Hello Happy People! I hope that you are having just the best day today! Today I want to continue my deep dive into Modern Horizons 2. Last week I counted down my Top Ten with two honorable mentions making it really 12. But this is a deep set and I want to knock out another 10 (and 2 more honorable mention) cards today!

To make my list you need to be playable at the kitchen table. Future Modern staples like Dragon's Rage Channeler that don't have the chops to make a big splash for a format like Commander won't be found here in my list, and vice versa, there are some powerhouses in the set for casual play that aren't going to be making a tournament format like Modern, Legacy, or Vintage.

Ready for my list? Let's get this thang started!

Honorable Mention #1 (#24). Unmarked Grave AND Vile Entomber

Let's kick things off with this mono-Black twosome! Take a look. Entomb effects have often hit the Top of my Top Ten lists. Gravebreaker Lamia came in at #4 in my Theros: Beyond Death article that you can find here. But that was when Entomb effects were pretty rare. You have Oriq Loremage just a set ago, Buried Alive, Final Parting, Entomb, the Lamia, Jarad's Orders, Corpse Connoisseur, and even Iname, Death Aspect.

Now we add two more to that canon in one set just a set after the Loremage. It's getting crowded in here! They are dropping on my list for that reason. I understand why they are both here, particularly the uncommon Entomber. Orzhov has a draft archetype in MH2 around reanimation and it needs ways to fuel that that you can target in drafts. But this is getting silly. They both get any card. Creature for reanimation builds? Lands for things like Titania, Protector of Argoth, which was reprinted in the same set. Flashback sorceries and instants? Planeswalkers? Enchantments? Anything you desire! It's getting overstuffed in the Entomb world of things. I do prefer the Entomber to the Grave a bit as it's on a body that can swing, block, grab a piece of equipment, and it has deathtouch so it can trade up like Acidic Slime. It has more synergy in a creature-based reanimation build that wants creatures, but they are close enough that both are here.

Honorable Mention #2 (#23). Garth One-Eye

In the last Modern Horizons they gave Modern Regrowth, so I guess they wanted to repeat that effect! Check out this old school bad brawler. I read the novel that this character is from back in high school, but I barely remember it at the age of 44. I do like this creature and the fact that he is all Alpha all the time. The big part about him is the Black Lotus making for formats like Commander where it's banned. He's also a Five-Color Commander, which is very popular in the format and already has 42 decks registered as of the writing of this article. I've already called him in our behind-the-scenes forum where all of the writers from CoolStuffInc.com hang out so I'll be creating an EDH deck around him, and I have three ways I am considering. We'll see which way I go, but I won't hoe down the odd path over at EDHREC.com that most popular. Enjoy your Garth!

#22. Inevitable Betrayal

Bribery. Iconic. Banned in the Five Color format. Played in Commander (on EDHREC.com there are 4,676 decks registered with it). Expensive - it's around $30.00. There are a lot of reasons to look forward to a new Bribery. This thing is preselling for just $7.99 here at CoolStuffInc.com. This thing can be played alongside of Bribery along fans of the card. You can get #21 below if it's in their deck, which is pretty cool. I've run it and come across it countless times it's better then more players you are playing against. The only issue here? The fact that you have to wait three turns before it resolves. That's it! You can still cast it off of many tricks like Panoptic Mirror (banned in Commander), or cascade. Enjoy the new Bribery!

Now what card was I referring to that would be cool to Bribery?

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#21. Grist, the Hunger Tide

Grist fans, rejoice! Grist is arguably one of the most interesting planeswalkers ever printed and I've already put him into one of my Commander decks (it's my deck around Golgari friends leader Carth the Lion). I adore the unusual creature-ish nature of Grist. From Green Sun's Zenith set to three or something nasty like Tooth and Nail, there are several ways to fetch out a creature in this game, and very few to get a planeswalker, so getting the creature tutors to work for Grist is pretty cool. I adore it a lot here. It's +1 to make a 1/1 Insect in two colors is better than other 3-mana planeswalkers out there that +1 to make 1/1 defenders or 0/1 Plants. It's a fast drop. It self-mills and it suggests a Goglari insect brew. If you -2 you can sacrifice an Insect or another dork to destroy a dork or a fellow planeswalker, which is pretty nifty. Because Grist is a creature in the Command Zone you can run him as a Commander. I like him a lot!

Alright, let's look at my Top Twenty proper!

Oh, and this next card would be cool to Bribery/Inevitable Betrayal as well!

#20. Archon of Cruelty

Archons are usually in White, so this is a fun off-color version of the tribe. Let's look at this awesome mythic rare! (Our penultimate mythic, by the way, back here at #20). It gives you a 6/6 flyer for 8 mana which is a bit behind the curve. When it arrives to the battlefield you do...well let's see...a lot of things! They include:

• Target Opponent is Cruel Edict'ed for a creature or planeswalker
• Target Opponent Discards a card. This could be the same or you could split them in multiplayer.
• Target Opponent Loses 3 life. Ditto for targeting.
• You draw a card.
• You gain 3 life.

That's a lot of stuff and it's a three-card advantage swing! (Sacrifice, discard, draw). It's worth it! And did you read that text? This happens when it arrives at the battlefield and when it swings. What keeps It back here? It's mana cost. Otherwise? Nasty. Get ready for the Era of Cruelty to begin.

#19. Magus of the Bridge

Back-to-back mono-Black cards! Check out this Magus! When I heard the name "Magus of the Bridge" I thought it would be Ensnaring Bridge, a commonly played card in kitchen table formats and other formats. Nope! It's the powerful Bridge from Below, a nasty card from Future Sight. I've run into Bridge from Below a lot over the years at the kitchen table in a number of formats and it's so powerful that it's banned in formats like Modern. It's a really strong card, and this is just as powerful in effect. However, on a more easily answered creature, Magus of the Bridge has dropped in power and this thus on my second list, and not in the Top Five of this either. I do like it a lot though! Check this Human Wizard out my friends! (I wish it were Ensnaring Bridge, it would have hit higher as it's played in 5x more decks in Commander)

#18. Fractured Sanity

Check out this cycling trigger rare! It reminds me of powerful cycling triggers out there like Decree of Justice and Krosan Tusker. You can cast this in a mill deck and each opponent mills a ton of cards! The usual problem with mill decks in multiplayer is that the best mill cards target just one player, but not here! You can also cycle this for just four cards to mill and replace itself for a cheap 2 mana and cycling triggers cannot be countered with conventional counters like Counterspell et al. It's pretty good either way.

And now let's look at my Top 5 proper!

#17. Strike it Rich

Our highest-scoring non-rare (or mythic rare) and second-highest scoring Red card is Strike it Rich. For just one mana at sorcery speed, you make a single Treasure, so you invest one mana now, and a spell, for one mana in the future of any color. You also cast a sorcery to trigger things like Guttersnipe and you make an artifact for things like Goblin Welder, so it fits into both the Izzet Spellslinger theme as well as any deck that includes Red that loves artifacts. Oh, and it makes Treasure, so it fits the Treasure tribe as well. Then when you want you can flash it back for another Treasure and another trigger for your artifacts or sorceries. I also love that it's just two mana net, which adds two spells to a storm count. Nice right? I like this one-drop a lot!

#16. Gaea's Will

Our highest-scoring Green card (sorta) is this free spell! This is a powerful Yawgmoth's Will, one of the most powerful cards ever printed and so powerful and nasty that it's restricted in Vintage and banned in most other formats (but not Commander, oddly enough). Here you can suspend one mana and then you go off untapped and ready to abuse a few turns later. With the mana ramp rife in the color, you have more potential for abuse than in Black. We know how powerful the zero-cost cards are in a cascade brew that cast them immediately, so this thing is reliable there. What keeps this thing down on my second list is that long wait for suspend outside of cascade tricks or things like the aforementioned Panoptic Mirror.

#15. Esper Sentinel

Our top-scoring artifact and White card is Esper Sentinel! As of a week before publication, there are already a bunch of these over at EDHREC.com and it's one of the priciest cards from the set on the secondary market. It's pretty good! You can play it in a deck that won't increase its power and a 1-mana tax for non-creatures to avoid you drawing a card is already good enough to run. But in a build that has Auras or Equipment or Glorious Anthems to increase its power? It's a lot nastier! In decks that care about its artifact nature? Even nastier! It's great! Love it lots!

#14. Damn

I love this sorcery! This is our second-highest charting card and Black card and our highest charting mono-colored card (although it does have two colors of identity). This is a future staple! It is an awesome card! For just two mana, you can destroy any targetable dork and it cannot be regenerated. It's cheaper than Murder by a mana, cannot be regenerated, and swaps instant for sorcery. Then you can overload it and have a Wrath of God. You don't have to spend another mana just to get the extra ability. It's just as powerful as Wrath of God, but has the option to just target one dork if that's all you care about or you don't want to sweep your side of the table! Pretty nice right? I see this things getting a ton of traction in Commander and other formats.

#13. Geyadrone Dihada

Our highest-scoring card in this week's article is this planeswalker! Check her out! Four mana (three in Grixis colors) and 4 loyalty is about on queue. She has protection from stuff with corruption counters on them. Trigon of Corruption does not give corruption counters, sorry (nothing else in the game uses them). When you +1 her she will drain 2 life from a foe, which helps to win the game and you can slap a corruption counter on any dork or fellow planeswalker which she'll protect from. It doesn't have to be from the same opponent, you could drain one and en-counter from another.

Might I suggest something that is likely to swing her way and remove those loyalty counters? If you -3 her you can steal, for a turn, a 'walker or dork, untap it, and it has haste. Steal a planeswalker and then get that nice minus loyalty ability. Smash away. Then that card you stole gets a corruption counter on it as well for future protection in case they get angry at her! I like her a lot and the only thing keeping her down off my first list is her three-color requirement.