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Dark Ritual for Modern? There's zero chance of this ever happening, and for good reason. A +2 mana ritual castable on the first turn would be extremely broken, and not just for Ad Nauseam. Noooooo thanks.

So what other deck would play it? In legacy it sees play in Storm decks and Reanimator. The storm decks in modern are currently red/blue. They would have to change significantly to fit in Dark Ritual. With a baral/electromancer it isn't any better than Pyretic/Desperate ritual. In fact it's worse because red mana is more valuable than black in that deck.

Reanimator does not exist in modern.

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Dark Ritual - I can't think of a single deck that would play this card except for maybe Ad Nauseam, which isn't that strong right now anyway.

I don't know about you but I don't feel like dealing with turn 1 LoTV.

I don't think it will be used to ramp into turn 1 Liliana. That seems way too fair.

i honestly just want shardless agent.

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i honestly just want shardless agent.

Yeah. I think that card would be very nice to have.

I used to be against the idea of Pernicious Deed being Modern legal despite loving the card because of the fact that it might keep fast aggro down. Really though, isn't midrange supposed to chew up aggro? Deed would be like a slightly more expensive Wrath, with the upsides of versatility and instant-speed activation. It's hard to imagine decks like Humans, Spirits, or Phoenix falling off due to GBx getting Deed. It can hit manlands, but misses planeswalkers, so all sorts of interesting and skill-testing lines could come about by having it.

Pillage and Vindicate would be nice for the format, and there's little risk in three mana one-for-one sorceries breaking anything (and I say this as someone who primarily plays Tron). Similarly, I'm all for Innocent Blood and Curfew as fun early tools with some unique applications.

What sounds bad? Force of Will, Daze, Stifle, Misdirection, Wasteland, Dust Bowl, Price of Progress, Hymn to Tourach, and any old school Ritual effects (especially from artifact sources). All of these cards are very high risk, and push all sorts of existing archetypes out of competitive viability.

Thinking today if Victimize is too strong for modern? It can't be cast if there's no creature to sac.

I wonder why Opposition didn't show up in the new Ravnica block. Would have fit perfectly both mechanics-and storywise to this block. And it's addition to the Modern card pool would be safe in my opinion.
So i still want to have Opposition reprinted.

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I wonder why Opposition didn't show up in the new Ravnica block. Would have fit perfectly both mechanics-and storywise to this block. And it's addition to the Modern card pool would be safe in my opinion.
So i still want to have Opposition reprinted.

In a turn 4 format like modern, sure, it might be fine, but there's now way that Wizards (or many players, frankly) would want Opposition in standard. Not to mention, they already have Verity Circle in the set.

Well the thread is "Cards that should be reprinted to enter the Modern card pool" so I guess theoretically standard is out of question for this.
But I agree, if the card is standard safe or not is a different thing, but imo it is not that gamebreaking even in standard.

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I used to be against the idea of Pernicious Deed being Modern legal despite loving the card because of the fact that it might keep fast aggro down. Really though, isn't midrange supposed to chew up aggro? Deed would be like a slightly more expensive Wrath, with the upsides of versatility and instant-speed activation. It's hard to imagine decks like Humans, Spirits, or Phoenix falling off due to GBx getting Deed. It can hit manlands, but misses planeswalkers, so all sorts of interesting and skill-testing lines could come about by having it.

GB has a lot of turns 1 and 2 disruption, so I don't think that Deed is as mild as you're assuming. That said, I don't think a format being dominated by aggro is any better than a format dominated by combo. So, yes, please print deed.

Daze, Misdirection, Price of Progress, Hymn to Tourach. All of these cards are very high risk, and push all sorts of existing archetypes out of competitive viability.

I don't think any of these cards are too powerful for Modern at all. They absolutely would slow down the format by at least two turns, but Modern revolving around mid-range is a good thing, IMO.

Sanctum Prelate and Recruiter of the Guard look like decent white cards for modern.

The prelate is vulnerable to creature removal, so it should not be too oppressive.

1. Modern needs Counterspell badly
2. Baleful Strix wouldn't hurt either.

I actually think Moment's Peace would be very healthy right now. It turns off the hyper-aggro decks, giving two turns to find an exile wipe. It is good against phoenix, death's shadow, dredge and hollow one.

Horay for Modern Horizons, hoping some of these are in it for reprints:

Counterspell
Force Spike
Wall of Blossoms
Containment Priest
Innocent Blood
Undermine
Diabolic Edict
Tribute to the Wild
Impulse
From the Ashes
Angel of Finality
Stranglehold
Crawlspace
Bind
Skyshroud Elite
Wild Growth
Flametongue Kavu
Skyshroud War Beast
Lobotomy

I would Like to see some format defining cards such as

Blue
counter spell
true-name nemesis
force spike
misdirection
sea drake
Volrath's Shapeshift
standstill
propaganda

Green
gamekeeper
bind
food chain
wall of blossoms
elvish vanguard
wild growth
land grant
burgeoning
skyshroud war beast

White
containment priest
astril slide
eternal dragon
loyal retainer
Recruiter of the Guard

Red
Flametoungue kavu
goblin bombardment
goblin ringleader
goblin matron
dragon breath
imperial recuiter

Black
nether shadow
innocent blood
engineered plague
Diabolic Intent

Other
Mishra's factory
maze of ith
rishadan port
undiscovered paradise
urza's bauble
hibernation sliver
crystalline sliver
sterling grove
The set of 5 decrees
The set of 5 Words

Undiscovered Paradise & Volrath's Shapeshifter are both on the reserved list, so no dice there.

Wild growth and Propaganda would be nice as modern reprints. Maybe even reprint Raze, Dwarven Miner, Dwarven Blastminer, Lava Blister, and Pillage for red
Blue cards
Capsize, Rescind
Or at least something along those lines and casting costs.
Or give us back good old Armageddon

Isn't Wizards moving away from land destruction? Don't they view it as un-fun game play to be on the receiving end of it?

I wouldn't hold my breathe on all the land destruction. But you might get your blue cards.

Hoping for Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist to be reprinted into a core set, so can add her to my modern cats deck.

Careful Study. It would be fair because it's blue unlike Faithless Looting.

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