Spring time, spring time! I got to enjoy the transition weeks with my cozy denim jacket and now, I can enjoy short sleeves and no jackets. My wife and I can take long walks around or neighborhood. And my inbox gets half a dozen emails a day wondering when we will announce the changes to the Modern Age environment.

Well, today is the day. The new Modern Age formats take effect 5/15/2011. You can jump to the end of the article for links to the new Comprehensive Tournament Rules, if you are so inclined. That document lists the sets that remain in Modern Age on page 5. If a figure has a set symbol from one of those sets, it’s Modern. All other figures from all other sets are classified as Golden Age. [...]

Less than I thought.

I thought that all of the pre-NECA stuff would be going, but instead it is just Avengers, M&M, JL, and Crisis.

Even if losing the other stuff would have caused a slight dip in the modern age population initially, with Street Fighter and all of the other stuff upcoming, I think thatthe numbers would have come back relatively quickly.

Glad to see that those old keywords were looked at, though. I haven't looked over the changes, but just the examples listed indicate an improvement.

I was not expecting 4 sets to go. I thought it would just be Avengers and Justice League

I was hoping it'd only be AV and JL, but I expected that it'd go up to Crisis. Only two Legion of Super-Heroes figures left in Modern Age now. Sure hope fall's Superman set rectifies this.

Bah I'm not pleased with M&M getting axed

How is it they took the time to alter the keyword list but they didn't change Ultimates Phoenix? She is the most horrendously keyworded figure in the game.

*Sniff* Not.... Darkseid!...

I've never liked retirement and this block of retirement doesn't please me too much.

Those early Modern Age sets were my favorites.

No worries, there should be one in the Superman set coming out.


I knew Wizkids was going to get rid of 4 sets in the Modern Age environment. It's how they have done it in the past.

Bites that I cannot use Cheif in Modern age anymore though. The Ultimate support piece.

I really feel all carded sets should not be retired until some new mechanic is introduced.

They have always retired at least 3 sets at a time.

I still would have liked to see everything pre-Hammer of Thor retired, or no retirement at all.

I think there is such a difference in dial mentality between Secret Invasion/Arkham Asylum and HOT/WOS/DC75 that it would have made sense to retire all that stuff before HOT.

And in addition that would have retired all the pre-NECA stuff as well.

I think this retirement falls short in logic, REGARDLESS of past precedent...

Its terrible, they need to change the criteria for which sets are considered to be retired or modern or golden age or whatever. I mean, tournament sets should be the past couple of recent sets, but if they insist on getting rid of certain sets, they should have just come up with a NEW ERA....why, change the modern era list, just make a new era which only includes the chosen sets. This change hurts too many team builds. A dirty ploy to make people buy new clix to fill the gaps. Sorry for the rage but, its at least half true.

At least I still got my Thing and Lightspeed for another year.

Retirement Rocks!