The Retro-Modern Card Pool Primer

Unlike other "classic" formats, Retro-Modern's card pool is consistently growing with each Modern legal set. In some cases, the card pool has expanded due to the printing of a promo card on the classic frames, a batch of Timeshifted cards or simply with reprints in a modern set.

Because of the nature of the modern format the Classic cards that are available are well balanced and conform to modern standards of play. However, they are not overpowered and the meta does not lean horribly in one direction. Coincidentally the colors are all fairly equally distributed with red having slightly more cards than the other colors. 

The information below is accurate as of the printing of Guilds of Ravnica.

Mana Base:

There is a strong mix of non-basic lands, including fetch, pain, tron, rainbow, snow-covered, taplands, manlands, and some utility lands

Color Distribution:

Green Cards:150

Red Cards: 166

Blue Cards: 149

Black Cards: 144

White Cards: 147

Multi-color Cards: 22

Colorless (including Lands): 127

Card Type:

Planeswalker: 0

Creatures: 451 (including artifact creatures)

Artifacts: 80 (including artifact creatures)

Enchantments: 124

Instants: 103

Sorceries: 121

Lands: 47 (including basics)

CMC:

0: 5 (not including lands)

1: 132

2: 176

3: 194

4: 178

5: 95

6: 36

7: 20

8: 14

9: 6

10: 2

Notable Cards:

• Ensnaring Bridge
• Meddling Mage
• Bribery
• Blood Moon
• Grim Lavamancer
• Reflecting Pool
• Grave Pact
• Time Warp
• Lord of the Undead
• Seedborn Muse
• Worship