MTG Modern Horizons 3 spoilers, leaks, card list and set overview

We’ve gone over the latest MTG Modern Horizons 3 spoilers, leaks, and card list, all in hopes of giving you a detailed overview of the upcoming set.

Modern Horizons 3 will release a few months before the Bloomburrow set, though there’s no reason not to start looking for the latest reveals and story information on what promises to be another influential set within the vorthos of Magic: The Gathering.

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Modern Horizons 3 is the third set of the Modern Horizons series. Modern Horizons 3 is a direct-to-Modern set, releasing cards directly into the Modern format. Previous Modern Horizon sets have warped the format, introducing powerful cards like Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and the evoke Elementals, and Modern Horizons 3 will likely make the same splash if history repeats itself. The power level of Modern Horizons is usually high, and affects not just Modern but eternal formats like Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper. The cards are legal in Commander as well.

Modern Horizon 3 themes

Modern Horizons 3 doesn’t follow any themes when it comes to a specific setting. Since it’s a supplemental product, Modern Horizons 3 features cards and characters from planes all throughout Magic: The Gathering’s history since it’s not confined to a specific story. From the cards revealed, Alara and Kamigawa are both to be represented through Ajani and Tamiyo’s appearances with their cards featuring their planes sparking on their native plane. 

The Eldrazi will be featured in Modern Horizons 3, colourless creatures found in Zendikar (and in Emrakul’s case, Innistrad as well). Wastes are confirmed to be coming back, which are basic lands that tap for colourless mana. Not just regular Wastes are returning, but Snow-Covered Wastes as well, meaning Snow Mana is a returning mechanic in Modern Horizons 3. 

Moder Horizons 3 will also feature the return of flip walkers. These are card depictions of a planeswalker’s spark igniting. They have a front side that is a creature, and after a certain game action occurs, they will flip and turn into a planeswalker. Currently, the known planeswalkers are Ajani Goldmane and Tamiyo, but there will likely be a cycle of them. 

MH3 analysis

As with all sets, Modern Horizons 3 will have a fair share of archetypes within it. Snow lands are a part of the set, payoffs for playing Snow land are in the set as well. While Snow lands function as a basic land, some cards require a Snow land specifically to either cast or use its effect. 

Modern Horizons 3 includes reprints of old cards that have never been printed into a Modern set, making their Modern Horizons 3 release the first time they will be legal in the format. Laelia, the blade Reforged was originally released in the Strixhaven Commander decks and became a Legacy staple, and now the haste-y red card is a part of Modern. Priest Of Titania is also coming to Modern, a two-mana Elf that can tap itself to make green mana for each Elf on the battlefield. Elves are going to be a feature of Modern Horizons 3, being one of the archetypes found within.

The Eldrazi make a return in Modern Horizons 3. Eldrazi are colourless creatures that generally have a high casting cost with amazing effects to compensate. They can take advantage of lands that tap for extra mana such as the Urza lands to make it easier to cast the spells. Since they’re mostly colourless, you don’t have to worry about tapping for specific colours. Some Eldrazi do need coloured mana, but are still considered to be colourless which is important for cards that discount colourless creatures. 

Modern Horizons 3 features a new cycle of free spells, this time requiring you to sacrifice a nontoken creature of a specific colour to cast without paying the spell’s mana cost. Flare Of Cultivation is the green card of the cycle, letting you take two basic land cards from your library and put one on the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. There are a lot of one-drops of all colours, making it easy to cast this cycle of spells as early as turn one. 

Cats will also be featured in the deck, as shown on Ajani, Nacatl Pariah. It creates a Cat token when it enters the battlefield, and transforms whenever one or more Cats die, implying the token won’t be the only Cat in the set. 

An archetype returning is Energy counters. They have only appeared in Kaladesh sets (as in a Fallout Commander deck). These are counters that are put on you as a player that you can use to pay for abilities on various spells and permanents. There are a lot of Energy counter support cards already from its original release, and Modern Horizons will increase the pool drastically as one of its archetypes. 

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Commander Deck Themes:

Although Modern Horizons 3 is a Modern set, four Commander decks are releasing alongside it for the set. The Graveyard Overdrive (Black/Red/Green) is about filling your graveyard with cards, Tricky Terrain (Blue/Green) is a ramp deck, Creative Energy (Blue/Red/White) is about Energy counters, and Eldrazi Incursion (All colours and colourless) is an Eldrazi-focused deck. The cards in these Commander decks are not legal in the Modern format unless they were already legal there prior.

The MH3 Story so far

Modern Horizons 3 is not a main set, and as such, doesn’t have a plot to it. Instead, it captures moments in a character’s history or another depiction of them before they were either altered or perished in the main story. A character’s standing in the current plot has no bearing on who or what can be featured in the set. 

While Modern Horizons 3 doesn’t have a story to go along with it, it does depict moments in Magic’s story that have happened to the characters. Modern Horizons 3 will feature multiple flipwalkers depicting when a planeswalker’s spark ignited and they first became planeswalkers. The set will have a special focus on Ajani Goldmane and his progress through Magic’s storyline, from the death of his brother on Alara that turned him into a planeswalker to his post-completion life after he was reverted back to normal after being turned into a Phyrexian. Ajani is the focus, but other planeswalkers will be included in the set such as Tamiyo.