Modern Masters 2017

Modern Masters 2017
Set Information
Set symbol
Set size	249 cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares)
Expansion code	MM3

Modern Masters 2017, officially styled as Modern Masters 2017 Edition, is the third set in the Modern Masters series. It is a booster-based compilation set containing cards legal in, and intended for, the Modern format. It will be released on March 17, 2017.

Set details

Modern Masters 2017 is a 249 card set consisting of reprints of cards originally printed between Eighth Edition and Magic 2014, including trips through Innistrad and Return to Ravnica. Modern Masters 2017 is exclusively booster-based, thus no satellite products such as preconstructed theme decks are branded with the set. Each booster contains 15 playable cards: 10 commons, 3 uncommons and one rare or mythic rare, and one foil card of any rarity replacing the usual basic land. The 16-card boosters (the sixteenth card is a marketing card) feature artwork from Domri Rade, Griselbrand and Stoic Angel. Like Modern Masters 2015 and Eternal Masters before, the MSRP of one booster is set to $9.99. Due to the higher MSRP booster displays only contain 24 packs, which is also the number required for a regular draft (three boosters for each of eight players), as the set was designed specifically for draft. A number of cards may change rarity to create a better drafting environment.

The set will be printed in English, Japanese, and Chinese Simplified.

Magic Online

Modern Masters 2017 releases on Magic Online on March 23, 2017.

Themes and mechanics

Modern Masters 2017 features the following limited archetypes:

• : Blink (enters the battlefield effects)
• : Instant Control
• : Unearth / Sacrifice
• : Tokens go wide
• : Populate
• (Esper): Control (with Creatures)
• (Grixis): Graveyard
• (Jund): Sacrifice
• (Naya): Token Aggro
• (Bant): Splicers (Golems creators)

Changes in rarity

Common to Uncommon

• Compulsive Research
• Molten Rain
• Vithian Stinger
• Terminate
• Azorius Signet
• Dimir Signet
• Rakdos Signet
• Gruul Signet
• Selesnya Signet
• Orzhov Signet
• Izzet Signet
• Golgari Signet
• Boros Signet
• Simic Signet

Uncommon to Common

• Magma Jet
• Burning-Tree Emissary
• Gnawing Zombie
• Augur of Bolas

Rare to Common

• Mortician Beetle

Rare to Uncommon

• Goblin Assault
• Inquisition of Kozilek
• Sedraxis Specter

Rare to Mythic

• Snapcaster Mage

Mythic to Rare

• Falkenrath Aristocrat
• Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius

Cycles

Modern Masters 2017 has at least 5 cycles, two of which are double cycles:

• Uncommon tricolored creatures: Each of these uncommon creatures has a mana cost that includes MNO — Rhox War Monk, Tower Gargoyle, Sedraxis Specter, Sprouting Thrinax, and Woolly Thoctar.
• Shard lands: 5 uncommon taplands which can produced 3 colors or a shard — Seaside Citadel (//), Arcane Sanctum (//), Crumbling Necropolis (//), Savage Lands (//), and Jungle Shrine (//)
• Fetch lands: 5 rare enemy colors fetchlands: Misty Rainforest (/), Verdant Catacombs (/), *Marsh Flats (/), Arid Mesa (/), Scalding Tarn (/)
• Guildgates: All 10 common Gate cards — Azorius Guildgate (), Dimir Guildgate (), Rakdos Guildgate (), Gruul Guildgate (), Selesnya Guildgate (), Orzhov Guildgate (), Izzet Guildgate (), Golgari Guildgate (), Boros Guildgate (), and Simic Guildgate ()
• Signets: 10 common Mana Stones that cost to cast and can be tapped to filter into two mana of two different colors — Azorius Signet (), Dimir Signet (), Rakdos Signet (), Gruul Signet (), Selesnya Signet (), Orzhov Signet (), Izzet Signet (), Golgari Signet (), Boros Signet () and Simic Signet ().

Token cards

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Notable cards

• Damnation receives its first reprint in a set.
• Both Snapcaster Mage and Cavern of Souls become the first cards originally printed as a rare in a standard set printed after mythic rares were introduced, to be reprinted as a mythic rare.
• The downgraded Sedraxis Specter replaces Fire-Field Ogre of the original tricolored creatures cycle.

External links

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