Formats — Competitive Brawl

Competitive Brawl is the ranked queue for Brawl, added to Magic: The Gathering Arena in June 2026.

Card pool and deck construction are identical to Brawl - 100 cards, singleton, one legendary creature, planeswalker, Vehicle, or Spacecraft as commander, 25 starting life. The only rules difference is that there is no free mulligan.

The banlists are built on opposite principles and neither is a subset of the other. Brawl bans cards in the 99 that players find unfun to play against, and leaves commanders to matchmaking. Competitive Brawl bans nothing but overpowered commanders, so everything Brawl bans in the 99 is legal here.

The format was announced as "Ranked Brawl" and renamed a week later, because players read the old name as promising a shared banlist with Brawl.

Banned cards

Restricted cards

Ban history

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