The following card sets are permitted in Modern tournaments:
- Eighth Edition
- Mirrodin
- Darksteel
- Fifth Dawn
- Champions of kamigawa
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Ninth Edition
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Guildpact
- Dissension
- Coldsnap
- Time Spiral
- Planar Chaos
- Future Sight
- Tenth Edition
- Lorwyn
- Morningtide
- Shadowmoor
- Eventide
- Shards of Alara
- Conflux
- Alara Reborn
- Magic 2010
- zendikar
- Worldwake
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Magic 2011
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Mirrodin Besieged
- New Phyrexia
- Magic 2012
- innistrad
- Dark Ascension
- Avacyn Restored (effective May 4, 2012)
- Magic 2013 (effective July 13, 2012)
The following cards are banned in Modern tournaments:
- Ancestral Vision
- Ancient Den
- Bitterblossom
- Blazing Shoal
- Chrome Mox
- Cloudpost
- Dark Depths
- Dread Return
- Glimpse of Nature
- Golgari Grave-Troll
- Great Furnace
- Green Sun's Zenith
- Hypergenesis
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Mental Misstep
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Punishing Fire
- Rite of Flame
- Seat of the Synod
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Stoneforge Mystic
- Skullclamp
- Sword of the Meek
- Tree of Tales
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
- Vault of Whispers
- Wild Nacatl
