

While Kenrith, the Returned King is a similarly flexible and popular commander for good stuff five color decks, we see it as a clear step down from Golos. Magic: The Gathering has banned Brawls most popular commander from the format. In the end, the health of the format is our primary concern and we find Golos unhealthy.
We understand that many players love Golos, so we don’t take this action lightly.In a startling turn of events, GOLOS HAS BEEN BANNED IN COMMANDER and Worldfire has been unbanned in commander (Also rule 11 is rule 10 now) This caught Nick and Zak by surprise, as well as many in the community, so friend of the show Charlotte Sable came on to help explain the thoughts and discussions the RC and CAG had to highlight the goals behind the changes.We don’t expect similar cards to come from them in the future, so a surgical strike now makes sense. Winota, Joiner of Forces allowed players to put multiple cards into play and cheat on mana costs severely, while Expressive Iteration acted as a draw-two that. We’ve talked to the folks in Studio X and they understand the problems created by generically-powerful five-color commanders that don’t have WUBRG in their mana cost. On June 7, Magic: The Gathering updated its banned and restricted cards list with new Pioneer and Explorer bans, bringing the banned card number up in Pioneer to 25 and 15 in Explorer. Golos’ ability effectively reduces the commander tax to one and once you hit seven mana (with Golos assuring that you have WUBRG and helping you get there quickly), you don’t need to do anything for the rest of the game except cast spells for free-something we always want to be careful about. You can drop in Golos and a few 5-color lands into a random deck and get all the ramp and card advantage you would ever want from a commander, with no worries about your mana base.

Its presence crushes the kind of diversity in commander choice which we want to promote. There are many problems with the card, but the greatest is that in the low-to-middle tiers where we focus the banlist, Golos is simply a better choice of leader for all but the most commander-centric decks. Golos was released in Core Set 2020 in 2019, and had actually previously been a problem card for the Standard format alongside. The big one is Golos, Tireless Pilgrims ban in brawl, with Wizards citing that his five-color identity as a problem (in brawl, you build your deck around your. In the update, the Commander RC banned Golos, Tireless Pilgrim from the Commander/EDH format. “Golos, Tireless Pilgrim has been a much-discussed card that is both popular to play with and unpopular to play against. The Commander Rules Committee (RC) updated their banned list for Magic: The Gathering's Commander/EDH format on September 13. In case you can’t get to the website, here’s a transcription of their reason for banning Golos:
