The dust has hardly settled on War of the Spark (ok it’s been a couple of weeks since it officially came out) and we are now getting Modern Horizons spoilers.

For those that don’t know or need a reminder, Modern Horizons is a stand alone set that is targeted at Modern players with reprints and new cards. The cards in this set are not legal in Standard. But formats like Commander, the new hotness Oathbreaker, and naturally Modern they are.

I normally avoid these Modern sets. I don’t play Modern. My normal practice when these sets come out is keep an eye out for singles that I like the look of, and target buy them (if the price is one I consider reasonable).

So what you have here in this post is a handful of the cards that have caught my eye, and I’ve thought “oh wow, that is definitely going into deck …”. This isn’t a comprehensive list, it’s most definitely not authoritative or pretending I know what I’m talking about. It’s also based on only those cards that had been spoiled up to 24 hours before posting this blog post. So your mileage may vary with this post. And yes that is a long worded disclaimer for basically saying I don’t know what I’m talking about.

They have brought back snow lands in this set. And they have given them the full art treatment. As you can see below they look amazing. Full art lands are always a big hit with the players, and they do shoot up in price pretty quickly. These will be no different I can assure you. In fact that snow-covered word may make them even costlier to get. Naturally there are also some cards in this set that get abilities etc triggered or stats pumped depending on if you have these lands in play or not.

There looks to be possibly a ‘Force of …’ cycle in this set. I think Force of Negation is the buy-a-box promo. I like the look of these two so far. Can see them going into appropriate decks.

We have a new tribal commander! Morophon, the Boundless. Very useful for a five colour deck, or creating a tribal deck around a creature type that doesn’t have a legendary creature or if they do a poor one. I might try Morophon with a couple of decks. For instance I may build a version of the zombie deck that brings in some of the white zombie cards. Yes I’m feeling 2 versions of the zombie deck now. With the new one making use of cards mono black doesn’t have access to like doubling season!

I like Munitions Expert. In my mono red goblins deck that could be a lot of damage being dealt out. Sadly it’s multi coloured. So it can’t be used there. Unless I use a certain new tribal commander! But to be honest I’m reluctant to do that with the goblin deck because Krenko is so powerful. I might try it one time.

These next 2 goblin cards are going straight into my mono red goblin deck. I’m think Serra might go in my angel deck and the Trostani token spam.

Prismatic Vista (below) is going to be in every multi coloured Commander deck. A fetch land that can fetch any basic land?

Deep Forest Hermit will not be in my elf deck. But Trostani possibly. But also I like the idea of this in an Atraxa deck, with proliferate this card can be around for longer than 3 turns. Beef it up also with some +1/+1 counters.

I’ve included just one in the image below to illustrate the point but the non basic land cycle for Modern Horizons is Pain Lands. They all have the same pay 1 and sacrifice to draw a card ability also.

Ok that’s my spoiler post for Modern Horizons.