Modern Masters

Modern Masters is a series of Magic: The Gathering compilation set released by Wizards of the Coast. Each set consists of reprints of cards which are legal in Modern format in the game.

• The original Modern Masters (in short "MMA") was released on June 7, 2013. Featured 229 cards (consisting of 101 commons, 60 uncommons, 53 rares, and 15 mythic rares) ranging from Eighth Edition through Alara Reborn, The set was released in English only.^[2]
• The sequel Modern Masters 2015 Edition (in short "MM2") will be released May 22, 2015. Which is set to have 249 cards, including more recent cards not featured in presequel. The set will be released in Japanese, Simplified Chinese in addition to English. ^[3]

The pricing of a booster pack from Modern Masters has a suggested retail price of $6.99 ($9.99 for 2015 Edition) up from a regular suggested price of $3.99 for a regular expansion booster pack.^[4]

Cards

The Modern Masters compilation set has a total 229 cards. Each booster pack contains a foil card. Reprints are Modern-legal cards ranging from Eighth Edition through Alara Reborn, which many of them are popular cards in Modern format. No banned cards from Modern were reprinted.^[5] Twenty to thirty cards feature new artwork.^[5] Cards with "Timeshifted" layout in Time spiral block was use the standard cardframe instead. New tokens are also present, including a new bat token.

Specifically designed for 8 players draft, one booster box of Modern Masters series contains only 24 booster packs, compared to a regular expansion containing 36 packs.

Printing and distribution

Modern Masters distribution is limited and Wizards of the Coast stated they would not like to release as much as they did with Chronicles.^[6]

Notable reprints

• Dark Confidant
• Tarmogoyf

References

External links

• Modern Masters Announcement