Overview

Each of the five Alaran shards has a theme (unrelated to the actual Alara block). Each colour combination within that shard expressing the theme in different but overlapping ways.

Discussion thread: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/shards-of-something-or-other.3600/

Themes Bant - Enchantments

• Constellation
• Sagas
• Aggressive Auras

Esper - EtB/Blink

• Traditional Blink
• Ninjitsu
• Value Reanimation

Grixis - Looting

• Cycling/Discard
• Madness
• "Second Draw"
• Instants/Sorceries in GY

Jund - Sacrifice

• Creature Sacrifice
• Morbid/On-death triggers
• Auto-recursion

Naya - Lands

• Landfall
• Lands in Graveyard

Structure

• 52 per colour
• 40 non-basic lands
• 30 Artifacts/colourless
• 30 Gold cards (2 per theme)