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Rivals of Ixalan Limited Quiz
Answered: 0/20
Accuracy: 0
Accuracy: 0
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 1
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has a neat design, but its also an overly quirky card that is tough to make work consistently. Your deck is going to have creatures who don’t have those keyword abilities, but if you’re playing this, you really need to hope that your deck doesn’t have too many of those that are X/1s, or this can be a real problem. It is nice that it can trigger Enrage – but the flip side is that it can do it for your opponent too! If you can transform this it turns into a pretty incredible land, since it lets you Shock your opponent and steal creatures that have attacked you. However, the mediocre initial effect it gives you and the requirement to transform it are pretty big downsides.
Pro Comment: This has a neat design, but its also an overly quirky card that is tough to make work consistently. Your deck is going to have creatures who don’t have those keyword abilities, but if you’re playing this, you really need to hope that your deck doesn’t have too many of those that are X/1s, or this can be a real problem. It is nice that it can trigger Enrage – but the flip side is that it can do it for your opponent too! If you can transform this it turns into a pretty incredible land, since it lets you Shock your opponent and steal creatures that have attacked you. However, the mediocre initial effect it gives you and the requirement to transform it are pretty big downsides.
Average Picked At: 3.75
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 3.74
Total Times Seen 40
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 3.74
Total Times Seen 40
Average Picked At: 4.60
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 5.36
Total Times Seen 25
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 5.36
Total Times Seen 25
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Without the city’s blessing, this card gets you some tempo at the cost of a card. That’s fine, but that type of card is usually a 1.5 or a 2.0. The upside of the Blessing is no joke though, because this basically becomes a Blue Doom Blade at that point. And yeah, they are going to redraw what you bounce, but you’re still removing a creature and trading 1-for-1 for only two mana! If it always put the creature on top, it would probably be a 3.5. The City’s Blessing is something that can be obtained, but the fact this will only be great in the mid-to-late game definitely hurts it a little bit.
Pro Comment: Without the city’s blessing, this card gets you some tempo at the cost of a card. That’s fine, but that type of card is usually a 1.5 or a 2.0. The upside of the Blessing is no joke though, because this basically becomes a Blue Doom Blade at that point. And yeah, they are going to redraw what you bounce, but you’re still removing a creature and trading 1-for-1 for only two mana! If it always put the creature on top, it would probably be a 3.5. The City’s Blessing is something that can be obtained, but the fact this will only be great in the mid-to-late game definitely hurts it a little bit.
Average Picked At: 1.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.29
Total Times Seen 7
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.29
Total Times Seen 7
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: The Enrage trigger here is very powerful, as it effectively lets you kill an opposing creature. This is a rough card to have to attack through, and a rough card to be attacked by, since you know that trading with it is a disaster, and even without a trade it can probably destroy your best creature. It gets especially nasty if you find ways to trigger Enrage in other ways, like with the Dinosaur Forerunner.
Pro Comment: The Enrage trigger here is very powerful, as it effectively lets you kill an opposing creature. This is a rough card to have to attack through, and a rough card to be attacked by, since you know that trading with it is a disaster, and even without a trade it can probably destroy your best creature. It gets especially nasty if you find ways to trigger Enrage in other ways, like with the Dinosaur Forerunner.
Average Picked At: 6.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 4.10
Total Times Seen 18
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 4.10
Total Times Seen 18
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: At worst this is a Bear with a useful creature type, and in the late game it becomes quite the formidable attacker, especially if you have other ways of buffing it.
Pro Comment: At worst this is a Bear with a useful creature type, and in the late game it becomes quite the formidable attacker, especially if you have other ways of buffing it.
Average Picked At: 7.04
Total Times Picked: 23
Average Last Seen At: 7.89
Total Times Seen 72
Total Times Picked: 23
Average Last Seen At: 7.89
Total Times Seen 72
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is a nice removal spell, as the +1/+1 counter will enable many creatures to take down an opposing one in a fight. You do need to be very careful about when you cast it, since if your opponent has removal and they use it in response, you probably just lost the game. But if you pick your spot wisely, this has a big impact in your favor.
Pro Comment: This is a nice removal spell, as the +1/+1 counter will enable many creatures to take down an opposing one in a fight. You do need to be very careful about when you cast it, since if your opponent has removal and they use it in response, you probably just lost the game. But if you pick your spot wisely, this has a big impact in your favor.
Average Picked At: 3.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.25
Total Times Seen 4
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.25
Total Times Seen 4
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 4.25
Total Times Seen 5
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 4.25
Total Times Seen 5
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: Tutor effects are almost never worth it in Limited, and that’s especially true on one that costs 4!
Pro Comment: Tutor effects are almost never worth it in Limited, and that’s especially true on one that costs 4!
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 2
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: If you cast Zetalpa, you’re probably going to win. Problem is, getting that 8 mana is far from a cake walk in this format, even if you’ve got some ramp going on.
Pro Comment: If you cast Zetalpa, you’re probably going to win. Problem is, getting that 8 mana is far from a cake walk in this format, even if you’ve got some ramp going on.
Average Picked At: 9.45
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 9.05
Total Times Seen 83
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 9.05
Total Times Seen 83
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad ahead of the City’s Blessing, but pretty nice after it.
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad ahead of the City’s Blessing, but pretty nice after it.
Average Picked At: 4.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 5.40
Total Times Seen 18
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 5.40
Total Times Seen 18
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad in the early game, as it is just a Gray Ogre. However, once you have the Blessing, it turns into a nightmare for your opponent. Not only can they not block it, but it has hexproof! So it represents some very real inevitability.
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad in the early game, as it is just a Gray Ogre. However, once you have the Blessing, it turns into a nightmare for your opponent. Not only can they not block it, but it has hexproof! So it represents some very real inevitability.
Average Picked At: 9.50
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 9.14
Total Times Seen 34
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 9.14
Total Times Seen 34
Pro Rating: 0.5 // 2.5
Pro Comment: This is mostly a sideboard card to bring in against decks with lots of X/1s. However, if you end up with 4+ creatures with Enrage, and very few of your own X/1s, you can definitely main board this and feel alright about it.
Pro Comment: This is mostly a sideboard card to bring in against decks with lots of X/1s. However, if you end up with 4+ creatures with Enrage, and very few of your own X/1s, you can definitely main board this and feel alright about it.
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 7
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 7
Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This is mostly just a 4-mana 2/2 with Flash. Even with a useful creature type, that’s not near good enough. It does have some uses, as tokens are around in the format, but the situations where you can actually utilize the Cutpurse to steal a token are few and far between. It could be worth siding in in a situation where your opponent has a ton of tokens, but that’s about it.
Pro Comment: This is mostly just a 4-mana 2/2 with Flash. Even with a useful creature type, that’s not near good enough. It does have some uses, as tokens are around in the format, but the situations where you can actually utilize the Cutpurse to steal a token are few and far between. It could be worth siding in in a situation where your opponent has a ton of tokens, but that’s about it.
Average Picked At: 11.58
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 10.57
Total Times Seen 116
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 10.57
Total Times Seen 116
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This has almost passable stats and a useful creature type. You’ll play it some of the time.
Pro Comment: This has almost passable stats and a useful creature type. You’ll play it some of the time.
Average Picked At: 8.00
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 9.75
Total Times Seen 83
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 9.75
Total Times Seen 83
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This ends up a 3-mana 3/3 often enough that its decent, though it does feel bad when it comes down as a Gray Ogre.
Pro Comment: This ends up a 3-mana 3/3 often enough that its decent, though it does feel bad when it comes down as a Gray Ogre.
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 4.50
Total Times Seen 2
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 4.50
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is mostly just an Artifact that lets you loot in Limited – and it isn’t even the best kind of looting, since you have to exile what you discard. That’s a passable thing if you’re desperate for a playable, but don’t expect to transform this consistently. Funnily enough, even if you do manage to transform it, you don’t get a whole lot out of the land side, since you just won’t have anything to spend that mana on.
Pro Comment: This is mostly just an Artifact that lets you loot in Limited – and it isn’t even the best kind of looting, since you have to exile what you discard. That’s a passable thing if you’re desperate for a playable, but don’t expect to transform this consistently. Funnily enough, even if you do manage to transform it, you don’t get a whole lot out of the land side, since you just won’t have anything to spend that mana on.
Average Picked At: 9.55
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 10.80
Total Times Seen 117
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 10.80
Total Times Seen 117
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: If you’re in a Merfolk deck, but short on cheap Merfolk, this can do the job, but for the most part you hope you get all the better Merfolk in the set!
Pro Comment: If you’re in a Merfolk deck, but short on cheap Merfolk, this can do the job, but for the most part you hope you get all the better Merfolk in the set!
Average Picked At: 5.00
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 2
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Because this is a 2/2, it isn’t that easy to really abuse this card, since 2 damage will just kill it. Now, if you do find a way to do 1 damage to it to upgrade it to a 3/3, it certainly becomes more of a problem, and that’s certainly doable – but this frequently just feels like a Bear.
Pro Comment: Because this is a 2/2, it isn’t that easy to really abuse this card, since 2 damage will just kill it. Now, if you do find a way to do 1 damage to it to upgrade it to a 3/3, it certainly becomes more of a problem, and that’s certainly doable – but this frequently just feels like a Bear.
Average Picked At: 8.38
Total Times Picked: 13
Average Last Seen At: 8.60
Total Times Seen 81
Total Times Picked: 13
Average Last Seen At: 8.60
Total Times Seen 81
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is an excellent two drop that is unblockable on a surprising number of board states, and it is also a great place to put +1/+1 counters, which the Merfolk deck is great at.
Pro Comment: This is an excellent two drop that is unblockable on a surprising number of board states, and it is also a great place to put +1/+1 counters, which the Merfolk deck is great at.
Average Picked At: 1.00
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 2
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: If you put this on one of your creatures, your opponent gets put in a pretty nasty bind. They won’t really be able to attack into or block that creature, otherwise you end up getting it back – and you get a land that can reanimate your creatures! This card is held in check a little bit, because you don’t often have that much control over your creature dying, and your opponent can simply make choices that don’t let this transform into a powerful land. It happens more often than you’d think that your opponent can still keep you under pressure without giving you this land with enough time to actually use it. Its still a powerful card, but don’t expect it to transform easily.
Pro Comment: If you put this on one of your creatures, your opponent gets put in a pretty nasty bind. They won’t really be able to attack into or block that creature, otherwise you end up getting it back – and you get a land that can reanimate your creatures! This card is held in check a little bit, because you don’t often have that much control over your creature dying, and your opponent can simply make choices that don’t let this transform into a powerful land. It happens more often than you’d think that your opponent can still keep you under pressure without giving you this land with enough time to actually use it. Its still a powerful card, but don’t expect it to transform easily.
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