Simon Nielsen, champion of the MTG Pro Tour Amsterdam with his Nadu Bant deck, believes that this overwhelmingly powerful strategy should be banned as soon as possible. "This deck is ridiculously strong and I'm just glad I got to use it before it gets banned, which it definitely will," he said upon accepting his trophy on June 30.

The latest Pro Tour winner expects the ban hammer to fall on the Simic-colored bird wizard soon. Nielsen jokingly added: "Don't invest." Despite the champ's warning, many cards have already increased in price in recent days in response to the rising popularity of Nadu, Winged Wisdom. Key components of the deck's combo, such as Shuko, have seen incredible price increases.

With a mind-boggling 59.3 percent win rate that defies all logic, the Nadu Bant combo deck truly gives new meaning to the old adage, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” Which would explain the following statistic: An overwhelming 25 percent of all MTG Pro Tour Amsterdam Modern players were playing variations of the same Nadu, Winged Wisdom deck. To put it in perspective, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis only made up 21 percent of the meta in 2019 before it was banned in Modern.

In fact, Nadu, Winged Wisdom was such an unstoppable strategy during the Pro Tour Amsterdam that five of the top eight finalists played variations of the same colorful bird. The final was a mirror match between the Nadu decks of Simon Nielson and Sam Pardee. Given all of the above, it is not a question of if Nadu, Winged Wisdom will be banned, but when.