Effect-o-pedia
Dominaria United
Limited formats will generally involve the same common gameplay effects which show up again and again. Use this guide to find out what common effects are in - and not in! - this format.
Board Wipes Bounce Counterspells Discard Disenchant Falter Fog Haste Life Gain Mana Fixing Mana Ramp Mass Pump Ping Mill Mind Control Threaten
Dominaria United Mechanics/Themes
Board Wipes
Effects that can kill all creatures on the battlefield.
Conditional
Decent number of boardwipes, some are very conditional.
Bounce
Effects that return cards to their owners hand.
Good bounce options, includin a cantrip with Tolarian Geyser.
Counterspells
Effects that can counter your spells.
There are counterspells, especially Essence Scatter to watch for!
Discard
Effects that can force you discard cards from your hand.
Lots of discard, keep those extra lands in hand.
Disenchant
Effects that destroy artifacts or enchantments.
Some disenchant effects are floating around.
Falter
Effects that make it so multiple creatures temporarily cannot block.
Hammerhand is coming in hot!
Fog
Effects that prevent combat damage for multiple or all creatures.
No cards in this format have this effect!
Haste
Effects that can grant haste to creatures, or creatures that have haste.
Lots of hastey threats to be on the lookout for.
Life Gain
Gaining life!
Archangel of Wrath
Knight of Dawn's Light
Mesa Cavalier
Phyrexian Missionary
Prayer of Binding
Samite Herbalist
Serra Paragon
Take Up the Shield
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Sheoldred's Restoration
Stronghold Arena
Urborg Repossession
Hurloon Battle Hymn
Herd Migration
Mossbeard Ancient
Silverback Elder
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Shanna, Purifying Blade
Sol'Kanar the Tainted
Uurg, Spawn of Turg
Zur, Eternal Schemer
A decent amount of lifegain but not really any payoffs.
Mana Fixing
Effects that fix for colors.
Pixie Illusionist
Deathbloom Gardener
Floriferous Vinewall
Herd Migration
Llanowar Loamspeaker
Scout the Wilderness
Slimefoot's Survey
The Weatherseed Treaty
Meteorite
Relic of Legends
Salvaged Manaworker
Timeless Lotus
Adarkar Wastes
Caves of Koilos
Contaminated Aquifer
Crystal Grotto
Geothermal Bog
Idyllic Beachfront
Karplusan Forest
Molten Tributary
Plaza of Heroes
Radiant Grove
Sacred Peaks
Shivan Reef
Sulfurous Springs
Sunlit Marsh
Tangled Islet
Wooded Ridgeline
Yavimaya Coast
Dual lands at common will help fixing and Domain quite a bit.
Mana Ramp
Effects that ramp mana.
Not much in ways of ramp and a notable absense of Treasure tokens.
Mass Pump
Effects that pump all of a player's creatures.
Go-wide is definitely a theme, so watch out for mass pump.
Ping
Effects that can kill creatures with 1 toughness.
A few ping effects to put X/1s in danger.
Mill
Effects that can mill your opponent's deck.
Self
Not much in terms of mill, but the Defender deck might get there!
Mind Control
Effects that steal your permanents, permanently.
One mind control effect to watch out for
Threaten
Effects that steal your creatures temporarily and grant them haste.
One threaten effect that can even sacrifice your creature - beware!
Dominaria United Mechanics/Themes
Theme: Defender
You don't see defender themes very often, but it looks very supported in DMU!
Mechanic: Domain
Artillery Blast
Leyline Binding
Sphinx of Clear Skies
Voda Sea Scavenger
Drag to the Bottom
Shadow Prophecy
Meria's Outrider
Radha's Firebrand
Gaea's Might
Herd Migration
Llanowar Greenwidow
Nishoba Brawler
Slimefoot's Survey
Sunbathing Rootwalla
Territorial Maro
The Weatherseed Treaty
Yavimaya Sojourner
Bortuk Bonerattle
Nael, Avizoa Aeronaut
Radha, Coalition Warlord
Zar Ojanen, Scion of Efrava
Jodah's Codex
Domain counts ever basic land type you have on the battlefield, and with common basic duals, this can be pretty easy to ramp up!
Mechanic: Enlist
Enlists allows you to tap a non-attacking, non-summoning sick creature to add its power to an attacking creature.