While I'm a big fan of Modern, Modern Horizons clearly has some EDH plants and some cards that are inordinately good in Vintage, so let's make Top 10 lists for it! I'll start with my Top 10 Cards New To Modern, but beware: in the interests of diversity, all land cycles count as 1 entry each:
Cantrip Lands (e.g. Fiery Islet): I think these lands are the only cards in Modern Horizons with a 100% chance of seeing high-level Modern tournament maindeck play. Giving aggro and combo decks this much gas in the mana base will give them a sizeable boost, and mono-coloured aggro and combo decks are likely to want 8 of these.
Collector Ouphe: In contrast, this is the only 100% lock for high-level Modern tournament sideboards that I expect from Modern Horizons. Hardened Scales Robots has a hard time killing Null Rod on legs maindeck, and other decks are going to get annoyed by this guy who is so darn easy to find with creature search, creature filtering, and creature cheating.
Force of Vigor: The next closest to a Modern sideboard lock, Force of Vigor will often be a mana-free way to boot Blood Moon and devastate those artifact decks, whether they be aggro or control.
Force of Negation: With this much Gx Tron in the Modern meta, I believe Force of Negation will see play over Dovin's Veto because it lets blue decks dig further into this Hail Mary answer and tap out finding it. Don't underestimate its ability to cripple Dredge's Turn 1, either.
Lava Dart: Aggro spellslinger decks like UR Phoenix and Mono-Red Phoenix love 2 spells in 1 card for 1 mana, especially when you can discard it to Faithless Looting and still get 1 spell out of it. Dealing 2 damage at instant speed with it is a lovely bonus.
Scale Up: The chance of Turn 2 Infect kills just skyrocketed. This plus any +4/+4 pump spell on an Infect dude means one dead opponent.
Eladamri's Call: Creature-based combo decks just got a darn fine tutor. Competes with the several other creature tutors in Modern, but a cheap instant-speed one is kinda hard to pass up.
Pillage: While RG Ponza will love this card, this may also find a home in sideboards as a versatile answer and combo delayer.
Archmage's Charm: It's in very restrictive colours, but a hard counterspell that can draw 2 cards at instant speed instead is hard to deny. Stealing tiny stuff is just a bonus.
Man, there are so many cards in Modern Horizons that will boost fringe decks or have a lower chance of making it into goodstuffs, though. I could probably make another list of 10 cards with them!
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- Cantrip Lands (e.g. Fiery Islet): I think these lands are the only cards in Modern Horizons with a 100% chance of seeing high-level Modern tournament maindeck play. Giving aggro and combo decks this much gas in the mana base will give them a sizeable boost, and mono-coloured aggro and combo decks are likely to want 8 of these.
- Collector Ouphe: In contrast, this is the only 100% lock for high-level Modern tournament sideboards that I expect from Modern Horizons. Hardened Scales Robots has a hard time killing Null Rod on legs maindeck, and other decks are going to get annoyed by this guy who is so darn easy to find with creature search, creature filtering, and creature cheating.
- Force of Vigor: The next closest to a Modern sideboard lock, Force of Vigor will often be a mana-free way to boot Blood Moon and devastate those artifact decks, whether they be aggro or control.
- Force of Negation: With this much Gx Tron in the Modern meta, I believe Force of Negation will see play over Dovin's Veto because it lets blue decks dig further into this Hail Mary answer and tap out finding it. Don't underestimate its ability to cripple Dredge's Turn 1, either.
- Lava Dart: Aggro spellslinger decks like UR Phoenix and Mono-Red Phoenix love 2 spells in 1 card for 1 mana, especially when you can discard it to Faithless Looting and still get 1 spell out of it. Dealing 2 damage at instant speed with it is a lovely bonus.
- Scale Up: The chance of Turn 2 Infect kills just skyrocketed. This plus any +4/+4 pump spell on an Infect dude means one dead opponent.
- Eladamri's Call: Creature-based combo decks just got a darn fine tutor. Competes with the several other creature tutors in Modern, but a cheap instant-speed one is kinda hard to pass up.
- Pillage: While RG Ponza will love this card, this may also find a home in sideboards as a versatile answer and combo delayer.
- Archmage's Charm: It's in very restrictive colours, but a hard counterspell that can draw 2 cards at instant speed instead is hard to deny. Stealing tiny stuff is just a bonus.
- Kaya's Guile: It's probably the best take on Foul-Tongue Invocation yet. Shame about needing white, though.
Man, there are so many cards in Modern Horizons that will boost fringe decks or have a lower chance of making it into goodstuffs, though. I could probably make another list of 10 cards with them!