The fine folks at arena, amongst other things, announced at GenCon a couple of very impactful upcoming changes for the client. The first I want to discuss today, is that they plan to have "tournament Pioneer" completed on Arena by the end of the 2024 calendar year. I believe this will culminate with Pioneer Horizons in December of 2024. Additionally, the announced that Modern Horizons 3 would be a fully supported release on Arena, and I feel it is most likely the Summer set for 2024. These two announcements, I believe, lay the framework for Modern to come to Arena in much the same way Explorer has brought us Pioneer. This article is a companion piece for my YouTube video on the subject.
With the fringe Modern sets numbering 36 (to the Explore 14 at announcement), it may certainly take a while to have the entirety available on Arena. Thus I believe that will start with the most played cards, and I have assembled a list of potential high impact decks. This include the Top 5 most played decks before and after the release of LotR, the 5 most budget friendly builds in the format, deck archetypes easily built from the resulting card pool.
- Rakdos Scam
- Merktide
- 5C Control
- Creativity
- Living End
- MonoRed or Boros Burn or Aggro
- MonoGreen Tron
- Temur Rhino
- 8 Whack
- Gruul Breach
- MonoGreen Stompy
- HammerTime
- Callab Blast
- Gruul Aggro
- Affinity
By analyzing these lists, and backing out low hanging fruit like the Fetch and Tron lands, and cards likely to be added to Pioneer, I was able to compile a list of cards needed to create this rough 20 decks. A surprisingly short list at that.
Maindeck Cards 54
Sideboard Cards 37
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