New Format: Modern

[Norm4eva]

the swords will still see play.

True, but not as much as if SFM were in the format, right?

I never felt there was anything horribly wrong with the old 2/2/2 splits people would run of Sword of Fire/Ice // Sword of Metagame // Jitte.  It's a tad harder to just rustle them up now, but screw 'em.  Run Mask of Memory :D :D :D

I mean as long as the Powers That Be aren't interested in letting anyone go off before turn 4, I reckon there's no harm in going back to the old ways for a minute.  Or be like me and do stupid little kid stuff like put together MIRRORWEAVE KITHKIN THE NEXT GENERATION

[Nefarias]

IIRC when they went back to Mirrodin there were no functional reprints of anything from the first Mirrodin Block, they didn't even make so much as an artifact land (which, honestly, rightly so).

So I know everyone is obviously talking about the Banned List now, but FTR, in addition to the aforementioned Mindslaver: Arrest, Copper Myr, Iron Myr, Leaden Myr, Silver Myr, Golden Myr, and Shatter. If you include both blocks there's also Leonin Skyhunter and Trinket Mage. I'm not sure about functional reprints, because I wasn't going to look through every card and think about it, but there were also homages including the Spellbomb and Replica cycles.