Modern Magic: What to Expect to see in this format.

Hello everyone and welcome back to another emporium update, today i figured it's time to start talking about Modern Magic and what we can expect to see cards wise, deck wise and the overall feel of the new format which replaces Extended at this next pro tour, Philadephia in the early days of september.

Now as we all know Extended has a wide array of cards to choose from, Modern however has a lot more to go for, because it includes blocks all the way dating back to 8th edition what does this mean though, expect to see some flavourful decks once again, Dredge may end up making a appearance, Zoo, Goblins, Boat Brew, no fairies though though we could see Merfolk in this format, we have a lot of decks to go over, as well as cards so let's begin with the basics, the cards to expect in this format.

Punishing Fire/Grove of the Burnwillows - This two card combination is expected to be run in like 2 or 3 different decks in this format, it was a good combo in Extended and should quite handily see play in Modern magic due to the powerful potential of both Zoo and Boat Brew

Tarmogoyf - This is a powerful card all on it's own, it may start a 0/1 but it's potential is limitless, Zoo, Boat Brew and a few others expect to run this card, even though it's over a hundred bucks right now, it's a necessity for this format.

Planeswalkers - This includes such cards like Tezzert, Agent of Bolas/Elspeth Tirel/Gideon Jura and even Ajani Vengenant to be run in this format though some sleeper hit may or may not include Garruk Wildspeaker/Chandra, the Firebrand and Koth of the Hammer personally though i wouldn't hold it against the deck builders to do such a thing.

Protean Hulk - Yes this big dude is a potential threat in Modern with a ton of combo based decks built for this format, because of the powerful potential even without Hypergenesis in this format it's a very potential threat, though could be easily beat out by Jund

Bloodbraid Elf/Bit Blast - With Jund legal again we can expect to see this menace once more, it's powerful combination of threats to drop turn 3 into turn 4 was destructive, this menace may be one of the many aggro based builds, but it can sure hold it's own against just about anything.

Since this format never rotates, it provides new ideas with new sets that come out as long as they are printed in the modern card frame with black borders, we could see Zombies, some Blue/Black Control hell even Dragonstorm again the skies the limit with this format since it has a ton of decks to base itself off of, i hope you enjoyed my little analysis of this format in it's infancy and tommorow i hope to talk about one of those decks, Boat Brew, this is vergil signing off.