The decklists are in, the numbers are crunched, and the third Pro Tour of 2025 is ready to blast off! Pro Tour Edge of Eternities kicks off tomorrow, running September 26–28 at MagicCon: Atlanta. There, 300 of the world's best Magic: The Gathering players will bring their Modern decks to battle for $500,000 in prizes, coveted World Championship invitations, and the prestigious Pro Tour trophy. The field is stacked with elite talent, featuring Top Finishers from Regional Championships, online qualifiers, and seasoned Pro Tour veterans.

The competition begins with Edge of Eternities Booster Draft on Friday and Saturday morning, followed by five rounds of Modern each afternoon. On Sunday, the Top 8 will face off in a single-elimination Modern showdown to crown the next Pro Tour champion.

To follow all the action, catch the live stream on the Magic Twitch channel or the Play MTG YouTube channel. The broadcast begins at 11 a.m. ET on Friday and Saturday and at 10 a.m. ET on Sunday. Be sure to check the viewer's guide for all the details.

Modern Metagame Breakdown

Modern is one of Magic's premier competitive formats, based on cards from expansion sets, core sets, and straight-to-Modern sets from Eight Edition forward. With over 22 years of history, its deep card pool offers intricate interactions and a vast diversity of viable strategies. Here's how the decks at the Pro Tour break down.

All Modern decklists for the tournament will be published on the Pro Tour Edge of Eternities event page at the start of Round 4 on Friday, September 26, around 2 p.m. ET. Until then, here's a closer look at the most-played decks of the tournament.

Esper Goryo's (50 players): Esper Goryo's aims to discard Atraxa, Grand Unifier with Psychic Frog or Faithful Mending, then return her with Goryo's Vengeance for a massive swing and a fresh grip of cards. Afterward, Ephemerate grants another Atraxa trigger and ensures that she won't be exiled at end of turn. The deck can also pivot into a controlling strategy with Solitude and Force of Negation, and since the release of Edge of Eternities, blinking a warped Quantum Riddler has given the archetype even greater flexibility. Although Esper Goryo's accounted for just 5.7% of the winner's metagame earlier this month, many Pro Tour competitors recognized its strength. Esper Goryo's has become the most played deck of this weekend at 16.7% of the field.

Tameshi Belcher (45 players): With zero actual land cards in the deck, a single Goblin Charbelcher activation deals enough damage to win the game on the spot. To reach the necessary mana to cast and activate Charbelcher, the deck relies on Lotus Bloom—which is fetchable with Whir of Invention—and a suite of modal double-faced cards. The deck has a powerful backup plan, pairing Tameshi, Reality Architect with Lotus Bloom to generate tons of mana.

Boros Energy (41 players): Powered by Guide of Souls and Galvanic Discharge, Boros Energy leverages the energy mechanic to dominate the battlefield. The deck applies relentless pressure through the feline firepower of Ocelot Pride and Ajani, Nacatl Pariah. Goblin Bombardment lets you sacrifice Cat tokens to transform Ajani into a formidable planeswalker. In the late game, Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury provides staying power and, when given haste with Arena of Glory, can end games in an instant.

Eldrazi Tron (22 players): Eldrazi Tron harnesses the iconic trio of Urza's lands alongside Eldrazi Temple and Ugin's Labyrinth to generate enormous amounts of colorless mana. This mana fuels powerhouse cards like Karn, the Great Creator; Kozilek's Command; Devourer of Destiny; and Ugin, Eye of the Storms. While most lists remain fully colorless to maximize Ugin, some players have incorporated spicy colored cards like Portent of Calamity.

Izzet Affinity (20 players): Izzet Affinity thrives on artifact synergies. The deck's cards, when fueled by a critical mass of artifacts, become absolutely devastating. Mox Opal accelerates mana, Kappa Cannoneer grows into an unstoppable threat, and Thoughtcast becomes an efficient draw spell. A crucial addition from Edge of Eternities is Pinnacle Emissary, which floods the board with tokens and can enable a turn-one Kappa Cannoneer.

Esper Blink (17 players): Like Esper Goryo's, Esper Blink leans on the synergy between Quantum Riddler and Ephemerate. Blinking an evoked Solitude is equally devastating, as the Elemental exiles any opposing threats. To maximize these synergies, players rely on Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd, which is a key card in every Blink deck. Its inclusion is the dividing line; Esper variants without Phelia are instead classified as Esper Midrange or Esper Control.

Amulet Titan (15 players): Amulet Titan is built around the synergy between Amulet of Vigor and bounce lands like Simic Growth Chamber. With an Amulet of Vigor in play, those lands effectively enter untapped and generate additional mana, enabling an early Primeval Titan. Primeval Titan can then fetch Hanweir Battlements, a land which can give your Titan haste. If they aren't able to win with Primeval Titan, Amulet Titan decks can also use Scapeshift to set up intricate loops involving Lotus Field, Aftermath Analyst, and Shifting Woodland.

Simic Neoform (13 players): Simic Neoform seeks to cast Allosaurus Rider by exiling two green cards, then sacrifice it to Neoform or Eldritch Evolution and tutor out a game-winning creature. The top target is Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, who can flood the battlefield with a menagerie of creatures. Disciple of Freyalise can convert Ghalta into 12 life and 12 cards, while Xenagos, God of Revels transforms Ghalta into a 24/24 trampler with haste.

Domain Zoo (12 players): Domain Zoo is a disruptive aggro deck that leverages two- and three-color lands to unleash the full power of Territorial Kavu and Scion of Draco. These creatures hit hard and Stubborn Denial into a reliable counterspell. With Leyline of the Guildpact, the mana base becomes painless, and Scion of Draco gives your entire team vigilance, hexproof, lifelink, first strike, and trample.

Eldrazi Ramp (12 players): Like Eldrazi Tron, Eldrazi Ramp is fueled by Eldrazi Temple and Ugin's Labyrinth but forgoes Urza's lands in favor of a Forest-heavy mana base for Utopia Sprawl. Its goal is to cast Emrakul, the Promised End as soon as possible, with Malevolent Rumble reducing the Eldrazi's cost by dumping a variety of card types into the graveyard.

Solitude
Quantum Riddler
Ephemerate

In a format once ruled by Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury and Guide of Souls, with Boros Energy as the clear deck to beat going into this Pro Tour, a new package has taken the spotlight. The biggest surprise is that the most played nonland main deck cards across all 300 Pro Tour decks are Solitude, Quantum Riddler, and Ephemerate. Usually seen together, Ephemerate repeatedly blinks creatures for value, while Solitude provides efficient removal while emptying your hand to unlock Quantum Riddler's additional card draw.

A total of 78 players (26.0% of the field) registered decks that contain this three-card package. That group includes 50 Esper Goryo's decks, 16 Esper Blink decks, and 6 Azorius Blink decks, with a handful of other Blink, Control, and Midrange variants rounding out the metagame. While Consign to Memory remains the most played sideboard card, this trio has emerged as the defining foundation of the Modern metagame at Pro Tour Edge of Eternities.

Altogether, the Pro Tour showcases dozens of archetypes spanning aggro, midrange, control, combo, and ramp. While Esper Goryo's, Tameshi Belcher, and Boros Energy command a large share of the field, the metagame overall remains varied. With only one mirror match expected per 10.9 tables, this Pro Tour features greater metagame diversity than half of the past ten Modern Pro Tours.

Most-Played Cards from Recent Sets

The set releases since Modern Horizons 3 have left a considerable mark on the format. The table below highlights the 25 most-played cards at Pro Tour Edge of Eternities from sets released in the 15 months since the last Modern Pro Tour.

Quantum Riddler
Thundertrap Trainer

In terms of sheer numbers, the most influential newcomers have been Quantum Riddler and Thundertrap Trainer. Quantum Riddler works beautifully with Ephemerate and Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd. When you blink a warped Riddler, you not only draw an additional card but also get a difficult-to-remove 4/6 flier. Thundertrap Trainer is not a universal inclusion in Tameshi Belcher, but the majority of lists use it to consistently find Goblin Charbelcher and to enable the alternate cost of Flare of Denial. Without these two cards, Esper Goryo's and Tameshi Belcher might not have become the two most-played decks of this Pro Tour.

Voice of Victory
Pinnacle Emissary
Ugin, Eye of the Storms

Three other recent cards also stand out. In Boros Energy, Voice of Victory protects your spells on your turn while pumping out 1/1 Warrior tokens that fuel Guide of Souls, contribute to the city's blessing, get copied by Ocelot Pride, serve as ammunition for Goblin Bombardment, and count as red permanents for Ajani, Nacatl Avenger. Meanwhile, Pinnacle Emissary and Ugin, Eye of the Storms are deck-defining cards for Izzet Affinity and Eldrazi Tron

Spider-Sense
Superior Spider-Man

Magic: The Gathering | Marvel's Spider-Man made a more modest impact on Modern. The most played card is Spider-Sense, which appears in sideboards of Izzet Affinity and Azorius Blink decks. It can counter a wide range of spells or abilities, and its web-slinging cost can become an upside when bouncing value creatures like Thought Monitor or Solitude. The second most played card, Superior Spider-Man, shows up as a one-of in Esper Goryo's decks, where it can serve as a four-mana Atraxa, Grand Unifier or enable new Goryo's Vengeance tricks.

A handful of other Magic: The Gathering | Marvel's Spider-Man cards have also found their way into Pro Tour decklists. One Eldrazi Ramp deck packed Spider-Punk to potentially sidestep Consign to Memory after sideboards. One Domain Zoo player embraced Kraven, Proud Predator for its synergy with Scion of Draco. A particularly spicy Izzet Affinity list included Doc Ock's Tentacles as an Urza's Saga target that snaps onto Kappa Cannoneer, Thought Monitor, or Memory Guardian. Finally, some Samwise Gamgee Combo builds feature Arachne, Psionic Weaver; Spider-Ham, Peter Porker; and Silk, Web Weaver as part of their toolbox. I'm eager to see whether any of these fresh additions manage to swing into the top tables by the end of the weekend.

Prepare for Lift-Off!

With Quantum Riddler establishing itself as one of Modern's most impactful recent additions, the stage is set for dozens of archetypes to compete for glory. To see who takes the trophy, don't miss a moment of the action. Coverage of Pro Tour Edge of Eternities is taking off on Friday, September 26!