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Quick Draft KTK 31 December 2023

31 December 08:21 - Cartecha 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (18)
1 Siege Rhino image
2 Ainok Bond-Kin image
1 Mardu Hordechief image
3 Mardu Skullhunter image
1 Gurmag Swiftwing image
1 Disowned Ancestor image
1 Armament Corps image
1 Timely Hordemate image
1 Mardu Hateblade image
1 Chief of the Edge image
1 Seeker of the Way image
1 Abzan Guide image
2 Krumar Bond-Kin image
1 Sultai Scavenger image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (5)
1 Debilitating Injury image
1 Rush of Battle image
1 Defiant Strike image
1 Suspension Field image
1 Utter End image
Land (17)
7 Plains image
7 Swamp image
3 Forest image
Sideboard
1 Salt Road Patrol image
1 Dazzling Ramparts image
1 Ainok Tracker image
1 Bloodfire Mentor image
2 Woolly Loxodon image
1 Sage-Eye Harrier image
1 War Behemoth image
2 Jeskai Student image
1 Temur Charger image
1 Mardu Blazebringer image
1 Leaping Master image
2 Take Up Arms image
1 Sultai Banner image
1 Force Away image
1 Abzan Banner image
1 Flooded Strand image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Siege Rhino
Siege Rhino image 5 This offers nice evasive stats and a great ETB ability that can have a drastic impact on a race.
Roar of Challenge image 1.5 As usual, Lure effects are bad in Limited. This one is a little bit better than most, because when you can line it up with Ferocious, it CAN be devastating. But you have to rely on your opponent's board and yours being in the right state.
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.
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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.
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.
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.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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 2: Debilitating Injury
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
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.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
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.
Debilitating Injury image 3 This kills a wide swath of creatures in the format, including face-down morphs.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Ainok Bond-Kin
Take Up Arms image 2 This isn't the best rate for getting three 1/1 tokens, even at Instant speed. Buf if you need to go wide, it can do the job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
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 1 Pick 4: Mardu Hordechief
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
Tranquil Cove 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 5: Mardu Skullhunter
Mardu Roughrider image 2.5 The stats are fine, and Mardu decks are very interested in getting the best blocker out of the way.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Mardu Skullhunter
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.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands 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.
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.
Sagu Archer image 2 This can block most of the Flyers in this format, and sometimes it can do it out of nowhere.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Gurmag Swiftwing
Gurmag Swiftwing image 2 This is a nice place to put counters or other buffs if you have them. It quickly becomes outclassed if you don't, though.
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.
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.
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.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Rush of Battle
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.
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.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
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.
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 1 Pick 9: Salt Road Patrol
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
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.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
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 10: Dazzling Ramparts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Take Up Arms
Take Up Arms image 2 This isn't the best rate for getting three 1/1 tokens, even at Instant speed. Buf if you need to go wide, it can do the job.
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.
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 1 Pick 12: Defiant Strike
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.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Ainok Tracker
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.
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.
Pack 1 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.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Flooded Strand
Flooded Strand image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these fetch lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Monastery Swiftspear image 3.5 While not quite as insane here as it is in 60-card formats, it is still a frightening turn one play in this format, and thanks to Prowess and lots of support for it in the set, it is a one drop that remains relevant all game long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abzan 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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Dismal Backwater image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Disowned Ancestor
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.
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.
Highspire Mantis image 2 A Flying, Trampling, Hill Giant isn't the best thing ever, but it's serviceable enough.
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.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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 3: Temur Charger
Monastery Swiftspear image 3.5 While not quite as insane here as it is in 60-card formats, it is still a frightening turn one play in this format, and thanks to Prowess and lots of support for it in the set, it is a one drop that remains relevant all game long.
Temur Charger image 2.5 A two mana 3/1 is perfectly fine, and the trample upside doesn't hurt. Note it can target itself, that comes up sometimes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 4: Armament Corps
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.
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.
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.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play 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.
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.
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.
Scoured Barrens 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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Suspension Field
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.
Suspension Field image 3.5 This is a very efficient way to deal with many creatures in the format, though it is a bit of a bummer it can't deal with face-down Morphs.
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.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play 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.
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.
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.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
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.
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 2 Pick 6: Woolly Loxodon
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Timely Hordemate
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the sideboard.
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 2 Pick 8: Mardu Hateblade
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
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.
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Woolly Loxodon
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.
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.
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.
Abzan 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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Ainok Bond-Kin
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
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.
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 11: Jeskai Student
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.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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 2 Pick 12: War Behemoth
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.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Sage-Eye Harrier
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.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Sultai Banner
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 3 Pick 1: Utter End
Utter End image 4 This answers anything very efficiently.
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.
Abzan Charm image 4 This is either: a good removal spell, a decent combat trick, or a solid card draw spell. All three modes are good at the right time, so having those options is amazing.
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.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
Jungle Hollow 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.
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.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Smite the Monstrous image 2 You can run it in your deck if you need to, but it doesn't always have a target.
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.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Chief of the Edge
Mystic Monastery 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.
Seeker of the Way image 4 This is an absolute beating. It's very easy to buff Prowess creatures in this format, making it a nightmare to block the Seeker. Getting lifelink to go along with the stats boost is a huge deal too.
Chief of the Edge image 3 Black/White cares about Warriors, and you're going to have them without really trying, so the Chief has a real impact on the board the turn it comes down.
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.
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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
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.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Abzan 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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Seeker of the Way
Seeker of the Way image 4 This is an absolute beating. It's very easy to buff Prowess creatures in this format, making it a nightmare to block the Seeker. Getting lifelink to go along with the stats boost is a huge deal too.
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.
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.
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.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs 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.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with 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.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Abzan Guide
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls 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.
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.
Abzan 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.
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.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
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.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Krumar Bond-Kin
Take Up Arms image 2 This isn't the best rate for getting three 1/1 tokens, even at Instant speed. Buf if you need to go wide, it can do the job.
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.
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.
War Behemoth image 1.5 This is really inefficient no matter how you play it.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
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.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
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.
Naturalize image 0.5 Not enough targets for this. Bring it in out of the 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.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Leaping Master
Sagu Archer image 2 This can block most of the Flyers in this format, and sometimes it can do it out of nowhere.
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 Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Sultai Scavenger
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.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
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.
Weave Fate image 2 This is worth it in Prowess decks. That's a little less true in the other Blue decks, though.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Mardu Skullhunter
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play 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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Embodiment of Spring image 2 If you need fixing this does a pretty good job.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Mardu Blazebringer
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.
Rite of the Serpent image 2 It's expensive, but it answers everything and might even give you a Snake.
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.
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.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Krumar Bond-Kin
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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Abzan 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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Force Away
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.
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.
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.
Alpine Grizzly image 2 This is a passable stat-line, and it gets an extra bump in a set with Ferocious.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Abzan Banner
Abzan 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.
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.
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 3 Pick 13: Take Up Arms
Take Up Arms image 2 This isn't the best rate for getting three 1/1 tokens, even at Instant speed. Buf if you need to go wide, it can do the job.
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 3 Pick 14: Jeskai Student
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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