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Modern is a best-of-three format with a 15-card sideboard

With that out of the way, I picked the ten cards that, in my opinion, stand above the rest for one reason or another

I was actually stopped in the hallway at one point by the then head designer, a man named Joel Mick, who asked me "Are chickens funny?" I then had to explain the long history that chickens had with comedy, using such examples as the rubber chicken

I'm running healthy amounts of removal including more boardwipes than I usually put into my decks and an assortment of lands that can destroy my opponents' lands

These are activated abilities as they contain a colon, and the tap symbol is one of the listed costs