New cards banned:
Maddening Hex is banned
Serra's Sanctum is banned
It only costs 3 mana to deals between 1 to 6 damage per hit. Most solutions actually triggering
another hit. This 3 mana can generate a tons of damage until the player lose, also it’s an enchantment, being the hardest permanent type to remove, that some colors don’t really have answers to. As a card that could be fair and funny in multiplayer as it would be randomly reattached, which doesn’t change a thing in EDHR. So Maddening Hex is banned now.
Its most complex consideration factor resides in the bias of effect proximity, in the name of long banned cards that are Gaea's Cradle and Tolarian Academy. The proximity being "producing mana by just tapping, at no cost, up to X controlled archetype permanent of [type]".
It was the hardest to find a good setup for, and the hardest to exploit so far, which explains why it was still legal.
But the growing number of usable enchantments which have a strong affinity to made it visible. The decks that use it have the same outcome as Gaea's Cradle and Tolarian Academy: the restrictions were not hard to setup anymore, up to a point it finally allowed some complex situations to be solved on the spot, by solely entering a battlefield, allowing a sudden resource outburst which almost always ends up games. that's why it is banned now.
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