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Magic: The Gathering Banned and Restricted List Updates Shakes Up A 100-Card Format

Magic: The Gathering gets an interesting October Banned and Restricted List update that shakes up one popular 100-card format.

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Competitive Magic: The Gathering players can now check out the full Banned and Restricted List update for October 2026 and see which format has the most changes.

Competitive Brawl Sees some Familiar Banned List Shakeups

Magic: The Gathering made some big changes to the Banned and Restricted list earlier this year in response to the Fantasticar dominated Vintage and Legacy tournaments, but things have been fairly quiet since then.

The release of Reality Fracture doesn’t seem to have broken Standard, Legacy, or any of the other most popular formats, which is good news. Nearly every format is seeing no changes this month, but Competitive Brawl is an exception.

For those who are unfamiliar, Competitive Brawl is a ranked Constructed format featuring most of the same rules as Brawl but with a different banned list philosophy and........

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