Magic: The Gathering Modern Masters 2017 Preview
There are certain strategies in Magic: The Gathering that have lasted down through the ages. There’s “make a bunch of little dudes who get big and attack together.” There is “use counterspells to keep your opponent from playing the game.” There is even, if you’re an old enough player, the “find a weird combo that activates on turn three that wins every single time.” All of these are good, and the upcoming Modern Masters 2017 set (or MMA17) is an ample opportunity for these time-honored strategies to appear in new and weird ways.
Unlike Kaladesh, Shadows Over Innistrad, or the tumultuous Zendikar, a Modern Masters set isn’t a story-focused, brand-spanking-new set of cards. Instead, it’s all reprints, a kind of “greatest hits” (much like the Eternal Masters set) that pulls from what is called the “modern era” of Magic. The selection of cards in Modern Masters goes all the way back to 8th Edition, a card set from 2003, and so the kinds of cards that can be reprinted (and thus the strategies that can be present within Modern Masters) are wide and varied.
I’m incredibly happy to say that there’s a strong “sacrifice” element to Modern Masters 2017.
