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Kaladesh Remastered

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.

Kaladesh Remastered Mechanics/Themes

Board Wipes
Effects that can kill all creatures on the battlefield.
Bounce
Effects that return cards to their owners hand.
Counterspells
Effects that can counter your spells.
KLR is missing a hard counter spell at common or uncommon, but watch out for Metallic Rebuke.
Discard
Effects that can force you discard cards from your hand.
There are some discard effects, but very little targeted hand disruption.
Disenchant
Effects that destroy artifacts or enchantments.
Given that many core cards are artifacts, Disenchant effects are quite main deckable.
Falter
Effects that make it so multiple creatures temporarily cannot block.
Destructive Tampering is very maindeckable with lots of artifact targets, so beware.
Fog
Effects that prevent combat damage for multiple or all creatures.
Commence the Festivities is probably as bad as it looks, but careful of the lethal swing blowout potential.
Haste
Effects that can grant haste to creatures, or creatures that have haste.
Mana Fixing
Effects that fix for colors.
Mass Pump
Effects that pump all of a player's creatures.
Dawnfeather Eagle will be a big player in race situations, keep it in mind.
Ping
Effects that can kill creatures with 1 toughness.
With Fabricate, there are a lot of 1/1s in KLR - making ping effects more useful, and X/1s less so.
Mill
Effects that can mill your opponent's deck.
At uncommon, it is unlikely Minister of Inquiries will be much of a mill strategy.
Mind Control
Effects that steal your permanents, permanently.
Two Mind Control effects exist in KLR
Threaten
Effects that steal your creatures temporarily and grant them haste.
Hijack can steal Vehicles or even utility artifacts.

Kaladesh Remastered Mechanics/Themes

Mechanic: Vehicles
Vehicles have appeared in several sets since Kaladesh was originally released. They are non-creature artifacts that can be turned into artifact creatures by tapping enough creatures with power equal to or more than the Crew cost.
Vehicle payoffs are in White-Red colors, but there are not many.
Renegade Freighter from original Kaladesh is notably missing from the vehicle list.
Mechanic: Revolt
Revolt is a mechanic which triggers if another permanent left the battlefield for any reason before you cast the card.
There are obviously many ways to enable Revolt, but cheap Sacrifice abilities are the best way to guarantee a trigger, so they are listed here.