The power level for this set actually seems lower than Throne of Eldraine's to me, but that won't prevent us--or me--from making Top 10 lists for Ikoria anyway! As tradition, here's my Top 10 Ikoria Cards New to Modern, though feel free to make your own lists for any format or reason you want, including Modern:
Lurrus of the Dream-Den: Yeah, I know, she's better in Legacy, but her nifty recursion ability has to help her win games Emry, Lurker of the Loch-style in Modern as a member of the 60. Modern is also capable of making her a Companion with some deck-building sacrifices, though I've personally found Companion a bit overrated because the Companion dies to removal so easily and is obviously telegraphed. Even doing things as humble as recurring Mishra's Bauble wins games, though.
Heartless Act: For a flexible 1B, it kills black creatures like Bob, artifact creatures like animated Inkmoth Nexus and the Construct token Urza, Lord High Artificer makes, and big and expensive creatures like Primeval Titan. Shame a fair few creatures in Modern have counters on them, such as Walking Ballista and most Scavenging Oozes, but at least this card does something detrimental to them.
Bonders' Enclave: Hey, at least Eldrazi decks such as Eldrazi Tron and RG Eldrazi will appreciate this card.
Mythos of Nethroi: The Abzan colour combination is fairly unpopular in Modern right now, but 3 mana to destroy target nonland permanent for them cannot be denied.
Kaheera, the Orphanguard: Despite how awkward she is to cast in Modern Elementals decks, they ARE going to want a lord that's always in their opening hand. I've never found Phantasmal Image to be that good in aggro decks, anyway.
Fiend Artisan: A 2-mana creature that tutors for more creatures in the style of Birthing Pod mashed up with Fauna Shaman should be nifty in creature combo decks.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy: This guy is like Duskwatch Recruiter who demands blue mana but is absolute nitro at cheating out creatures in return. With his mana-doubling ability, activating him on Turn 3 is realistic.
Song of Creation: See above, though this is more like Experimental Frenzy with a greater chance of comboing off in the right build. I still haven't made a Cheerios deck with this consistent enough, though...
Honourable mentions include Jegantha, the Wellspring (from my testing, it's possible that Niv-Mizzet Reborn decks need to make too many sacrifices to make this a Companion, but at least a 5-cmc 5/5 can actually win games on occasion in Modern), Zirda, the Dawnwaker (Mardu Midrange needs to make surprisingly few concessions to make this its Companion), the Triomes (some decks already play Sheltered Thicket and Irrigated Farmland), Titanoth Rex (Living End again), Unpredictable Cyclone (alt win con for Living End-using decks, maybe a deck will use it to cheat in Emrakul), Lavabrink Venturer (it can give itself protection from some removal and creatures), General Kudro of Drannith (a lord that provides ersatz removal just might be what Humans wants), Parcelbeast (quite possibly the most viable Mutate card in Modern due to the cheap Mutate cost, sweet activated ability, sizeable butt, and Elemental creature type), Sprite Dragon (there will always be some guy trying to make URx Delver a thing, and this makes a good friend of Delver), and The Ozolith (Hardened Scales decks may appreciate it).
As im exitting Magic, im not too familiar with the set.
I just wanna say that i really really like Vivien. Reach is so relevant. & she goes outa control quickly with soo many creatures she calls ! Noone else does it @ this rate. Though her -2 is not for me.
Lukka is also super attractive with that +1 !
Possibbly 3 new creatures. If not, filter out the bad draws. Sick.
Narset is utter trash though d:(
A lot of my favorite Ikoria cards came out of the new Commander Pre-Cons so I figured I might as well make a Top 10 list for it (in no particular order):
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
For standard, I really like Titans' Nest.
Step 1: Gum up the board with self mill etb creatures
Step 2: Uro/This enchantment/Tamiyo
Step 3: Konrad and then exile your yard with this enxhantment, or just pop out a Nethroi apex
You can sometimes cast Konrad AND mutate Nethroi onto him if u have bbbbg on turn 5, bring back every creature in your yard cuz they're all walls or mire Triton's, mill ten more and probably max out at about 50 damage that a leyline can't stop.
Effect: Exile a creature. Add 1 tour your Mana pool. EACH opponent takes 1 damage.
That card ramps Konrad to cost just bb. Then it closes the game with instant triggers of konrad
Sultai self mill isn't ever competitive, but it's fun and there's so much text on Konrad they don't realize that 15 go is the red zone
Tested Titans' Nest and Shark Typhoon in the same Modern BUG Control deck (the other payoff right now is Striped Riverwinder) and they'll both end up in honourable mentions. Titans' Nest is quite possibly abusable in the right deck (although being hard to protect with counterspells if you play it when you have 4-5 lands hurts, and it often felt like the worst card in the deck), and Shark Typhoon is quite flexible in Titans' Nest builds and likely quite good against Teferi, Time Raveler.
Almighty Brushwagg - The mightiest card in Ikoria, which you know because it's the only one with "almighty" in its name. Also, just look at him!
Shark Typhoon - Pretty much my only wincon in my ranked deck for a long time.
Escape Protocol - The little-known core of a whole bunch of janky decks, it's actually potentially really good and opens up hilarious combos with things like Midnight Clock and Wishclaw Talisman.
Extinction Event - A one-pip sweeper which always hits at least half their value (usually more) and exiles to boot! It usually doesn't hit everything, but it would be way too good if it did.
Unpredictable Cyclone - As janky and fun as Escape Protocol, if not more so, but lower down the list because it's sadly just not that good. Still awesome, though.
Chevill, Bane of Monsters - He is the dude (usually at least functions like a Revitalize - so replaces himself in your hand - which also trades for a creature, and often a lot more).
Alert Heedbonder - A surprisingly solid defensive card, it's a 2/4 blocker with vigilance and capable of pretty good lifegain even with no other vigilance cards.
Honourable mention to all the tri-lands (because multicolour jank for the win... I just wish there was an Esper one) and all the Ultimata, which are if nothing else pretty darn cool.
I do like Sea-Dasher Octopus, too, and Parcelbeast.
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I just wanna say that i really really like Vivien. Reach is so relevant. & she goes outa control quickly with soo many creatures she calls ! Noone else does it @ this rate. Though her -2 is not for me.
Lukka is also super attractive with that +1 !
Possibbly 3 new creatures. If not, filter out the bad draws. Sick.
Narset is utter trash though d:(
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Step 1: Gum up the board with self mill etb creatures
Step 2: Uro/This enchantment/Tamiyo
Step 3: Konrad and then exile your yard with this enxhantment, or just pop out a Nethroi apex
You can sometimes cast Konrad AND mutate Nethroi onto him if u have bbbbg on turn 5, bring back every creature in your yard cuz they're all walls or mire Triton's, mill ten more and probably max out at about 50 damage that a leyline can't stop.
Effect: Exile a creature. Add 1 tour your Mana pool. EACH opponent takes 1 damage.
That card ramps Konrad to cost just bb. Then it closes the game with instant triggers of konrad
Sultai self mill isn't ever competitive, but it's fun and there's so much text on Konrad they don't realize that 15 go is the red zone
Honourable mention to all the tri-lands (because multicolour jank for the win... I just wish there was an Esper one) and all the Ultimata, which are if nothing else pretty darn cool.
I do like Sea-Dasher Octopus, too, and Parcelbeast.