Announcement Date: April 22, 2025
Commander Cube:
- Gifts Ungiven is unbanned
Detailed explanations for each of these are below.
Estimated Date for Tabletop: May 7, 2025
View the list of all previous changes.
GIFTS RE-GIVEN
Gifts Ungiven is not a card which I feel will make a massive impact in draft, as there are essentially no major 4-card packages a player could even attempt to reliably draft. If anything, it will act as an instant speed "draw two" and might incentivize collusion and/or politics, which I am a major proponent of in this environment, as well as provide a fun little thinking mini-game.
X WAS UNBANNED, WHY NOT X?Other cards were also officially unbanned, however, I am not of the opinion that we need to transfer Braids, Cabal Minion from the Vintage cube to this one, as Stax 
is not represented outside its color archetype to prevent draft confusion and false signaling. Panoptic Mirror is an interesting one, though the presence of both Time Warp and Temporal Manipulation would push the cube into a more optimized territory, which I would like to avoid. Two card combos are not what I would consider fair in a limited environment such as this.
Necropotence has had a hard life. Once banned in every format, now sees play in none. It's hard to cast, but can offer a lot of versatility for combo decks in Constructed formats. As Lifegain 
is one of the archetypes here which would synergize well with it, and the card would be sitting in a box for the foreseeable future, I've decided to dust it off and throw it in here. Bloodchief Ascension might be too strong as it is essentially a Vicious Shadows for a single mana, triggering off spells and discard and dying. It's hard to remove as it's an enchantment, and is probably too fast on the clock for this cube. Welcome back, Necropotence, we've missed you.
WATCHLIST
Mishra's Toy Workshop may prove too confusing for my players, as the difference between spells and effects of spells creating tokens might be a little too obtuse.