The January 18th, 2016 Banned and Restricted List updates appear to have been published early. The changes are as follows:

Modern: Summer Bloom and Splinter Twin are banned.

Pauper: Cloud of Faeries is banned.

The article outlines the reasoning behind these changes. Removing Summer Bloom is an effort to power down the Amulet Bloom combo deck while the banning of Splinter Twin was done to promote diversity. Cloud of Faeries was also banned to promote diversity in Pauper and to give non-blue decks a chance to establish themselves.

These bans go into effect on January 22nd and will be enforced on Magic Online starting after the January 27th downtime.

With Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch right around the corner, Modern appears to be wide open again. What do you think will fill the void left by Twin? Will Amulet Combo survive, or should people be prepared for Goryo's Vengeance?