Ban List Update and Changes - 7th June 2025
- Leviathan Committee
- 2 hours ago
- 3 min read
Hello Leviathan players in the July banlist update and rules. The shape of our decisions in this announcement was greatly influenced by the results of the survey and your statements. This is also additionally supported by a database built on the basis of reports received from you. Today's announcement is the first of several announcements, introducing changes in our format in stages. We invite you to read it.
Rules change:
The starting amount of life points is changed to 25
The amount of commander damage is changed to 18
Legendary Vehicles and Legendary Spacecrafts are now eligible to be chosen as a player's Commander in the Leviathan Commander format
Commander changes:
Eris, Roar of the Storm is now banned
Individual card changes:
Emrakul, the Promised End is now banned
Glacial Chasm is now legal
Serra Ascendant is now legal
Experimental change
Flash is now banned
Protean Hulk is now legal
Announcement Date: July 7, 2025
Date of entry of changes: July 7, 2025
Date of next announcement: September 1, 2025
Current banlist - website version Current banlist - moxfield version
Further explanation
Rules update: Life and Commander damage change
For a long time, 30 hp has favored greedy strategies in our format, especially midrange and control. They have become the best archetypes, dominating the rest, especially aggressive ones. To weaken these strategies while strengthening the rest, we decided to reduce the amount of hp to 25 and cmd damage to 18. Both of these changes are aimed at balancing the archetypes in meta. Reducing hp will give the control and midrange archetypes less time to stabilize, and aggro(on other hand) in various forms (go wide, burn, pure aggro) more chances to end the match. Reducing cmd damage also aims to help aggressive strategies, only this time based on the commander alone (voltron archetype). This change will also positively affect the other archetypes, giving them the opportunity to win by making one less attack with their Commander.
Rules update: Legendary Vehicles and Spacecraft as Commanders
In alignment with the new rules update announced for Commander alongside Edge of Eternities, Legendary Vehicles and Legendary Spacecraft will now be eligible to be played as your Commander. We decided that Leviathan will adopt this rule before it will officially begins with the release of Edge of Eternities in traditional Commander. Eris, Roar of the Storm
Based on the survey and feedback, we are acknowledging that releasing Emrakul was a bad decision. Despite the intention to boost ramps and midrange decks by releasing him as a good thing, we created toxic situations that occurred every time he was played. Since we cannot afford for this to continue, we have decided to once again ban Emrakul.
Land, which was banned 1.5 years ago due to the 30hp rule, which allowed you to pay for the accumulating upkeep a few extra times. It strengthened land based decks and combo decks, which are currently in decline. With the change of lives to 25 and commander damage to 18, we want to give players the option to fight in the upcoming more aggressive meta.
White Monk, who has been banned since the format's inception. He deserved it because of his ability, which worked perfectly with the 30 hp rule, making him a 1 mana 6/6 creature. With the change of starting hp, we don't see any reason for him to still be on the banned list.
Experimental change: Flash and Protean Hulk
In this announcement, we decided to experimentally release Protean Hulk, thus opening up the possibility of a new combo deck in our format. However, in exchange for this, we are banning Flash, which would make this duo 2 mana instant combo which would be too strong. This move is intended to lift the combo archetype off its feet while increasing the use of green in the meta.
Why every card has a explanation exept for Eris?