Modern Masters Update

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

A quick update today for you.  We have another card Magic: the Gathering players should be happy with which was previewed today by WotC Bob Maher on the mothersite.

Modern Masters is a booster-based specialty set containing cards which are legal in the Modern format. It will be released on June 7, 2013.  Modern Masters is a 229 card set consisting of reprints of cards originally printed between Eighth Edition and Alara Reborn. Every card would be legal in Modern format and of course the other formats in which the sets are legal from which the cards originate. The idea behind the design was to fulfill the player demand of reprinting certain cards to make them more easily available to current or prospective Modern players, without re-introducing those cards into Standard.  We still have a lot of cards to go before the full reveal and already want to get a singles (or decksets) from MTG Mint Card.
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Anywhoos - let's get on with today's new card - Dark Confident will be joining the 3 other known (or strongly suspected) cards - Tarmogoyf, City of Brass and Aether Spellbomb.

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In other related news, WotC 'Trick also had a post to the mothersite's Magic Arcana showing a very lovely Modern Masters UltraPRO box (and sleeves!) in which to horde all your awesome new cards.  The City of Brass art from Jung Park is spectacular.

 

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Modern Masters

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

The big question on most every Magic: the Gathering player's mind at the moment is 'New Tarmo or Old Tarmo'?  The 'old Tarmogoyf' was a Future Sight rare with art from Justin Murray and featuring that unique card template indicative of Future Sight.  The 'new Tarmogoyf' is a Modern Masters special edition mythic rare in a traditional card template and illustrated by Ryan Barger.

Some of you may be saying 'Wait, wut'?  Do not worry - let's get up to steam.  Aaron Forsythe just joined the Pro Tour Webcast on the weekend to announce "Modern Masters" a product targeted at Modern players.  Aaron also announced that there would be held a There will be a Modern Masters Limited Grand Prix next year.  

This would be a short production run of a booster pack set featuring cards from 8th Edition to Alara Reborn.  All told, there will be a total of 229 card with 15 mythics, 53 rares, 60 Uncommons, and 101 Commons.  Booster packs will be similar to 'normal' booster packs - 1 rare, 3 uncommons and 11 commons and a land BUT instead of a land, there would be a premium foil card.
We here at MTG Realm have not yet taken a dip into Modern (or legacy for that matter) but are now giving it some serious thought.  We do have a truck load of cards, mostly from Lorwyn block on and think that with some select purchases from MTG Mint Card, we could easily get into a Modern deck list.  Some cards items of note - some cards to receive a reprint may shift rarity for various reasons - you may note that the mythic rarity was not introduced until Alara block.  Here is the 4.1.1. -

• Release date 7th June, 2013
• 229 Reprint Cards for the Modern Format, many with new art
• Cards are reprints from Eighth Edition through Alara Reborn
• New never before printed tokens
• 15-card booster packs, one premium per pack
• Designed to be drafted
• 24 packs per box
• $7 MSRP
• English only, global distribution
• Conservative print run

So far we have a solid confirmation of Tarmogoyf but there was another art provided on the mothersite - could this be City of Brass ?

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