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Murders at Karlov Manor Limited Quiz

Answered: 0/20
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Person of Interest
Average Picked At: 5.77
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 5.46
Total Times Seen 173
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: 4-mana for a 2/2 and a 2/2 Menace that can’t block is a pretty amazing rate. Not much more to say there, but this is a really good Common.
Sample Collector
Average Picked At: 6.33
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 4.69
Total Times Seen 80
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This can be put the counter on itself, and it attacking as a ¾ on turn four doesn’t seem impossible but…it’s also not incredible. The ability to put the counter elsewhere does give you some nice flexibility, but the base stat-line here is mediocre and that’s kind of a problem for a creature that has to attack to be something more than a vanilla creature. Especially because you also need to set this up a bit.
Culvert Ambusher
Average Picked At: 6.75
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 5.59
Total Times Seen 80
Pro Rating: 2
Pro Comment: This kind of effect doesn’t always play well. There just aren’t always situations where it matters. Still, when it does matter, it feels a bit like situational removal, and it’s stapled to a creature with okayish stats, not to mention Disguise upside.
Forensic Gadgeteer
Average Picked At: 3.00
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.62
Total Times Seen 11
Pro Rating: 2.0 // 4.0
Pro Comment: This is purpose-built for the Blue/Red deck for the most part, as it’s the deck most interested in artifacts. It won’t be terrible in decks that mostly only have clues as artifacts, since you can start popping them for one mana, but the Artifact deck is where this will really be an engine.
Projektor Inspector
Average Picked At: 6.14
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 5.43
Total Times Seen 178
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: A three mana 3/2 that loots on ETB is decent, and looting with this more than once isn’t impossible.
Agency Coroner
Average Picked At: 12.00
Total Times Picked: 32
Average Last Seen At: 9.66
Total Times Seen 350
Pro Rating: 2
Pro Comment: This is a lot of mana for the usual sacrifice a creature draw a card effect, but the fact you’ll sometimes draw two helps soften that blow.
Leyline of the Guildpact
Average Picked At: 7.67
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 5.37
Total Times Seen 41
Pro Rating: 0
Pro Comment: This effect isn’t worth a card in Limited, we’ve seen that with cards like Prismatic Omen – even if you put this into play for free, more often than not it’s going to feel like you’re mulliganing because the value it delivers is so minimal.
Suspicious Detonation
Average Picked At: 9.84
Total Times Picked: 25
Average Last Seen At: 7.58
Total Times Seen 255
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: If this was always 5 mana, it’d probably be a 1.5. That’s a really clunky Sorcery that usually can’t trade up. But, this will cost two fairly often in Red decks. Sacrificing a Clue is all you need to be able to do, and as we’ve seen there are otherwise to sacrifice artifacts too. It can also go after Disguised creatures since it can’t be countered.
Shadowy Backstreet
Average Picked At: 4.57
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 3.77
Total Times Seen 24
Incinerator of the Guilty
Average Picked At: 1.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 1.20
Total Times Seen 6
Pro Rating: 5
Pro Comment: If this hits your opponent, it's game over for them. That's definitely a bomb.
Slime Against Humanity
Average Picked At: 11.60
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 9.33
Total Times Seen 330
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0
Pro Comment: You need at least three of these before they are worth playing, and 4 is better.
Surveillance Monitor
Average Picked At: 5.33
Total Times Picked: 18
Average Last Seen At: 3.70
Total Times Seen 62
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: If this was just straight up a 4-mana 3/3 that made a 1/1 Flyer, it’d be a 4.0. That’s just a great rate and a card you’d take very highly. This won’t always do it up front, but it’ll do it pretty often – and then it’s likely to crank out a few more Thopters if it’s left alone.
Crowd-Control Warden
Average Picked At: 7.03
Total Times Picked: 39
Average Last Seen At: 6.01
Total Times Seen 227
Pro Rating: 3
Pro Comment: It’ll be at least a 5/5 in most cases, and other times it will be absolutely massive! The whole Disguise thing is a big deal too, when the creature has the potential of being this big.
Magnifying Glass
Average Picked At: 11.92
Total Times Picked: 25
Average Last Seen At: 9.03
Total Times Seen 338
Pro Rating: 1
Pro Comment: This is a bad mana rock that is way too slow at making Clues.
Dramatic Accusation
Average Picked At: 8.96
Total Times Picked: 27
Average Last Seen At: 6.93
Total Times Seen 243
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Three mana Blue Auras that tap a creature down usually aren’t anything special. The problem is that they don’t entirely remove the creature in all situations, so abilities are still relevant, and if your opponent has a way to sacrifice or otherwise utilize the tapped down creature you end up feeling like you’re really far behind. The Accusation’s activated ability adds an interesting wrinkle to this, since now you can get rid of the creature if it has problematic abilities and everything. The downside is your opponent might draw it again later.
Lazav, Wearer of Faces
Average Picked At: 2.30
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 2.38
Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Hating on the graveyard certainly has value in this format, as does getting some Clues. There are also going to be times where Lazav can become a pretty insane creature, and if you attack and leave mana up to crack that clue, your opponent is going to be in a miserable situation, provided you exiled a creature. Even without that creature-copying effect, we’re talking about a reasonably efficient creature that has some nice abilities.
Mistway Spy
Average Picked At: 7.33
Total Times Picked: 15
Average Last Seen At: 6.04
Total Times Seen 96
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Playing this on turn one is pretty acceptable, because it has evasion and a useful creature type – but the Disguise ability here is pretty impressive too. It counts every creature that hits your opponent, so you can get more than one clue. Obviously enough, because the Spy has evasion itself, you can turn it face up, crack in with it and get that Clue, which seems like a pretty normal play pattern.
Reasonable Doubt
Average Picked At: 9.35
Total Times Picked: 37
Average Last Seen At: 7.71
Total Times Seen 294
Pro Rating: 2
Pro Comment: This can hit any type of spell, but your opponent can also ignore it with spare mana. As usual, that type of card is never amazing, although it can feel pretty nice in the early game.
Kylox, Visionary Inventor
Average Picked At: 11.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 6.00
Total Times Seen 34
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This asks way too much of you for a 7-mana card. You have to go behind on board in order to roll the dice and hope you get to cast some spells is a pretty bad idea. Menace, Ward, and Haste do mean you'll get this trigger pretty much every time you play Kylox, and there might be some decks that can get there without, but I don't think most will.
Essence of Antiquity
Average Picked At: 9.70
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 6.42
Total Times Seen 96
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: A 5-mana 1/10 is…kind of okay. It can block for days, although the lower power will make it unable to kill stuff all that often. The Disguise part is pretty sweet here, though. You’re usually going to play this face down and have it lie in wait as a 2/2, up until you reach a point where transforming it is advantageous. This will most frequently be when you can use it to blank a removal spell, but turning it into a 1/10 can be valuable all on its own, and untapping your whole board can have benefits too.
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