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Modern Horizons 3 release date, spoilers, and latest news

MTG's new set comes out this week, but you can play it now - here's the MH3 release date and prerelease details, plus the biggest spoilers.

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What is the Modern Horizons 3 release date? It’s just a few days away, so June should be an exciting time for Magic: The Gathering fans who love competitive, high-powered games, as new card set Modern Horizons 3 is coming out later this week. Read on for the confirmed MH3 release date, card spoilers, commander decks, and more news.

We expect the power level of these cards to dramatically reshape the MTG Modern format’s meta (though hopefully there’ll be fewer cards that need consigning to the MTG banlist). Already we’ve seen new versions of the Eldrazi titans, reprints of the valuable MTG Fetch Lands, and plenty more.

Be sure to check back, as we’ll be sharing more details about this upcoming MTG set as soon as they come to light. For more info on the rest of year’s releases, don’t miss our handy MTG release schedule guide.

MTG Modern Horizons 3

MTG Modern Horizons 3 release date

Modern Horizons 3 is coming out on June 14, 2024. That’s the official, worldwide Modern Horizons 3 release date, where the paper cards will be available for all.

Fans have already been able to play with the new cards via prerelease events at local game stores since Friday, June 7.

This set has also been live on MTG Arena since Tuesday, June 11 – despite the fact that the Modern format doesn’t exist on the platform. You can grab the MH3 cards on Arena for the online-only MTG formats Historic and Timeless (not to mention MTG draft) starting from June 11.

Finally, you’re probably wondering when Modern Horizons 3 spoiler season will begin. We’ve seen some rumblings already, but the full deluge will be unleashed across ten days, between May 21 and May 31. 

Magic the Gathering Modern Horizons 3: illustration of Eldrazi, extra-dimensional titans with incomprehensible proportions, rise from a waste in a lightning choked realm

MTG Modern Horizons 3 spoilers

The Modern Horizons 3 spoilers season ran from May 21 to May 31, so we’ve already gotten a taste for this set, with many familiar faces and exciting mechanics showing their faces among the powerful new cards.

New Modern Horizons 3 Eldrazi

Perhaps realizing that we’ve been missing these eldritch villains, and with no story re-emergence on the horizon, Wizards has gone heavy on the Eldrazi for Modern Horizons 3.

MTG Modern Horizons 3 eldrazi card

That includes cards like Devourer of Destiny, who can impact the game without ever being cast. This one has a decent chance of seeing play in Tron, where he can find your lands and serve as a payoff.

MTG Modern Horizons 3 card Spawn-Gang Commander

There are also Eldrazi versions of some familiar creatures, like these Eldrazified Mulldrifter and Siege-Gang Commander.

First Modern Horizons 3 spoilers

The very first Modern Horizons 3 spoilers were shown off at MagicCon Chicago on February 23, where Wizards gave us some tantalizing glimpses at what’s coming up. For instance, we saw the first of the set’s double-sided planeswalkers, which show off the sparking stories of key Magic: The Gathering characters.

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah starts out as a little 1/2 that makes a 2/1 cat token. Then, when a cat dies he flips into his powerful MTG planeswalker form.

This is a particularly angry version of Ajani, out for vengeance, hence the Boros MTG color combination. He can buff your cats, make new tokens and deal damage equal to your creature count, and even wipe the board (leaving a few things standing).

Another highlight was a new Emrakul, which can be cast for just six mana for its Madness cost, steals all of an enemy’s creatures and can’t be targeted by spells. You do have to sacrifice your whole board when it dies though.

Other cool cards include Flare of Cultivation, a scary looking version of Cultivate that can be cast for zero mana.

And Scurry of Gremlins, an energy-powered card that seems great in a go-wide deck.

Then there’s Psychic Frog, which will hop over blockers, draw cards, and generally be a pain in the ass. 

Modern Horizons 3 Eldrazi Commander deck

Modern Horizons 3 Commander decks

It feels a bit weird that a supplemental set built for Modern has its own Commander decks, but here we are. There are four new Commander precon decks coming up. They are:

Deck name Commander name Color identity Strategy/Theme
Graveyard Overdrive ??? Red/Black/Green Graveyard?
Tricky Terrain ??? Green/Blue Ramp/Lands
Creative Energy ??? Blue/Red/White Energy
Eldrazi Incursion ??? Five Color + Colorless Ramp into big Eldrazi

There are also Collector versions of these decks, which are likely to be much more expensive. Apparently, these have a new foil treatment.

For a sense of how strong cards in this set are likely to be, check out the the best Modern Horizons 2 cards.

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Wargamer’s resident trading card games obsessive, Matt lives and breathes Magic: The Gathering, with a growing side-line in Pokémon cards. One of nature’s born dabblers, you can probably find him building a deck that'll never be finished, flicking through an DnD book that won’t make it to the table, or puzzling out a Paradox grand strategy game. Since joining Wargamer, Matt has been leveling up in the ways of painting miniatures, but has yet to figure out any storage solutions beyond gradually sacrificing every spare surface to plastic and paints. You can find Matt’s past games writing on sites like RPS, Dicebreaker and Syfy Wire. He also spent a year editing articles about photography for Canon. (He/Him)