Every Rarity Change In MTG’s Innistrad Remastered Set

Innistrad Remastered is an all-reprint set for Magic: The Gathering. The cards included are all ones from previous sets that took place on the plane of Innistrad (with a few minor exceptions, but those are given new Innistrad art). This lets players have access to old cards from Magic’s past and make them new.

As with all reprint sets, the reprints themselves often come with rarity shifts. The lower the rarity, the more common the card is. For the most part, this does not affect many formats. The only exception is Pauper, where only cards printed at the common rarity are legal for use in decks.

1

Abundant Maw

Uncommon To Common

Originally in Eldritch Moon, Abundant Maw was part of a card cycle that had the emerge ability. Emerge is a way to make casting large spells much easier by sacrificing a creature to discount the spell.

This was an ability mostly exclusive to the Eldrazi. The spell is decent with alright stats, but ultimately on the weaker side. The new common rarity does make it Pauper legal now, though.

2

Asylum Visitor

Rare To Uncommon

Asylum Visitor has had a couple of reprints since its original release, but the Innistrad Remastered version is the first time it’s been released at a lower rarity.

The madness cost is the same as its casting cost, so you can use it for discard fodder if you were planning to cast it anyway. It is a specific card, as you need to be playing a discard deck to make the most out of the card.

3

Bramble Wurm

Uncommon To Common

Bramble Wurm is a way to pump up your life total quickly. If both effects go off, you can gain ten life (half of your starting life total). Its high casting cost leaves it on the weaker side, but it is easy for it to get into the graveyard.

Thanks to its new Pauper legality, it slots decently into Golgari Dredge decks there.

4

Cackling Counterpart

Rare To Uncommon

Cackling Counterpart was released in the original Innistrad set, and despite multiple reprints over the years, it wasn’t until Innistrad Remastered that the rarity was altered.

It’s a great copy card with a low casting cost and has flashback to double up on your best creatures later in the game when you have a lot of extra mana to work with. Decimator Of The Provinces

Mythic To Rare

Decimator of the Provinces is a very expensive spell to cast, so the emerge cost is something you want to always be paying with it.

Its effect triggers on cast, not entering the battlefield, so even if it gets countered, all your creatures still get the stat boost and trample.

5

Ghoultree

Rare To Uncommon

Ghoultree has massive stats, and has the potential to be castable for just one green mana if your graveyard is loaded with enough creatures.

It’s slightly weakened by having no protection, but a 10/10 is something that can’t go unanswered and forces removal to be used on it.

6

Gisa And Geralf

Mythic To Rare

The iconic pair of Innistrad siblings finally have had a downshift from their original mythic printing. Gisa and Geralf is a great support card for both graveyard decks and Zombie ones, supporting both strategies (and often hybrid ones).

It’s a great Dimir commander if you’re looking to play a Zombie deck.

7

Graf Rats // Chittering Host

Common To Uncommon

Graf Rats is one of the few meld cards in Magic. Melding is easy; you just need Graf Rats and Midnight Scavengers on the battlefield to turn them into Chittering Host.

Chittering Host helps to make a big attack boost with menace to back them up to make them harder to block.

8

Hanweir Watchkeep // Bane Of Hanweir

Uncommon To Common

Hanweir Watchkeep’s Innistrad Remastered printing is actually its first since its original release in Innistrad. Unfortunately, the card is far from great. ​​​​​​​

While it is legal in Pauper now, it’s much too weak for the format. Even in dedicated Werewolf decks, it won’t do much.

9

Harvest Hand // Scrounged Scythe

Uncommon To Common

Harvest Hand // Scrounged Scythe is a weird card. It’s not necessarily bad, as it can offer a trade in combat and leave an Equipment behind.

However, the Equipment isn’t that great, and there are better cards that do what it does but with much more impact.

10

Helvault

Mythic To Rare

Helvault is a way to slowly keep your creatures safe or remove your opponents’ creatures. Unfortunately, it costs a ton of mana to exile your opponents’ creatures, and they come back even if Helvault ever gets removed.

The odds of you having seven mana open are low, and by the time you do, Helvault will just be taking up space.

11

Huntmaster Of The Fells // Ravager Of The Fells

Mythic To Rare

Huntmaster of the Fells // Ravager of the Fells is one of the best Werewolf cards out there. It brings along a 2/2 Wolf token whenever it enters or transforms and deals combat damage when it becomes a Werewolf.

It’s a card you want transforming often, which, in dedicated Werewolf decks, is easily accomplished.

12

Imprisoned In The Moon

Uncommon To Common

Imprisoned in the Moon was downshifted from rare to uncommon in the set before Innistrad Remastered (Foundations) and reached all the way down to common now. The card turns any creature, land, or planeswalker into a colorless land with no abilities. ​​​​​​​

It’s a way to permanently get rid of a creature. In Commander, it will make the commander unable to return to the command zone as it never left the battlefield, meaning Imprisoned in the Moon has to be removed to return the commander to normal.

13

Invasion Of Innistrad // Deluge Of The Dead

Mythic To Rare

The card with the shortest gap between its release and Innistrad Remastered, Invasion of Innistrad is a way to massively lower the stats of a creature.

Once it flips into Deluge of the Dead, you can make a ton of 2/2 Zombie tokens, so long as there are creatures to banish from the graveyard.

14

Killing Wave

Rare To Uncommon

Killing Wave has the potential to deal a ton of burn damage. If you pay a high amount for X and your opponent(s) has a ton of creatures, they’ll have to pay a lot of life if they want them to stick around.

In dedicated sacrifice decks, this will hurt your opponents far more than you and can lead to potentially explosive turns.

15

Mist Raven

Common To Uncommon

Mist Raven is one of the few Innistrad Remastered cards that received an upshift rather than a downshift.

While Mist Raven is far from a great card, it is a decent Limited card, hence the heightened rarity to make it have lower prominence in Draft and Sealed for Innistrad Remastered.

16

Seize The Storm

Uncommon To Common

Seize the Storm is a decent card that can leave behind a powerful token in dedicated spellslinger decks. It also pairs with cards with flashback, letting you not have to keep those in the graveyard while having flashback itself.

While not the most powerful card, there are potential builds with it in niche Pauper decks with its new Pauper legality.

17

Splinterfright

Rare To Uncommon

Splinterfright is a card that finds a home in mill decks that want as many creatures in the graveyard as possible. ​​​​​​​

Milling two cards every turn is great, and it makes Splinterfright more powerful, something not to be unvalued thanks to also having trample.

18

Summary Dismissal

Rare To Uncommon

Summary Dismissal has the potential to get rid of a bunch of cards on the stack. It’ll exile all other spells on the stack and counter any abilities.

When a spell is exiled, it won’t resolve, making Summary Dismissal essentially a mass counterspell, perfect for shutting off potential large combo turns.

19

Through The Breach

Rare To Mythic

Through the Breach is one of the best cards in Innistrad Remastered. Though originally released in Champions of Kamigawa, Innistrad-inspired art was used in Ultimate Masters, which was re-reused for Innistrad Remastered.

Upshifted to mythic as in Limited formats, Through the Breach is a game-winning effect with the right creatures (especially in a format with Eldrazi).

20

Tower Geist

Uncommon To Common

Tower Geist is a way to dig through your deck slightly, setting up your graveyard and getting a card into your hand.

This helps to get rid of dead draws as well and get more action into your hand. It is a bit too costly for its effect, so it’ll be unlikely to make any Pauper splashes.