Fetch lands are a big reprint and although this also introduced new ones to Modern, it also helped ease the prices of the Zendikar ones. Recently there haven’t been a lot of high profile reprints because they’ve been finishing a lot of Modern cycles that hadn’t existed (enemy color creature lands, enemy color fast lands, etc)

Aether Hub is mostly a function reprint of Tendo Ice Bridge.

You had three points. Longer wait for rotation price drops – yes. Lower power level – good, sick of needing to buy cards for eternal format. No more high profile reprints – already stopped reprinting anyways since seize muta chord – unless you count felidar sovereign.

In short, yes. In a major way, not just for newer players. Given what we understand about how wotc bans cards in Modern now, the longer a deck stays at the top, the more likely it is to see banning questions raised, alongside the other discussed parameters. Getting one card per set per color with modern intent behind it keeps the format from settling, and helps ensure that another twin ban doesn’t occur. In addition to which, there are certain things that modern seriously needs to open up space for a number of different archetypes: effectively costed and powered enemy colored commands come to mind first.

My point is that things like the Eldrazi deck are less likely to happen if they’re worried about a card being too powerful for an extended period of time in Standard.

Those are pretty niche cards and they’re actually quite powerful for their mana cost. Most modern decks can’t support cards that cost 7 or 10.

It is a negative for modern from the view of a newer player. I can start to buy into Bant Eldrazi because the eldrazi creatures are available at good prices due to availability. It is a lot tougher to buy into Jund to due the number of old cards that simply won’t see the reprint numbers to lower the cost of Tarmogoyf, Liliana, or Dark Confidant.

Since WOTC will keep modern masters sets at ridiculous low print sets, what deck I want to play is severly limited. In my opinion everything should be reprinted virtually into the ground. No card should cost more than $50, but WOTC is oddly more beholden to collectors than players when it comes to old cards.

And im also in the camp that modern can coast for a while without new cards shaking it up. Having a deck built and suddenly needing a playset of grim flayer to keep playing it gets old if it happens every set. We got a new t1 deck w eldrazi and some great toys for existing decks recently. Lets have the next shakeup be some unbans!