Yeah, losing both Spontaneous Artist and Maulfist Doorbuster at the middle/top-end hurts slightly, but you still have all the good energy producers and the efficient creatures, and it’ll work well enough.Īs easily the worst archetype in the base format, this deck needed upgrades relative to the field, and I’m not sure it got them. Keeping Hijack instead of Wrangle keeps a lot of the power at least, so the “steal and sac” synergies might be where this deck now has to lean.Īfter talking about nerfs, it’s nice to talk about an archetype that’s essentially unchanged. Both Embraal Gear-Smasher and Dhund Operative are targeted cuts here, with the latter feeling especially strange as black is left with only Aether Poisoner as a common two-drop (as Thriving Rats was also cut in a more understandable move). This deck feels like it got a lot of nerfs when it didn’t really need them, especially since the removal of Renegade Freighter is a nerf to aggro as a whole. You do keep Aether Poisoner at least, which I had thought might be a bit too powerful. The card advantage also isn’t quite as good, as Reverse Engineer and Metalspinner's Puzzleknot ended up on the sidelines, with only Mind Rot to replace them. On the other, both the common counterspells are soft counters (and Revolutionary Rebuff isn’t that good), with Failed Inspection ending up on the sidelines. On one hand, you have a ton of removal, with both Malfunction and Ice Over in addition to all the good black removal. The control aspects of the Dimir are a mixed bag. It feels like this deck is a little more Energy-focused here with cards like Eddytrail Hawk making it into the set instead of other payoffs, but overall it doesn’t seem too much of a downgrade. The uncommon Illusionist's Stratagem making it instead of the common Acrobatic Maneuver also hurts a bit, even if it does help the best case of the deck. Ninth Bridge Patrol may not have gotten there, but Dispersal Technician being replaced with a bunch of bounce spells is a noticable downgrade.

It feels like Blink lost a lot of its payoffs in Kaladesh Remastered.

As a reminder, I’m starting from the basis of Kaladesh and Aether Revolt (and in part my previous Kaladesh Remastered article ), and adjusting from there. Instead, I’ll start with the Limited archetypes, which have more interesting (but not necessarily bad) decisions. In addition, the card selection itself was a mess- but that’s more big-picture related, so I’ll cover that later. However, with Commander Legends being pushed back, the “spoiler” season for Kaladesh Remastered was essentially canceled and instead the entire card image gallery was plopped onto the mothership (and with strange errors on the first pass). When Wizards announced Pioneer Masters was pushed back to 2021 and Kaladesh Remastered was pushed up, I felt it was a little strange, but that presumably it didn’t take much work to make a remastered set where the vast majority of the card pool was already confirmed on Arena.

Madcap experiment deck