Currently being spoiled on stream. All cards in this set are legal in Modern on down.
First spoiler:
Cabal Therapist
B, 1/1, Creature-Horror
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, choose a nonland card name, then target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Serra the Benevolent
WW2, 4 Loyalty Planeswalker
+2: Creature you control with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.
-3: Creature a 4/4 Angel Creature token w/ Flying and Vigilance
-6: You get an emblem with "If you contorl a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead."
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
So she's a 4 mana Serra Angel token with upside OR a one turn delay on an unremovable Worship? That's pretty darn good. Like, that's your new white walker if you want a faster win to pair with Jace and Teferi, or she's a ridic defense mechanism in any kind of weenie or token deck.
Great art too.
New set, replacing the Modern Masters line
254 cards + BAB card, the BAB card is a reprint
ALL cards are either brand new to Magic, or are reprints that have NEVER been modern legal (IE, Older than 8th, or Commander/conspiracy type stuff)
Cards bypass standard, and are immediately legal in Modern and older (Legacy, Vintage)
June 14th RElease date
The card seems reasonably good; but it also seems like a total parody haha
It's interesting that it basically makes your deck full of cabal therapy's if you want it to be. Seems good with/against SFM (with because it's an evasive beater, against because you just wait until they finally have an equip to sac)
EDIT: just realized it's at the beginning, not just during. That's a lot worse for anti-combo in legacy. Still, a menace 1/1 may be interesting with a relevant anti-hand ability
Was a stealth sort of announcement. Was first partly "leaked" this morning because CFB posted the events associated with this set, so we found out it existed, but none of the details.
Word on the street is that ""99$ sealed GP entry indicates that the set will be priced as a normal booster set. (recent UMA GP was $150)" but take that with a grain of salt, as I'm not 100% sure about this, vis-à-vis the announced $6.99 price point per pack on MTGO. It also was not said how many packs come per box.
Additional spoilers come in May.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Oh shit, does this mean Modern is coming to MTG Arena? That'd be awesome.
The timing still works decently with all those combat token producers like Legion Warboss/Goblin Rabblemaster.
T1 Cabal Therapist
T2 Bitterblossom
also seems like a complete beating. If you want to be fancy, you could Dark Ritual out both on T1 to have mana open for T2 (although you still wouldn't get Therapies from tokens before T2 this way). But since both parts are dirt cheap and good on their own, this combo is probably something to look out for in the future.
Hoping this cures the fundamental problem with Modern having broken linear decks. If they make a Delver-esque tempo deck viable it could really solve a lot of problems in helping police the never-ending nonsense that goes unchecked in the format. If they don't fix that problem its just gonna be the format of constant bannings.
Also good with Young Peezy (every spell you cast can also double as a Cabal Therapy) and Lingering Souls.
Could also be good with Veteran Explorer.
Ideally it would be in a deck that makes use of the creature itself otherwise I'm not sure its as good as the original Cabal Therapy. Seems like if they have to waste removal on this guy you are already winning.
T1: Therapist, Memnite
T2: Use your cabal therapy on a stick.
All signs point to wotc wanting to merge eternal formats. This will be a net negative for legacy, as modern will creep into and appropriate its identity every modern horizons set they release. 200 reprints per set will only take 3 years before every non-reserved list card with tournament viability becomes modern legal. This means, we keep mostly LED, City of Traitors, Cradle, Metalworker and the original duals. We have seen the unsustainable reprint practices from the masterpieces and modern masters sets. Thismwill take it a step further and will be milked out hard
Wotc will consolidate the fragmented player base and support modern that can be reprinted to demand and thus makes a lot more commercial sense. Given the choice, they will support a format that is not constrained by reserved list for the sole reason of wanting full control over their game.
Legacy players will be thrown a bone to keep them content and unaware of the bigger picture, until it's too late and the identity of legacy has largely vanished.
If you're buying Modern Horizons, you are supporting the slow demise of legacy.
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