Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: This card packs some pretty impressive power, as just buffing all the creatures you have every turn really adds up. I particularly like that it triggers during your end step, so as long as you have some creatures in play, it even impacts the board the turn you play it.
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is some nice removal, as getting to cast it twice isn’t exactly far-fetched. You won’t always be able to take down two different creatures with it, but even if you don’t get that 2-for-1, this is some nice value.
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This is a solid way to protect your creature, and it tends to save the creature twice because of the shield counter.
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: A 3/1 with Menace is a pretty nice attacker all game long, so having Blitz and giving it to a card in your hand is great upside.
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: Turning every one of your creature spells into two creatures is pretty impressive. Sometimes you won’t have anything it can Seek out, but your first few creature spells after you play this are pretty likely to trigger it, and that’s more than enough for it to win you the game.
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: A 4-mana 2/3 with Flash that bounces a nonland permanent is something you would always play, so the upside of making that card also cost one additional mana is just gravy.
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: This is a three mana 2/3 that Connives when it enters – I’m already very interested in that! In addition to looting when it enters, you also get an additional card when you discard your first card every turn, and that’s going to include Diviner of Fates Connive. Even if you never trigger it again, you’re going to feel pretty great about what it has done, and if you can do it more than once, it is pretty tough for you to lose.
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is mostly just a 5-mana 4/5 Flyer, which is solid enough. The upside of getting Demonic Pact is pretty dangerous – it is a card that has “You lose the game” in the text box, after all! But the other effects of the Pact are pretty good, and sometimes you’ll be in a situation where getting the Pact helps you win in a turn or two. So, being able to get the Pact is definitely upside, just not upside you should really cash in on unless you’re reasonably certain you can win in the very near future.
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is pretty strong, as it makes trading a creature into a 2-for-1. You also know you’re always going to get a pretty real card from the Wake, and if you’re also sacrificing creatures it gets even better!
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: A creature with this statline is pretty much always a 3.0 or 3.5, and the Savior comes with some great upside. It can get especially silly if the creature has an ETB ability, but even if it doesn’t, it is often worth returning something to buff it.
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: Regrowth only sometimes make the cut in Limited, and stapling Giant Growth to it doesn’t really do enough to change that.
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This is a bit clunky, but it is a source of card advantage that can really help. However, sometimes it is just too slow and you get run over..
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This is a great removal spell! It would already be pretty good without casualty, so adding Casualty 1 to the mix is a pretty sweet deal.
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: It is pretty difficult for you to lose if this is in your opening hand, as adding a token to all your creatures is incredible. On the flip side, if you have 0-1 creatures in your hand, this doesn’t do much.
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: 4-mana for a 4/5 with Flying and Ward 1 is something you would always play, so the fact that this stocks the graveyard and can even give you a Dig Up the Body is pretty legit upside.
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This has two options that are pretty unimpressive. It is either a harder to cast negate or it draws you a card. And yeah, you have some control over that card, but this still isn’t very good. If you can get the 5 mana value thing going it improves, but I think you end up cutting this a significant chunk of the time.
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: A two mana 2/1 with Haste is pretty reasonable, and generating Treasure certainly matters! Actually cashing treasure in to draft a card doesn’t line up that often, though.
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: So, this is either a 3-mana 3/3 with a Shield counter, or a 3-mana 3/3 that gives a shield counter to something in your hand. It is very nice that they made it so this does something even if you don’t have a creature in your hand, unlike some of the other cards in the set that can only do stuff for cards in your hand. On top of that, it also gets buffed by Shield counters!
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is Divination with upside! That makes for a decent card.
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: Obviously, you have to have a spell in your hand when you cast this or it doesn’t do anything. And, while adding Casualty 2 to a spell is definite upside, a 2-power creature worth sacrificing can often be hard to come by.