As Wizards acknowledges in the post: "the most played archetypes have remained largely the same over the past months." With this week's changes, though, fans will be expecting a major shift to MTG Standard's competitive meta, as all three of these Standard bans will impact the same popular deck archetype: Red/Blue snow decks that rely on Goldspan Dragon to ramp and Aldrund's Epiphany to close out the game
(2025-11-17) If an Elemental you control that isn't a creature enters (probably because it's a kindred permanent with the Elemental subtype), Champion of the Path's second ability will still trigger
Being able to cast one of them is just a cute bonus, but what you really want is to disrupt their combos and other power plays
The flexibility in the scheme is good because it's hard to plan around getting it
Its very likely that we get both more devotion enablers and devotion payoff in Theros Beyond Death , and, if we do, I look forward to seeing what Gray Merchant can accomplish in this new format.