It is still spoiler season for the Magic: the Gathering trading card game and these upcoming cards from a special set are worth watching out for. I am quite overwhelmed by the cards revealed in terms of their power level that can be very relevant in shaping the Modern metagame. The majority of the top-tier decks will either receive a big boost or get anti from in the sideboarded games (i.e. Tron decks).

Today’s Modern Horizon 2 card preview will be a relevant inclusion in the reanimator strategies in the metagame. Check out Archon of Cruelty.

Getting this into the battlefield gets you a huge value in sort of a mini Cruel Ultimatum. A 6/6 Flyer, an edict effect, card draw, and gain life is already a major advantage. The format already has a lot of cards that can get this creature to your graveyard and ready for any reanimation spell. A simple Esper (for Unburial Rites) or Dimir colors can suffice a decent deck.

The full Modern Horizons 2 spoiler might be out this week and I’d expect more powerful cards to be revealed. Playing in the Modern is still farfetched in the physical setting but I would not mind seeing new deck brews after the full MH2 list is out.

That is a wrap for now, until the next blog post.