What exactly is legal in modern? Is urzas tower or basalt monolith legal?
Asked by Tokool4u13 9 years ago
I have a deck tech but not exactly sure if it's legal or not in modern.
filledelanuit says... #2
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You can check the legality page on the gatherer which will tell you if they are legal in a format.
Basalt Monolith is not legal in modern as it was printed after 8th edition.
Urza's Tower is legal in modern as it was printed in 9th edition.
July 30, 2014 11:30 p.m.
FancyTuesday says... #3
Any card that has been printed (or reprinted) since 8th Edition/Mirrodin is playable in Modern unless it has been banned. The Modern banlist (and definition of the format) can be found here. The name "Modern" actually refers to the change they made to the card layout when they printed 8th Ed. and Mirrodin, thus saying that cards with the "modern" layout were playable. I'm not sure how the change in M15 affects this.
Urza's Tower
and Basalt Monolith
both have reprinting with modern boarders in 9th Ed. and Commander 2013 respectively so I believe they're playable.
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July 30, 2014 11:30 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #4
Basalt Monolith is not legal. It was last printed in Revised. Remember that secondary products like Commander, Conspiracy, etc. only affect eternal formats. Modern is not an eternal format, so it only includes cards from core sets and blocks from 8th Edition and onward.
For ban list info, always go to the format pages on wizards.com. You can also check Gatherer for individual cards.
July 30, 2014 11:32 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
@FancyTuesday: Basalt Monolith is not Modern legal.
July 30, 2014 11:32 p.m.
FancyTuesday says... #6
After checking into it I could be wrong about Basalt Monolith, as it was only reprinted in a Commander set and that doesn't seem to be listed on WotC's Modern page.
July 30, 2014 11:33 p.m.
FancyTuesday says... #8
@Epochalyptik: Too right, I was halfway through investigating all the ways I was wrong when you already had it up there for me. Here I was going to post something with links to Wikis and maybe a slideshow, but you've covered the important details succinctly.
FALLEN-X-ANGEL says... #1
Link your cards
Urza's Tower
Basalt Monolith
Modern is just 8th edition and forward and just a list of banned cards. I think this question is going to be moved somewhere.
July 30, 2014 11:26 p.m.