On the official MTG Facebook page, Wizards announced that Modern will become an FNM format as of January 2013. This exciting format offers a broad range of viable decks and strategies, and there's still plenty of exploration left to be done. If you're looking to start putting together a deck to FNM with this January, check out some of these lists from the Top 8 of Grand Prix Chicago this past weekend.

If you're interested in learning more about the format, check out some of the Modern content by Max Sjoeblom and Jarvis Yu here on Gathering Magic!

"Jacob Wilson's Jund"

• Lands (24)
• 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Forest
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 4 Marsh Flats
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 4 Raging Ravine
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Treetop Village
• 4 Verdant Catacombs

• Creatures (16)
• 4 Bloodbraid Elf
• 4 Dark Confidant
• 4 Deathrite Shaman
• 4 Tarmogoyf

• Spells (17)
• 2 Abrupt Decay
• 2 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 4 Lingering Souls
• 2 Terminate
• 3 Thoughtseize

• Planeswalkers (3)
• 3 Liliana of the Veil

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Ancient Grudge
• 2 Batterskull
• 1 Grim Lavamancer
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 2 Olivia Voldaren
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 3 Rakdos Charm
• 2 Rule of Law
• 2 Shatterstorm

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[Cardlist title="Alex Majlaton's Robots"]

• Lands (16)
• 4 Blinkmoth Nexus
• 4 Darksteel Citadel
• 3 Glimmervoid
• 4 Inkmoth Nexus
• 1 Island

• Creatures (24)
• 4 Arcbound Ravager
• 2 Master of Etherium
• 2 Memnite
• 4 Ornithopter
• 4 Signal Pest
• 4 Steel Overseer
• 4 Vault Skirge

• Spells (20)
• 4 Cranial Plating
• 3 Galvanic Blast
• 4 Mox Opal
• 4 Springleaf Drum
• 4 Thoughtcast
• 1 Welding Jar

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Ancient Grudge
• 2 Dismember
• 4 Etched Champion
• 1 Ethersworn Canonist
• 1 Ray of Revelation
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 2 Thoughtseize
• 1 Unified Will

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[Cardlist title="Ryan Hovis's Birthing Pod"]

• Lands (23)
• 4 Arid Mesa
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 4 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 4 Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Plains
• 4 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Temple Garden

• Creatures (29)
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Deceiver Exarch
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Ethersworn Canonist
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Izzet Staticaster
• 3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1 Kitchen Finks
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 2 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Phantasmal Image
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 3 Restoration Angel
• 1 Spellskite
• 4 Wall of Roots
• 1 Zealous Conscripts

• Spells (8)
• 4 Birthing Pod
• 4 Chord of Calling

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Ancient Grudge
• 1 Avalanche Riders
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Harmonic Sliver
• 1 Kataki, War's Wage
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 2 Sowing Salt
• 2 Surgical Extraction
• 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1 Thrun, the Last Troll

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[Cardlist title="David Gleicher's RG Tron"]

• Lands (20)
• 1 Eye of Ugin
• 2 Forest
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 4 Grove of the Burnwillows
• 4 Urza's Mine
• 4 Urza's Power Plant
• 4 Urza's Tower

• Creatures (5)
• 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1 Spellskite
• 3 Wurmcoil Engine

• Spells (31)
• 4 Ancient Stirrings
• 4 Chromatic Sphere
• 4 Chromatic Star
• 4 Expedition Map
• 1 Explore
• 3 Oblivion Stone
• 4 Pyroclasm
• 4 Relic of Progenitus
• 3 Sylvan Scrying

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Karn Liberated

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Combust
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Electrickery
• 1 Grim Poppet
• 4 Nature's Claim
• 1 Oblivion Stone
• 1 Spellskite
• 2 Thorn of Amethyst
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Wurmcoil Engine

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