This creates an immediate swing in momentum, forcing the opponent to spend multiple turns attempting to rebuild their army from scratch while the Ruby player pulls ahead in points
Cait Sith, Fortune Teller Capricious Sliver Case of the Burning Masks Caves of Chaos Adventurer Chandra, Flameshaper Charforger Chase Stein, Runaway Cleon, Merry Champion Commander Sofia Daguerre Compleated Conjurer Cori Mountain Monastery Count on Luck Court of Locthwain Crimson Caravaneer Crimson Operative Cunning Rhetoric Daredevil, Man Without Fear Dark-Dweller Oracle Dogmeat, Ever Loyal Duchess, Wayward Tavernkeep Elemental Mascot Elkin Bottle Emberheart Challenger Embodiment of Flame Endrider Spikespitter Equilibrium Adept Experimental Synthesizer Fire-Brained Scheme Fireglass Mentor Fires of Mount Doom Furious Rise Galvanic Relay Geistflame Reservoir Ghost-Spider Gila Courser Gloria, the Great Armorer Goblin Researcher Grotag Night-Runner Gwen Stacy Harnesser of Storms Hedron Detonator Heroes' Hangout Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos Hotel of Fears Intet, the Dreamer Inti, Seneschal of the Sun Irascible Wolverine Ire Shaman Jaya, Fiery Negotiator Junk Jet Junktown Kami of Celebration Kellan, Planar Trailblazer Kulrath Zealot Laelia, the Blade Reforged Lightning, Security Sergeant Magmatic Channeler Mind's Desire Mishra's Research Desk
The change eliminated some corner cases that were pretty awkward, leading to a more streamlined format in general
Emrakul was banned due to overwhelming outcry from the community, who told us that ramping quickly into it was one of the most common and least-interesting ways to win
