What's legal in modern MTG?
Sophia Aguilar
Published May 29, 2026
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In this manner, what is banned in modern?
September. Extended: Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Mental Misstep, Ponder, Preordain, and Stoneforge Mystic are banned. Modern: Blazing Shoal, Cloudpost, Green Sun's Zenith, Ponder, Preordain, and Rite of Flame are banned. Legacy: Mental Misstep is banned.
Beside above, what's legal in Standard MTG? Standard is arguably the most popular and widely known MTG format, likely due to its dynamic and evolving gameplay. In it, you use a minimum 60-card deck with no more than four copies of any one card except basic lands from the most recently released sets, created with your wildest dreams in mind.
Similarly, you may ask, is show and tell modern legal?
S neak and Show is a Legacy deck named for its key cards: Sneak Attack and Show and Tell. The fact that neither Sneak Attack or Show and Tell is legal in Modern could be considered a significant disincentive to attempting to port the deck to Modern, but that kind of thinking isn't what leads to creative decks.
What MTG cards are banned?
The following cards are banned from the format:
- 25 cards with the Card Type “Conspiracy." Click here for list. 9 cards that reference "playing for ante." Click here for list. Ancestral Recall. Balance. Biorhythm. Black Lotus. Braids, Cabal Minion.
- Mox Jet. Mox Pearl. Mox Ruby. Mox Sapphire. Panoptic Mirror. Paradox Engine.