Ravnica Remastered is the third in the series of remastered sets inMagic: The Gathering. The set is an all-reprint set featuring cards from any set that took place on the plane of Ravnica. Since it is one of the biggest planes in all of Magic, many sets took place there with plenty of strong cards within them.
The selection of blue cards in Ravnica Remastered is fantastic, with powerful staples and in some cases, the first proper reprint since their original release. Blue has a lot going for it, with some of the best cards in the entire set being that color.
10Compulsive Research
Draw Power, Discard Duds
Compulsive Research is a simple card, one of many draw three cards available in blue. While the card isn’t anything special, it is very strong in limited formats as a way to get rid of dead land cards in your hand while drawing you into more action.
Compulsive Research is an easy card to cast thanks to only needing one mana of a specific color.Drawing cards is never going to be a bad thing, and if you’re playing a deck with graveyard strategies, it will help synergize with that as well.
9Copy Enchantment
An Enchanting Effect
Ways to copy permanents on the battlefield are great, and Copy Enchantment does exactly that. There are plenty of powerful enchantments that are great to double up on, allowing you to gain extra triggers and effects from them. So long as the enchantment isn’t legendary, it’s fair game to copy to have two copies on your battlefield.
Notably, Copy Enchantment can copy any enchantment on the battlefield, including your opponent’s. If they have an enchantment that is hampering you, Copy Enchantment lets you give them a taste of their own medicine by putting that same enchantment on your side of the battlefield.
8Tidespout Tyrant
Nothing Stays On The Battlefield
Tidespout Tyrant is a card that prior to Ravnica Remastered hadn’t seen a printing since 2018’s Battlebond. It’s a fantastic card as well letting you control the battlefield by bouncing permanents to the hand by simply casting spells.
While Tidespout Tyrant has a high casting cost, there are plenty of ways to cheat it out onto the battlefield without ever paying for it. Once it’s there, it becomes trivial to keep anything off of your opponents' battlefields as you can keep bouncing them for the simple cost of just playing your deck.
7Drift Of Phantasms
Trade A Wall For Value
The actual creature part of Drift Of Phantasms is pretty weak outside very specific decks. It’s just a defender with flying. That’s not what makes it good, however. Drift Of Phantasms is greatbecause of its transmute ability.
This lets you trade Drift Of Phantasms in for any card in your library with a mana value of three. Consistency is fantastic, so having a way to search out key cards directly from your library is worth paying the transmute cost at sorcery speed. It’s a common as well, allowing Pauper and Pauper Commander decks to make use of a tutor as well.
6Narcomoeba
Free Creature For Mill
Self-Mill decks need a way to pay off their strategy, and Narcomoeba is one of those ways. If it’s ever milled into the graveyard, it puts itself directly onto the battlefield. It is akey part of many Self-Mill strategiesas a way to get creatures onto the battlefield.
Although Narcomoeba is fairly weak stat-wise, it gives you a free blocker on the battlefield while you mill for the stronger win conditions. It’s more of a stall card than anything, something Self-Mill decks need since they tend to need a few turns to setup their primary combo pieces.
5Muddle The Mixture
Counter Or Tutor
Muddle The Mixture is a fantastic utility card, able touse itself as a counterspellor a tutor. It hits instants and sorceries, allowing for a wide field of spell types to be countered. It only costs two mana as well, making it easy to cast while having extra mana up for other spells.
Its transmute cost is slightly higher, but the ability to tutor for anything with a mana value of two is fantastic, as it can either train into other stronger tutors or search for whatever you need for the given gamestate.
4Persistent Petitioners
Easy Milling
Persistent Petitioners has two ways to go about using it. It will either be focused on milling out your opponent or self-milling your own deck to gain value based on cards that want to be in the graveyard or want it to be empty for an instant win.
Since Persistent Petitioners has no limits on how many copies of it you can play in a deck, it’s not uncommon for it to make up most of the deck since it plays into the strategy so well. You never want to not be seeing Persistent Petitioners in your hand in decks built around it, so you tend to run as many copies as you can.
3Spark Double
Double Your Power
Spark Double is a way to double up on any of your creatures or planeswalkers. As a bonus, you get to have two copies of a legendary creature since the copy won’t be legendary, letting you take advantage of powerful effects twice as much.
Spark Double is rather easy to cast and a frequent combo piece in many decks in multiple formats. Even outside of combos, Spark Double is a great way to get multiple copies of your best creatures onto the battlefield or work toward a planeswalker’s ultimate ability quickly.
2Bruvac The Grandiloquent
Bruvac The Miller
If youare playing a Mill deck, Bruvac The Grandiloquent is going to be in that deck. It lets you double up on all of your mill effects to make the goal of decking out your opponent that much easier. Prior to Ravnica Remasters, Bruvac’s only printing was in Jumpstart and The List, making Ravnica Remastered its first notable reprint.
You can have Bruvac The Grandiloquent hit the battlefield quite early, allowing you to take advantage of it early on in the game. It has a solid toughness as well to make Bruvac a solid blocker in combat for extra protection, something Mill decks appreciate.
1Cyclonic Rift
Bounce It All Back
Cyclonic Riftis a bane to many Commander playersand it makes its return in Ravnica Remastered. The card is incredible, and although you can cast it for two mana you are almost always going to be casting it for its overload cost instead.
Cyclonic Rift only affects your opponents, so it sets their board states back drastically while you get to keep yours. It is not uncommon for Cyclonic Rift to win you the game because it sets everyone else so far back it’s impossible to catch back up to its caster.
