Well, we are back for another week of spoiler roundups and to start things off I'll be breaking the bad news that overall this set won't be making a major shake up for modern. Hopefully this article will give you the tools to make some waves but I don't see a huge meta shift coming from this set. With that said, let us begin.
So last week I dismissed the gods on account of modern being really unfriendly to devotion. With that said Athreos can stand to be an exception due to having a reasonable impact without being a creature and also by costing 3 mana since the jump from 3 to 4 mana in this format is massive. This card will work best in a sacrifice based aggro deck since you want creatures hitting the yard and you need to make the choice miserable for your opponent. Note that if you want the guys to come back for sure you are looking for Enduring Renewal not this guy. Also to note is that you don't want men like Bloodghast coming back to your hand and Gravecrawler isn't much better in hand than in your graveyard. The best candidates are cards like Geralf's Messenger, and Doomed Traveler, with backup from guys like Blood Artist and Cartel Aristocrat. Sacrifice outlets with Athreos can cause nightmare scenarios for the opponent and allow you to force bad times on them when they attempt to exile something of yours t dodge the trigger. Please keep this tips in mind when brewing with this new spicy number and if you have any success with Athreos let me know!
This card is probably just a trap. If you need to beat down with your storm hate card play Canonist, if you need to have it stay through all removal play Rule of Law. I doubt the glacial clock this puts on them is worth the risk that they decided to start running Flame slash over Lightning Bolt. Any deck that is tutor based for specifically creatures may actually look towards him since he is sturdier but otherwise I'd rather run the other two options.
I don't hate this card for a token deck finisher. With anthems this can get out of hand quickly. I'm not sure I like the "win more" aspect of this card as most cards are pretty good when winning, but as a spell that can give extra oomph in matchups where it is just a pure race, like combo, it may be serviceable.
One of the most important things during spoiler season is recognizing the new toys you are given. This effect has literally never existed before and is certainly abuseable, but perhaps not at a modern level. First thing to look at is definitely Profane Command and there are certainly other fun things to do with it waiting in the weeds. I'm nowhere near smart enough to tell you whether this card will make its way into modern but I can tell you that you may regret not keeping your eye on it.
I nearly wrote off Chandra Pyromaster due to misevalution her card advantage ability and while I don't think this is as good I could very well be wrong and do not plan to write of these card advantage engines in red any longer. Red doesn't have strong card advantage in nearly any form so cards like this can often find spots in red decks whereas if they were in another color they'd be immediately dismissed.
Of the two temples in this set I envision this one having the most luck as it is in a color pair that takes better advantage of card selection. Green has a lot of one drops that often push temples out but perhaps in a deck with stange needs this could slip in.
I really wish I had more to write about, honest I do but this set is simply slim pickings. Note that this set looks amazing for limited and the flavor is another huge hit, THERE'S A CARD CALLED HUBRIS! But for modern this set is pretty lacking.
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