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Quick Draft KTK 27 December 2023

27 December 04:02 - Adonis 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (14)
2 Kheru Spellsnatcher image
1 Sultai Flayer image
2 Jeskai Windscout image
1 Jeskai Elder image
1 Longshot Squad image
1 Alabaster Kirin image
2 Ainok Bond-Kin image
1 Timely Hordemate image
1 Jeskai Student image
1 Icefeather Aven image
1 Watcher of the Roost image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (12)
4 Defiant Strike image
1 Treasure Cruise image
1 Disdainful Stroke image
1 Naturalize image
1 End Hostilities image
1 Smite the Monstrous image
2 Brave the Sands image
1 Incremental Growth image
Land (17)
1 Opulent Palace image
1 Thornwood Falls image
2 Tranquil Cove image
6 Plains image
3 Island image
4 Forest image
Sideboard
1 Scaldkin image
3 Firehoof Cavalry image
2 Highland Game image
1 Embodiment of Spring image
1 Woolly Loxodon image
1 Tusked Colossodon image
1 Bloodfire Mentor image
1 Brave the Sands image
1 Erase image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Kheru Spellsnatcher
Kheru Spellsnatcher image 3 If you can Morph this the effect is completely insane, as it counters a spell and steals it. That means you're always getting a 2-for-1. The downside is that you have to leave a ton of mana up and hope your opponent plays into it.
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.
Windstorm image 0.5 This should be in your sideboard, and it isn't like there are that many opponents going wide with flyers, so you won't bring it in often either.
Stubborn Denial image 0.5 This is definitely sideboard material. You need your opponent to have enough targets to counter and you need to be able to get Ferocioius going for it to be worth it.
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.
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.
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.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
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.
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.
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.
Crippling Chill image 2.5 This card gets a big bump because of Prowess. Tapping down your opponent's best blocker and buffing two or three creatures while also getting a card feels pretty insane.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Opulent Palace
Opulent Palace image 3.5 These tri-lands are fairly high picks, as you're going to find yourself running three colors in virtually every deck since doing so gives you access to powerhouses like the Charms. These make that much easier on your mana base.
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.
Mardu Roughrider image 2.5 The stats are fine, and Mardu decks are very interested in getting the best blocker out of the way.
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.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
Blossoming Sands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Scaldkin image 2 This is expensive for the stat-line, and the activated ability isn't cheap either. But, we're still talking about a Flyer that can turn into removal when you need it to.
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.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Sultai Flayer
Briber's Purse image 1.5 This does trigger prowess, making it a little better than it looks at first. Shutting down a blocker or attacker for a turn has it's uses, but sometimes it isn't really worth a card.
Sultai Flayer image 3.5 At worst, this is a 4-mana 3/4 that gains you 4 life when it dies. That's a pretty nice creature that will always generate some real value, and this pays you off in a big way for having other 4 toughness creatures around.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
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.
Crippling Chill image 2.5 This card gets a big bump because of Prowess. Tapping down your opponent's best blocker and buffing two or three creatures while also getting a card feels pretty insane.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Jeskai Windscout
Temur Charm image 4 The first two modes carry most of the weight here, as it can be an efficient fight spell or a counterspell. The third mode comes up rarely, but when it's good, it tends to be really good.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
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.
Jeskai Windscout image 3 This is one of Blue's best Commons. It has passable base stats and Prowess means it's going to be hard to block and hit hard.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Jeskai Windscout
Master the Way image 1.5 This has a really high ceiling, where you get an easy 2-for-1. But the floor is awful. If you're in a grindy Jeskai deck, it can be worth playing. Not so much otherwise.
Quiet Contemplation image 0 This doesn't do enough to be a worthwhile payoff for Prowess decks.
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.
Arrow Storm image 2.5 This is a Lava Axe that can actually hit creatures, which makes for a pretty solid card, even at five mana. It's a bit worse than the axe if you're not Raiding, but it is pretty doable to get that going in Red.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Jeskai Windscout image 3 This is one of Blue's best Commons. It has passable base stats and Prowess means it's going to be hard to block and hit hard.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Jeskai Elder
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.
War-Name Aspirant image 3 A two mana 2/1 that can't be blocked by tokens is passable, and this will often be a 3/2.
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.
Kill Shot image 2.5 It is far from premium, but Kill Shot does the job often enough to be a worthwhile inclusion in most White decks.
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Thornwood Falls
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.
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.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Thornwood Falls image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Defiant Strike
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Defiant Strike
Stubborn Denial image 0.5 This is definitely sideboard material. You need your opponent to have enough targets to counter and you need to be able to get Ferocioius going for it to be worth it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Scaldkin
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.
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.
Scaldkin image 2 This is expensive for the stat-line, and the activated ability isn't cheap either. But, we're still talking about a Flyer that can turn into removal when you need it to.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Firehoof Cavalry
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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.
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 1 Pick 12: Defiant Strike
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Highland Game
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Firehoof Cavalry
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.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Kheru Spellsnatcher
Kheru Spellsnatcher image 3 If you can Morph this the effect is completely insane, as it counters a spell and steals it. That means you're always getting a 2-for-1. The downside is that you have to leave a ton of mana up and hope your opponent plays into it.
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.
Mer-Ek Nightblade image 3.5 This often comes down and gives other creatures you control death touch right away, and even when it doesn't it can buff itself very efficiently.
Dazzling Ramparts image 1.5 This isn't a terrible defensive card, but it isn't something you're really hoping to get either. It can block, but it can't kill things, and while the tap effect is nice it is also kind of awkward on a creature you want to block with.
Mardu Hateblade image 2.5 You need to be playing Black for this to do it's thing, but if you can we're talking about a cheap creature that can trade with anything.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Debilitating Injury image 3 This kills a wide swath of creatures in the format, including face-down morphs.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Rugged Highlands 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.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
Ainok Tracker image 2 While this is certainly inefficient, it is also incredibly punishing if your opponent chooses to block it with a creature with three or less toughness.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Alabaster Kirin
Mardu Charm image 4 You're going to use the removal mode the most often, but generating two 1/1 first strike tokens is great too -- and can actually feel like removal that adds to the board in the right situation. The discard option isn't one you're going to want very often in Limited, though.
Mer-Ek Nightblade image 3.5 This often comes down and gives other creatures you control death touch right away, and even when it doesn't it can buff itself very efficiently.
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.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Ainok Bond-Kin
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.
Bear's Companion image 4 5 mana for a 2/2 and a 4/4 is an excellent rate. Not much more to say about this one.
Ainok Bond-Kin image 3 Like the other Outlast lords, this one gives you a decent baseline and is a great place to sink your mana.
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.
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.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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 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 4: Timely Hordemate
Timely Hordemate image 2 This has bad stats and it's Raid is surprisingly challenging to get going. Not only do you need to attack, as with all Raid creatures, but you also need a creature in the graveyard with the right stats. It doesn't line up often enough for this to be anything special.
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.
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.
Ainok Bond-Kin image 3 Like the other Outlast lords, this one gives you a decent baseline and is a great place to sink your mana.
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.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Treasure Cruise
Become Immense image 2.5 This stats boost is MASSIVE, and firing it off for one or two mana is very doable in Green. It does take set up, and the times when you can't get your graveyard stocked it feels pretty bad.
Briber's Purse image 1.5 This does trigger prowess, making it a little better than it looks at first. Shutting down a blocker or attacker for a turn has it's uses, but sometimes it isn't really worth a card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Treasure Cruise image 3.5 It isn't quite as broken here as it is in 60-card formats, because you can't load your graveyard quite as quickly -- but you definitely can get this to the point where you are paying a tiny amount of mana to draw 3. You want one in most Blue decks, but not more than one.
Thornwood Falls image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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: Tranquil Cove
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.
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.
Crippling Chill image 2.5 This card gets a big bump because of Prowess. Tapping down your opponent's best blocker and buffing two or three creatures while also getting a card feels pretty insane.
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.
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.
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.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Tranquil Cove
Abzan Battle Priest image 3.5 This often comes down and immediately gives a creature or two Lifelink, and like all Outlast creatures if it sticks around it becomes a threat all on its own too.
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
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.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Highland Game
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Temur Charm image 4 The first two modes carry most of the weight here, as it can be an efficient fight spell or a counterspell. The third mode comes up rarely, but when it's good, it tends to be really good.
Rite of the Serpent image 2 It's expensive, but it answers everything and might even give you a Snake.
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Disdainful Stroke
Dazzling Ramparts image 1.5 This isn't a terrible defensive card, but it isn't something you're really hoping to get either. It can block, but it can't kill things, and while the tap effect is nice it is also kind of awkward on a creature you want to block with.
Mardu Hateblade image 2.5 You need to be playing Black for this to do it's thing, but if you can we're talking about a cheap creature that can trade with anything.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
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.
Ainok Tracker image 2 While this is certainly inefficient, it is also incredibly punishing if your opponent chooses to block it with a creature with three or less toughness.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Embodiment of Spring
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.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
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.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Defiant Strike
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.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
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.
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: Jeskai Student
Ainok Bond-Kin image 3 Like the other Outlast lords, this one gives you a decent baseline and is a great place to sink your mana.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Naturalize
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.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Firehoof Cavalry
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.
Pack 3 Pick 1: End Hostilities
End Hostilities image 4.5 As usual, a sweeper is a powerful thing, but it can also be awkward if you're an aggro deck. Still, this kind of power to reset the game is impossible to replace.
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.
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.
Watcher of the Roost image 3 This has passable stats and often amounts to being a three mana 2/1 flyer that gains you 2 life, and that's a nice card.
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Mardu Hateblade image 2.5 You need to be playing Black for this to do it's thing, but if you can we're talking about a cheap creature that can trade with anything.
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.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2: Icefeather Aven
Horde Ambusher image 2.5 This has a passable base line, and shutting down a blocker for a turn often allows for a huge turn for Red decks.
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.
Icefeather Aven image 4 This is a Flying Morph Man-O-War, and you can also just drop it on turn two if you need an efficient flyer. Either way, it feels pretty good when you use this card.
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.
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.
Woolly Loxodon image 2.5 This massive Morpher can create all kinds of problems when you turn it sideways, either threatening to do a ton of damage out of nowhere, or completely annihilate anything that blocks it.
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.
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.
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Watcher of the Roost
Goblinslide image 1.0 // 3.5 This is a very powerful build around. Jeskai decks already want to run lots of spells, and tacking a Goblin on to those is huge. You can't really play it without a critical mass of spells, though.
Watcher of the Roost image 3 This has passable stats and often amounts to being a three mana 2/1 flyer that gains you 2 life, and that's a nice card.
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.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Rite of the Serpent image 2 It's expensive, but it answers everything and might even give you a Snake.
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.
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.
Jeskai Windscout image 3 This is one of Blue's best Commons. It has passable base stats and Prowess means it's going to be hard to block and hit hard.
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.
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.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Smite the Monstrous
Brave the Sands image 0 This basically does nothing in Limited and you never want to play a card like that. Vigilance + extra block just isn't enough of a buff to be worth a card.
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
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.
Jeskai Windscout image 3 This is one of Blue's best Commons. It has passable base stats and Prowess means it's going to be hard to block and hit 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.
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.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
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 5: Ainok Bond-Kin
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.
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.
Ainok Bond-Kin image 3 Like the other Outlast lords, this one gives you a decent baseline and is a great place to sink your mana.
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.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Crippling Chill image 2.5 This card gets a big bump because of Prowess. Tapping down your opponent's best blocker and buffing two or three creatures while also getting a card feels pretty insane.
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.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Brave the Sands
Brave the Sands image 0 This basically does nothing in Limited and you never want to play a card like that. Vigilance + extra block just isn't enough of a buff to be worth a card.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Incremental Growth
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.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
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.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
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.
Scaldkin image 2 This is expensive for the stat-line, and the activated ability isn't cheap either. But, we're still talking about a Flyer that can turn into removal when you need it to.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Brave the Sands
Brave the Sands image 0 This basically does nothing in Limited and you never want to play a card like that. Vigilance + extra block just isn't enough of a buff to be worth a card.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
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.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Longshot Squad
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
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.
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.
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 10: Woolly Loxodon
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.
Woolly Loxodon image 2.5 This massive Morpher can create all kinds of problems when you turn it sideways, either threatening to do a ton of damage out of nowhere, or completely annihilate anything that blocks it.
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.
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Tusked Colossodon
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.
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.
Rite of the Serpent image 2 It's expensive, but it answers everything and might even give you a Snake.
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 12: Brave the Sands
Brave the Sands image 0 This basically does nothing in Limited and you never want to play a card like that. Vigilance + extra block just isn't enough of a buff to be worth a card.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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 13: Erase
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.
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 14: Bloodfire Mentor
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.
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