Modern Horizons 2 may be designed to expand Magic: The Gathering’s Modern Constructed format, but fans are also excited to play the brand new and reprinted cards in Limited formats like Booster Draft and Sealed, and now we know what Limited archetypes to expect from the upcoming straight-to-Modern set.
During this week’s Weekly MTG stream, Wizards of the Coast revealed some new and reprinted cards from Modern Horizons 2, along with their borderless and old school frame versions. Cards included the
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control.
+1: Surveil 2.
−3: Exile target creature.
−6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
planeswalker card, legendary creatures like
Thrasta, Tempest’s Roar
Thrasta, Tempest’s Roar
This spell costs {3} less to cast for each other spell cast this turn.
Trample, haste
Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the controller of the planeswalker it's attacking.)
Thrasta has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.
and
Yusri, Fortune’s Flame
Yusri, Fortune’s Flame
Flying
Whenever Yusri attacks, choose a number between 1 and 5. Flip that many coins. For each flip you win, draw a card. For each flip you lose, Yusri deals 2 damage to you. If you won five flips this way, you may cast spells from your hand this turn without paying their mana costs.
, reprints with old school frames like
Force of Negation
Force of Negation
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
and
Giver of Runes
Giver of Runes
{T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
, and more.
In addition to the Modern Horizons 2 previews, Dan Musser, Play Design Manager at Wizards of the Coast, also revealed the ten Limited archetypes of the upcoming set, and each of them are aligned to a dual color combination.
Limited Archetypes of Modern Horizons 2
- WU – Affinity / Artifact Matters
- UB – Paying you for discarding cards
- BR – Madness
- RG – Storm
- WG – +1/+1 counters
- WB – Reanimator
- UR – Delirium (multiple card types in graveyard)
- BG – Token matters as sacrifice outlets for effects
- RW – Artifacts matter / Modular build
- GU – Junk – “collect a bunch of random tokens and do something with them” – higher than number of token types
It looks like Modern Horizons 2 will feature a mix of familiar mechanics that will be fun to play in Limited formats. The Red/Green Storm archetype is the most surprising here since Storm archetypes are usually aligned to blue and red, but after seeing Thrasta, Tempest’s Roar, we might actually see some new archetypes that will be introduced in the Modern Constructed format.
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If you’re excited for Modern Horizons 2, you can now preorder Draft Boosters, Collector Boosters, Set Boosters, and Bundles online .
Modern Horizons 2 is scheduled to release on June 18, 2021. You can check out spoiler section here.