Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: The effect this has on the front side does tend to have diminishing returns the longer the game goes on, as the extra tax matters less and less. Furthermore, it ultimately doesn’t even give you a 1-for-1 trade, since your opponent likely gets the spell back later Still, in the early game this can really derail your opponent and in an indirect sort of way this can allow you transform this a little more easily – but I think that’s a little too indirect. This does only have 3 defense, and once transformed it is pretty insane, allowing your board to get massive in a hurry. I think the low defense and the power of this once transformed do enough to balance the card out so that it’s actually pretty good.

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This 4-mana 4/4 comes with substantial upside! Giving your board vigilance and the ability to tap for mana is pretty awesome, and you’re also going to be able to draw cards with it sometimes.

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: Three mana to do 5 to a creature, planeswalker or battle is already easily premium removal, and the extra upside here is amazing. Sometimes its a bummer to use a 5 damage spell on something with lower toughness, but this makes sure you get back some big value. Even if you only reveal one card, its going to feel pretty good! Now, unlike a lot of these effects we’ve seen lately this one does require you to play that card before the end of your current turn – so you have a fairly narrow window, so sometimes you may reveal something that you can’t cast with the mana you have left. However, you can play lands off of it, which is nice – and if you do more than one excess damage you get card selection that can allow you to reveal something you can play.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Triple Green can be a bit challenging in Limited, but if you can cast this, it gives you a ton of value, either making your creatures far better or helping you rip through your library. It is true that it doesn’t add to the board immediately, but it is cheap enough and has enough upside that I think it is worth the downside. If this were 2 generic and a Green, I think I would have a hard time not giving it at least a 4.5 – but we do have to factor in the challenge presented by the mana value, especially because you want to get a card like this down pretty early to take full advantage, and outside of mono-Green that’s going to be a challenge.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: A two mana 1/1 with deathtouch is a little bit below rate, but it does trade for anything, and the creature this can become late is a big problem for your opponent.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: You can look at this as a 6-mana 0/1 that makes a 5/5. That’s an acceptable rate, and this has the usual upside Incubator tokens have – you have the option of paying for it in installments. The downside here is the times where you can’t get that 5/5 really quickly, you’re playing a 0/1 for a 4 which will feel like you are barely adding to the board.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is going to do an incredible job of restocking your hand in the later stages of the game, and it has relatively low defense. The bad news is you don’t really want to cast this in situations where you aren’t getting the full value out of your graveyard, and that certainly isn’t guaranteed. Additionally, even with the fact you returned permanents to your hand, once this is Leyline Surge it isn’t really that impressive in your typical game of Limited. We’ve seen that countless times with this sort of effect, it just underperforms because the average power level of your permanents isn’t usually that high. Still, the Battle side is the kind of thing that helps you win a longer game.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Hitting creatures and battles means you can hit most nonlands in your opponent’s deck, and if you wiff you sort of end up with a Hill Giant. While that’s not awesome, the main problem with discard spells is how weak they are when you get them late or you wiff, and the consolation prize is enough here for this to be a 1.5. Basically you get the upside discard spells offer with very minimal downside.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is a very nice Knight lord, and at two mana it will often do a nice job of immediately upgrading your board. The tap effect is a nice thing to have around too, especially when it only costs two mana.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: In most formats, this is something that should stay in your sideboard, because there just aren’t enough targets. This format does have a new non-creature card type in Battle, and I think that’s enough for this to be a little more playable, though it is probably still better as a sideboard card.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: 5 mana to do 3 to anything and gain 3 is already playable, so like most of the Battles this has a decent enough baseline. Keep in mind this can even hit other battles! If you transform this, you end up a fairly imposing creature, though on some boards she won’t exactly feel insane.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Trading this off and draining 2 life from your opponent is going to feel like a good deal all the time, and it isn’t terrible sacrifice fodder either.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This type of creature is always nice in an aggro deck, since getting blockers out of the way really changes how well you can attack. So, this is either a 4-mana 3/3 with this ability, or a 4-mana 2/2 that puts a counter on something else and gives it that ability right away.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is a nice upgrade on Anticipate, since now you get to put something in your graveyard. It still isn’t amazing, but if you’re a deck interested in spells or the graveyard, it will be something you play

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Life drain does a great job of helping you stay alive while also pressuring your opponent, and it even has passable stats.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: These always enter tapped, but producing two different colors and gaining a life is always nice value. If you’re in their two colors or trying to splash something, you’re going to be happy playing these.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: A 5-mana 5/4 Reach is probably a 2.0 at best, but this activated ability means business. Using it to hurt javelins at your opponent’s dome can be a very real threat, and the fact thise can allow you to defeat battles without having to attack – and it can defeat them at instant speed – is great.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: You can sort of look at this as a 4-mana 3/3 with this Surveil effect. Obviously, it is better than that, because you can pay in installments and the Surveil effect sticks around even if the creature goes down

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: Just the frontside is a really strong card. Giving up creatures or artifacts to drain the opponent’s life is a great way to close out a game. There will be situations where you can’t take full advantage of that ability, but the baseline is still a three mana 3/3 – and the card still has some other upside! If you’re in a spot where the ability on the front isn’t doing anything, you can simply transform Ayara, and she can help you do some damage by bringing back creatures or artifacts.