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|<c>Bottle Gnomes</c> | |<c>Bottle Gnomes</c> | ||
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|<c>Brainstone</c> | |<c>Brainstone</c> | ||
|<c> | |<c>Mind Stone</c> and <c>Brainstorm</c> | ||
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|"Bushitoad" | |"Bushitoad" | ||
|<c>Chub Toad</c>, [[ | |<c>Chub Toad</c>, [[bushido]] | ||
|A Frog Samurai playing off the joke that Chub Toad had | |A Frog Samurai playing off the joke that Chub Toad had bushido 2 long before it was keyworded (and so should be a Samurai). | ||
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|<c>Chatterstorm</c> | |<c>Chatterstorm</c> | ||
|<c>Chatter of the Squirrel</c> and <c>Crow Storm</c> | |<c>Chatter of the Squirrel</c> and <c>Crow Storm</c> | ||
|A storm version of <c>Chatter of the Squirrel</c>. | |A [[storm]] version of <c>Chatter of the Squirrel</c>. | ||
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|<c>Dakkon, Shadow Slayer</c> | |<c>Dakkon, Shadow Slayer</c> | ||
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|<c>Fractured Sanity</c> | |<c>Fractured Sanity</c> | ||
|<c>Sanity Grinding</c>, | |<c>Sanity Grinding</c>, the ''[[Scourge]]'' Decrees cycle | ||
|A card that if [[cycle]]d has a similar but lesser effect than if it was hard-cast. The spell takes the mana cost, name, and effect (milling) from <c>Sanity Grinding</c>. | |A card that if [[cycle]]d has a similar but lesser effect than if it was hard-cast. The spell takes the mana cost, name, and effect (milling) from <c>Sanity Grinding</c>. | ||
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|<c>Garth One-Eye</c> | |<c>Garth One-Eye</c> | ||
| | |<c>Black Lotus</c>, <c>Disenchant</c>, <c>Braingeyser</c>, <c>Terror</c>, <c>Shivan Dragon</c>, <c>Regrowth</c> | ||
|A character from the lore in 1994, shown to master five colors of magic - and so, has six iconic spells from all colors plus artifacts. | |A character from the lore in 1994, shown to master five colors of magic - and so, has six iconic spells from all colors plus artifacts. | ||
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|A one-sided Warp World, with suspend cost and art direction similar to Ancestral Vision. | |A one-sided Warp World, with suspend cost and art direction similar to Ancestral Vision. | ||
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|<c>Liquimetal Torque</c> | |<c>Liquimetal Torque</c> | ||
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|<c>Monoskelion</c> | |<c>Monoskelion</c> | ||
|<c>Triskelion</c> | |<c>Triskelion</c> | ||
|<c>Monoskelion</c> is a smaller <c>Triskelion</c>, only having 1/3 the counters and 1/3 the mana cost. | |<c>Monoskelion</c> is a smaller <c>Triskelion</c>, only having 1/3 the counters and 1/3 the mana cost. | ||
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|<c>Out of Time</c> | |||
|<c>Parallax Wave</c> | |||
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|<c>Profane Tutor</c> | |<c>Profane Tutor</c> | ||
|<c>Demonic Tutor</c> | |<c>Demonic Tutor</c>, the costless suspend spells from ''[[Time Spiral]]'' | ||
|A spell with no mana cost and both a [[Suspend]] cost and effect that mirrors <c>Demonic Tutor</c> | |A spell with no mana cost and both a [[Suspend]] cost and effect that mirrors <c>Demonic Tutor</c>. | ||
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|<c>Rise and Shine</c> | |<c>Rise and Shine</c> | ||
|<c>Animating Faerie</c> | |<c>Animating Faerie</c> | ||
|<c>Bring to Life</c> on its own, and with overload. | |<c>Bring to Life</c> on its own, and with [[overload]]. | ||
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|<c>Rishadan Dockhand</c> | |<c>Rishadan Dockhand</c> | ||
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|<c>Scion of Draco</c> | |<c>Scion of Draco</c> | ||
|<c>Draco</c> | |<c>Draco</c>, <c>Scion of the Ur-Dragon</c> | ||
|Both in | |Both in name, art, and [[domain]] [[mana value]] reduction ability. | ||
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|<c>Spreading Insurrection</c> | |<c>Spreading Insurrection</c> | ||
|<c>Insurrection</c> | |<c>Insurrection</c> | ||
|Both gain control of multiple creatures. <c>Insurrection</c> costs more, but takes all creatures. <c>Spreading Insurrection</c> takes one, but has [[ | |Both gain control of multiple creatures. <c>Insurrection</c> costs more, but takes all creatures. <c>Spreading Insurrection</c> takes one, but has [[storm]] and costs less. | ||
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|<c>Timeless Dragon</c> | |<c>Timeless Dragon</c> | ||
|<c>Eternal Dragon</c> | |<c>Eternal Dragon</c> | ||
|Both creatures are 5/5 [[Dragon]]s with | |Both creatures are 5/5 [[Dragon]]s with flying, [[plainscycling]] {{2}}, and an ability that moves the dragon from the graveyard to another zone. The first creature with [[eternalize]] to return smaller than the original stats. | ||
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|<c>Tourach's Canticle</c> | |<c>Tourach's Canticle</c> | ||
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|<c>Underworld Hermit</c> | |<c>Underworld Hermit</c> | ||
|<c>Deranged Hermit</c>, <c>Evangel of Heliod</c> | |<c>Deranged Hermit</c>, <c>Evangel of Heliod</c> | ||
|Creates Squirrel tokens equal to your [[devotion]] to black. Mana cost, ability and art direction very similar to <c>Evangel of Heliod</c> | |Creates Squirrel tokens equal to your [[devotion]] to black. Mana cost, ability and art direction very similar to <c>Evangel of Heliod</c>. | ||
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|<c>Unmarked Grave</c> | |<c>Unmarked Grave</c> | ||
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|<c>Verdant Command</c> | |<c>Verdant Command</c> | ||
| | |<c>Primal Command</c> et al | ||
|A [[ | |A [[modal]] spell in the vein of the original [[command]]s with similar art. | ||
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|<c>Void Mirror</c> | |<c>Void Mirror</c> | ||
|<c>Nether Void</c> | |<c>Nether Void</c> | ||
|A permanent that counters spells symmetrically | |A permanent that counters spells symmetrically. The shape of the relic matches the wisps in the void. | ||
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|<c>Young Necromancer</c> | |<c>Young Necromancer</c> |
Revision as of 15:45, 26 May 2021
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Modern Horizons 2 | |||||
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Set Information | |||||
Set symbol | |||||
Symbol description | Two Modern Horizons symbols overlapping each other | ||||
Design |
Ethan Fleischer (lead[1]) Aaron Forsythe Emily Teng Allison Steele Dan Musser | ||||
Development | Aaron Forsythe (lead[1]) | ||||
Art direction | Cynthia Sheppard | ||||
Release date | June 18, 2021 | ||||
Plane | Various | ||||
Themes and mechanics | Modern power level, Merfolk, Sagas, +1/+1 counters, Dakkon Blackblade, multicolor | ||||
Keywords/ability words | Madness and and multiple other | ||||
Set size | 303 + 189 + 43 | ||||
Expansion code | MH2[2] | ||||
Development codename | Decadent[3] | ||||
Straight-to-Modern sets | |||||
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Magic: The Gathering Chronology | |||||
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Modern Horizons 2 is a Magic booster set which will release on June 18, 2021.[4][5][6][7][8] Like the first Modern Horizons, this straight-to-Modern set will be print-to-demand.[4]
Set details
Like Modern Horizons, this set introduces new cards into Modern and eternal formats without them ever being legal in Standard.[7] It features a host of powerful new toolbox cards, strong themes to try out, and several throwbacks. The set was unique in its development in that it brought in three high-profile Magic figures (Sam Black, Brian Braun-Duin, and Brad Nelson, the latter two of whom were in the Magic Pro League at the time) to consult.[9]
This set contains 303 regular cards (101 commons, 100 uncommons, 78 rares, 24 mythic rares) and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. New cards and in-Modern reprints are numbered #001-#260, while the New-to-Modern reprints are numbered #261-#303. Alternate card frames have another card number than the original version. Borderless paneswalkers are numbered #304-306, followed by the other borderless cards #307-326. The (54) showcase "sketch cards" are numbered #327-380. The (61) retro frame cards are #381-441 and cards with extended artwork are numbered #442-480 and Bundle basic lands are #481-490[10], the Buy-a-Box card is #491 and the Bundle promo is #492. MH1 retro frame cards (only found in Collector Boosters) are numbered separately #1-43 with set code ???
All five enemy colored fetch lands appear at rare in the set and can be found in regular Draft Boosters.[4] The Set - and Collector Boosters include extended art versions and retro (pre-Modern) card frame treatments for the fetch lands and many other cards.[8][11] Another frame treatment is seen on the showcase "sketch cards". These feature the artist's sketch of the main card artwork.[8][11] Instead of flavor text, some of them feature fragments from the art description that was sent to the artists when creating each card's artwork.
Modern Horizons 2 is also released on Magic Online, but not on MTG Arena.
Storyline
There is no storyline associated with this set, but there are several Dakkon Blackblade-related cards.[3]
Marketing
In addition to Draft Boosters, Modern Horizons 2 is sold in Set Boosters and Collector Boosters.[6][7] As such, this is the first supplemental set to feature Set - and Collector Boosters. Each Set Booster contains a guaranteed traditional foil, an art card, a New-to-Modern reprint and a guaranteed rare/mythic rare.[10][12] Collector Boosters feature foil-etched, retro frame and sketch cards cards.[10][12] Another first for a supplemental set is that it features a Modern Horizons 2 Bundle.[10]
The Draft Boosters feature artwork from Dakkon Blackblade (key art), Geyadrone Dihada and a merfolk. The Collector Booster features artwork from TBA, and the Set Booster from TBA.
With the release of Modern Horizons 2, 50 cards were rotated into The List, many of which were thematically or mechanically linked to the set.
Version | Treatment | Draft Booster | Set Booster | Collector Booster |
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Non-foil | Regular | |||
Non-foil | Borderless | |||
Non-foil | Showcase sketch art | |||
Non-foil | Showcase retro frame | |||
Non-foil | Extended art | |||
Non-foil | Card from The List | |||
Non-foil | Art card | |||
Traditional foil | Regular | |||
Traditional foil | Borderless | |||
Traditional foil | Showcase sketch art | |||
Traditional foil | Showcase retro frame | |||
Traditional foil | Extended art | |||
Traditional foil | Showcase retro frame (MH1 reprint) | |||
Traditional foil | Art card (stamped) | |||
Traditional foil | Buy-a-Box promo | |||
Traditional foil | Bundle promo (alternate art) | |||
Foil-etched | Regular basic land | |||
Foil-etched | Regular | |||
Foil-etched | Showcase retro frame | |||
Foil-etched | Showcase retro frame (MH1 reprint) |
Events
- Magic Online release: June 3, 2021
- Tabletop Prerelease: June 11–17, 2021
- MH2 is the first non-Standard set with Prerelease Packs.[6]
Promotional cards
- Prerelease promo: there is a total of 60 rares and 20 mythic rares that you could get as your foil-stamped Prerelease card. These include all the newly introduced Modern Horizons 2 rares and mythic rares as well as the reprint enemy fetch lands.
- Buy-a-Box: exclusive foil alternate art Sanctum Prelate with retro frame.[8]
- Isn't found in any other Modern Horizons 2 product.[13]
- Bundle promo: foil alternate art Yusri, Fortune's Flame[10]
Tokens, emblems and markers
Modern Horizons 2 features 21 tokens and emblems.
- 4/4 Eternalized Timeless Dragon.
- 1/1 Squirrel creature, for Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Chatterstorm, Drey Keeper, Scurry Oak Squirrel Sanctuary, Underworld Hermit, and Verdant Command
- 1/1 Insect creature, for Grist, the Hunger Tide.
- 0/0 Construct artifact creature with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control," for Urza's Saga.
- Food artifact, for Late to Dinner and The Underworld Cookbook
- 1/1 Thopter artifact creature with flying for Sweep the Skies.
- Copy, for Aeve, Progenitor Ooze and Garth One-Eye.
Themes and mechanics
The set was announced to have a higher power level and greater complexity with even more of what players loved in Modern Horizons.[7][3] It had access to more mechanics, eventually featuring 59 named non-evergreen mechanics (listed here).[14][15] In addition, it makes more use of legendary creatures, and leans a little heavier into multicolor.[3]
A new variant on an evergreen mechanic is Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess damage to the controller of the planeswalker it’s attacking).
Modern Horizons 2 features the following limited archetypes:[9]
- : Affinity ()
- : "Self-discard" matters ()
- : Madness aggro ()
- : Storm ()
- : +1/+1 counters ()
- : Reanimator (Priest of Fell Rites)
- : Delirium ()
- : Sacrifice, Squirrel tribal (Ravenous Squirrel)
- : Modular aggro (Arcbound Shikari)
- : Number of creature types matters ()
Card types
- Modern Horizons 2 introduces the Dakkon and Grist planeswalker types.
- Modern Horizons 2 introduces the first black-bordered enchantment land (Urza's Saga). It functions both as a Saga and a land until it is sacrificed.
- The set also sees the first new tribal card since Rise of the Eldrazi,[14] and the first new Incarnations since Lorwyn.
- Merfolk and squirrels are strongly-supported tribes in MH2.
Cycles
Modern Horizons 2 has at least seven cycles, including three double cycles.
Cycle name | |||||
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Evoke Incarnations | Subtlety | Grief | |||
Five mythic rare Elemental Incarnation creatures, each with an evoke cost of exiling a card of the same color from your hand (i.e. a pitch spell.) | |||||
Suspend spells | () |
() |
Profane Tutor (Demonic Tutor) |
Glimpse of Tomorrow (Warp World) |
() |
Five rare sorceries with suspend, no mana cost, and an effect of a powerful spell from Magic's past. | |||||
Converge spells | Prismatic Ending | Sweep the Skies | |||
Five uncommon sorceries with converge. | |||||
Cycle name | |||||
Enemy color fetch lands | Marsh Flats | Scalding Tarn | Verdant Catacombs | Arid Mesa | Misty Rainforest |
Each of these rare lands can be sacrificed along with a payment of 1 life to search for one of two basic land types. Reprinted from Zendikar. |
Double cycles
Cycle name | ||||||||||
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Uncommon signposts | Ravenous Squirrel | Arcbound Shikari | ||||||||
Ten uncommon spells, each one a signpost for its respective draft archetype. | ||||||||||
Common signposts | Drey Keeper | |||||||||
Ten common spells, each one a signpost for its respective draft archetype. | ||||||||||
Bridges | Razortide Bridge | Mistvault Bridge | Drossforge Bridge | Slagwoods Bridge | Thornglint Bridge | Goldmire Bridge | Silverbluff Bridge | Darkmoss Bridge | Rustvale Bridge | Tanglepool Bridge |
Ten common artifact taplands with indestructible. |
Mega-mega cycles
The Mirran swords mega-mega cycle gets more allied colored additions.
Reprints
TBA of the cards in the set are reprints, of which 42 are new to Modern. The latter all have a watermark of their original printing's set symbol, similar to Masters 25; except for Sanctum Prelate, which is only printed in the retro frame.
MH1 reprints
There are also 43 retro frame reprints of MH1 favorites: they are reprinted with the MH1 set symbol and aren't part of MH2 proper. These are only available through Collector Boosters as foils or etched foils, and all commons are upshifted to uncommon.
Changes in rarity
Rare to common
- Abundant Harvest (Mystical Archive, #48)
Uncommon to mythic rare
Uncommon to rare
Common to uncommon
Notable cards
- Abundant Harvest was previewed in the Mystical Archive set.[16]
- Aeve, Proginitor Ooze is the first creature with Storm.
- Urza's Saga is an Enchantment land and another in the line of cards with the name of a set. Its' subtypes create a stealthy pun that also forms the name of the set and refers to the Urzatron lands.
Callbacks
Card | Inspired by | Notes |
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Bone Shards | Bone Splinters | |
Bottle Golems | Bottle Gnomes | |
Brainstone | Mind Stone and Brainstorm | |
"Bushitoad" | Chub Toad, bushido | A Frog Samurai playing off the joke that Chub Toad had bushido 2 long before it was keyworded (and so should be a Samurai). |
Chatterstorm | Chatter of the Squirrel and Crow Storm | A storm version of Chatter of the Squirrel. |
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer | Dakkon Blackblade | The number of loyalty counters Dakkon, Shadow Slayer enters with is determined by the number of lands you control, like the original Dakkon Blackblade's power/toughness. |
Diamond Lion | Lion's Eye Diamond | Both artifacts that force the controller to sacrifice the permanent and discard their hand to add three mana of one color. References Afari, author of the Tales of Jamuraa, for the first since Visions. The lion's pendant matches the earring in the original art. |
Drey Keeper | Deranged Hermit | Creates Squirrel tokens and has a Lord-like activated ability for Squirrels. |
Flametongue Yearling | Flametongue Kavu | A young Flametongue Kavu who can pump itself to deal higher damage when it enters the battlefield. The picture matches the original art. |
Fractured Sanity | Sanity Grinding, the Scourge Decrees cycle | A card that if cycled has a similar but lesser effect than if it was hard-cast. The spell takes the mana cost, name, and effect (milling) from Sanity Grinding. |
Garth One-Eye | Black Lotus, Disenchant, Braingeyser, Terror, Shivan Dragon, Regrowth | A character from the lore in 1994, shown to master five colors of magic - and so, has six iconic spells from all colors plus artifacts. |
Glimpse of Tomorrow | Warp World, Ancestral Vision | A one-sided Warp World, with suspend cost and art direction similar to Ancestral Vision. |
Liquimetal Torque | Liquimetal Coating | Same mana value, art style, and ability to turn nonland permanents into artifacts. |
Monoskelion | Triskelion | Monoskelion is a smaller Triskelion, only having 1/3 the counters and 1/3 the mana cost. |
Out of Time | Parallax Wave | |
Profane Tutor | Demonic Tutor, the costless suspend spells from Time Spiral | A spell with no mana cost and both a Suspend cost and effect that mirrors Demonic Tutor. |
Rise and Shine | Animating Faerie | Bring to Life on its own, and with overload. |
Rishadan Dockhand | Rishadan Port | Rishadan Port on a stick |
Scion of Draco | Draco, Scion of the Ur-Dragon | Both in name, art, and domain mana value reduction ability. |
Spreading Insurrection | Insurrection | Both gain control of multiple creatures. Insurrection costs more, but takes all creatures. Spreading Insurrection takes one, but has storm and costs less. |
Timeless Dragon | Eternal Dragon | Both creatures are 5/5 Dragons with flying, plainscycling , and an ability that moves the dragon from the graveyard to another zone. The first creature with eternalize to return smaller than the original stats. |
Tourach's Canticle | Hymn to Tourach | Another song dedicated to Tourach, also involving random discard. |
Underworld Hermit | Deranged Hermit, Evangel of Heliod | Creates Squirrel tokens equal to your devotion to black. Mana cost, ability and art direction very similar to Evangel of Heliod. |
Unmarked Grave | Entomb | An Entomb for nonlegendary cards. Reflects how the most popular reanimation targets (Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Griselbrand, Iona, Shield of Emeria) are all legendary. |
Verdant Command | Primal Command et al | A modal spell in the vein of the original commands with similar art. |
Void Mirror | Nether Void | A permanent that counters spells symmetrically. The shape of the relic matches the wisps in the void. |
Young Necromancer | Young Pyromancer, Liliana Vess | A young girl who imitates a famous planeswalker and wears a brooch with her face on it.[17] |
References
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (March 6, 2021). "You're the head designer of Modern Horizons 2?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Information below the text box
- ↑ a b c d Mark Rosewater (May 24, 2021). "A Modern Approach, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c Blake Rasmussen (September 1, 2020). "Zendikar Debut and Announcement Day Recap". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ The Zendikar Adventuring Party (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (September 1, 2020).
- ↑ a b c WPN (March 8, 2021). "Modern Horizons 2: All the Dates and Scheduling Info You Need". Wizards Play Network.
- ↑ a b c d Wizards of the Coast (March 18, 2021). "Strixhaven News + More". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b c d Adam Styborski (May 6, 2021). "Welcome to the Summer of Legend". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Weekly MTG: Modern Horizons 2 Previews on Twitch
- ↑ a b c d e Mike Turian (May 21, 2021). "Modern Horizons 2 Product Overview". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Clayton Kroh (May 21, 2021). "Booster Fun of Modern Horizons 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Mike Turian (May 21, 2021). "Collecting Modern Horizons 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ WPN (May 6, 2021). "Modern Horizons 2: First Look". Wizards Play Network.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 18, 2020). "Sorry, I need to clarify my question a bit.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Jatis (March 26, 2021). "They announced via the stream [[Abundant Harvest]] will be printed in MH2.". Reddit.
- ↑ Paul Canavan (May 25, 2021). "Young Necromancer for Modern Horizons 2!". Twitter.