Tips to consider and common mistakes to avoid when building a Modern deck in MTG.

The idea was to provide a constructed format for all cards printed using a modern card frame.

This is where the format’s namesake comes from.

icy mountains with dragon bones and dirty swamps with dragon bones

Modern Basics

The Modern format shares thebasics of most other constructed formats.

Furthermore,a player’s deck and sideboard cannot feature more than four copiesof any single card.

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Leyline Binding by Cristi Balanescu

Below is a table of all the cards banned in Modern as of December 4th, 2023.

What’s the difference between Traditional Standard and regular Historic?

And what on Earth is Alchemy?

Leyline Binding by Cristi Balanescu

Leyline Binding by Cristi Balanescu

Here’s our guide to Arena’s formats.

Some strategies fall out of the metagame’s favor at times, but they are still very much playable.

This also means that thedeck features no cardswith aconverted mana cost less than three.

The Lightning Bolt instant in Magic: The Gathering

Lightning Bolt by Christopher Moeller

Now, its standing is a little less clear.

Hammer Time

Have you ever wanted to play anequipment-based deck?

Make a little creature impossibly large and smash in for half of the opponent’s life total.

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Primeval Titan by Aleksi Briclot

Sounds fun, right?

Playing all five colors gives you access to some of the best cards in the Modern format.

Which ones of these are your favorites?

MTG Arena Formats

Crashing Footfalls

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Magic: The Gathering Arena - Formats That Should Be Made Permanent

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