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March of the Machine Limited Quiz

Answered: 0/20
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Tranquil Cove
Average Picked At: 8.27
Total Times Picked: 26
Average Last Seen At: 6.39
Total Times Seen 170
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.
Stormclaw Rager
Average Picked At: 8.82
Total Times Picked: 17
Average Last Seen At: 6.07
Total Times Seen 107
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a powerful sacrifice outlet, even limited to Sorcery speed only! You get a card back, so it is hard not to get nice value out of this, especially if you’re sacrificing something really expendable. There’s also a cheap Threaten effect in the format that is going to combo absurdly with this, but in general, there’s plenty to sacrifice to this, making it another great signpost
Swamp
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 27
Average Last Seen At: 12.74
Total Times Seen 601
Chandra, Hope's Beacon
Average Picked At: 2.00
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 4
Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: If you can manage to play Chandra, use her +2 and cast a cheap spell with that mana, you’re already going to be really far ahead. If you can’t do that, her -X will often do enough to really weaken your opponent’s board, and if you just get to the next turn and manage to use her +1, there’s a very good chance you’ll blow the game open with whatever spell you hit. She’s definitely a bomb.
Eyes of Gitaxias
Average Picked At: 6.89
Total Times Picked: 27
Average Last Seen At: 5.19
Total Times Seen 162
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: You can sort of look at this as a 5-mana 3/3 that draws you a card, and you can pay for it in installments. That’s not too bad, but it isn’t exactly something special either.
Shatter the Source
Average Picked At: 9.14
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 7.61
Total Times Seen 276
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This looks pretty nice. 6 mana for 6 damage at Instant speed is usually a 2.0, and with Convoke you’re going to be able to cast this in many more situations than you would normally be able to. Sometimes you can blow up a problem Artifact with this too.
Phyrexian Censor
Average Picked At: 8.00
Total Times Picked: 20
Average Last Seen At: 6.02
Total Times Seen 154
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has decent base stats, and you’ll be able to make this effect one-sided enough, especially in Black-White, that this seems like a solid card.
Swiftwater Cliffs
Average Picked At: 7.87
Total Times Picked: 30
Average Last Seen At: 6.61
Total Times Seen 190
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.
Etched Familiar
Average Picked At: 8.90
Total Times Picked: 30
Average Last Seen At: 7.43
Total Times Seen 291
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.
Burning Sun's Fury
Average Picked At: 13.79
Total Times Picked: 24
Average Last Seen At: 11.23
Total Times Seen 430
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: As a trick, this isn’t especially good. +2/+0 might help a creature take down something bigger, but you still end up losing your creature in most situations, and obviously to take advantage of Haste you have to cast it in your main phase. This is really cheap, and with Convoke in the picture it will be even easier to cast than it looks at first – but I think the card’s main uses will be for sending in one of your new creatures and/or finishing the opponent off, and those uses are a little too narrow. It can definitely help you do a ton of damage out of nowhere.
Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw
Average Picked At: 1.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 1.50
Total Times Seen 4
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: Most of the time in Limited the front side of this will do 2 damage to any target. That is a reasonable, if unexciting removal spell – but it impacts the board most of the time. There will be some occasions where you actually do more damage than that too, because there are a few dragons in the set, including a Blue one at Common and a Red one at Uncommon. Once transformed it provides you with a Dragon that can quickly end the game
Urabrask // The Great Work
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 4/4 with First Strike is great, and the fact this pings your opponent and gives you some mana just for casting instants and sorceries is awesome. Transforming Urabrask is something of a challenge, though. You can stockpile some instants and sorceries for sure, and the extra mana he gives you does make it easier for you to fire off three in the same turn, but you rarely find yourself in a position where you can just hold on to a bunch of spells in your hand to make this work. You can do it sometimes for sure, but most of the time you just can’t pull it off in Limited. Luckily, even if he never transforms, Urabrask is very powerful. If he does transform he becomes downright insane, as Chapter I likely decimates your opponents board, Chapter II is more of a throwaway, but then chapter III lets you cast a few spells. Hard to go all the way up to a bomb grade here, though, since transforming him will happen a very low percentage of the time.
Storm the Seedcore
Average Picked At: 5.91
Total Times Picked: 23
Average Last Seen At: 5.54
Total Times Seen 112
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Granting a big stats boost to a few creatures, and giving all creatures Vigilance and Trample seems like a nice deal. This lets you really upgrade your board without sacrificing the ability to block on the following turn, and that can really help turn a race around. As usual, this type of card has the downside of being very mediocre if you don’t have a well-developed board, but even then the fail case isn’t the worst.
Bladed Battle-Fan
Average Picked At: 10.56
Total Times Picked: 27
Average Last Seen At: 9.03
Total Times Seen 311
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: +1/+0 and indestructible isn’t a terrible trick-like effect, because it saves a creature in combat while helping them punch up, and it saves the creature from most removal too. Any time a card can do both of those they end up seeing play. The Equipment itself definitely isn’t exciting after the turn you cast it, and that does make it awkward in some situations, but the threat this presents as a trick is nice, and its flexible too.
Bloated Processor
Average Picked At: 2.30
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 2.73
Total Times Seen 15
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: Notably, this is a free sacrifice ability, and those always play quite impressively. It makes it a real pain to ever know what’s going to happen when this is on the battlefield. Now, it does restrict the effect to only Phyrexians, but if you’re in Black-White that will be most of your creatures. It can gobble up the plentiful incubator tokens too, although they do need to be transformed. But yeah, even if you have 0 other Phyrexians in your deck, we’re talking about a three mana 3/2 that leaves a body behind, which is already great.
Furnace Host Charger
Average Picked At: 10.00
Total Times Picked: 24
Average Last Seen At: 8.08
Total Times Seen 301
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: A 6-mana 5/5 Haster is definitely medium, but it is definitely relevant on most board states, and if you draw it early and would rather have a land drop, it has you covered.
Elvish Vatkeeper
Average Picked At: 5.36
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 4.67
Total Times Seen 95
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A three mana 3/3 that makes an Incubator is sweet – if you have five mana available you can just do it all, and pay 5 for a 3/3 and a 2/2, which is a nice deal! The other ability is fairly expensive, but if you have the mana to sink into it, it certainly makes your Incubator a lot scarier.
Infected Defector
Average Picked At: 11.17
Total Times Picked: 29
Average Last Seen At: 9.26
Total Times Seen 368
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This has some pretty bad stats for the cost, but getting an Incubator when it dies makes this a solid playable.
Grafted Butcher
Average Picked At: 3.33
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 2.33
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: There are lots of Phyrexians in this set, including all the Incubate tokens, so a Phyrexian lord is already fairly well positioned! Offering +1/+1 and one turn of menace to your Phyrexians is going to have a big impact on a lot of boards, and the Butcher doesn’t stay dead either!
Monastery Mentor
Average Picked At: 1.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 3
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: If you’re casting non-creature spells, this will build a Prowess army that is very difficult to overcome. That said, it does start out as fairly inefficient, and if you don’t get this down before you cast your spells, it doesn’t feel great.
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