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Premier Draft KTK 15 January 2024

15 January 02:42 - Jkrap 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Maindeck
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (10)
1 Winterflame image
1 Cranial Archive image
1 Swift Kick image
1 Defiant Strike image
1 Goblinslide image
1 Siegecraft image
1 Kill Shot image
1 Crippling Chill image
1 Barrage of Boulders image
1 Burn Away image
Creature (13)
1 Leaping Master image
1 War-Name Aspirant image
1 Dragon-Style Twins image
1 Mardu Heart-Piercer image
2 Alabaster Kirin image
2 Monastery Swiftspear image
1 Scaldkin image
1 High Sentinels of Arashin image
3 Jeskai Student image
Land (17)
1 Mystic Monastery image
5 Plains image
1 Wind-Scarred Crag image
4 Island image
6 Mountain image
Sideboard
1 Mardu Hateblade image
2 Glacial Stalker image
1 Summit Prowler image
1 Rotting Mastodon image
2 Wetland Sambar image
1 Kheru Dreadmaw image
1 Murderous Cut image
1 Crippling Chill image
1 Siegecraft image
1 Shatter image
1 Cancel image
1 Mardu Banner image
1 Taigam's Scheming image
1 Dutiful Return image
1 Bloodfell Caves image

Pack 1 Pick 1: High Sentinels of Arashin
High Sentinels of Arashin image 4.5 This has great starting stats and will often be much larger, especially because it can hand out +1/+1 counters in the late game.
Witness of the Ages image 1.5 This never feels efficient, but like most morph creatures in this format it isn't unplayable either.
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.
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Murderous Cut
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.
Murderous Cut image 4 This often feels like it only costs a single Black mana, and it would be premium removal if it always cost 4.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Winterflame
Sultai Charm image 4 The removal mode is the one that's useful the most option, but having a way to deal with problem enchantments or dig deeper into your deck in a pinch is nice too.
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.
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.
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.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play 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.
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.
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.
Rush of Battle image 1 There are definitely Warriors in this set, and giving them all a reasonable buff and lifelink can sometimes help you win a race, but this demands you be good at going wide and running enough Warriors to really be worthwhile, and those things are far from guaranteed.
Mardu 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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Jeskai Student
Scion of Glaciers image 2 The ability to raise it's power makes it both a formidable attacker and blocker.
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.
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.
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.
Bloodfell Caves image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
Molting Snakeskin image 1 This Aura doesn't offer enough of a boost to really be worth the risk of getting 2-for-1'd. Regenaration helps with that a little bit, but three mana is a ton to have to leave up.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Alabaster Kirin
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.
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Rite of the Serpent image 2 It's expensive, but it answers everything and might even give you a Snake.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Crippling Chill
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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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 7: Alabaster Kirin
Witness of the Ages image 1.5 This never feels efficient, but like most morph creatures in this format it isn't unplayable either.
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.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
Sultai Scavenger image 3 This ends up being an efficient flyer fairly often in your typical Black decks in the format.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Mardu Hateblade
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 9: Barrage of Boulders
Heart-Piercer Bow image 0 Picking off small creatures is just too narrow of a use.
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.
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.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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 10: Glacial Stalker
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands 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 11: Scaldkin
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.
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.
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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Bloodfell Caves
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.
Bloodfell Caves 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.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Summit Prowler
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.
Summit Prowler image 2 This is surprisingly solid. This stat-line was better back in 2014 and it's a nice enabler for Ferocious.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Siegecraft
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 2 Pick 1: Monastery Swiftspear
Savage Knuckleblade image 3.5 This offers nice stats, and its abilities virtually always make it relevant. Being able to activate more than one at a time is kind of wishful thinking, though.
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.
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.
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.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
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.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
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.
Bloodfell Caves 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.
Tranquil Cove image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Unyielding Krumar image 1.5 This is awful if you can't give it Vigilance, and passable if you can.
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.
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 2 Pick 2: Mardu Heart-Piercer
Sagu Mauler image 4 This is good whichever way you play it. Sometimes it's best to wait until you can play it face up, since it won't have hexproof when it's face down, but either way you get an efficient, evasive, hard-to-kill creature.
Venerable Lammasu image 1 This has awful stats.
Swarm of Bloodflies image 2 The start stat-line is absolutely horrendous, but it can gain enough counters to be a threat.
Mardu Heart-Piercer image 3 If this was always a 4-mana 2/3 that did two damage on ETB, it would be a 4.0. Unfortunately, it's not always going to get it done, and when it can't it feels pretty bad. Still, you can get it going often enough for it to be a very powerful Common.
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.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Burn Away
Bloodstained Mire image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these fetch lands are higher picks than they normally are. Kind of nice they go in the graveyard for delve, too.
Burn Away image 3.5 A 5-mana deal 6 instant is pretty nice. It can kill almost anything and can produce blowouts sometimes. The fact this just nukes the whole graveyard can really matter against decks in the Sultai colors too.
Mardu Heart-Piercer image 3 If this was always a 4-mana 2/3 that did two damage on ETB, it would be a 4.0. Unfortunately, it's not always going to get it done, and when it can't it feels pretty bad. Still, you can get it going often enough for it to be a very powerful Common.
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.
Sage-Eye Harrier image 1.5 This has mediocre stats no matter how you play it.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Pack 2 Pick 4: War-Name Aspirant
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 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.
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.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
Valley Dasher image 1.5 A two mana 2/2 with Haste is nice, but one that keeps returning to yoru hand? Not so much.
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.
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.
Lens of Clarity image 0 This is laughably bad. It isn't worth a card or one mana to get these effects.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 5: Goblinslide
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.
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
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.
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.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Monastery Swiftspear
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.
Mardu Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
Jungle Hollow image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Scoured Barrens image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
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.
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Jeskai Banner image 1.5 These are really clunky, and even with the slower games this format has (compared to modern Limited), they aren't something you always run.
Pack 2 Pick 7: 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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bring Low image 2 This is pretty rough when the creature doesn't have a counter. When it does it becomes premium removal, but you have to account for the times where it is a 4-mana deal 3, because those feel rough and that's what it does the most often.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Swift Kick
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.
Venerable Lammasu image 1 This has awful stats.
Dismal Backwater 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.
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.
Rugged Highlands image 3 Fixing is extra important in this wedge-focused set, so these gain lands are higher picks than they normally are.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Leaping Master
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.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
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.
Bloodfell Caves 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.
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 2 Pick 10: Glacial Stalker
Venerable Lammasu image 1 This has awful stats.
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.
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.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Rotting Mastodon
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Wetland Sambar
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 13: Shatter
Rotting Mastodon image 1.5 High toughness matters in Black in this format, so this makes the cut on occasion.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Cancel
Cancel image 1.5 As usual, this is a borderline playable.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Dragon-Style Twins
Dragon-Style Twins image 4 The base stats can sometimes be really punishing. Your opponent can spend two mana to take this down and that's a huge tempo hit. However, the upside is worth it. A 5-mana 3/3 double striker is a reasonable deal to begin with, and with Prowess around your opponent is always going to wince when you attack with this thing. They have no idea what will happen.
Secret Plans image 1.5 // 4.0 This Morph buildaround is actually better than the Rare one! Making your morphs 2/3s actually matters, since it means they will outlcass opposing morphs, and drawing cards every time you turn something face up is a huge deal.
Scion of Glaciers image 2 The ability to raise it's power makes it both a formidable attacker and blocker.
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.
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.
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.
Leaping Master image 2 This is a passable two drop. Giving it flying is expensive, but it does keep it relevant in most games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Taigam's Scheming image 0 Loading the graveyard is important in Blue, but not so important that you want to play Taigam's Scheming. It makes you go down a card and you don't get anything back for it. There are better ways to load your graveyard.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Mystic Monastery
Butcher of the Horde image 5 This can end the game in a hurry even without it's activated ability, but with it, the game can end even faster thanks to Haste! And, if you're a little behind, lifelink and/or Vigilance do a great job of allowing you to continue to pressure your opponent while protecting yourself.
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.
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.
Alabaster Kirin image 2 This has passable stats for this set, and is a great place to put +1/+1 counters.
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.
Debilitating Injury image 3 This kills a wide swath of creatures in the format, including face-down morphs.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
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.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
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.
Scoured Barrens 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 3: Jeskai Student
Secret Plans image 1.5 // 4.0 This Morph buildaround is actually better than the Rare one! Making your morphs 2/3s actually matters, since it means they will outlcass opposing morphs, and drawing cards every time you turn something face up is a huge deal.
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.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 4: Cranial Archive
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.
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.
Disowned Ancestor image 2.5 This having high toughness is pretty nice in a format with a toughness-matters archetype, and it's toughness can get high in a hurry.
Trumpet Blast image 1.0 // 2.5 Some Mardu decks can go really wide, and having one of these in that type of deck is a good idea.
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.
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.
Abzan Guide image 3 Big lifelinkers can make life a real headache for your opponent, and this one can show up out of nowhere.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
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.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Kill Shot
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.
Throttle image 2 It's not the most efficient removal in the world, but it answers most creatures in the format at Instant speed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Jeskai Student
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.
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon image 0 Gaining a bit of life off of your morph creatures isn't worth diluting your mana base, especially in a format where you really want to have good mana for three-color decks.
Tormenting Voice image 2 This is nice in Prowess decks, and passable elsewhere.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
Jeskai Student image 2.5 This stat-line performs surprisingly well in a set loaded with instant-speed ways to trigger Prowess.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Siegecraft
Witness of the Ages image 1.5 This never feels efficient, but like most morph creatures in this format it isn't unplayable either.
Shatter image 0.5 Not enough artifacts to main deck this.
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.
Rugged Highlands 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.
Highland Game image 1.5 This is a very mediocre stat-line, and it has mediocre upside stapled to it.
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is 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.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Crippling Chill
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.
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.
Dragonscale Boon image 1.5 This is an incredibly weak boost for the cost, even if the tokens are permanent and your creature untaps.
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.
Archers' Parapet image 2.5 This is a good defensive creature that can even function as a win condition in slower decks.
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.
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 3 Pick 9: Mardu Banner
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 10: Wind-Scarred Crag
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.
Singing Bell Strike image 2 In the early game it can feel pretty good, especially alongside Prowess, but later in the game it's pretty close to being a blank card. So, you better win fast if you're playing this.
Dutiful Return image 2 This is clunky for sure, but as usual having one of this type of effect tends to feel good in the late game. It does get worse if you're planning on delving a lot.
Scoured Barrens 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.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Taigam's Scheming
Secret Plans image 1.5 // 4.0 This Morph buildaround is actually better than the Rare one! Making your morphs 2/3s actually matters, since it means they will outlcass opposing morphs, and drawing cards every time you turn something face up is a huge deal.
Scout the Borders image 2 If you need to load your graveyard in Green -- and you often do -- this does the job.
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.
Molting Snakeskin image 1 This Aura doesn't offer enough of a boost to really be worth the risk of getting 2-for-1'd. Regenaration helps with that a little bit, but three mana is a ton to have to leave up.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Dutiful Return
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.
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.
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 13: Kheru Dreadmaw
Kheru Dreadmaw image 1 This has bad stats, especially for a Defender, and the ability is underwhelming.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Wetland Sambar
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.
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