Ravnica Remastered is the third in the series of remastered sets inMagic: The Gathering, reprinting classic cards from across Ravnica’s history. Since Ravnica is one of the oldest planes with a ton of different sets on it, there are plenty of powerful cards seeing reprints in Ravnica Remastered, and in some cases their first ever.
The colorless cards of Ravnica Remastered are all excellent, having a variety of utility and power for multiple strategies. Most of them are artifacts, and thanks to being colorless, any deck can play them.
10Signets
A Commander Classic
The Signets are acycle of two-mana artifactsthat can be tapped for one mana to produce two mana of specific colors. They are all named after the ten guilds of Ravnica, tapping for the two colors each plane uses.
Signets are essentially an extra land, letting you turn the tapping of one land into two mana. Since the effect of a Signet is colorless, any mana-producing land or artifact can be used to pay for the Signet’s cost. Although they are too slow for most constructed formats, they are staples of the Commander format.
9Seal Of The Guildpact
Discount Multicolored Spells
Seal Of The Guildpact is a way to discount your colored spells. It’s best in multi-colored decks as it will discount the spell by two mana, assuming the spell has the two colors you named in its casting cost.
While Seal Of The Guildpact does little in mono-colored decks, Seal Of The Guidpact is worth a look if you’re playing a deck withtwo or more colorsincluded. Ravnica Remastered marks the first reprint of the card ever, having only been printed in Commander 2015 before its Ravnica Remastered printing.
8Sword Of The Paruns
Easy Combo Piece
If a card can tap or untap a creature, odds are it is going to be a part of some combo to go infinite. If you may tap a creature for more than three mana, Sword Of The Paruns attached to it will alwaysgenerate infinite manaat instant speed as you can keep untapping and tapping it for mana to use for Sword Of The Paruns' untap effect.
Outside of combos, Sword Of The Paruns stat-boosting effects aren’t too shabby either. It’ll either give your attacking creatures that tap a power boost or your untapped creatures a boost to toughness to make them stronger blockers.
7Pariah’s Shield
Save Yourself From Damage
Pariah’s Shield is a way to ensure you are never taking damage. Since it puts all damage onto an equipped creature instead of you, if you equip Pariah’s Shield to a creature with indestructible then that won’t be killed through damage either, keeping you safe so long as Pariah’s Shield is attached to something.
When you mix it with Arcbond, a card that will do damage to all players when damage is dealt to a creature, you can generate infinite damage to everyone but you for a quick victory, so long as the equipped creature is indestructible.
6Magewright’s Stone
Re-use Your Best Effects
Magewright’s Stone is a simple effect that lets you untapa creature with a tap abilityfor one mana. While this seems fine, when you combine it with creatures with powerful tap effects, it doubles all of your powerful effects.
Magewright’s Stone in a vacuum is just an okay card, but when combined with other tap effects it can become incredibly strong. It is both cheap to cast and its ability is easy to use, allowing you to take advantage of Magewright’s Stone right away.
Ravnica Remastered is the first meaningful reprint of the card, with its only easily accessible printing being its original release in 2006’s Dissension.
5Illusionist’s Bracers
Double Your Abilities
Copying abilities is always going to be strong, and Illusionist’s Bracers is one of the many ways to do just that. While it doesn’t copy mana abilities, there are so many powerful effects you’d want to trigger twice this restriction will hardly matter.
Although it has a high equip cost, once it’s attached to a creature doubling its abilities can be game-winning. When you combine it with other cards that can also copy abilities, this can get out of hand very quickly so that your best effects are taking over the game.
4Chromatic Lantern
Make Your Lands Colorful
Generally speaking, mana rocks that cost three mana need something extra to be worth running. If you’re in a deck playing three or more colors, Chromatic Lantern is the perfect addition to your deck.
It turns your lands into ones that can produce any color of mana, letting you always have access to the colors you need in order to play your deck and cast all your spells. Chromatic Lantern can also tap itself for mana, giving you a strong passive and activated ability.
Though it’s not too useful in decks running one or two colors, it becomes betterthe more colors you add to your deck.
3Pithing Needle
Shut Down Abilities
Pithing Needle is a staple across every format it is legal in due to how strong it is. It shuts down any activated abilities of a card you name. When you know what deck your opponent is playing, you can shut down their key cards to severely hamper their strategy.
Pithing Needle only costs one mana, letting you get it down on the battlefield as early as the first turn so your opponent never has a chance to use the card you named. Since Pithing Needle is a colorless card, any deck can take advantage of it and it’s a staple in many sideboards.
2Cloudstone Curio
Bounce And Recast
Cloudstone Curio is a staple of the Commander format, bouncing cards when a nonartifact enters the battlefield to getinfinite enter-the-battlefield triggers. The effect is optional as well, so if you don’t have any combos to create with Cloudstone Curio’s effect you can opt to not use it.
Cloudstone Curio had a few reprints prior to Ravnica Remastered, but this is the first one that’s easily accessible since 2005’s Ravnica: City Of Guilds. It’s a staple of competitive Commander and the cornerstone of many infinite combos with Dockside Extortionist and Aluren.
1Karn, The Great Creator
Sideboard Game 1
Karn, The Great Creator is one of the best planeswalkers ever printed. The card is so powerful it’s banned in Pioneer and restricted in Vintage. It shuts down all of your opponent’s artifacts, and there are ways to turn all of your opponent’s permanents into artifacts so none of their abilities can be used.
The other attraction to Karn is its ability to get an artifact card out of the sideboard. This lets you bring in any artifact you might need for any given gamestate, and in some cases fully counter your opponent’s deck and shut it down.
