• Exit The Alehouse

The Alehouse archetype continues to have pieces chipped off, reigning in the outliers of this lurking competitive archetype. Exit The Alehouse is one of the strongest fortified negates available, triggering your on-reveal effects, and shuffling back the target, interrupting recursive abilities. 

Whilst Exit is one of the few defensive pieces available for Ethel, the list has proven to have a strong enough aggressive plan, that a hit to Exit shouldn't be too punishing, whilst helping to alleviate feel-bad moments, and complete blowout wins against it's backline clearing in-discard ability.

• That Unstoppable Feeling

Whilst this card has only popped up very recently, it's an unsurprising hit as a massive heal card in the same vein as Castiel's Alchemic Bloodbond. Compared to Bloodbond, That Unstoppable Feeling is significantly easier to find, enable, and loop. This hit does little to limit Gaia's power, but eliminates one outlier play-pattern linked to undesirable play-patterns.

• Jasmine, The Unstoppable Water Beauty

One card much more linked with Gaia's strong card advantage engine however is Jasmine, The Unstoppable Water Beauty. Jasmine's perish ability can be recurred and reused with Unstoppable Titan War Smash and Gaia's Unstoppable Presence, and Jasmine herself can be tutored at the start of the game by Erebus. With this hit to 2, Gaia will still be able to generate tons of card advantage, but wont be able to get 3 Jasmine perish abilities with Erebus & War Smash right off the bat.

• Cerebral, The Bound Seraphim Mind

Whilst Michael is in a strong place at the moment, and not necessarily a contender needing a buff, I don't believe that Cerebral returning to 3 makes a significant difference for the list. 

Whilst Cerebral is one of the strongest Warriors available for the Seraphim/Sanctify archetypes, he does have diminishing returns in multiple copies. One single copy is all you need to delay/lock out keyword abilities or special abilities from your opponent.

Whilst the change isn't particularly impactful in one way or another, it is nice to see cards be fully removed from the SRL list when it is safe to do so.

• Welcome To The Grimm Graveyard

One significantly more interesting return, Welcome To The Grimm Graveyard has been brought to Restricted from Suspended, bringing back 1 copy of this card for Undead decks.

When this card was initially hit, play pattern concerns were part of the equation, with Undead players often being able to rip their opponent's hands down to nothing early. At a single copy, Undead players have access to a powerful enabler/disruption piece, which will require significantly more effort/investment to recur & reuse with Sir Grimm Crimson.

Whilst this card will be immediately returning for Mortis, it'll be interesting to see if the card sees inclusion in the blossoming Mal'ady Garden Stax archetype.