![]() This failed to predict Modern’s shift away from the appeal of traditional mana dorks to power out things like Thought-Knot Seer or Reality Smasher. It mostly boils down to: “Well, Noble Hierarch has been good, so this probably will be too.” Looking back, my reasoning for Ignoble Hierarch being powerful is not very compelling. Today, Ignoble Hierarch sees play in a single major Modern archetype (Yawgmoth) in addition to a couple of fringe strategies (Ponza). ![]() As such, creating a Top 8 list of MH2 cards meant that, rather than rank the cards in the current Modern format, I needed to try to predict what Modern would become, and then rank accordingly. The degree to which MH2 “rotated” the format was unprecedented in Modern’s history. Taken together, the enormous amount of hate for current archetypes, toys for existing decks, and powerful tools for strategies that have long been lost to Modern's top tiers mean that Modern will likely look very different from today.” ![]() “ Modern Horizons II may be one of the most challenging sets ever to write a “top 8 cards” article for. In the original article, I wrote the following: Today, I’ll look back at the predictions I made a little over one year ago when I rated my Top 8 Cards from Modern Horizons II. This tradition has recently brought us such highlights as $0.50 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker and Unlicensed Hearse, alongside $35 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary. Whenever new Magic cards are released, which is about once every other week in 2022, nothing brings players more joy than engaging in the time-honored tradition of wildly misevaluating cards.
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