The blog
Notes on the market and the meta
Every note here is written against the card, rotation and price data in this app, so the filter behind a claim is one click away and you can check it yourself.
What people are actually playing: the July 2026 meta
Across 302 tournament decklists from the last 60 days, four Leaders account for 53% of the field, and the fifth is closer than the gap suggests.
banlist
The banlist in force: five cards and three pairs
The 10 April 2026 restriction list bans five cards outright, two of them Leaders, and adds three pairwise exclusions that are easy to miss.
rotation
What the April 2026 rotation actually removed
Standard now allows blocks 2 through 5. That takes 762 printed block 1 cards off the table, except for the 23 the override list quietly rescues.