When Amulet Titan calls, Modern runs.
Welcome to the final Modern Power Rankings of 2025! It’s been an eventful year featuring a Modern Pro Tour, the banning of Underworld Breach, and several highly impactful set releases. Let’s see where the dust has settled on the most successful decks in the format.
If you’re looking for an entry point into Modern, any of the decks on this list will serve you well (although some of them can be quite challenging to pilot). If you’re an expert or already have a deck you swear by, then consider this a list of the archetypes that you should prepare to face at your next Modern event.
#12 Broodscale Combo & Other Green Eldrazi Decks
Market Price: $34.06
The various Eldrazi decks have a way of shifting around and blurring together, and I have a healthy respect for all of the green-based Eldrazi ramp decks out there. While they don’t have a huge metagame share right now, they always seem to be quiet overperformers, and I never look forward to facing them when I play Modern.
Broodscale Combo is just one example of a green-based Eldrazi deck, and it happens to be the strongest creature-based combo deck in Modern right now. The primary combo is to pair Basking Broodscale with Blade of the Bloodchief. Sacrificing an Eldrazi Spawn adds a +1/+1 counter to Broodscale, which in turn creates another Spawn and allows you to repeat the process.
At that point, you can generate an infinitely large creature and an unbounded amount of colorless mana. You can win the game with a series of Glaring Fleshraker triggers, or by using Walking Ballista (either cast it from your hand, or tap into the ability using Agatha’s Soul Cauldron). Or, you know, you can just attack with your massive Basking Broodscale.
#13 Neoform Combo
Market Price: $17.97
You should always plan to run into Neoform or some kind of similar fast combo deck when you play Modern. I always like to pack some amount of generic disruption – like Thoughtseize and Force of Negation – in addition to targeted hate cards, which can hammer individual combo matchups. Grafdigger’s Cage and Containment Priest, for example, are excellent against Neoform.
#13 Jeskai Blink
Market Price: $11.95
Market Price: $43.52
Jeskai Blink mashes together the best aspects of Boros Energy with the best aspects of the Azorius and Esper Blink decks. You can assemble the combination of Solitude or Quantum Riddler with Ephemerate, or you can steal games with an unanswered turn one Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. And of course, Phlage, Titan of Fire’s Fury represents one of the most potent mid-game plans available in Modern.
#12 Birthing Ritual
Market Price: $11.34
Along the way, the Birthing Ritual deck uses Flare of Denial, Force of Negation, and Subtlety to shut down the opponent’s game plan as it buries them in card advantage turn after turn.
#11 Izzet Prowess
- Read More: Modern Izzet Prowess Deck Guide – Best Cards, Sideboarding, and More!
Cori-Steel Cutter is a staple card that supercharges this archetype and makes it very resilient to spot removal. Izzet Prowess is hard to shut down, packing cards like Expressive Iteration that can help keep gas in the tank, and even allow Izzet to grind out slower decks.
#10 Domain Zoo
Perhaps the nastiest combo is Leyline of the Guildpact with Scion of Draco, which results in the Dragon itself having all of the abilities listed on the card. Many decks in Modern have a hard time beating a flying, lifelinking, hexproof creature on the second turn of the game (heck, who doesn’t?).
#9 Ruby Storm
Turn three kills are common–particularly when a Medallion or a Ral, Monsoon Mage goes unanswered. Ruby Storm can also fight well through hate cards, so you’ll want to assemble a tight web of graveyard hate, spell-based disruption, targeted sideboard cards, plus a quick clock if you want a good matchup against Ruby Storm.
#8 Tameshi Belcher
Lotus Bloom supports a turn four Charbelcher win. However, it also enables the Tameshi Belcher deck to tap into a different angle of attack with the namesake Tameshi, Reality Architect. By repeatedly rebuying Lotus Bloom from the graveyard, you can generate a massive amount of mana. Imagine, for example, that you return your board of lands to hand for a ton of mana while one of the lands you return is Sea Gate Restoration. You can draw so many cards and generate so much value that winning the game becomes trivial.
#7 Dimir & Grixis Frog
These can be disruptive midrange decks with Counterspell, like in the featured decklist. They may also incorporate small reanimation packages like Abhorrent Oculus and Unearth, or big reanimation packages like Archon of Cruelty and Persist.
#6 Eldrazi Tron
Market Price: $28.60
Like Green Eldrazi and Broodscale Combo (#15), Eldrazi Tron is a quiet and consistent performer. It can deliver multiple different “broken” draws, by either assembling Tron Lands, or with hands heavy on Eldrazi Temple and Ugin’s Labyrinth. It’s a high-power strategy that has a surprising amount of game against both fast aggro and combo.
While it’s not easy to pilot, the high power level and straightforward game plan make Eldrazi Tron one of the first decks I’d recommend for someone looking to jump in for a Modern Regional Championship Qualifier (RCQ) or FNM. Don’t underestimate it!
#5 Esper & Orzhov Blink
Market Price: $43.52
- Read More: Modern Esper Blink Deck Guide – Best Cards, Sideboarding, and More!
In any case, a key card is Ephemerate, which pairs incredibly well with the range of powerful enters-the-battlefield abilities. You can shred creature decks by evoking Solitude and Ephemerating it before it hits the graveyard. Alternatively, you can get massively ahead on cards by doing the same with Quantum Riddler. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Esper Blink, as the combination of Quantum Riddler, Psychic Frog, and Thoughtseize really appeals to me.
#4 Goryo’s Vengeance
Market Price: $14.26
Market Price: $11.54
- Read More: Modern Esper Goryo’s Deck Guide – Best Cards, Sideboarding, and More!
Perhaps the greatest appeal of Goryo’s Vengeance is its robust midrange backup plan. Psychic Frog and Ephemerate are already natural fits with the goal of reanimating Atraxa, Grand Unifier. So it’s not a stretch to also begin incorporating card advantage, removal, and disruption. It’s even a great home for the Quantum Riddler from Edge of Eternities. Goryo’s Vengeance is a scary and powerful archetype that only seems to get stronger and stronger with every set release.
#3 Amulet Titan
Market Price: $45.12
While the core strategy is familiar, the specifics of the deck continue to evolve. These days, Spelunking is a popular choice. It can serve as a redundant Amulet of Vigor effect, plus it can give you extra juice from Scapeshift and the like. Amulet Titan experts can assemble a convoluted loop using Aftermath Analyst to return lands from the graveyard and Shifting Woodland to copy the Aftermath Analyst and repeat the process once more.
#2 Affinity
There’s a lot you can do within this broad “Affinity” archetype. Thoughtcast, Thought Monitor, Kappa Cannoneer, and Pinnacle Emissary are a few of the exciting payoff cards you might choose to tap into. Affinity continues to get a lot of attention at every level of competition, both online and tabletop.
#1 Boros Energy
Market Price: $35.60
If I were to describe this deck in two words, it would be “card quality”. Almost everything in the deck costs one or two mana and does way more than you expect from it. I guess it should be no surprise, since so many of the key cards are rares and mythics from Modern Horizons 3. Boros Energy comes out fast, has built-in card advantage, and packs the best removal options for taking care of opposing threats.