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Ixalan Limited Quiz

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Vraska's Contempt
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a great removal spell. Obviously you’ll mostly be taking down creatures with it, and exiling them entirely is definitely nice, as is two life. You get a great deal for the mana investment here
Bellowing Aegisaur
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is worse than it looks. It definitely comes with a powerful Enrage ability that can pump the entire board, but the card overall is pretty clunky for an aggressive format. It certainly isn’t bad but it isn’t the power house it would be in a lot of formats either.
Shapers of Nature
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: You don’t always have time to use mana sink abilities in this format, but this has nice base stats and can do some wacky stuff with +1/+1 counters in the late game, so its pretty good.
Spell Pierce
Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This is a sideboard card like it usually is. Your opponent won’t have enough spells to make this worth it, especially because you need things to line up just right! You have to have your single Blue mana up, your opponent has to play a noncreature spell, and they have to be unable to pay the two mana
Ruthless Knave
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is a really nice treasure payoff, but turning three of them into a card is no joke. You won’t always have the time to use the other ability, but when you can it is obviously fuel the card draw
Trove of Temptation
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: A 4-mana Enchantment without any real effect on the board is a liability in this format, and the effects this gives you don’t really pay you off for it.
Mark of the Vampire
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: +2/+2 and Lifelink is the kind of boost that can alter a game, but it carries massive risk since it costs a significant amount of mana and its still an Aura, which means 2-for-1s are a real possibility
Sleek Schooner
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is a nice little Vehicle that gives you nice stats for the cost and it is very easy to crew
Makeshift Munitions
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This is hard to build around in this format. You can sometimes get enough ways to make treasure, and enough fodder creatures to make it worth it, but it doesn’t come together very often
Demolish
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This only deals with Artifacts very inefficiently, and the flexibility to hit lands doesn’t mean much. This is sort of a sideboard card I guess, but you basically never side it in
Dual Shot
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This format has a ton of X/1s, so this is actually something you can play in your main deck without feeling terrible. It is probably still better to start in your sideboard, but if you’re in need of one more playable card, it can do it.
Ashes of the Abhorrent
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: There’s not enough graveyard stuff going on in this format for this to be a real sideboard card, and the life gain effect alone isn’t worth it.
Jungle Delver
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is obviously pretty nice as a Merfolk payoff, since it can buff a merfolk permanently – including itself, and it also gets a ton of value out of Hexproof. There are lots of ways to Buff merfolk, and if you do it on the Guardian, you know your opponent has very little chance of dealing with it. It gets particularly spicy if you have Auras and stuff to put on it, as it gets you around the normal downside that kind of spell has
Entrancing Melody
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: Stealing an opposing creature is one of the most powerful things you can do in Limited Magic, because you effectively remove your opponent’s creature while adding something to your own board. You do have to pay a lot of mana to steal some stuff, but paying 6 to take a 4-drop, for example, is absolutely massive. This is a bomb
Lightning Strike
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is excellent. It can kill most creatures in this format for very little mana, and obviously it can provide you with some reach in the late game
Slice in Twain
Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This format doesn’t really have enough of either of these permanent types for this to be anything more than a sideboard card. Drawing a card is obviously a great thing to tack on, as it is a 2-for-1, but if you don’t have targets, it doesn’t matter
Anointed Deacon
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This card is one of the ideal Common payoffs for the Vampire deck in this format. +2/+0 can really allow you to send in a whole lot of creatures, including tokens with lifelink, and in a pinch it can even just pump itself, though it is far better when you can use it to just keep sending in a threatening creature every turn
Field of Ruin
Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This is a sideboard card. It is one you will use on rare occasions, where your opponent has a few of the double-faced lands that can be quite powerful
Bishop of Rebirth
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This will probably die when you attack with it, but as long as you get a trade, you’re getting a pretty decent deal since you get to reanimate a creature from your graveyard. The fact it’s a Vampire is a very real bonus, too.
Deeproot Champion
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Obviously you need a decent number of noncreature spells to really power the Champion, but once you have those this can be a big problem when it attacks your opponent, as they have to consider the fact that it might get bigger, and that makes it hard for them to block
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