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Inventors and energy
What this set is
Kaladesh is Chandra's home plane, a city of inventors powered by aether. The set is full of artifacts, and its mechanics are about building: fabricate makes either counters or Servo tokens, crew lets your creatures operate Vehicles, and energy is a resource you store and spend.
Energy counters ({E}) are a player counter you get from some effects and pay for others. Vehicles are artifacts that become creatures when you crew them, tapping creatures with enough total power. Both mechanics have come back several times.
Kaladesh Inventions (MPS), premium artifact reprints, appeared as a rare bonus in packs. For Commander, Panharmonicon, Aetherflux Reservoir, Inventors' Fair and the fastlands like Concealed Courtyard are from here.
Themes
Every mechanic in Kaladesh
Energy
A player counter, {E}. Some effects give you energy and others let you pay it. Unlike mana, it stays until you spend it.
Vehicles and crew
A Vehicle is an artifact that becomes an artifact creature until end of turn when you crew it: tap creatures you control with total power at least the crew number.
Fabricate
When the creature enters, choose: put that many +1/+1 counters on it, or create that many 1/1 Servo artifact creature tokens.
Where You Can Play It
Format legality
Kaladesh is Pioneer-legal. The Inventions inside its packs follow each card's own legality.
Inventions are reprints of existing artifacts, so each is legal wherever that card already was.
Not Standard-legal. Standard only ever holds the last few years of sets, so everything this old has long since left it. These cards are still playable in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander. Commons from any set are Pauper-legal; that isn't listed per set here.
Limited
The draft format
Drafted as three packs of Kaladesh. Artifacts, energy and Vehicles cut across the color pairs.
Artifacts
Synergy
Artifact count payoffs and Thopters.
Energy
Midrange
Gain and spend energy for bigger effects.
Vehicles
Aggro
Small creatures crew efficient Vehicles.
Commanders
The most played commanders from Kaladesh
The legends this set is best known for. Tap one for its printings and what it costs.
Boosters, precons and singles from Kaladesh are on TCGplayer.
FAQ
Common questions
What set introduced Vehicles?
Kaladesh, in September 2016. A Vehicle becomes a creature when you crew it by tapping creatures with enough total power.
What set introduced energy counters?
Kaladesh. Energy returned later, including in Modern Horizons 3.
What are Kaladesh Inventions?
Premium reprints of artifacts, found as a rare bonus in Kaladesh and Aether Revolt packs. Each keeps the legality of the original card.
All card names, art, and mechanics belong to Wizards of the Coast. Kaladesh released on Sep 30, 2016; details reflect the set as published. Sources: Wizards of the Coast set pages and release notes, Draftsim, Untapped.gg.
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