There was another announcement yesterday on the DCI Banned & Restricted List and the latest casualty were in the Modern & Magic Online Pauper format. Bloodbraid Elf and Seething Song are banned in Modern, while Empty the Warrens, Grapeshot, and Invigorate are also banned in MTGO Pauper.

The effective date for the banning is February 1, 2013 and for Magic Online effective date is February 6, 2013. It can’t be denied that Jund is the current best deck in Modern, and its recent trend & dominance in the format might caused the banning of one of its main components. The small discussion of the banning can be found here.

Even though I didn’t got to play alot of the Modern format, I think Jund is not that affected with the loss of Bloodbraid Elf. They can surely find other cards to fill the spot like Huntmaster of the Fells.

For the complete list of all banned and restricted cards by format, see it here.