The Future of Modern


By: Camden Clark











All of the Fetchlands

Players will pay ANYTHING for the fetchlands.









Gifts Ungiven


Rest in Peace


Let’s move on to more long term picks.








The price graph of foil Steam Vents is shown below:




Three things could happen:

  1. Modern could fail and Legacy remains the major eternal format
  2. Modern and Legacy coexist






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4 thoughts on “The Future of Modern”

  1. SCG might keep Legacy limping on in North America but it’ll be dead everywhere else.

    My local game shop now has its Legacy tournaments allow as many proxies as you want. Yeah, the whole deck can be proxies. It’s just not taken seriously anymore.

    Watching Legacy being played locally, it’s just Modern without the banlist and the proxy lands don’t cost 2 life when they enter the battlefield.

    1. You realize that Legacy is at least as popular in Europe as it is in North America. Does everyone think these 10’s of thousands of players who love to play Legacy are going to just put their cards in the closet to play Modern? Legacy will continue to be played in large numbers. The prices on Legacy staples are not going to come down. They will likely plateau here at some point soon.

      If we are talking about Legacy as a growth investment its probably not near as good as Modern, but Legacy itself if not going to die anytime soon, if ever. Even Vintage as picked up as Magic as boomed.

  2. Interestingly in London, we’ve made the transition away from proxy events to real cards for our Legacy nights. 2 stores in London ran weekly proxy tournaments for 2 years, and that attracted enough participants to want to invest in a deck of their own. Of course, this was before duals made the jump to $300 each! This will make the attractiveness of the format more challenging.

    I noticed a trend as well. The people who decided to join the Legacy revolution were mostly older (>30y/o) players who had some of the older cards. They only had to get at the very least, modern fetches and the creatures (because most of the older spells played in Legacy are from older sets) which isn’t that expensive as a percentage of the overall deck cost. Giving them the justification that the new cards and decks they bought could easily make the transition into Modern was a big plus as well.

  3. Interesting that you mentioned Legacy deck prices, there is a thread on The Source that updates prices for common decks on a regular basis. Using mid-prices, the average price of a competitive legacy deck is about $2200 with the max sitting at $3225 and the low at $425.

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