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Modern Format

Deck Size
60+
Number of Players
2
Game Duration
20 Minutes

Why Play This Format?

  • Format doesn't rotate
  • Variety of metagame
  • Master your favorite deck over time

Different Ways to Play

Tabletop
Gather with friends and play in person! Tabletop is your chance to see physical card treatments like exclusive art, foils, and thematic frames up close.
SpellTable
Use your webcam to play Magic with friends in a private game, or match against players around the world! Now available with state-of-the-art card scanning technology.
MTGO
Celebrating twenty years strong! Magic: The Gathering Online allows you to collect cards, build decks, and duel other players with the widest array of cards and formats available.

Play Rules/Modifiers

These are one-on-one games with 60 card minimums for the main deck (up to 15 card sideboard). Modern games should last average length for a game (about 20 minutes).

With the exception of basic lands (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest, and Wastes), your combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. This format includes powerful cards and strategies from the last two decades of Magic.

What Sets Are Legal in Modern?
  • Phyrexia: All Will Be One
    
  • The Brothers' War
    
  • Dominaria United  
    
  • Streets of New Capenna
    
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
    
  • Innistrad: Crimson Vow
    
  • Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
    
  • Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
    
  • Modern Horizons 2
    
  • Strixhaven
    
  • Kaldheim
    
  • Zendikar Rising
    
  • Core 2021
    
  • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
    
  • Theros Beyond Death
    
  • Throne of Eldraine
    
  • Core Set 2020
    
  • Modern Horizons
    
  • War of the Spark
    
  • Ravnica Allegiance
    
  • Guilds of Ravnica
    
  • Core Set 2019
    
  • Dominaria
    
  • Rivals of Ixalan
    
  • Ixalan
    
  • Hour of Devastation
    
  • Amonkhet
    
  • Aether Revolt
    
  • Kaladesh
    
  • Eldritch Moon
    
  • Shadows over Innistrad
    
  • Oath of the Gatewatch
    
  • Battle for Zendikar
    
  • Magic Origins
    
  • Dragons of Tarkir
    
  • Fate Reforged
    
  • Khans of Tarkir
    
  • Magic 2015
    
  • Journey into Nyx
    
  • Born of the Gods
    
  • Theros
    
  • Magic 2014
    
  • Dragon's Maze
    
  • Gatecrash
    
  • Return to Ravnica
    
  • Magic 2013
    
  • Avacyn Restored
    
  • Dark Ascension
    
  • Innistrad
    
  • Magic 2012
    
  • New Phyrexia
    
  • Mirrodin Besieged
    
  • Scars of Mirrodin
    
  • Magic 2011
    
  • Rise of the Eldrazi
    
  • Worldwake
    
  • Zendikar
    
  • Magic 2010
    
  • Alara Reborn
    
  • Conflux
    
  • Shards of Alara
    
  • Eventide
    
  • Shadowmoor
    
  • Morningtide
    
  • Lorwyn
    
  • Tenth Edition
    
  • Future Sight
    
  • Planar Chaos
    
  • Time Spiral
    
  • Coldsnap
    
  • Dissension
    
  • Guildpact
    
  • Ravnica: City of Guilds
    
  • Ninth Edition
    
  • Saviors of Kamigawa
    
  • Eighth Edition
    
  • Betrayers of Kamigawa
    
  • Champions of Kamigawa
    
  • Fifth Dawn
    
  • Darksteel
    
  • Mirrodin
    

Latest Products

February 10, 2023

Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Perfection will rise! Beauty and splendor are brought to the multiverse by a legion of biomechanical zealots, led by Magic's greatest villain: Elesh Norn. Take a knee, and embrace the power of Phyrexia once and for all.

November 18, 2022

The Brothers' War

To save the future, journey back to The Brothers’ War, a brutal clash of mechanical armies from Magic’s storied past. Fight intense battles of titanic proportions through innovation and adaptation. Reinvent the past. Retake the future.

October 7, 2022

Unfinity

Zero Gravity. Infinite Laughs. Punch your ticket to a space carnival too hilarious for this world ...with hilarious mechanics including stickers and attractions!

September 9, 2022

Dominaria United

Kick-off Magic's 30th anniversary! Dominaria United returns to the plane that started it all with an immersive, year-long story. Four sets. One enemy. The Phyrexians are here, and the fate of the multiverse is at stake.

July 8, 2022

Double Masters 2022

Elevate your play with Double Masters 2022! Build and battle with Magic: The Gathering reprints and collector favorites. Power-packed cards never looked so good!

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