Brainstorm reprinted in Conspiracy, though banned in modern?
Asked by riddlechest 8 years ago
Everywhere I can read about Brainstorm not being legal in modern format. But it has been reprinted in Conspiracy, so why should it not be legal in Modern?
Edit: The above answer is incorrect. Brainstorm is not legal for play in Modern for these reasons:
Supplemental products are only legal in eternal formats (Pauper, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, etc.). Otherwise, you would be seeing True-Name Nemesis making waves in Modern.
Modern is NOT an eternal format. It is simply a non-rotating one.
For any card to be modern legal, it must be printed in the 8th edition or onwards and not be part of the banlist for the format. Brainstorm was last printed in mercadian Masques if I am not mistaken, long before 8th edition, so it is out of the scope of Modern.
September 18, 2015 2:40 a.m. Edited.
Raging_Squiggle says... #3
@ Boza. Darn. Well, I learn something new every day.
September 18, 2015 2:45 a.m.
riddlechest says... #4
Thank you both very much.
I didn't know conspiracy to be a supplemental product. So every product after the first theme in each block, is a supplemental product?
September 18, 2015 3:30 a.m.
Supplemental products are most easily described as "the sets which do not form blocks".
These are usually two main ones per year: Summer set (this year it was Modern Masters 2, this is an obvious exception to the rule of supplemental sets, since these contain modenr-legal reprints) and Commander 2015 (coming out november). These are the ones only legal for Eternal formats.
As well as Duel decks and Clash packs which come in a couple of time per year as well - they contain a mixture of Legacy-legal, Standard-legal, Modern-legal cards, depending on the deck itself. Anything reprinted in those that is already legal in its respective format is legal in that printing as well.
September 18, 2015 3:53 a.m.
riddlechest says... #6
But when did Conspiracy arrive?
Conspiracy contained entirely new cards as well. I thought this to be an obvious sign of something entirely new...
September 21, 2015 2:01 a.m.
Well, battle for zendikar contains 240 new cards. Is it standard and modern legal? Yes, since it is part of a block, according to the general rule above
Raging_Squiggle says... #1
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/releasenotes/cns
This website shows general details of the Conspiracy release. Including the phrase:
"There are 65 cards within the Magic: The GatheringConspiracy set that are completely new to the Magic game. Of these, 13 have the card type conspiracy (see "New Card Type: conspiracy," below), and these aren't legal in any sanctioned Constructed format. The other 52 new cards are legal for play in the Vintage and Legacy formats as of the official release date, June 6, 2014. They aren't legal for play in the Standard or Modern formats."
It goes on to say: "The other cards in this release are legal for play in any format that already allows those cards. That is, appearing in this product doesn't change a card's legality in any format."
To clarify if Brainstorm is banned, I don't believe it should be, because according to the following website (and what the general details state): http://magic.wizards.com/en/gameinfo/gameplay/formats/bannedrestricted
Brainstorm is not found on the list of banned cards in the Modern Format. So, I believe it is a legal card to play from Conspiracy block as it is already allowed to be played in the format.
Here is another website that shows the cards legalities.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Printings.aspx?multiverseid=382224
If you're worried about it though, you could always get a copy of Brainstorm from another set?
September 18, 2015 2:39 a.m.