Tracker App

Quick Draft KTK 26 December 2023

26 December 03:48 - Cartecha 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (16)
1 Ashcloud Phoenix image
1 Ruthless Ripper image
1 Krumar Bond-Kin image
1 Mardu Skullhunter image
1 Valley Dasher image
1 Shambling Attendants image
1 Ponyback Brigade image
1 Mardu Hordechief image
1 Jeskai Student image
2 Alabaster Kirin image
2 Mardu Warshrieker image
1 Bloodfire Expert image
1 Unyielding Krumar image
1 Bellowing Saddlebrute image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (7)
2 Murderous Cut image
1 Tormenting Voice image
2 Feat of Resistance image
2 Debilitating Injury image
Land (17)
2 Bloodfell Caves image
1 Wind-Scarred Crag image
4 Mountain image
5 Swamp image
5 Plains image
Sideboard
1 Wetland Sambar image
1 Kheru Dreadmaw image
1 Valley Dasher image
1 Mardu Warshrieker image
1 Jeskai Elder image
1 Highland Game image
1 Seek the Horizon image
1 Dead Drop image
1 Dutiful Return image
1 Shatter image
1 Waterwhirl image
2 Singing Bell Strike image
1 Sultai Charm image
1 Blinding Spray image
1 Dismal Backwater image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Ashcloud Phoenix
Ashcloud Phoenix image 5 This is a hard-hitting flyer that doesn't stay dead and damages your opponent every time it turns face up. That's a text book bomb.
Sultai Soothsayer image 4 This adds a very relevant body to the board while generating a 2-for-1 that loads your graveyard. That's exactly what Sultai decks want to be doing in this format.
Incremental Growth image 2 This offers quite the boost, but it's frustrating that you have to have three creatures to get full value. That's not hard, but there are times where you just can't do it, and that's rough. Not it doesn't say, 'up to' either.
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Sultai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Feat of Resistance image 3 This is a nice trick in any set, as it has the ability to allow your creature to easily win combat and/or save it for removal. It can even make a creature unblockable in a pinch. Then, you throw in Prowess and +1/+1 counter synergies, and we're talking about an awesome Common.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Sidisi's Pet image 2 This is a nice defensive creature thanks to the stat-line and lifelink, and morph can allow you to get some surprise life gain out of nowhere. It also happens to have 4 toughness, something several cards in the set key on.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Blossoming Sands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Ruthless Ripper
Ruthless Ripper image 3.5 If you always cast this face up it's already a solid card that always makes the cut, but the fact you can play it face down and turn your death toucher face up for no mana at all makes it evne easier for you to set up advantageous trades. And you even get to lower your opponent's life!
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Armament Corps image 3.5 This can put a counter on itself, so it's often a 5-mana 5/5 that sticks a counter somewhere else, and that's a very nice card. Sometimes you can put a counter on two things that can already attack too.
Monastery Flock image 2 This is incredibly cheap to Morph, so playing it face down as a 2/2 when that's more useful is nice upside to have on your mediocre Defender.
Act of Treason image 1.0 // 2.5 As usual, not really worth it unless you've got some sacrifice outlets to get rid of the creature you steal.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Abomination of Gudul image 2.5 Playing this on turn three and flipping it turn five isn't too shabby. Even playing it face up for full price doesn't feel terrible. It offers a threatening flying body and some nice card selection.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Murderous Cut
Dragon's Eye Savants image 1.5 Seeing your opponent's hand just isn't much of an effect, and neither a three mana 2/2 nor a two mana 0/6 is something you're excited about.
Kheru Bloodsucker image 2 This is a decent high toughness pay-off, but it's bad stat-line and expensive activated ability keep it from being anything ultra impressive.
Murderous Cut image 4 This often feels like it only costs a single Black mana, and it would be premium removal if it always cost 4.
Awaken the Bear image 2 This is a little expensive for what it does, but it has enough upside that it's a trick that makes the cut reasonably often.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
Disowned Ancestor image 2.5 This having high toughness is pretty nice in a format with a toughness-matters archetype, and it's toughness can get high in a hurry.
Trumpet Blast image 1.0 // 2.5 Some Mardu decks can go really wide, and having one of these in that type of deck is a good idea.
Force Away image 2.5 This is decent without Ferocious, but if you can take the loot on to it you're going to feel really happy.
Shambling Attendants image 2.5 A 3/5 death touch is a really frustrating body for your opponent to contend with, and you can get this down for 3 or 4 mana reasonably often.
Jeskai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Savage Punch image 4 When you have Ferocious online this feels truly absurd. It becomes a super efficient removal spell that also lets you crack in for extra damage. It lines up that way with regularity, too.
Glacial Stalker image 2 This is better than it looks. Neither side is efficient, but once your Morph creatures get this beefy, there's a lot that can go wrong for your opponent in combat.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Krumar Bond-Kin
Dragon's Eye Savants image 1.5 Seeing your opponent's hand just isn't much of an effect, and neither a three mana 2/2 nor a two mana 0/6 is something you're excited about.
Seek the Horizon image 1 It's far too difficult to consistently spend six on this and actually get something that is worth that much mana on to the battlefield. It's truly horrendous when you don't have Ferocious online.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Swift Kick image 2.5 Your creature already needs high enough toughness for this to work effectively, otherwise you can get 2-for-1'd. But the power boost does mean a wider swath of creatures can use this effectively. It isn't quite premium though, too situational.
Krumar Bond-Kin image 1.5 This never feels great, but sometimes morphing it can result in hitting your opponent harder than they expect, or even taking down a blocker and surviving.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Sagu Archer image 2 This can block most of the Flyers in this format, and sometimes it can do it out of nowhere.
Molting Snakeskin image 1 This Aura doesn't offer enough of a boost to really be worth the risk of getting 2-for-1'd. Regenaration helps with that a little bit, but three mana is a ton to have to leave up.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Mardu Skullhunter
Set Adrift image 3 It isn't very hard to make this a lot cheaper with Delve, and making your removal cheap always feels great.
Snowhorn Rider image 3 Like most Morphs with size, turning this face up can wreck combat or make your opponent take more damage than they expected out of nowhere.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Mardu Skullhunter image 3 If you can consistently get your opponent to discard when this enters, it feels great. If you can't, it's kind of a liability. The good news is, it's easy enough to get the discard for this to be a very nice common.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
Kin-Tree Warden image 1.5 It's hard for any Morph creature to be unplayable, since they are all Gray Ogres with upside, but this one is very underwhelming.
Ponyback Brigade image 4 This is a very strong Common. Playing it face up feels pretty good. Turning it face up after playing it face down feels good too. Four bodies out of one card is just a really big deal.
Wetland Sambar image 1.5 These days this would be a 0.0, but back in 2014 passable vanillas are cards you begrudgingly played a lot more often since fewer cards were playable in general.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Dismal Backwater
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Sidisi's Pet image 2 This is a nice defensive creature thanks to the stat-line and lifelink, and morph can allow you to get some surprise life gain out of nowhere. It also happens to have 4 toughness, something several cards in the set key on.
Defiant Strike image 1.0 // 2.5 This is pretty awful if you don't have a bunch of Prowess in your deck. However, getting lots of Prowess is very doable, so you'll find yourself in decks where this works nicely often enough.
Longshot Squad image 2.5 I like this less than the other Outlast lords, since it offers a boost that is only useful on defense. Still, it's a creature that can affect the board right away, and it can grow itself when it's body isn't relevant enough.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Bloodfell Caves
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Siegecraft image 0 This offers a mediocre stats boost and doesn't do enough to overcome the massive risk of getting 2-for-1'd.
Bloodfell Caves image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Canyon Lurkers image 1.5 This can get a big hit in out of nowhere, but the low toughness means that morphing this isn't going to feel like a great deal most of the time, because it always has two toughness.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Dead Drop
Dead Drop image 2 Sometimes this can really devastate your opponent because they only have two creatures, most of the time…not so much. Even with Delve casting this whenever you want is pretty tricky.
Mardu Blazebringer image 1 The idea here is supposed to be that this gives you an early 4-power creature for Red-Green decks, but there are way better options for that around that aren't virtually dead cards.
Temur Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Barrage of Boulders image 2.5 This is surprisingly solid card that you always want one of in Blue-Red and Red-Green decks, where you tend to have a ton of power on the board and casting this is very capable of ending the game. Both decks will usually get Ferocious going without trying very hard.
Trumpet Blast image 1.0 // 2.5 Some Mardu decks can go really wide, and having one of these in that type of deck is a good idea.
Smoke Teller image 2 This has passable stats and the ability isn't entirely useless either, although you should only start using it once you have nothing else to do with your mana.
Act of Treason image 1.0 // 2.5 As usual, not really worth it unless you've got some sacrifice outlets to get rid of the creature you steal.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Tormenting Voice
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Sultai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Unyielding Krumar
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Act of Treason image 1.0 // 2.5 As usual, not really worth it unless you've got some sacrifice outlets to get rid of the creature you steal.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Shambling Attendants
Dragon's Eye Savants image 1.5 Seeing your opponent's hand just isn't much of an effect, and neither a three mana 2/2 nor a two mana 0/6 is something you're excited about.
Awaken the Bear image 2 This is a little expensive for what it does, but it has enough upside that it's a trick that makes the cut reasonably often.
Shambling Attendants image 2.5 A 3/5 death touch is a really frustrating body for your opponent to contend with, and you can get this down for 3 or 4 mana reasonably often.
Glacial Stalker image 2 This is better than it looks. Neither side is efficient, but once your Morph creatures get this beefy, there's a lot that can go wrong for your opponent in combat.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Seek the Horizon
Seek the Horizon image 1 It's far too difficult to consistently spend six on this and actually get something that is worth that much mana on to the battlefield. It's truly horrendous when you don't have Ferocious online.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Wetland Sambar
Kin-Tree Warden image 1.5 It's hard for any Morph creature to be unplayable, since they are all Gray Ogres with upside, but this one is very underwhelming.
Wetland Sambar image 1.5 These days this would be a 0.0, but back in 2014 passable vanillas are cards you begrudgingly played a lot more often since fewer cards were playable in general.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Kheru Dreadmaw
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Murderous Cut
Bloodsoaked Champion image 2 A 2/1 who can' t block doesn't stay relevant for very long, even if it can continuously come back from the graveyard. It gets better if you have some sacrifice outlets.
Jeskai Charm image 4 This is either a quality removal spell, a mediocre burn spell, or a situationally powerful mass pump effect. Sign me up.
Kin-Tree Invocation image 4 There are enough cheap high toughness creatures in the format that the Invocation ends up making a super efficient token with regularity. Getting a turn two 4/4 isn't unheard of, and it scales as the game goes on in most cases.
Murderous Cut image 4 This often feels like it only costs a single Black mana, and it would be premium removal if it always cost 4.
Rush of Battle image 1 There are definitely Warriors in this set, and giving them all a reasonable buff and lifelink can sometimes help you win a race, but this demands you be good at going wide and running enough Warriors to really be worthwhile, and those things are far from guaranteed.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
Bring Low image 2 This is pretty rough when the creature doesn't have a counter. When it does it becomes premium removal, but you have to account for the times where it is a 4-mana deal 3, because those feel rough and that's what it does the most often.
Kin-Tree Warden image 1.5 It's hard for any Morph creature to be unplayable, since they are all Gray Ogres with upside, but this one is very underwhelming.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Ponyback Brigade
Death Frenzy image 1.5 Black/Green is about high toughness, so the idea here is that your opponent will get hurt by this more than you do -- and this format DOES have lots of X/2s because of Morph. But…still, this is highly situational even in Black/Green decks.
Witness of the Ages image 1.5 This never feels efficient, but like most morph creatures in this format it isn't unplayable either.
Cranial Archive image 1 This is mostly sideboard material for Sultai opponents. It does replace itself and trigger Prowess, though, so it isn't entirely terrible in your main deck.
Ponyback Brigade image 4 This is a very strong Common. Playing it face up feels pretty good. Turning it face up after playing it face down feels good too. Four bodies out of one card is just a really big deal.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Trumpet Blast image 1.0 // 2.5 Some Mardu decks can go really wide, and having one of these in that type of deck is a good idea.
Bloodfell Caves image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Awaken the Bear image 2 This is a little expensive for what it does, but it has enough upside that it's a trick that makes the cut reasonably often.
Bitter Revelation image 2 This lets you see a ton of cards, and loads your graveyard. It's a bit clunky, but many black decks do well with the first copy.
Jeskai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Mardu Hordechief
Winterflame image 3 You're usually going to be choosing both, and tapping something and killing a small creature for three is a good deal.
Ride Down image 4 This is a beating if you're an aggro deck. Most of the time, removal spells that only kill blockers aren't great for aggro, since it means you're not doing damage. That's not the case here, though! Because it gives your creature trample, it's effectively like youre creature went unblocked and you kill their creature.
Kheru Bloodsucker image 2 This is a decent high toughness pay-off, but it's bad stat-line and expensive activated ability keep it from being anything ultra impressive.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Disdainful Stroke image 0.5 This is worse in this format than in most because of Morph. You'll have even less targets than usual. Leave it in your sideboard.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Sidisi's Pet image 2 This is a nice defensive creature thanks to the stat-line and lifelink, and morph can allow you to get some surprise life gain out of nowhere. It also happens to have 4 toughness, something several cards in the set key on.
Mardu Hordechief image 3 White decks are set up pretty well for this to be a three mana 2/3 that gives you a 1/1 pretty often, and that's a great deal.
Bloodfell Caves image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Feat of Resistance
Ruthless Ripper image 3.5 If you always cast this face up it's already a solid card that always makes the cut, but the fact you can play it face down and turn your death toucher face up for no mana at all makes it evne easier for you to set up advantageous trades. And you even get to lower your opponent's life!
Riverwheel Aerialists image 2.5 This is a decent finisher for Prowess decks. The stat-line was better back in 2014, and it's very rarely only a 4/5 anyway.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Shambling Attendants image 2.5 A 3/5 death touch is a really frustrating body for your opponent to contend with, and you can get this down for 3 or 4 mana reasonably often.
Feed the Clan image 0.5 If you're in a Sultai deck that wants to make the game go long, Feed the Clan can definitely be a sideboard option against really aggressive decks.
Bitter Revelation image 2 This lets you see a ton of cards, and loads your graveyard. It's a bit clunky, but many black decks do well with the first copy.
Feat of Resistance image 3 This is a nice trick in any set, as it has the ability to allow your creature to easily win combat and/or save it for removal. It can even make a creature unblockable in a pinch. Then, you throw in Prowess and +1/+1 counter synergies, and we're talking about an awesome Common.
Barrage of Boulders image 2.5 This is surprisingly solid card that you always want one of in Blue-Red and Red-Green decks, where you tend to have a ton of power on the board and casting this is very capable of ending the game. Both decks will usually get Ferocious going without trying very hard.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Hooting Mandrills image 3 Like most Delve cards you can't run too many of them, but the first few are pretty powerful in Sultai decks. Casting this for one or two is a common occurrence.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Debilitating Injury
Despise image 1.5 This is decent disruption, but it has the usual downside this type of card has: it doesn't do much when you draw it late.
Kin-Tree Invocation image 4 There are enough cheap high toughness creatures in the format that the Invocation ends up making a super efficient token with regularity. Getting a turn two 4/4 isn't unheard of, and it scales as the game goes on in most cases.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Debilitating Injury image 3 This kills a wide swath of creatures in the format, including face-down morphs.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Mardu Skullhunter image 3 If you can consistently get your opponent to discard when this enters, it feels great. If you can't, it's kind of a liability. The good news is, it's easy enough to get the discard for this to be a very nice common.
Act of Treason image 1.0 // 2.5 As usual, not really worth it unless you've got some sacrifice outlets to get rid of the creature you steal.
Rakshasa's Secret image 1.5 This is better than most Mind Rots, mostly because most Black decks are pretty happy to also put three cards into their graveyard.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Wind-Scarred Crag
Dead Drop image 2 Sometimes this can really devastate your opponent because they only have two creatures, most of the time…not so much. Even with Delve casting this whenever you want is pretty tricky.
Shambling Attendants image 2.5 A 3/5 death touch is a really frustrating body for your opponent to contend with, and you can get this down for 3 or 4 mana reasonably often.
Force Away image 2.5 This is decent without Ferocious, but if you can take the loot on to it you're going to feel really happy.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Sagu Archer image 2 This can block most of the Flyers in this format, and sometimes it can do it out of nowhere.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Salt Road Patrol image 2 This has an almost passable starting stat-line, and it's ability to grow can make it ito an impressive creature if the game goes long enough.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Taigam's Scheming image 0 Loading the graveyard is important in Blue, but not so important that you want to play Taigam's Scheming. It makes you go down a card and you don't get anything back for it. There are better ways to load your graveyard.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Jeskai Student
Venerable Lammasu image 1 This has awful stats.
Smoke Teller image 2 This has passable stats and the ability isn't entirely useless either, although you should only start using it once you have nothing else to do with your mana.
Shambling Attendants image 2.5 A 3/5 death touch is a really frustrating body for your opponent to contend with, and you can get this down for 3 or 4 mana reasonably often.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Force Away image 2.5 This is decent without Ferocious, but if you can take the loot on to it you're going to feel really happy.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
Bring Low image 2 This is pretty rough when the creature doesn't have a counter. When it does it becomes premium removal, but you have to account for the times where it is a 4-mana deal 3, because those feel rough and that's what it does the most often.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Alabaster Kirin
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon image 0 Gaining a bit of life off of your morph creatures isn't worth diluting your mana base, especially in a format where you really want to have good mana for three-color decks.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
Sultai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Dutiful Return
Rush of Battle image 1 There are definitely Warriors in this set, and giving them all a reasonable buff and lifelink can sometimes help you win a race, but this demands you be good at going wide and running enough Warriors to really be worthwhile, and those things are far from guaranteed.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Kin-Tree Warden image 1.5 It's hard for any Morph creature to be unplayable, since they are all Gray Ogres with upside, but this one is very underwhelming.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Mardu Warshrieker
Cranial Archive image 1 This is mostly sideboard material for Sultai opponents. It does replace itself and trigger Prowess, though, so it isn't entirely terrible in your main deck.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Jeskai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Valley Dasher
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Disdainful Stroke image 0.5 This is worse in this format than in most because of Morph. You'll have even less targets than usual. Leave it in your sideboard.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Valley Dasher
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Feed the Clan image 0.5 If you're in a Sultai deck that wants to make the game go long, Feed the Clan can definitely be a sideboard option against really aggressive decks.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Bloodfire Expert
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Shatter
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Debilitating Injury
Temur Ascendancy image 2.5 Haste Enchantments are always underwhelming, as are Enchantments that draw you a card when a 4 power creature enters. This does both making it at least serviceable.
Scion of Glaciers image 2 The ability to raise it's power makes it both a formidable attacker and blocker.
Jeskai Charm image 4 This is either a quality removal spell, a mediocre burn spell, or a situationally powerful mass pump effect. Sign me up.
Riverwheel Aerialists image 2.5 This is a decent finisher for Prowess decks. The stat-line was better back in 2014, and it's very rarely only a 4/5 anyway.
Hooting Mandrills image 3 Like most Delve cards you can't run too many of them, but the first few are pretty powerful in Sultai decks. Casting this for one or two is a common occurrence.
Disdainful Stroke image 0.5 This is worse in this format than in most because of Morph. You'll have even less targets than usual. Leave it in your sideboard.
Glacial Stalker image 2 This is better than it looks. Neither side is efficient, but once your Morph creatures get this beefy, there's a lot that can go wrong for your opponent in combat.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Siegecraft image 0 This offers a mediocre stats boost and doesn't do enough to overcome the massive risk of getting 2-for-1'd.
Firehoof Cavalry image 1 This is irrelevant on almost all board states. It's too small early and the ability is too expensive and risky late.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Debilitating Injury image 3 This kills a wide swath of creatures in the format, including face-down morphs.
Swift Kick image 2.5 Your creature already needs high enough toughness for this to work effectively, otherwise you can get 2-for-1'd. But the power boost does mean a wider swath of creatures can use this effectively. It isn't quite premium though, too situational.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Feat of Resistance
Riverwheel Aerialists image 2.5 This is a decent finisher for Prowess decks. The stat-line was better back in 2014, and it's very rarely only a 4/5 anyway.
Tuskguard Captain image 3.5 A great Outlast lord, like the others this can impact the board right away and even when it can't it's a creature that can very efficiently increase it's own size.
Jeskai Elder image 2.5 Like most Prowess creatures in the set, this is better than it looks. It's tough to block because you can buff it so much at instant speed, and you get a pretty nice trigger when it hits the opponent, so that's some pretty great tension in your favor.
Tusked Colossodon image 1.5 If you need a big top-curve creature well…you're hoping it isn't this. But running it isn't a disaster.
Disowned Ancestor image 2.5 This having high toughness is pretty nice in a format with a toughness-matters archetype, and it's toughness can get high in a hurry.
Efreet Weaponmaster image 3 The fact this has high power and first strike makes it hard for anything to block this, and it can reall wreck combat when it turns face up between it's own stat-line and the boost it can offer to something else.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Feat of Resistance image 3 This is a nice trick in any set, as it has the ability to allow your creature to easily win combat and/or save it for removal. It can even make a creature unblockable in a pinch. Then, you throw in Prowess and +1/+1 counter synergies, and we're talking about an awesome Common.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
Erase image 0.5 This isn't an Enchantment-heavy set, so this is sideboard material. You won't bring it in very often either.
Bring Low image 2 This is pretty rough when the creature doesn't have a counter. When it does it becomes premium removal, but you have to account for the times where it is a 4-mana deal 3, because those feel rough and that's what it does the most often.
Force Away image 2.5 This is decent without Ferocious, but if you can take the loot on to it you're going to feel really happy.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Alabaster Kirin
Ride Down image 4 This is a beating if you're an aggro deck. Most of the time, removal spells that only kill blockers aren't great for aggro, since it means you're not doing damage. That's not the case here, though! Because it gives your creature trample, it's effectively like youre creature went unblocked and you kill their creature.
Burn Away image 3.5 A 5-mana deal 6 instant is pretty nice. It can kill almost anything and can produce blowouts sometimes. The fact this just nukes the whole graveyard can really matter against decks in the Sultai colors too.
Waterwhirl image 1 This is expensive enough that it's hard or you to get a tempo advantage, and most of the time you go down a card for the effect.
Blossoming Sands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Feed the Clan image 0.5 If you're in a Sultai deck that wants to make the game go long, Feed the Clan can definitely be a sideboard option against really aggressive decks.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
Molting Snakeskin image 1 This Aura doesn't offer enough of a boost to really be worth the risk of getting 2-for-1'd. Regenaration helps with that a little bit, but three mana is a ton to have to leave up.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Bellowing Saddlebrute
Bellowing Saddlebrute image 2.5 This is an impressive stat-line in this set, and the warrior creature line carries some weight too. Triggering Raid is very doable.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Bloodfire Expert image 2.5 The base stats are rough, but it slots nicely into both Blue-Red and Red-Green. In the former because of Prowess, in the latter because it often has 4 power.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Sultai Charm
Heir of the Wilds image 3.5 A two mana 2/2 deathtouch is a nice starting point, and this often attacks as a 3/3.
Despise image 1.5 This is decent disruption, but it has the usual downside this type of card has: it doesn't do much when you draw it late.
Sultai Charm image 4 The removal mode is the one that's useful the most option, but having a way to deal with problem enchantments or dig deeper into your deck in a pinch is nice too.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
Sultai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Longshot Squad image 2.5 I like this less than the other Outlast lords, since it offers a boost that is only useful on defense. Still, it's a creature that can affect the board right away, and it can grow itself when it's body isn't relevant enough.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Bloodfell Caves
Tusked Colossodon image 1.5 If you need a big top-curve creature well…you're hoping it isn't this. But running it isn't a disaster.
Bloodfell Caves image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Monastery Flock image 2 This is incredibly cheap to Morph, so playing it face down as a 2/2 when that's more useful is nice upside to have on your mediocre Defender.
Salt Road Patrol image 2 This has an almost passable starting stat-line, and it's ability to grow can make it ito an impressive creature if the game goes long enough.
Taigam's Scheming image 0 Loading the graveyard is important in Blue, but not so important that you want to play Taigam's Scheming. It makes you go down a card and you don't get anything back for it. There are better ways to load your graveyard.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Mardu Warshrieker
Set Adrift image 3 It isn't very hard to make this a lot cheaper with Delve, and making your removal cheap always feels great.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Siegecraft image 0 This offers a mediocre stats boost and doesn't do enough to overcome the massive risk of getting 2-for-1'd.
Awaken the Bear image 2 This is a little expensive for what it does, but it has enough upside that it's a trick that makes the cut reasonably often.
Mystic of the Hidden Way image 2.5 The low toughness here is pretty brutal because of the amount of mana you spend, but it's also a very real win condition when left unchecked.
Bloodfire Mentor image 1.5 If you need to make a game go long, you could do worse than this. The body blocks reasonably well and it can dig you deeper in your library to find your outs. It doesn't do any of it efficiently, though.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Blinding Spray
Blinding Spray image 1.5 This is better than it looks thanks to the fact that it replaces itself and this format prominently features Prowess, but it's still basically a glorified Fog effect.
Siegecraft image 0 This offers a mediocre stats boost and doesn't do enough to overcome the massive risk of getting 2-for-1'd.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Mardu Warshrieker
Disdainful Stroke image 0.5 This is worse in this format than in most because of Morph. You'll have even less targets than usual. Leave it in your sideboard.
Glacial Stalker image 2 This is better than it looks. Neither side is efficient, but once your Morph creatures get this beefy, there's a lot that can go wrong for your opponent in combat.
Mardu Warshrieker image 3 This feels really nice when it lets you double spell, and pretty bad when you can't, since you just played a Hill Giant. Because of Morph, though, you're able to do something with the mana more often than in most formats.
Siegecraft image 0 This offers a mediocre stats boost and doesn't do enough to overcome the massive risk of getting 2-for-1'd.
Firehoof Cavalry image 1 This is irrelevant on almost all board states. It's too small early and the ability is too expensive and risky late.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Jeskai Elder
Riverwheel Aerialists image 2.5 This is a decent finisher for Prowess decks. The stat-line was better back in 2014, and it's very rarely only a 4/5 anyway.
Jeskai Elder image 2.5 Like most Prowess creatures in the set, this is better than it looks. It's tough to block because you can buff it so much at instant speed, and you get a pretty nice trigger when it hits the opponent, so that's some pretty great tension in your favor.
Tusked Colossodon image 1.5 If you need a big top-curve creature well…you're hoping it isn't this. But running it isn't a disaster.
Efreet Weaponmaster image 3 The fact this has high power and first strike makes it hard for anything to block this, and it can reall wreck combat when it turns face up between it's own stat-line and the boost it can offer to something else.
Erase image 0.5 This isn't an Enchantment-heavy set, so this is sideboard material. You won't bring it in very often either.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Waterwhirl
Waterwhirl image 1 This is expensive enough that it's hard or you to get a tempo advantage, and most of the time you go down a card for the effect.
Feed the Clan image 0.5 If you're in a Sultai deck that wants to make the game go long, Feed the Clan can definitely be a sideboard option against really aggressive decks.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Singing Bell Strike
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Whirlwind Adept image 2.5 Hexproof can make this card into a nightmare for your opponent, especially if you find ways to buff it -- like Auras or +1/+1 counters. It also has the 4 power that Ferocious decks want.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Highland Game
Sultai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Singing Bell Strike
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Draft Pick Overview