There’s a high standard when it comes to whether a Magic: the Gathering card is good enough for Modern. But Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty has an insane power level. There are a bunch of cards that not only seem Modern playable, but may pave their way to being new format Staples.
Here are my top 10 cards that could impact the Modern format.
#10) Fable of the Mirror Breaker
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it will be difficult assembling an infinite combo with Reflection of Kiki-Jiki. The added mana requirement prevents all of the combos that work with the original
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Haste
{T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
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But this card is good in its own way. It grinds a ton of value!
The first chapter makes a token similar to
Captain Lannery Storm
Captain Lannery Storm
Haste
Whenever Captain Lannery Storm attacks, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, Captain Lannery Storm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
. The second chapter provides a looting effect similar to
Seasoned Pyromancer
Seasoned Pyromancer
When this creature enters, discard two cards, then draw two cards. For each nonland card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.
{3}{R}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens.
. And Reflection of Kiki-Jiki can still provide a lot of value by copying big creatures with powerful ETB (enters the battlefield) triggers.
#9) March of Otherworldly Light
March of Otherworldly Light is a pretty versatile removal spell. It’s instant speed, and you can exile white cards from you hand to scale up the mana used for the spell.
This card can deal with artifacts, creatures, or enchantments. While Prismatic Ending is better most of the time, March of Otherworldly Light can deal with one thing that Ending can’t:
Urza’s Saga
Urza’s Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Because Urza’s Saga is an enchantment, March can exile the Saga for just one mana. And it can kill Construct tokens at instant speed as well.
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#8) Containment Construct
Within moments of Containment Construct’s reveal, Magic players found a way to break the card in Legacy. There’s a two card combo between Containment Construct and Artificer’s Intuition that involves looping
Lion’s Eye Diamond
Lion’s Eye Diamond
Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
and Elixir of Imortality, resulting in infinite mana and infinite life.
Players have yet to find a way to abuse Containment Construct in Modern. But the card has potential. It’s only a matter of time before it breaks into Modern.
#7) Cloudsteel Kirin
Hammer Time is one of the best decks in Modern. It finds loopholes to get around otherwise large equipment costs.
Sigarda’s Aid
Sigarda’s Aid
You may cast Aura and Equipment spells as though they had flash.
Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may attach it to target creature you control.
is one such loophole to equipping Colossal Hammer for free. The one-mana enchantment also synergizes with Cloudsteel Kirin. You can flash the new Reconfigure spell linto play and automatically equip it to a creature. As long as that creature remains on the battlefield, you can’t lose the game.
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#6) Reality Heist
Reality Heist is a artifact-focused
Dig Through Time
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
. You can play it at a heft discount. And it offers a great deal of card selection.
This card will be tested in Affinity decks, but I think Reality Heist will really shine in artifact combo decks like Grinding Station because it can dig for you combo pieces.
#5) Otowara, Soaring City
Otawara, Soaring City, has a pretty heafty channel cost. But because this land enters the battlefield untapped, the first copy you play in your deck is effectively a free upgrade over an Island.
Izzet Murktide is a deck already in Modern that could play 1-2 copies of this land.
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#4) Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
As with Otawara, Eiganjo is an upgrade over a basic Plains with very little downside. In Modern, I am particularly excited about this card in Death & Taxes decks.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben will tax your opponents spells, but makes Eiganjo’s channel cost cheaper.
Other decks that will potentially play Eiganjo are Hammer Time and Azorius Control. They probably can’t reduce the cost of Eiganjo by much, but will still play it as a utility land that comes into play untapped.
#3) Secluded Courtyard
Unclaimed Territory was already played in Modern. Humans, Goblins, Elementals, and the occasional Sliver decks can all leverage the tribal supporting land.
But Secluded Courtyard is a strict upgrade to Unclaimed Territiory because it addition to making any colored mana to cast spells of a designated creature type, it can also make mana for those creatures’ activated abilities.
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#2) Lion Sash
People are calling Lion Sash the white [tooltip]Scavenging Ooze[/tooltips]. But there are some unique synergies with the equipment Cat that Ooze does not have.
Stoneforge Mystic
Stoneforge Mystic
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
now have a graveyard-hating equipment that you can tutor from the library.
#1) Boseiju, Who Endures
Boseiju, Who Endures, is so good, I am nervous about how it will affect Modern. Between
Wrenn and Six
Wrenn and Six
+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
−1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target.
−7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
and Life from the Loam, you can return Boseiju from you graveyard to your hand to repeatedly blow up your opponents artifacts, enchantments and nonbasic lands every turn.
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