Outburst
- Hungry Flames
- Jace’s Phantasm
- Kazuul’s Toll Collector
- Lead the Stampede
- Magma Jet
- Makeshift Munitions
- Mana Cylix
- Might of Old Krosa
- Myr Retriever
- Nature’s Lore
- Night’s Whisper
- Nimble Mongoose
- Peregrine Drake
- Pillage
- Plagued Rusalka
- Rapacious Dragon
- Reckless Wurm
- Relentless Rats
- Seeker of the Way
- Skirge Familiar
- Spike Jester
- Strategic Planning
- Street Wraith
- Surge Node
- Survival Cache
- Telling Time
- Thunderous Wrath
- Tormod’s Crypt
- Urza’s Mine, Urza’s Power Plant, and Urza’s Tower
- Whiteout
- Wight of Precinct Six
- Yavimaya Enchantress
- You Meet in a Tavern