The Modern Horizons set becomes legal for sanctioned Constructed play on its official release date: Friday, June 14, 2019. At that time, cards in the Modern Horizons set will be legal in the Modern format, as well as the Legacy and Vintage formats. The majority of its cards are not legal in the Standard format.

Modern is a constructed format that allows expansion sets, core sets, and Modern Horizons; from Eighth Edition forward, save for the Modern ban list. The modern format thus encompasses all cards that have been printed in a core or expansion set using the modern card frame (plus some others from Time Spiral).

The following card sets are permitted in Modern tournaments:

• Kaldheim. Zendikar Rising. Core 2021. Theros Beyond Death. Throne of Eldraine. Core Set 2020. Modern Horizons. War of the Spark. Ravnica Allegiance.
• Avacyn Restored. Dark Ascension. Innistrad. Magic 2012. New Phyrexia. Mirrodin Besieged. Scars of Mirrodin. Magic 2011.

Modern Masters is a set that consists of reprints of cards which are legal in the Modern format. It has 249 cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, and 15 mythic rares).

Release Information The Double Masters set becomes legal for sanctioned Limited play on its official release date: Friday, August 7, 2020. These cards are legal for Constructed play in any format that already allows those cards. Notably, many of these cards are not legal in the Standard, Pioneer, or Modern formats.

There are certainly some gems worth opening from this set, especially in foil. And if you’re after key Modern Horizons cards, I highly recommend buying those singles directly. Some of these have solid upside, too. For example, until they’re reprinted Prismatic Vista and Force of Negation are going to remain expensive.

A strong, defining card that fits the Modern powerlevel that is possibly a little bit too strong for standard sets. Modern Horizons was the set for it. This set is absolutely guaranteed to create a completely new and exciting format, even if some tier decks are left unchanged.

You’ll be fine. some people think they may incorporate some of the Modern Horizon cards into Pioneer.

Pioneer lacks some of the most efficient removal in Modern—Path to Exile and Lightning Bolt. As a result, aggressive and efficient creatures have ruled the streets of Pioneer, at least so far. Pioneer is missing a few elements that make Modern what it is. Path and Bolt are just the beginning.

The format was once touted as a place for rotating Standard cards to continue seeing play; nowadays, the bar is too high for many of those cards to enter the picture. So they can transition first to Pioneer, which replaces Modern as a just-out-of-Standard option.

Based on Magic Online data, we don’t believe that regular metagame pressure alone will be enough to keep these strategies in check. As a result, we are banning Felidar Guardian, Leyline of Abundance, and Oath of Nissa.

Pioneer Banned Cards The following cards are banned: Balustrade Spy. Bloodstained Mire. Felidar Guardian.

Will Modern come to MTG Arena? While the article on names Pioneer, it does say that it’s “one of the formats that we’re working towards,” which certainly seems to suggest we could well see Modern one day in MTG Arena. Of course, it’s probably not going to be any time soon.

Though Standard-legal product has continued to be released on Magic the Gathering Online, the focus on any format that pushes the sales of new product has shifted in a big way to WoTC’s new flagship client; Arena. …

These fetchlands will be banned because the shocklands (printed in both Ravnica blocks) are also included in Pioneer and “mana bases with fetch lands and shock lands are very strong and make playing three or four colors too easy.”

You use a fetch to get a new land. You effectively remove one more land from your deck so that the next card is a bit less likely to be a land and by extension, a card that will be very helpful. Instead of linking you to a search, it’s simple. It’s superior fixing for multiple color decks.

The following card sets are permitted in Pioneer

• Kaldheim.
• Zendikar Rising.
• Core 2021.
• Ikoria Lair of Behemoths.
• Theros Beyond Death.
• Throne of Eldraine.
• Ravnica Allegiance.
• Guilds of Ravnica.

In Standard, Lightning Bolt isn’t legal, so Wizard’s Lightning is more appealing. Here is an exhaustive list of all blue or red Wizards in Modern costing 3 mana or less: Still, the collection of available Wizards is lackluster—Soul-Scar Mage is arguably the standout card.

Interestingly, Wizards said that these bans are the result of community feedback rather than on the power level or impact of the cards in the format.

After two weeks of no changes, this week three cards were banned: Field of the Dead, Once Upon a Time, and Smuggler’s Copter. Smuggler’s Copter got the ax due to its prevalence in Mono Black Aggro and other beatdown decks. Field of the Dead ramp decks were suppressing control and reactive decks.

A Brief History of Modern 8th edition was chosen as the starting point for Modern because it marked the beginning of a sea change at Wizards in how they designed Magic sets (as well as a change in the visual design of cards).

Dread Return is actually similar to Golgari Grave-Troll in the sense that the original reason it was banned was to power down Dredge, which doesn’t really have a place as a tier deck in the Modern format.

Despite using the old borders, Timeshifted cards are legal in Modern, since they were printed in Time Spiral, which is a Modern-legal set. Every Timeshifted card is a reprint of a card from a set prior to 8th Edition.

Only cards reprinted after 8th edition that are not in supplementary product (so no Commander cards) are Modern legal. Dark Ritual is not. Sadly no. You gotta play Legacy/Vintage if you want to use broken rituals in competitive constructed.

This deck has really explosive starts thanks to Dark Ritual being legal in pauper.

Also, Dark Ritual is a mana ability, but it is also an instant, so it uses the stack.

Dark Ritual is a staple in various combo archetypes in both Legacy and Vintage , the two main competitive formats the card is legal in. It’s not bad. It and LED are the backbone of every good legacy storm deck.

Interrupt is an obsolete card type. Under the original rules, an interrupt was a spell that would resolve before the rest of the batch. Some examples of interrupts include Counterspell, Red Elemental Blast, and Dark Ritual.