Rosewater Says Bans Are a Last Resort for Power-Level Problems

Mark Rosewater said on Blogatog on November 8, 2026, that Wizards tends to ban cards only for power-level reasons. He was answering a question about how the company chooses between errata and a ban.

We tend to ban only for power level reasons. Not allowing people to play with cards is a last resort.

That is a general principle, not a decision process. Rosewater gave no criteria for when Wizards would choose errata instead, or a step-by-step account of how it decides to ban a card.