MTG Salvation

I know many people want Oubliette, but Black could really use a 2cmc unconditional exile target creature at instant speed. 2cmc makes it different enough from Path that I think you could even get away with a small bonus stapled to it... maybe.

I do think a 2cmc Nekratall would see Pauper play though.

While I totally agree that the majority of the set will be dedicated to making an enjoyable limited environment, unless they print all the not-currently-Modern-legal cards at rare+ (which is highly doubtful), they'll have to balance those cards into limited at common and uncommon. This will likely* bring up the power of limited. I say "likely" with the idea that the things people are speculating on are things that will greatly influence limited and many of those things are undeserving of a gold or orange set symbol. Those things influencing limited will push WotC to design other cards of equal power level to even out the limited environment; this is cause for more breakout cards that bypass the intent for limited and sneak into Modern playable territory.

If WotC doesn't do a good job of balancing out limited, then boo on them and this set will fail and we can doom and gloom over Modern's demise starting a cascade of wrong doing that leads to the overall failure of Magic as a whole... But we're better than that, d***it! We know at least Maro has some sort of idea what players have been asking for because he's repeated some of it to us through blogatog. With that in mind we can speculate on what we might be receiving as "influenced" by an incredibly broad and abstract communal desire for these cool themes.

Point is that those themes will lift limited up a bit in power. That power rise will create more potential for cards to make it into Modern playable.

If Black gets a DoJ, I would hope it's not an exact replica. I could go for something like "Each creature gets -X/-X where X is it's toughness". It's got some very small up side in that it beats indestructible, but not more than that that I can think of.

I hope black gets a nice unconditional "Exile target creature". It can cost 1B or BB if you want to get uppity about it, but it better have a positive stapled to it because mana. I'm just sort of tired of black being the creature removal color, then it not mattering because all relevant creatures can get themselves out of the grave. Necrotic Wound was close, but doesn't really work.

I'm also excited by the notion that this set is being designed with the idea that more advanced players will be playing it. Do we know if that means they will be doing away with "NWO"? Can commons be more complicated than normal? I hope yes. Not because complexities sake, but because sometimes that uncommon should have been common but because it's "complex" it gets a rarity upgrade. How often is this a thing? I don't know, but I would be interested to see.

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Oh boy

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Brace yourselfs for possibly at long last getting the ally colors of the swords

Incoming UB mill sword.

I have all 5 of the others. I'll not be missing these... If they are printed. Maybe is still maybe after all.

If you want to compare Back to Basics to Blood Moon, then I would say Back to Basics is more okay than Blood Moon because I at least get a chance at using a land when I draw it. The game actually continues if you don't have any basics in play.

Are they okay to have in the same meta? Or would there be some decks running around running both? Somehow, I think no one would run both.

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They have confirmed that with the exception of basic lands all cards in Modern Horizons will be new to modern.

MH1 has no reprints. Will MH2?

Did they take all reprints off the table for this product entirely? I know we don't know if they'll be doing an MH2, but it seems really short sighted for this to either just be a one time dump or to take reprints off the table entirely.

I'd really like to avoid Force of Will... We don't even have Counterspell yet. Can we refrain from free effects for awhile while we figure out how this new mentality of card entry will affect the format? I'm all for some good reprints, but I'm looking for a different variety than going pedal to the metal via Force of Will.

Aura Shards? Astral Slide? Avatar of Will (and friends)? Blastoderm? Blood Pet? Book Burning and Browbeat? Genesis (and friends)? There's plenty of good cards that could spawn cool new strategies without asking for free effects or counters... and I absolutely love playing control.

Edit: Aura Shards probably would need a remake for the addition of the word "nontoken".

I'll be happy if they give me Counterspell and Baleful Strix.

I am more curious to see some of the new cards though. Will they matter? Will they be too good? Will we even care they were printed?