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Quick Draft OTJ 1 May 2024

1 May 10:15 - Sidi85 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (16)
1 Hellspur Posse Boss image
1 Holy Cow image
1 Mine Raider image
1 Prickly Pair image
1 Vengeful Townsfolk image
2 Trained Arynx image
1 Bruse Tarl, Roving Rancher image
2 Stagecoach Security image
2 Outlaw Medic image
1 Sterling Supplier image
1 Irascible Wolverine image
1 Sterling Keykeeper image
1 Reckless Lackey image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (8)
2 Eriette's Lullaby image
2 Bovine Intervention image
2 Explosive Derailment image
2 Thunder Salvo image
Land (16)
8 Mountain image
8 Plains image
Sideboard
1 Armored Armadillo image
1 Iron-Fist Pulverizer image
1 Quilled Charger image
1 Nezumi Linkbreaker image
1 Oasis Gardener image
2 Rodeo Pyromancers image
1 Bounding Felidar image
1 Take for a Ride image
1 Eriette's Lullaby image
1 Clear Shot image
1 Bandit's Haul image
1 Fling image
1 Boom Box image
1 Highway Robbery image
1 Shifting Grift image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Hardbristle Bandit
Breeches, the Blastmaker image 3.5 You get something good any time you trigger the second spell effect, but you won't always also have an artifact when you cast your second spell, so don't count on pulling this off a ton. Still, the effect is pretty gamebreaking even if you only get it once.
Hardbristle Bandit image 3 I wouldn't count on getting a benefit out of untapping this with regularity, but doing it once per game isn't a stretch, and a two mana 1/1 that taps for mana of any color is always playable anyway.
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Overzealous Muscle image 2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
Outlaw Medic image 2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
Jem Lightfoote, Sky Explorer image 4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
Bounding Felidar image 2.5 This is a huge payoff for Saddling, as the counters and life are sure to alter a race in your favor.
Bandit's Haul image 1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
Congregation Gryff image 3.5 This can become a 2/5 with lifelink even if it's your only mount, and it's not going to be your only mount.
Esoteric Duplicator image 0 Not enough artifacts in this set for it to matter.
Soured Springs image
Sandstorm Verge image 1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
Siphon Insight image 2 This isn't as exciting as it looks. It's basically Anticipate with the upside of doing it twice, and the downside of not looking at your own deck which is usually better.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Thunder Salvo
Bounding Felidar image 2.5 This is a huge payoff for Saddling, as the counters and life are sure to alter a race in your favor.
Lazav, Familiar Stranger image 3.5 Growing Lazav won't be hard, and sometimes making him into a copy of a graveyard creature will be real upside.
Bandit's Haul image 1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
Loan Shark image 3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Armored Armadillo image 1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Tumbleweed Rising image 2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Thunder Salvo image 3 The baseline here is a playable card, and doing three with this seems pretty easy in Red between having a low curve and the Plot mechanic.
Festering Gulch image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Failed Fording image 2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Buried in the Garden image 4 Ramping and fixing your mana while removing a nonland permanent is incredible.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Desert's Due
Intrepid Stablemaster image 3.5 This is a great two drop that can attack and block pretty well, and it's ability to ramp your mana is great, even if you 0 Mounts or Vehicles.
Shifting Grift image 0 Even with three options an the ability to choose all of them, it's too hard to line this up so it does something worth a card.
Boom Box image 1 Don't let this tempt you too much. It's too expensive and too slow, and the destroy creature part is generally all that will actually matter.
Deadeye Duelist image 2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
Armored Armadillo image 1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Tumbleweed Rising image 2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
Take Up the Shield image 3 This was a very strong trick last time, and it will be this time too. It helps a creature win combat, can blank more removal, and leaves behind a permanent buff.
Take the Fall image 2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
Desert's Due image 3 Two mana for -2/-2 is passable enough, and this will give -3/-3 in the mid to late game pretty consistently.
Mountain image
Irascible Wolverine image 3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Fierce Retribution image 2.5 This is solid removal, but not much more.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Vault Plunderer
Boom Box image 1 Don't let this tempt you too much. It's too expensive and too slow, and the destroy creature part is generally all that will actually matter.
Treasure Dredger image 2 This give Black access to some repeatable fixing, which we don't see every day. Still, the stat-line and ability are both pretty medium.
Nurturing Pixie image 3 This is a fine play on turn one, and later in the game it can give itself a more relevant body, and maybe even rebuy an ETB.
Binding Negotiation image 2 It's nice that this can go after Plotted cards. When you do that it will almost feel like Time Walk. It still has the downside of most discard spells of course -- it doesn't impact the board and has dimnishing returns the later games get, but it's efficient enough to be solid.
Razzle-Dazzler image 2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
Mystical Tether image 3.5 This is really good even without the Flash upside. With it, it has blow-out potential and some synergy in the UW color pair.
Outlaws' Fury image 2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Vault Plunderer image 2.5 Trading off for something means you get a 2-for-1, but the presence of Mercenary tokens limits this somewhat.
Swamp image
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Tyrant's Scorn image 3 Neither mode is incredible for the cost, but if you can't kill a small creature with it, at least you can bounce it.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Explosive Derailment
Rustler Rampage image 2 The untap part isn't very exciting, but double strike for two mana isn't too shabby.
Explosive Derailment image 4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
Reach for the Sky image 1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Vault Plunderer image 2.5 Trading off for something means you get a 2-for-1, but the presence of Mercenary tokens limits this somewhat.
Nezumi Linkbreaker image 3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
Slickshot Vault-Buster image 1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
Sterling Keykeeper image 2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Abraded Bluffs image 3 They provide awesome fixing, give you extra value in the form of a ping, commit crimes, and there's even deserts-matter cards in the set. These might just be better than the rare cycle in the format.
Redrock Sentinel image 1.5 This is pretty good late, but kind of meanginless the rest of the game.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Rise of the Varmints
Rise of the Varmints image 1 // 4.0 This looks like a legit win condition for Black/Green decks, but pretty mediocre for everyone else.
Make Your Own Luck image 2.5 This doesn't effect the board initially, but in theory Make Your Own Luck should give you a huge turn on your next turn. At the same time, spending your turn 5 doing this might mean you're dead before you ever get there, and if you don't reveal at least two spells in your top three, this doesn't feel like it will do enough to make up for it's problems. Most of the time you will draw two real cards with it and get one for free, but you're sort of spinning the roulette wheel every time you cast it, and I don't love that.
Sterling Hound image 1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
Daring Thunder-Thief image 2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Highway Robbery image 2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Boneyard Desecrator image 2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
Outlaw Medic image 2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
Lush Oasis image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Gold Pan image 2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Explosive Derailment
Hellspur Brute image 2.5 There are lots and lots ouf outlaws in this set, and if you can cast this for 4 you're going to feel fine about it. If you cast it for less, you'll feel great.
Silver Deputy image 2 Grabbing a dual desert is pretty good, and it has a useful creature type and a relevant ability.
Jailbreak Scheme image 2 Just the bounce option is a decent card, so the fact you have a whole other option for later in the game is pretty nice.
Inventive Wingsmith image 2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Explosive Derailment image 4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
Bridled Bighorn image 2 This has decent base stats, and spitting out a token is sometimes valuable.
Mountain image
Take for a Ride image 2//3.5 Being able to cast this at instant speed will feel insane sometimes, because if the stats line up right, you can make two of your opponents creatures destroy one another. That gives this a higher floor than most versions of this kind of effect, while it still has big sacrifice upside.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Irascible Wolverine
Kraum, Violent Cacophony image 3.5 Playing this and casting something with Plot in the same turn will be a big turn, and that's not even close to far-fetched.
Boneyard Desecrator image 2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
Rodeo Pyromancers image 2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
Failed Fording image 2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Irascible Wolverine image 3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Plains image
Loan Shark image 3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Overzealous Muscle
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Overzealous Muscle image 2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
Jem Lightfoote, Sky Explorer image 4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
Bandit's Haul image 1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
Sandstorm Verge image 1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Ambush Gigapede
Lazav, Familiar Stranger image 3.5 Growing Lazav won't be hard, and sometimes making him into a copy of a graveyard creature will be real upside.
Armored Armadillo image 1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Failed Fording image 2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Irascible Wolverine
Shifting Grift image 0 Even with three options an the ability to choose all of them, it's too hard to line this up so it does something worth a card.
Take the Fall image 2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
Mountain image
Irascible Wolverine image 3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Outlaws' Fury
Outlaws' Fury image 2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Swamp image
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Fake Your Own Death
Slickshot Vault-Buster image 1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Boneyard Desecrator
Boneyard Desecrator image 2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Freestrider Commando
Riku of Many Paths image 4 Modal spells are all over the place in Limited these days, and the Spree mechanic in this format even appears at Common. This means that most decks that can cast Riku will probably have 2-4 modal spells, and that's more than enough, as just getting a trigger once is amazing.
Lassoed by the Law image 4 This is great Removal that also gives you a relevant body, hard not to be excited about that.
Fleeting Reflection image 1.5 Hexproof can be nice in the right situation. So can turning your creature into a copy of something else. However, both effects are too narrow for this to make the cut all that often.
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius image 3 Discounting plots is big, but I don't love that that's pretty much all Doc has going on.
Mirage Mesa image 2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Freestrider Commando image 2 Neither mode on this is much more than a decent vanilla creature. A 4-mana 5/5 might sound amazing, but getting a turn later makes it a lot less impressive.
Skulduggery image 3 Generating a two-for-one with this is surprisingly easy, and even when you can't it makes for a good combat trick that efficiently commits crime.
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Geyser Drake image 3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
Quick Draw image 2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Sterling Keykeeper image 2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
Forlorn Flats image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Essence Capture image 2.5 When it lines up, this feels pretty good.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Archmage's Charm
Bruse Tarl, Roving Rancher image 5 This is a 4-mana 4/3 that either draws you a card or gives you a 2/2 double strike when it enters the battlefield. And then, it gets that trigger again any time you attack. That's absurd value.
Cunning Coyote image 4 This is a great two drop that can do a ton of damage if it comes down on turn two -- especially if you played a one drop. But it also has nice late game upside that allows it to always stay relevant.
Resilient Roadrunner image 3.5 This is great on turn two, and it's often going to be unblockable in the late game.
Visage Bandit image 2.5 Clones that only let you do stuff with your side of the battlefield usually aren't great, but having Plot makes it more intriguing.
Deadeye Duelist image 2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Stagecoach Security image 2.5 Buffing your whole board and giving it Vigilance is great, as it allows you to attack a lot better while not giving anything up on defense.
Failed Fording image 2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Ankle Biter image 2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
Mirage Mesa image 2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Island image
Desert's Due image 3 Two mana for -2/-2 is passable enough, and this will give -3/-3 in the mid to late game pretty consistently.
Archmage's Charm image 2.5 This is pretty hard to cast, but each of the modes is pretty good for the cost.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Aloe Alchemist
Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier image 3 If you play this on two and he sticks around, he's going to chip in tons and tons of damage. The trigger commits a crime, too!
Badlands Revival image 3 This gives you a 2-for-1, and it even adds to the board. It does need a well-stocked graveyard for you to really get good value, though.
Aloe Alchemist image 4 Two mana for +3/+2 and Trample and a two mana 3/2 with Trample is nuts, even if you wait a turn for the last part.
Tomb Trawler image 0 This is a meaningless body and a meaningless ability.
Reckless Lackey image 3 This is a pretty pushed stat-line, making it a great play on turn one and a great place to put Equipment, counters, and tricks. And if it ever becomes useless you can just cash it in.
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Rooftop Assassin image 2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
Drover Grizzly image 2.5 The stat-line is passable, and don't forget it grants itself trample too.
Sterling Supplier image 3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Throw from the Saddle image 3.5 This is a great "bite" effect that allows smaller creatures to punch up, and you're going to have enough mounts in Green for that bonus to come up.
Mourner's Surprise image 2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
Heartless Pillage image 1.5 Mind Rot isn't a good card. This is Mind Rot with minor upside.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Snakeskin Veil
Lazav, Familiar Stranger image 3.5 Growing Lazav won't be hard, and sometimes making him into a copy of a graveyard creature will be real upside.
Baron Bertram Graywater image 3.5 Black/White makes plenty of tokens, so adding more to the board is great, especially when you can sacrifice them for value.
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Snakeskin Veil image 2.5 This is a great trick since it can efficiently blank removal and help your creature win combat.
Quilled Charger image 2 This has a passable baseline, and it's saddle ability means it can attack effectively at most stages of the game.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Vault Plunderer image 2.5 Trading off for something means you get a 2-for-1, but the presence of Mercenary tokens limits this somewhat.
Spring Splasher image 2 Pretty nice on turn two, as there isn't much that can block it in the early game. It isn't terrible in the mid to late game either, as it can really improve an attack for you.
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Emergent Haunting image 3 I don't love that this does nothing on it's own, but turning into a 3/3 Flyer looks very doable. Heck, just playing in on two and passing on turn three with all your mana up sounds like a good call in many situations anyway.
Skewer the Critics image 3.5 This is fine if you pay three for it, and paying one is awesome and very attainable.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Discerning Peddler
Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier image 3 If you play this on two and he sticks around, he's going to chip in tons and tons of damage. The trigger commits a crime, too!
Omenport Vigilante image 2.5 Your opponent has to respect this thing, as it might gain double strike at instant speed. That's good upside to have on a bear.
Redrock Sentinel image 1.5 This is pretty good late, but kind of meanginless the rest of the game.
Trained Arynx image 2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
Freestrider Commando image 2 Neither mode on this is much more than a decent vanilla creature. A 4-mana 5/5 might sound amazing, but getting a turn later makes it a lot less impressive.
Failed Fording image 2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Jailbreak Scheme image 2 Just the bounce option is a decent card, so the fact you have a whole other option for later in the game is pretty nice.
Discerning Peddler image 2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Jagged Barrens image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Magebane Lizard
Shackle Slinger image 3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
Magebane Lizard image 1.5 This is a weirdly defensive stat-line on a creature with an aggressive ability. It's also pretty awkward that Red is one of the colors that wants to cast multiple spells in a turn, and the effect is symmetrical.
Take for a Ride image 2//3.5 Being able to cast this at instant speed will feel insane sometimes, because if the stats line up right, you can make two of your opponents creatures destroy one another. That gives this a higher floor than most versions of this kind of effect, while it still has big sacrifice upside.
Blacksnag Buzzard image 2.5 If you get the counter, this'll feel pretty good. If you don't...it's pasasble. That makes it solid filler over all.
Trick Shot image 2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Djinn of Fool's Fall image 1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Gold Pan image 2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
Island image
Terminal Agony image 2.5 The base mode of this card is pretty mediocre, but if you have a few ways to discard it -- and this format has them -- it gets a lot better.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Ankle Biter
Sandstorm Verge image 1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
Baron Bertram Graywater image 3.5 Black/White makes plenty of tokens, so adding more to the board is great, especially when you can sacrifice them for value.
Razzle-Dazzler image 2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
Ankle Biter image 2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Skulduggery image 3 Generating a two-for-one with this is surprisingly easy, and even when you can't it makes for a good combat trick that efficiently commits crime.
Swamp image
Bristlepack Sentry image 3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Overzealous Muscle
Brimstone Roundup image 1.5 This doesn't add to the board on its own, so it's pretty hard for me to get behind this. It's a cool buildaround, but those just haven't worked out of late.
Overzealous Muscle image 2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
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Highway Robbery image 2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Thornado image 0.5 Even with a cycling mode, Plummet just isn't worth it in the main deck.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Iron-Fist Pulverizer
Fleeting Reflection image 1.5 Hexproof can be nice in the right situation. So can turning your creature into a copy of something else. However, both effects are too narrow for this to make the cut all that often.
Skulduggery image 3 Generating a two-for-one with this is surprisingly easy, and even when you can't it makes for a good combat trick that efficiently commits crime.
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Quick Draw image 2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Essence Capture image 2.5 When it lines up, this feels pretty good.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Ankle Biter
Deadeye Duelist image 2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Stagecoach Security image 2.5 Buffing your whole board and giving it Vigilance is great, as it allows you to attack a lot better while not giving anything up on defense.
Ankle Biter image 2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
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Pack 2 Pick 11: Rooftop Assassin
Tomb Trawler image 0 This is a meaningless body and a meaningless ability.
Rooftop Assassin image 2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
Mourner's Surprise image 2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
Heartless Pillage image 1.5 Mind Rot isn't a good card. This is Mind Rot with minor upside.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Quilled Charger
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Quilled Charger image 2 This has a passable baseline, and it's saddle ability means it can attack effectively at most stages of the game.
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Pack 2 Pick 13: Fake Your Own Death
Jailbreak Scheme image 2 Just the bounce option is a decent card, so the fact you have a whole other option for later in the game is pretty nice.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Island
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Pack 3 Pick 1: Spinewoods Paladin
Breeches, the Blastmaker image 3.5 You get something good any time you trigger the second spell effect, but you won't always also have an artifact when you cast your second spell, so don't count on pulling this off a ton. Still, the effect is pretty gamebreaking even if you only get it once.
Gila Courser image 3.5 This saddle trigger is super strong, and saddling this is easy. If you get to attack, you're all but guaranteed a 2-for-1.
At Knifepoint image 2 I don't like that this doesn't do anything on it's own in many cases, nor do I like that it's effect largely only matters on your turn. It can definitely churn out some tokens, but I'm skeptical paying three mana for a do-nothing enchantment to set that up is worth it.
Requisition Raid image 3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
Oasis Gardener image 2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Harrier Strix image 2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
Discerning Peddler image 2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
Spinewoods Paladin image 3 The rate on this is pretty crazy for a Common! It's a very real body that gains you life, and that can go a long way towards helping you stabilize.
Desperate Bloodseeker image 2.5 A two mana 2/2 Lifelink is a card you pretty much always play, so it's nice that this can commit a crime or load your graveyard too.
Greed's Gambit image 0 This gives you a ton up front, but quickly takes it away and then some.
Forlorn Flats image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Outlaws' Fury image 2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Villainous Wealth image 2 You have to pump a lot into X for this to be worthwhile, and while that might work as a win condition in some of the slower decks, we'll see if this format even allows for such a thing.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Vault Plunderer
Three Steps Ahead image 4 Each of these modes individually is playable enough, and if you access all of them you can get some pretty ridiculous value.
Intimidation Campaign image 2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
Canyon Crab image 3 Not a terrible roadblock, and you can loot with it pretty well in this format. It can even go on offense late in the game.
Gila Courser image 3.5 This saddle trigger is super strong, and saddling this is easy. If you get to attack, you're all but guaranteed a 2-for-1.
Sterling Keykeeper image 2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
Djinn of Fool's Fall image 1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Phantom Interference image 3 This can take care of a spell on turn two, and it has the upside of being a 5-mana 2/2 flyer that counters a spell -- that's a card I would always play.
Thunder Salvo image 3 The baseline here is a playable card, and doing three with this seems pretty easy in Red between having a low curve and the Plot mechanic.
Hardbristle Bandit image 3 I wouldn't count on getting a benefit out of untapping this with regularity, but doing it once per game isn't a stretch, and a two mana 1/1 that taps for mana of any color is always playable anyway.
Vault Plunderer image 2.5 Trading off for something means you get a 2-for-1, but the presence of Mercenary tokens limits this somewhat.
Harrier Strix image 2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
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Holy Cow image 3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Longhorn Sharpshooter
Rakish Crew image 2 This drain life trigger can feel pretty good, but setting combat up just right to take advantage of them is surprisingly difficult.
Sheriff of Safe Passage image 2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
Longhorn Sharpshooter image 3.5 Actually getting to do something to the board when you plot is a big deal, and a 4-mana 3/3 that does 2 to something on ETB is a great card, and this has more upside than that.
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Loan Shark image 3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Thunder Salvo image 3 The baseline here is a playable card, and doing three with this seems pretty easy in Red between having a low curve and the Plot mechanic.
Gold Pan image 2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
Freestrider Commando image 2 Neither mode on this is much more than a decent vanilla creature. A 4-mana 5/5 might sound amazing, but getting a turn later makes it a lot less impressive.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Eroded Canyon image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Rodeo Pyromancers image 2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
Ride Down image 2.5 This is pretty nice in all-out aggressive Red-White decks, but too situational for anything else.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Throw from the Saddle
Aloe Alchemist image 4 Two mana for +3/+2 and Trample and a two mana 3/2 with Trample is nuts, even if you wait a turn for the last part.
Outlaw Stitcher image 4 The baseline is great, and you'll often be able to get the extra large zombie out of the deal.
Throw from the Saddle image 3.5 This is a great "bite" effect that allows smaller creatures to punch up, and you're going to have enough mounts in Green for that bonus to come up.
Armored Armadillo image 1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Ankle Biter image 2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
Trick Shot image 2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Consuming Ashes image 2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
Seize the Secrets image 2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Drover Grizzly image 2.5 The stat-line is passable, and don't forget it grants itself trample too.
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Murder image 2.5 This isn't the premium removal it once was, but it's still pretty solid.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Cactusfolk Sureshot
Gold Rush image 2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
Cactusfolk Sureshot image 3.5 This has great stats, and trample and haste are a very real bonus for your 4 power creatures.
Wanted Griffin image 2.5 4-mana 3/2s can be abyssmal, since there is one mana removal that can deal with it, but this leaves a body behind to make up for that.
Daring Thunder-Thief image 2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Deadeye Duelist image 2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
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Trash the Town image 3 This is kind of a medium trick if you only use the first mode, but gaining access to the other two in the mid-game is pretty amazing, and it's the kind of card that can really swing a game in your favor between running over an opposing creature and drawing cards.
Fling image 1 It's very hard to make Fling work in Limited. Maybe in a format with a bunch of mercenaries it will fair better?
Pack 3 Pick 6: Consuming Ashes
Consuming Ashes image 2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
Take the Fall image 2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
Quilled Charger image 2 This has a passable baseline, and it's saddle ability means it can attack effectively at most stages of the game.
Scorching Shot image 3.5 This is efficient, but a little hard to cast, and being Sorcery speed will make it harder to generate 2-for-1s.
Requisition Raid image 3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
Bucolic Ranch image 0.0 // 2.5 If you have like 10 Mounts, this is worth it. Even just having 5 or so probably isn't enough to make it worth playing.
Rustler Rampage image 2 The untap part isn't very exciting, but double strike for two mana isn't too shabby.
Lonely Arroyo image 1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Trained Arynx image 2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Tumbleweed Rising
Lavaspur Boots image 1 This buff looks tempting, but if it's anything like other cheap haste-granting Equipment, it isn't going to be worth a card.
Visage Bandit image 2.5 Clones that only let you do stuff with your side of the battlefield usually aren't great, but having Plot makes it more intriguing.
Tumbleweed Rising image 2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
Quick Draw image 2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Sterling Hound image 1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
Daring Thunder-Thief image 2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
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Humiliate image 2 This is a reasonable discard spell, as it will usually hit something and add a little to your board.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Nezumi Linkbreaker
Demonic Ruckus image 2.5 This Aura seems pretty pushed. It offers a stats-boost that makes just about any creature into a legit threat, it replaces itself, and it's really efficient.
Nezumi Linkbreaker image 3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
Conduit Pylons image 2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Trick Shot image 2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Tumbleweed Rising image 2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
Vengeful Townsfolk image 2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Stop Cold image 2 Blue's usual passable removal spell that you kind of hope you don't have to use, but it's fine if you do.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Desperate Bloodseeker
At Knifepoint image 2 I don't like that this doesn't do anything on it's own in many cases, nor do I like that it's effect largely only matters on your turn. It can definitely churn out some tokens, but I'm skeptical paying three mana for a do-nothing enchantment to set that up is worth it.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Harrier Strix image 2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
Discerning Peddler image 2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
Desperate Bloodseeker image 2.5 A two mana 2/2 Lifelink is a card you pretty much always play, so it's nice that this can commit a crime or load your graveyard too.
Outlaws' Fury image 2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Intimidation Campaign
Intimidation Campaign image 2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
Djinn of Fool's Fall image 1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Harrier Strix image 2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
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Holy Cow image 3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Ambush Gigapede
Ambush Gigapede image 1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Gold Pan image 2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
Steer Clear image 2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Rodeo Pyromancers image 2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Trick Shot
Trick Shot image 2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Seize the Secrets image 2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
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Pack 3 Pick 13: Fake Your Own Death
Peerless Ropemaster image 1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Rustler Rampage
Rustler Rampage image 2 The untap part isn't very exciting, but double strike for two mana isn't too shabby.
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