Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Modern”
I touched on this last week, but isn’t it crazy to think back to a time when white decks could legitimately complain about not getting good cards? While we were in the middle of that era it felt truly interminable, but now it already feels like the distant past. Yet even back in that before-time, there were still some fringe …
Caretaker’s Talent has been taking hold in multiple formats, becoming a cornerstone of multiple decks that Tom dives deep into here! The cycle of rare Talents have been frontrunners for Bloomburrow’s best constructed cards right out of the blocks. In the first week after the set released, I wrote about a string of upstart Standard decks that were already emerging …
Graveyard decks have always been a huge part of Magic, ever since the first Animate Dead was used to cheat out the first Lord of the Pit or Shivan Dragon. But if you broaden your definition beyond simple reanimation, almost every deck has some way to get value out of the yard – and if yours doesn’t, you’re probably not …
It shouldn’t really come as any surprise that Modern Horizons 3 has been a transformative event for the Modern metagame. We’ve seen two previous examples of the format “rotating” after a set’s worth of new pushed cards were added – three if you count Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. It’s also clear that the designers of these sets …
It’s a tricky job identifying Constructed playables from Modern Horizons 3, because (at least in theory) they all are! Even the more potent sets we’ve seen in recent years are mostly made up of cards that will clearly never make the cut in Standard, let alone Modern. They’re a couple of turns too slow, or they don’t have a sufficiently …
With Un-sets like Unfinity and Unstable waning in popularity, there’s a clear trend replacing those set’s storied reference game: putting references and puns-a-plenty into Modern Horizons sets. Jacob sits down to argue why Modern Horizons sets are a natural place to put these easter eggs. THE ORIGINAL JOKESTER Magic has several joke sets. The first of these was 1998’s Unglued. …
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan releases on Friday, which means it’s time to update our Modern decks for any weekend tournaments. Last week I talked about my thoughts on five of the best cards for Modern from the new set, so naturally I pulled from that list to find some homes for those powerful cards. Keep in mind that these …
Modern has been dominated by one card over the last few weeks, and Up the Beanstalk is taking format by storm. The powerful, two mana enchantment rewards players for casting to expensive spells. Luckily, for the beans players, there are a ton of cards that cost 5+ mana in theory, but far less (zero to one) in practice. With that …
There are two indisputably true about Modern right now: the format desperately needs help to solve the Scam/Up the Beanstalk problem and that very soon, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan will become playable. Naturally I’m hoping the second truth addresses the first. While I don’t think there is much in the way of revolutionizing Modern from LCI, I do believe …
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how to beat Scam, which was the beat deck in Modern at the time. However, a new challenger has appeared to try and claim that title: Four Color Beans. If you aren’t playing Beans yourself you’re going to make sure you have a plan for it. And since it’s a new and …
