Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This type of effect is often not especially impactful. Sure, it sort of has Vigilance, and can lend it to other creatures, and help you have more mana in your second main phase, but all of those things are just not a big deal most of the time. And it isn’t like it can really attack and make use of that trigger for very long.

Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: This is really good. It has above rate stats and at worst will draw you a card when it damages the opponent. It can also let you put a land directly into play or – best of all, cast something for free! And sure, a 4 toughness creature isn’t often going to survive attacking by the time it comes down, but it doesn’t really need to – it is going to get you a 2-for-1 in most cases. The fact it has Blitz is nice too, because sometimes you’ll just really want to send this in and get the free card, and your opponents shields are way more likely to be down when you Blitz this in. You end up getting a card from the top in one way or another, getting in for some damage, and drawing a card when the Envoy dies. Obviously if it can attack more than once, you’re just going to win.

Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This doesn’t look very good to me. The idea is that you put this on your creature and force your opponent to attack you. Sometimes that will actually do something, but it won’t do anything real far too often. If your opponent already wants to attack it doesn’t really matter, and if they don’t have something you can actually kill in combat it is also useless. It does eventually replace itself, but there’s just too much that can go wrong with this card.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: The main use for this in the format is to copy something you already copied with Casualty. That somes pretty real upside in the format, but still narrow enough that I don't think this is anything special most of the time. Paying the mana for the Casualty spell and then for the ability just won't always be doable. And this does very little when you can't use the ability. A one mana 0/3 is definitely a thing, but will be outclassed before long.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: These all offer really great fixing for a set with three color factions, and adding Cycling to the mix is actually a pretty big deal, because it means if you’re flooding late, this is a land you can just throw away. The fact they all have three land types also provides for some additional upside.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This can help you fix your mana, or it can be a removal spell. Its pretty bad at both of those things when you look at the total mana you spend for each, but the fact it can do both definitely makes it a decent enough playable.

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This format seems like it will have many well-stocked graveyards, and this simultaneously hates on them while also becoming absolutely massive as the game goes on, at which point Crew 2 is going to be a very reasonable cost. Now, the problem is there won’t always be things to exile, even in this format, but it still feels like it is going to be pretty good – kind of like Lion Sash in Kamigawa – or the more famous Scavenging Ooze – though not quite as good, since it is a Vehicle. The trade off is that it can exile stuff for no mana at all, and it doesn’t care what kind of cards get exiled – it grows either way and that seems sweet. There will be times where it just can’t grow that hold it back, but this is going to take over a lot of games when it comes down

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Modality is great, and the three options you have here are all pretty nice. In Limited, you’ll most frequently choose to do 5 damage to something, and that’s a pretty great deal for three mana! Being able to Lightning Helix your opponent is nice when it gives you lethal, and being able to go 5 deep in your library while loading up your graveyard will sometimes be the right choice. This is premium removal with big upside.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: I think this is actually fine. If you know me, you know I usually hate this sort of Black card that gives the opponent options, because they can always choose what concerns them the least and that often minimizes the impact of a card. And..that’s kind of true here. If your opponent can afford to take 6 or can effectively take it down in combat that’s what they’ll do, and if they can’t, they’ll just give you the card. In games that are close this will be pretty nasty since it will feel like “pick your poison,” but it won’t always be in that situation. Still, both outcomes are pretty decent. What really sells me on this, though, is that it can still block really effectively, and that means that in the part of the game where it can’t really do what you want it to, it can hang back as an oversized blocker, before joining in the offense later. If your opponent chooses to give you the card, it even untaps!

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This doesn't have the best stats, but trading with it and then using the ability from the graveyard seems nice, and it also seems like a card that works nicely with Connive or Casualty thanks to the graveyard value.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: The additional toughness on the rebalanced version does make a significant difference as it makes it far more likely that it manages to survive. So in the end, this is basically a trick that sticks around, often winning the combat for you. The treasure upside doesn’t hurt either. One of these seems like a solid inclusion in aggressive Green decks.

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: Unsurprisingly, this card looks really good. If you already have something in play, Elspeth offers a huge upgrade with her +1, which will get you a +1/+1 counter and a keyword ability counter. That upgrade is massive! Giving something vigilance means you can attack and still protect Elspeth which is pretty sweet, and all the other keywords have their place too. And you probably will often just start there. However, even on an empty board or one where she isn’t well-protected, she can use her -3 to find something to put on the table with a shield counter. That counter will really allow that creature to do a good job of protecting her so she can live another day. You do need to make sure you have a decent number of 3 or less creatures around to really take full advantage of her -3, but most decks will be able to. Not she can grab any permanent with a mana value of 3 or less, but the shield counter won’t do much on other permanents and other permanents are less likely to protect her. But uh, yeah. She’s going to be tough to beat when she comes down, whichever of her initial abilities she uses. And, on top of that, she can get to the point where she makes an Angel army pretty quickly!

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: In the early game, this is often going to be a dead card, but in the late game being able to copy this with a bunch of mana untapped is just going to happen sometimes. And when this feels like a two mana card that draws you 3 or 4 cards, it is going to be incredible. Having more than one copy of this seems a bit dangerous because of how bad it is early, but its power in the late game is pretty serious, so the first copy should be valued pretty highly.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This looks pretty good. Its fragile, but it seems like it will be drawing you cards pretty often in both of the families it overlaps into it, thanks to Obscuara’s Connive and the Brokers’ Shield counters. It also hits pretty hard if the air is clear!

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is a a sweeper that really gives you a ton of control over how much damage it does. Of course, to unlock full flexibility, you’re going to need to have a well-stocked graveyard. That seems pretty doable in Black-Red, but still, there’s some real set up, and sometimes you just won’t have what you need to make this do what you want. Then again, sometimes you’ll be able to use this and keep some of your stuff alive while sweeping the opponent. So yeah, this has a wide range of outcomes – some of them are going to be awful, some will be great.

Pro Rating: 1.5 // 4.0
Pro Comment: This takes some significant set up. You need instants and sorceries in your graveyard and creatures who are worth sacrificing, and while both of things will happen fairly organically with the Maestros, it still feels like a lot of set up that will require a deck with just the right mix of cards to make this work consistently. Even in a Maestros deck, I have a feeling this is a build around.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This..doesn’t seem amazing. Typically his ETB ability will make your opponent discard a single card by the time you play him. And…that’s nice, but not absolutely incredible for what you’re paying. His attack trigger can also put your opponent in real danger of getting milled out, but it will still take quite awhile, and if he attacks enough to mill them out, they are probably dead from damage anyway! His death trigger is the most exciting one, as it will actually impact the board unlike the first two, but it is also in some ways the hardest to get. So yeah, he does a lot, but he’s pretty clunky mana-wise, and while the effects are pretty powerful they are also woefully inconsistent, I don’t think they are nearly as powerful as they look. Maestros does have ways to sacrifice him, at least.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: These all offer really great fixing for a set with three color factions, and adding Cycling to the mix is actually a pretty big deal, because it means if you’re flooding late, this is a land you can just throw away. The fact they all have three land types also provides for some additional upside.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: They are trying pretty hard to make Enormous Energy Blade-like cards good. And…that’s pretty tough to do! Obviously, the casting cost and the equip cost are really reasonable for a +3/+3 boost, and at least you can take advantage of it immediately by attacking with the creature you put it on, but the fact that creature gets locked down is rough. Now, its cheap enough you could move it around so it goes on to a creature that you don’t care about being locked down – like maybe one shut down by an Aura – but that end sup being a lot of mana! You can also attack with something you know will result in a trade, so you don’t have to worry about moving it. Basically, this isn’t a bad mana sink to have around in the right situations – and it will definitely make just about any creature into a much better attacker – but the fact that you can’t take advantage of the Equipment on defense is definitely a bummer, as is the downside. I think this is definitely better than Enormous Energy Blade was, but it still isn’t great.