i don't like wotc tanking the accessibility of eternal constructed for "good for limited"
but i do like stuff that would be fun in limited 

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last time I was paying any attention to Modern (5 or 6 years ago?) it was clearly a disfavored, passed-over format that WotC would occassionally try to force interest in with a pro tour. The vast majority of players with organic interest in eternal formats played Legacy.
but mostly I'm just out of the loop here. what just happened that made Modern inaccessible recently?
It really isn’t inaccessible. Cards have gone up in price, but not nearly to the degree Legacy Reserved List cards have. Example: Tabernacle is $2k. They’ll go back down after some more reprints.
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