So, you're browsing around the forums and you see this new Modern section. What is this new format, you ask? I'm here to explain, random forumgoer.
Modern is a new format that, in the most general way to describe it as possible, consists of cards printed in the current card frame. This means cards that were printed in the current card frame, so if you want to use an older card in its From the Vault form, or a card from the new Commander decks, or even an FNM promo of an old card, you're out of luck. To be more specific, if it was printed in any core set from 8th edition onwards or any set from Mirrodin onwards, it's legal with the exception of the cards on a banned list. I'll get to that next.
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Modern is a new format that, in the most general way to describe it as possible, consists of cards printed in the current card frame. This means cards that were printed in the current card frame, so if you want to use an older card in its From the Vault form, or a card from the new Commander decks, or even an FNM promo of an old card, you're out of luck. To be more specific, if it was printed in any core set from 8th edition onwards or any set from Mirrodin onwards, it's legal with the exception of the cards on a banned list. I'll get to that next.
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If anyone has suggestions on anything else you think I should add to this thread, please let me know!
From the sounds of it, you mean that if you have a card, that was printed in a FtV, a precon, etc; and even if it was printed in a legal set, unless its print from that set its illegal?
Or am I just reading it incorrectly? Cause it doesnt make sense to add some banning just because of when your card was printed, not if it was printed in a legal set or not. I mean why does it matter if my Sword of Body and Mind is from Scars or FtV:Relics?
Modern is a new format that, in the most general way to describe it as possible, consists of cards printed in the current card frame. This means cards that were printed in the current card frame, so if you want to use an older card in its From the Vault form, or a card from the new Commander decks, or even an FNM promo of an old card, you're out of luck. To be more specific, if it was printed in any core set from 8th edition onwards or any set from Mirrodin onwards, it's legal with the exception of the cards on a banned list. I'll get to that next.
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If anyone has suggestions on anything else you think I should add to this thread, please let me know!
From the sounds of it, you mean that if you have a card, that was printed in a FtV, a precon, etc; and even if it was printed in a legal set, unless its print from that set its illegal?
Or am I just reading it incorrectly? Cause it doesnt make sense to add some banning just because of when your card was printed, not if it was printed in a legal set or not. I mean why does it matter if my Sword of Body and Mind is from Scars or FtV:Relics?
You can always use older versions of cards that are legal in the format. What Mono means is that printings outside of the core sets and blocks do not qualify a card for the Modern format. So even if Sol Ring was printed in FtV: Relics with the new card frame, it's not legal in Modern.
What Quizzles said is correct. You can play a card if it was printed in a Modern-legal set, but being in a modern card frame alone does not qualify a card for the format. It has to actually have been printed in 8th edition core sets and onwards or in Mirrodin onwards.
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Thanks, I had just read it as I woke up, so the wording on it seemed odd. I also might of read it but somehow missed the 'older' part. It could be cut down to just the first sentence, and last two to simplify it. The second sentence, seems unneccasary with the third sence of the paragraph.
Sometimes the best explanations, are the simplest. Just leaving it at the 'current card frame' is 8th edition on, is enough. No way people can misread it as a 'older', which to some I know not in standard means 'old'. It's dumb, I know, but again you are writing this for the masses, leave it short, plain, and simple IMO.
I dont mind looking like the dunce so others dont have too :P
Lets just kill the use of modern card frame as a way to explain it cause it just causes more problems than its worth.
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Keep extended alive for future generations so they dont have to sell out for modern. "If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it." —Volrath
Also, not to piss anyone off, but talk with other players about Worldslayer . I honestly love this card, but by the time I can get a strong enough creature to equip it I'd already be dead. I'm sure SOMEONE has been able to find use for it.
Indestructible (more equipment) or creatures with flying seem to work well with Worldslayer. My boyfriend has a Worldslayer deck that works wonders, for him anyway.
