Commander:
- Gifts Ungiven is unbanned
- Sway of the Stars is unbanned
- Braids, Cabal Minion is unbanned
- Coalition Victory is unbanned
- Panoptic Mirror is unbanned
Edit: additional important info:
So, we are committing no further changes to the banned list for the rest of this year. Starting next year, we can touch the banned list again, and at more regular intervals (so not just one ban window a year), but we want to hold off for the rest of this year.
The only exception will be what I am calling the “Nadu contingency,” which is if a new or unbanned card begins to become generally reviled and people just want it gone as soon as possible, we can break that seal and act earlier. However, I’m hopeful we do not need to do this, as it would need to be a fairly extreme circumstance.
I honestly don’t see a reason to ever unban them. These three have been proven to be unsuitable for the format, and if people really want to play them, I don’t see why they wouldn’t just be made available in Tier 4. Or some Tier that has no banned cards for the people who want to play that way.
Not to mention that these cards were the heart of the entire controversy that ended the Commander Rules Committee and caused the death threats to come out from some players. That alone would be enough to me to never bring these cards back to the format ever again.
I had a player in my shop who wanted some banned commander to be playable. He whined about it every time he bought packs, every time we played. So we agreed to have a single night where there were no banned cards. He got his ass handed to him every which way. And mostly by banned cards.