Kaladesh: Trading by understanding its theme

Usually I write detail things after the full spoiler's out.

To make it short:

Theme 1 Vehicles

Buy Lupine Prototype

It turns on all the vehicles spoiled so far.

Theme 2 Enemy color "fast" lands

Buy all enemy color cards:
Grim Flayer

There 's no evidence yet they will be great, but they are safe.

Theme 3 Equipment

Check the story, I guess some great equipment will be in it.

Theme 4 Chandra and Tokens

Buy OGW Chandra
Chandra, Flamecaller

The hype of new Chandra will cause people to sell the OGW Chandra.
But the OGW one is a better sweeper on the tokens from Kaladesh than the new Chandra.

Theme 5 Blue based control decks

Torrential Gearhulk
Eventually, they have a new Snapcaster Mage join the Standard meta.
I remember the last time Snapcaster was in Standard yeas ago, UB control swept the meta.
This time I think Esper or UB is a likely winner in the early stage of Kaladesh Standard, as:
1. Too many creature decks around.
2. Liliana's abilities fit very well with gearhulk for creating a recurring loop for UB control.

Buy Emrukal and Liliana, the Last Hope.

Bonus:
I read about the block after Kaladesh has Egyptian backdrop. One of the theme in Egyptian myths is life, after life and reanimation.
So, I think my readers can throw around 20 - 50 tix to buy Nahiri's Wrath, which works quite well with reanimation abilities.

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