Premier Draft OTJ 24 July 2024
24 July 05:35 - seth426 7 Wins - 2 LossesMaindeck
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Sideboard
Pack 1 Pick 1: Kaervek, the Punisher
Beastbond Outcaster
3.5 You'll draw with this often enough for it to be a very good card. And even if you don't draw, it's not a bad rate.
3.5 You'll draw with this often enough for it to be a very good card. And even if you don't draw, it's not a bad rate.
Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor
3.5 I'd be happy just getting a 2/4 and a 1/1 for this cost, but doubling abilities -- including the mercenary token tap abilty, can really alter combat.
3.5 I'd be happy just getting a 2/4 and a 1/1 for this cost, but doubling abilities -- including the mercenary token tap abilty, can really alter combat.
Sandstorm Verge
1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot
3 Making your damage-based removal better is great, and sometimes you can even turn a weaker burn spell into a Fireball into your opponents dome.
3 Making your damage-based removal better is great, and sometimes you can even turn a weaker burn spell into a Fireball into your opponents dome.
Kaervek, the Punisher
3.5 His crim trigger is strong, but needing the card to be black is a bit of a letdown. Still, even if you only cast one thing using Kaervek, you'll feel like you're doing a good job.
3.5 His crim trigger is strong, but needing the card to be black is a bit of a letdown. Still, even if you only cast one thing using Kaervek, you'll feel like you're doing a good job.
Fake Your Own Death
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Inventive Wingsmith
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Peerless Ropemaster
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Spinewoods Paladin
3 The rate on this is pretty crazy for a Common! It's a very real body that gains you life, and that can go a long way towards helping you stabilize.
3 The rate on this is pretty crazy for a Common! It's a very real body that gains you life, and that can go a long way towards helping you stabilize.
Irascible Wolverine
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Oasis Gardener
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
Blacksnag Buzzard
2.5 If you get the counter, this'll feel pretty good. If you don't...it's pasasble. That makes it solid filler over all.
2.5 If you get the counter, this'll feel pretty good. If you don't...it's pasasble. That makes it solid filler over all.
Ride Down
2.5 This is pretty nice in all-out aggressive Red-White decks, but too situational for anything else.
2.5 This is pretty nice in all-out aggressive Red-White decks, but too situational for anything else.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Slickshot Show-Off
Slickshot Show-Off
3.5 A two mana 1/2 with Flying and Haste is already something you'll play, and this will smash in for more damage pretty often. The Plot upside here isn't something you'll use much in Limited, you just want this down ASAP most of the time.
3.5 A two mana 1/2 with Flying and Haste is already something you'll play, and this will smash in for more damage pretty often. The Plot upside here isn't something you'll use much in Limited, you just want this down ASAP most of the time.
Outlaw Stitcher
4 The baseline is great, and you'll often be able to get the extra large zombie out of the deal.
4 The baseline is great, and you'll often be able to get the extra large zombie out of the deal.
Intimidation Campaign
2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
Thunder Lasso
2 The turn you play this will feel pretty great, as it can really upgrade your attacks. The problem is how clunky it is when you have to Equip it thereafter.
2 The turn you play this will feel pretty great, as it can really upgrade your attacks. The problem is how clunky it is when you have to Equip it thereafter.
Seize the Secrets
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Oasis Gardener
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
Trained Arynx
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
Snakeskin Veil
2.5 This is a great trick since it can efficiently blank removal and help your creature win combat.
2.5 This is a great trick since it can efficiently blank removal and help your creature win combat.
Peerless Ropemaster
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Corrupted Conviction
2 If you have lots of Mercenary tokens, this isn't a bad way to cash them in.
2 If you have lots of Mercenary tokens, this isn't a bad way to cash them in.
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Lonely Arroyo
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Terminal Agony
2.5 The base mode of this card is pretty mediocre, but if you have a few ways to discard it -- and this format has them -- it gets a lot better.
2.5 The base mode of this card is pretty mediocre, but if you have a few ways to discard it -- and this format has them -- it gets a lot better.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Prickly Pair
Nimble Brigand
3 The stats are bad, but if you get in with this once you'll feel pretty good ,and getting it with it is pretty easy. Get in with it more than once, and the game might just be over.
3 The stats are bad, but if you get in with this once you'll feel pretty good ,and getting it with it is pretty easy. Get in with it more than once, and the game might just be over.
Ferocification
1 These Enchantments that just buff your creature during your turn pretty much never work out. They do nothing on their own, and the buff it offers just isn't enough. I kind of wish they had made this so it could target any creature, because then you could commit crimes with it at least.
1 These Enchantments that just buff your creature during your turn pretty much never work out. They do nothing on their own, and the buff it offers just isn't enough. I kind of wish they had made this so it could target any creature, because then you could commit crimes with it at least.
Daring Thunder-Thief
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Blacksnag Buzzard
2.5 If you get the counter, this'll feel pretty good. If you don't...it's pasasble. That makes it solid filler over all.
2.5 If you get the counter, this'll feel pretty good. If you don't...it's pasasble. That makes it solid filler over all.
Failed Fording
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Prickly Pair
3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make 1/1s always perform well in Limited, and these tokens both come with an "Outlaw" creature type.
3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make 1/1s always perform well in Limited, and these tokens both come with an "Outlaw" creature type.
Bristlepack Sentry
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
Outlaws' Fury
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Creosote Heath
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Geyser Drake
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
Tyrant's Scorn
3 Neither mode is incredible for the cost, but if you can't kill a small creature with it, at least you can bounce it.
3 Neither mode is incredible for the cost, but if you can't kill a small creature with it, at least you can bounce it.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Rattleback Apothecary
The Key to the Vault
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
Explosive Derailment
4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
Raven of Fell Omens
2 The stats are mediocre, and the crime trigger is decent.
2 The stats are mediocre, and the crime trigger is decent.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Ambush Gigapede
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Failed Fording
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Sheriff of Safe Passage
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
Rattleback Apothecary
3 Menace and Lifelink are great keywords in Limited, and it can even grant them to itself.
3 Menace and Lifelink are great keywords in Limited, and it can even grant them to itself.
Bandit's Haul
1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
Back for More
2.5 The ceiling here is incredibly high. You reanimate something at instant speed, use it to ambush block, and then have it fight something else. If the creature is big enough, it can survive all of that! But setting that up and getting the stats to line up correctly is pretty tough.
2.5 The ceiling here is incredibly high. You reanimate something at instant speed, use it to ambush block, and then have it fight something else. If the creature is big enough, it can survive all of that! But setting that up and getting the stats to line up correctly is pretty tough.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Nezumi Linkbreaker
Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot
3.5 Triggering her ability isn't the easiest in this format as there simply aren't that many multicolored instants and sorceries. However, a three mana 3/3 with Prowess is already pretty good, and if you can cast an instant or sorcery twice here and there it'll feel insane.
3.5 Triggering her ability isn't the easiest in this format as there simply aren't that many multicolored instants and sorceries. However, a three mana 3/3 with Prowess is already pretty good, and if you can cast an instant or sorcery twice here and there it'll feel insane.
Trash the Town
3 This is kind of a medium trick if you only use the first mode, but gaining access to the other two in the mid-game is pretty amazing, and it's the kind of card that can really swing a game in your favor between running over an opposing creature and drawing cards.
3 This is kind of a medium trick if you only use the first mode, but gaining access to the other two in the mid-game is pretty amazing, and it's the kind of card that can really swing a game in your favor between running over an opposing creature and drawing cards.
Holy Cow
3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
Trick Shot
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Failed Fording
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Iron-Fist Pulverizer
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre, and the second spell trigger isn't great either. Especially because second spell decks are going to want pretty low curves, so I'm not sure this really has a home.
Sterling Keykeeper
2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Nezumi Linkbreaker
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Mourner's Surprise
High Noon
0.0 // 2.5 You have to have access to the activated ability, or this symmetrical effect just isn't worth it.
0.0 // 2.5 You have to have access to the activated ability, or this symmetrical effect just isn't worth it.
Fleeting Reflection
1.5 Hexproof can be nice in the right situation. So can turning your creature into a copy of something else. However, both effects are too narrow for this to make the cut all that often.
1.5 Hexproof can be nice in the right situation. So can turning your creature into a copy of something else. However, both effects are too narrow for this to make the cut all that often.
Requisition Raid
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
Mourner's Surprise
2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
Quick Draw
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Razzle-Dazzler
2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
Stagecoach Security
2.5 Buffing your whole board and giving it Vigilance is great, as it allows you to attack a lot better while not giving anything up on defense.
2.5 Buffing your whole board and giving it Vigilance is great, as it allows you to attack a lot better while not giving anything up on defense.
Surgical Extraction
0 Commiting a crime for free is a thing, but going down a card to do it generally isn't worth it, especially with a card that has an almost entirely meaningless effect.
0 Commiting a crime for free is a thing, but going down a card to do it generally isn't worth it, especially with a card that has an almost entirely meaningless effect.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Jagged Barrens
Insatiable Avarice
2 You pretty much need triple Black for this to be worth it, as the tutor effect on its own is pretty bad -- and triple black is asking a lot in Limited.
2 You pretty much need triple Black for this to be worth it, as the tutor effect on its own is pretty bad -- and triple black is asking a lot in Limited.
Make Your Own Luck
2.5 This doesn't effect the board initially, but in theory Make Your Own Luck should give you a huge turn on your next turn. At the same time, spending your turn 5 doing this might mean you're dead before you ever get there, and if you don't reveal at least two spells in your top three, this doesn't feel like it will do enough to make up for it's problems. Most of the time you will draw two real cards with it and get one for free, but you're sort of spinning the roulette wheel every time you cast it, and I don't love that.
2.5 This doesn't effect the board initially, but in theory Make Your Own Luck should give you a huge turn on your next turn. At the same time, spending your turn 5 doing this might mean you're dead before you ever get there, and if you don't reveal at least two spells in your top three, this doesn't feel like it will do enough to make up for it's problems. Most of the time you will draw two real cards with it and get one for free, but you're sort of spinning the roulette wheel every time you cast it, and I don't love that.
Loan Shark
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Harrier Strix
2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
2.5 This is a nice turn one play, and in the later game it's ETB can do some work -- especially if you need to commit some crimes.
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Deadeye Duelist
2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
2 This lets you repeat crimes repeatedly, but the stat-line isn't great.
Jagged Barrens
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Daring Thunder-Thief
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Botanical Sanctum
Botanical Sanctum
3 It's nice to have awesome fixing that enters the battlefield untapped.
3 It's nice to have awesome fixing that enters the battlefield untapped.
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
3 Discounting plots is big, but I don't love that that's pretty much all Doc has going on.
3 Discounting plots is big, but I don't love that that's pretty much all Doc has going on.
Inventive Wingsmith
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Failed Fording
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Ankle Biter
2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
Archmage's Charm
2.5 This is pretty hard to cast, but each of the modes is pretty good for the cost.
2.5 This is pretty hard to cast, but each of the modes is pretty good for the cost.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Fake Your Own Death
Sandstorm Verge
1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
1.0 This isn't worth the hit to your mana base. The effect just doesn't do enough, even in a format with crimes.
Fake Your Own Death
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Inventive Wingsmith
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Peerless Ropemaster
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Oasis Gardener
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Corrupted Conviction
Seize the Secrets
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Peerless Ropemaster
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
1.5 It's a decent body, but bounce effects have been getting worse lately with all the ETB abilities and the like. Plus, not being able to bounce a creature that can block is a big problem.
Corrupted Conviction
2 If you have lots of Mercenary tokens, this isn't a bad way to cash them in.
2 If you have lots of Mercenary tokens, this isn't a bad way to cash them in.
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Lonely Arroyo
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Steer Clear
Daring Thunder-Thief
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Failed Fording
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
2 This style of card is virtually always a 2, even with a little bit of upside. It's nice that you can interact, but the price you pay is often card disadvantage.
Geyser Drake
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Steer Clear
The Key to the Vault
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Forest
Pack 2 Pick 1: Dust Animus
Dust Animus
4.5 This is scary no matter how you play it. If you stick it on turn two, it might just win you the game in the air, and if you get it later and it's a massive lifelinker, the same outcome is likely.
4.5 This is scary no matter how you play it. If you stick it on turn two, it might just win you the game in the air, and if you get it later and it's a massive lifelinker, the same outcome is likely.
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
3 Discounting plots is big, but I don't love that that's pretty much all Doc has going on.
3 Discounting plots is big, but I don't love that that's pretty much all Doc has going on.
Caught in the Crossfire
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor
3.5 I'd be happy just getting a 2/4 and a 1/1 for this cost, but doubling abilities -- including the mercenary token tap abilty, can really alter combat.
3.5 I'd be happy just getting a 2/4 and a 1/1 for this cost, but doubling abilities -- including the mercenary token tap abilty, can really alter combat.
Outlaws' Fury
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Outlaw Medic
2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
Irascible Wolverine
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Boneyard Desecrator
2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Bristlepack Sentry
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
Stop Cold
2 Blue's usual passable removal spell that you kind of hope you don't have to use, but it's fine if you do.
2 Blue's usual passable removal spell that you kind of hope you don't have to use, but it's fine if you do.
Slick Sequence
3.5 Two mana to deal two to anything is probably a 2.0, but you're going to draw with this a huge chunk of the time.
3.5 Two mana to deal two to anything is probably a 2.0, but you're going to draw with this a huge chunk of the time.
Repulse
3 Drawing and bouncing for three mana at instant speed is a very good rate. You end up with tempo and you break even on cards, but it has blowout potential too.
3 Drawing and bouncing for three mana at instant speed is a very good rate. You end up with tempo and you break even on cards, but it has blowout potential too.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Journey to Nowhere
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
0 This is a hard-to-cast 4-mana 2/5 with Menace and the ability is virtually useless in Limited. This means she isn't worth splashing.
0 This is a hard-to-cast 4-mana 2/5 with Menace and the ability is virtually useless in Limited. This means she isn't worth splashing.
Unfortunate Accident
4 Destroying your opponent's best creature and adding to the board is very powerful, and the fail case here is Murder.
4 Destroying your opponent's best creature and adding to the board is very powerful, and the fail case here is Murder.
Demonic Ruckus
2.5 This Aura seems pretty pushed. It offers a stats-boost that makes just about any creature into a legit threat, it replaces itself, and it's really efficient.
2.5 This Aura seems pretty pushed. It offers a stats-boost that makes just about any creature into a legit threat, it replaces itself, and it's really efficient.
Prairie Dog
3.5 A two mana 2/2 with lifelink is a creature you always play, and this can grow fairly easily. In the late game, you can use it's ability as a nice mana sink.
3.5 A two mana 2/2 with lifelink is a creature you always play, and this can grow fairly easily. In the late game, you can use it's ability as a nice mana sink.
Quick Draw
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Phantom Interference
3 This can take care of a spell on turn two, and it has the upside of being a 5-mana 2/2 flyer that counters a spell -- that's a card I would always play.
3 This can take care of a spell on turn two, and it has the upside of being a 5-mana 2/2 flyer that counters a spell -- that's a card I would always play.
Rooftop Assassin
2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
Sterling Hound
1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
Throw from the Saddle
3.5 This is a great "bite" effect that allows smaller creatures to punch up, and you're going to have enough mounts in Green for that bonus to come up.
3.5 This is a great "bite" effect that allows smaller creatures to punch up, and you're going to have enough mounts in Green for that bonus to come up.
Vengeful Townsfolk
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Gold Rush
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
Journey to Nowhere
4 Exiling a creature for two mana is pretty insane, even if your opponent can potentially get it back later.
4 Exiling a creature for two mana is pretty insane, even if your opponent can potentially get it back later.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Reckless Lackey
Pillage the Bog
2.5 This is a pretty bad card selection spell early, and in the mid-to-late game it become a nice one.
2.5 This is a pretty bad card selection spell early, and in the mid-to-late game it become a nice one.
Mourner's Surprise
2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
2.5 This will feel close enough to a two-mana 2-for-1 that I'm definitely playing the first copy in most Black decks.
Consuming Ashes
2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
Quick Draw
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Reckless Lackey
3 This is a pretty pushed stat-line, making it a great play on turn one and a great place to put Equipment, counters, and tricks. And if it ever becomes useless you can just cash it in.
3 This is a pretty pushed stat-line, making it a great play on turn one and a great place to put Equipment, counters, and tricks. And if it ever becomes useless you can just cash it in.
Vengeful Townsfolk
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Rambling Possum
3 The saddle is really easy here, but don't put too much value into the bounce part of the card.
3 The saddle is really easy here, but don't put too much value into the bounce part of the card.
Neutralize the Guards
0.5 As with most cards with this effect, this mostly seems like a sideboard card.
0.5 As with most cards with this effect, this mostly seems like a sideboard card.
Omenpath Journey
0 Ramping and fixing is cool and all, but spending 4 mana to do nothing isn't. You also aren't likely to have 5 lands with different names in Limited.
0 Ramping and fixing is cool and all, but spending 4 mana to do nothing isn't. You also aren't likely to have 5 lands with different names in Limited.
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Thornado
0.5 Even with a cycling mode, Plummet just isn't worth it in the main deck.
0.5 Even with a cycling mode, Plummet just isn't worth it in the main deck.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier
Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier
3 If you play this on two and he sticks around, he's going to chip in tons and tons of damage. The trigger commits a crime, too!
3 If you play this on two and he sticks around, he's going to chip in tons and tons of damage. The trigger commits a crime, too!
Demonic Ruckus
2.5 This Aura seems pretty pushed. It offers a stats-boost that makes just about any creature into a legit threat, it replaces itself, and it's really efficient.
2.5 This Aura seems pretty pushed. It offers a stats-boost that makes just about any creature into a legit threat, it replaces itself, and it's really efficient.
Intimidation Campaign
2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
2.5 I really want this to be good, and it has the potential. But if this is like other formats of late, paying three mana over and over again for this effect might be too slow.
Inventive Wingsmith
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Nezumi Linkbreaker
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
Rooftop Assassin
2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
2 Killing things that have already been damaged is surprisingly hard to take advantage of. They pushed this pretty hard with all these keywords, so I think it'll be better than most similar creatures we have seen. But it's still nothing special.
Explosive Derailment
4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
4 This is a great removal spell. Even if it was always just the first mode, it would be a card that always makes the cut -- and one you take highly. But the added Spree upside means that you can achieve a 2-for-1 sometimes.
Conduit Pylons
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Festering Gulch
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Caught in the Crossfire
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
Endless Detour
3.5 This is a little tricky to cast, but is incredibly flexible when you can.
3.5 This is a little tricky to cast, but is incredibly flexible when you can.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Prosperity Tycoon
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
3.5 Black/white makes enough tokens on its own for this trigger to be pretty good, and your opponent is likely to generate some tokens too.
3.5 Black/white makes enough tokens on its own for this trigger to be pretty good, and your opponent is likely to generate some tokens too.
Prosperity Tycoon
3.5 This gives you two bodies for a reasonable cost, and it's abilty to become indestructible is a real problem for your opponent. Blocking this is kind of a nightmare.
3.5 This gives you two bodies for a reasonable cost, and it's abilty to become indestructible is a real problem for your opponent. Blocking this is kind of a nightmare.
Return the Favor
3 This is situational of course, but if you can cast it with both Spree effects, it's kind of insane. If you can copy an opposing removal spell and then change the target of another, you get a 3-for-1.
3 This is situational of course, but if you can cast it with both Spree effects, it's kind of insane. If you can copy an opposing removal spell and then change the target of another, you get a 3-for-1.
Map the Frontier
1 It's been awhile since a 4-mana spell that ramps your mana and doesn't help your board state has been something you play with regularity.
1 It's been awhile since a 4-mana spell that ramps your mana and doesn't help your board state has been something you play with regularity.
Hellspur Brute
2.5 There are lots and lots ouf outlaws in this set, and if you can cast this for 4 you're going to feel fine about it. If you cast it for less, you'll feel great.
2.5 There are lots and lots ouf outlaws in this set, and if you can cast this for 4 you're going to feel fine about it. If you cast it for less, you'll feel great.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Tumbleweed Rising
2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
2 This doesn't do anything on its own, and while you can Plot it when you're stuck in a spot like that, the upside isn't insane here.
Djinn of Fool's Fall
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Quilled Charger
2 This has a passable baseline, and it's saddle ability means it can attack effectively at most stages of the game.
2 This has a passable baseline, and it's saddle ability means it can attack effectively at most stages of the game.
Lonely Arroyo
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Terminal Agony
High Noon
0.0 // 2.5 You have to have access to the activated ability, or this symmetrical effect just isn't worth it.
0.0 // 2.5 You have to have access to the activated ability, or this symmetrical effect just isn't worth it.
Overzealous Muscle
2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
Bridled Bighorn
2 This has decent base stats, and spitting out a token is sometimes valuable.
2 This has decent base stats, and spitting out a token is sometimes valuable.
Take the Fall
2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
Djinn of Fool's Fall
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Oasis Gardener
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
2 If you need fixing, this can do it. While the stat-line isn't especially good, the life gain helps even that out a tiny bit.
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Armored Armadillo
1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Terminal Agony
2.5 The base mode of this card is pretty mediocre, but if you have a few ways to discard it -- and this format has them -- it gets a lot better.
2.5 The base mode of this card is pretty mediocre, but if you have a few ways to discard it -- and this format has them -- it gets a lot better.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Consuming Ashes
Kellan Joins Up
2 The ETB on this is pretty close to meaningless in Limited, but the legendary payoff is pretty big, and it only asks you to get one into play.
2 The ETB on this is pretty close to meaningless in Limited, but the legendary payoff is pretty big, and it only asks you to get one into play.
Gold Rush
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
Binding Negotiation
2 It's nice that this can go after Plotted cards. When you do that it will almost feel like Time Walk. It still has the downside of most discard spells of course -- it doesn't impact the board and has dimnishing returns the later games get, but it's efficient enough to be solid.
2 It's nice that this can go after Plotted cards. When you do that it will almost feel like Time Walk. It still has the downside of most discard spells of course -- it doesn't impact the board and has dimnishing returns the later games get, but it's efficient enough to be solid.
Discerning Peddler
2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
Consuming Ashes
2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
2.5 There was a time when this would have been great removal, but once you're paying 4+ mana on removal it needs to do something extra to be premium. Surveil is extra, but not extra enough.
Razzle-Dazzler
2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
2.5 Growing this will be fairly easy, and even just getting one counter and one swing will make you feel like you are getting there.
Bristling Backwoods
2 This is a solid source of fixing, though you're probably hoping to get one of the other deserts that fixes your mana.
2 This is a solid source of fixing, though you're probably hoping to get one of the other deserts that fixes your mana.
Decisive Denial
3 Neither mode here absolutely blows you away, but being able to fight or counter stuff is pretty nice.
3 Neither mode here absolutely blows you away, but being able to fight or counter stuff is pretty nice.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Mirage Mesa
Take for a Ride
2//3.5 Being able to cast this at instant speed will feel insane sometimes, because if the stats line up right, you can make two of your opponents creatures destroy one another. That gives this a higher floor than most versions of this kind of effect, while it still has big sacrifice upside.
2//3.5 Being able to cast this at instant speed will feel insane sometimes, because if the stats line up right, you can make two of your opponents creatures destroy one another. That gives this a higher floor than most versions of this kind of effect, while it still has big sacrifice upside.
Seize the Secrets
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Bridled Bighorn
2 This has decent base stats, and spitting out a token is sometimes valuable.
2 This has decent base stats, and spitting out a token is sometimes valuable.
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Rodeo Pyromancers
2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
Mirage Mesa
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Eroded Canyon
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Irascible Wolverine
Caught in the Crossfire
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
Outlaw Medic
2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
2.5 This has solid stats that are good for augmenting, and it's good sacrifie fodder.
Irascible Wolverine
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
3 This is a great ETB trigger. Plot allows you to take full advantage, but even without Plot this can help you hit a land drop in the early stages of the game, and if you draw it late you can just cast it right away because you'll be able to use the card either way.
Boneyard Desecrator
2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
2 A 4-mana 3/4 with Menace is okay, but this ability is generally too expensive to be worthwhile often enough.
Slick Sequence
3.5 Two mana to deal two to anything is probably a 2.0, but you're going to draw with this a huge chunk of the time.
3.5 Two mana to deal two to anything is probably a 2.0, but you're going to draw with this a huge chunk of the time.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Quick Draw
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
0 This is a hard-to-cast 4-mana 2/5 with Menace and the ability is virtually useless in Limited. This means she isn't worth splashing.
0 This is a hard-to-cast 4-mana 2/5 with Menace and the ability is virtually useless in Limited. This means she isn't worth splashing.
Quick Draw
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Sterling Hound
1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
1.5 This does very little for the cost, and you'll only run it when your'e desperate for creatures.
Vengeful Townsfolk
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Quick Draw
Quick Draw
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
2 This is a solid trick, but it's only useful in combat, which makes it hard for it to be one you really want to seek out.
Neutralize the Guards
0.5 As with most cards with this effect, this mostly seems like a sideboard card.
0.5 As with most cards with this effect, this mostly seems like a sideboard card.
Thornado
0.5 Even with a cycling mode, Plummet just isn't worth it in the main deck.
0.5 Even with a cycling mode, Plummet just isn't worth it in the main deck.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Caught in the Crossfire
Inventive Wingsmith
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
2 Getting this to Fly isn't too challenging, especially in Blue-White.
Caught in the Crossfire
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
Endless Detour
3.5 This is a little tricky to cast, but is incredibly flexible when you can.
3.5 This is a little tricky to cast, but is incredibly flexible when you can.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Steer Clear
Map the Frontier
1 It's been awhile since a 4-mana spell that ramps your mana and doesn't help your board state has been something you play with regularity.
1 It's been awhile since a 4-mana spell that ramps your mana and doesn't help your board state has been something you play with regularity.
Steer Clear
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
2.5 This is conditional but efficient, especially if you have a Mount.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Highway Robbery
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Path to Exile
Aven Interrupter
3.5 Delaying a spell and charging a tax while adding a relevant flyer to the board is pretty good. Sometimes your opponent might manage to kill it before their next turn and they don't get the tax in the end, but you still delayed their spell. Happens to hate on Plot in general, too.
3.5 Delaying a spell and charging a tax while adding a relevant flyer to the board is pretty good. Sometimes your opponent might manage to kill it before their next turn and they don't get the tax in the end, but you still delayed their spell. Happens to hate on Plot in general, too.
Gold Rush
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
Lively Dirge
1.5 If you can get two bodies back with this it can feel reasonable, but setting your graveyard up just right isn't super easy, even with the tutor effect.
1.5 If you can get two bodies back with this it can feel reasonable, but setting your graveyard up just right isn't super easy, even with the tutor effect.
Requisition Raid
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
Daring Thunder-Thief
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
2 This is a fairly beefy creature, and the fact it has flash should work nicely in UW decks.
Discerning Peddler
2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
2 Red doesn't have much of a discard theme in this set. So, this is mostly just a card with a mediocre statline and a mediocre ETB.
Cactarantula
2.5 This has decent stats and it's hard for your opponent to interact with it outside of combat without giving you some serious value.
2.5 This has decent stats and it's hard for your opponent to interact with it outside of combat without giving you some serious value.
Sterling Keykeeper
2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
2 These "Master Decoy"-type creatures have been a lot worse as of late, and I don't really see that changing here. This does have passable stats and an ability that is good sometimes, though.
Sterling Supplier
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Fake Your Own Death
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Trick Shot
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Holy Cow
3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
3.5 This delivers a ton of value for the cost, and the fact it has Flash is extra good in UW.
Path to Exile
3.5 The rate here is really good of course, but it's also not a removal spell you can use early, as the value you get is seriously diminished when you ramp and fix your opponent's mana.
3.5 The rate here is really good of course, but it's also not a removal spell you can use early, as the value you get is seriously diminished when you ramp and fix your opponent's mana.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Murder
Jem Lightfoote, Sky Explorer
4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
Sheriff of Safe Passage
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
Resilient Roadrunner
3.5 This is great on turn two, and it's often going to be unblockable in the late game.
3.5 This is great on turn two, and it's often going to be unblockable in the late game.
Nezumi Linkbreaker
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
3 One mana for two 1/1s is a good deal, even when you don't get them at the same time. It makes this good sacrifice fodder too.
Trained Arynx
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
Ambush Gigapede
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Take the Fall
2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
2.5 This looks like it's well-positioned in this format. It's good if you're trying to play two spells a turn in UR, it's good if you're trying to commit crimes in UB, it's good if you're trying to only do stuff on your opponent's turn if you're in Blue-White. It's definitely a small effect, but it replacing itself and having a real effect seems doable.
Trick Shot
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Ankle Biter
2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
2.5 Green one mana 1/1s with Deathtouch tend to be a little better than black ones because of bite effects.
Mirage Mesa
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Abraded Bluffs
3 They provide awesome fixing, give you extra value in the form of a ping, commit crimes, and there's even deserts-matter cards in the set. These might just be better than the rare cycle in the format.
3 They provide awesome fixing, give you extra value in the form of a ping, commit crimes, and there's even deserts-matter cards in the set. These might just be better than the rare cycle in the format.
Outlaws' Fury
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Murder
2.5 This isn't the premium removal it once was, but it's still pretty solid.
2.5 This isn't the premium removal it once was, but it's still pretty solid.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Skulduggery
Seraphic Steed
4 A two mana 2/2 with lifeilnk and first strike is a real body all game long, and there are going to be plenty of boards this can attack reasonably well on even late. And that's great, since it is also likely to spit out an Angel when you do that.
4 A two mana 2/2 with lifeilnk and first strike is a real body all game long, and there are going to be plenty of boards this can attack reasonably well on even late. And that's great, since it is also likely to spit out an Angel when you do that.
Marauding Sphinx
3.5 This is a very real body that is good whether you're ahead or behind, and the Surveil trigger is plenty accessible.
3.5 This is a very real body that is good whether you're ahead or behind, and the Surveil trigger is plenty accessible.
Shackle Slinger
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
Caught in the Crossfire
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
2 Sweepers are tough to get to work in Limited, but this one is trying it's hardest. The two modes should mean that you can choose one that hurts your opponent more than it hurts you a decent chunk of the time.
Skulduggery
3 Generating a two-for-one with this is surprisingly easy, and even when you can't it makes for a good combat trick that efficiently commits crime.
3 Generating a two-for-one with this is surprisingly easy, and even when you can't it makes for a good combat trick that efficiently commits crime.
Bristlepack Sentry
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
3 This is going to overperform because it counts itself. This means buffing it with a mercenary allows it to attack, as do buffs from counters and equipment.
Dance of the Tumbleweeds
2.5 Ramp spells that don't impact the board can hurt, but this provides really nice fixing early and can be a legit win conditoin late.
2.5 Ramp spells that don't impact the board can hurt, but this provides really nice fixing early and can be a legit win conditoin late.
Seize the Secrets
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Trained Arynx
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
2.5 This has passable stats, and because it can gain first strike, it has the potential to be relevant all game long.
Lush Oasis
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Djinn of Fool's Fall
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Buried in the Garden
4 Ramping and fixing your mana while removing a nonland permanent is incredible.
4 Ramping and fixing your mana while removing a nonland permanent is incredible.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Conduit Pylons
The Key to the Vault
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
0 The trigger is powerful, but you have to go through the trouble of casting and equipping this clunky thing, and then you still don't get anything until the equipped creature hits the opponent. That's too many hoops.
Plan the Heist
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
Resilient Roadrunner
3.5 This is great on turn two, and it's often going to be unblockable in the late game.
3.5 This is great on turn two, and it's often going to be unblockable in the late game.
Magebane Lizard
1.5 This is a weirdly defensive stat-line on a creature with an aggressive ability. It's also pretty awkward that Red is one of the colors that wants to cast multiple spells in a turn, and the effect is symmetrical.
1.5 This is a weirdly defensive stat-line on a creature with an aggressive ability. It's also pretty awkward that Red is one of the colors that wants to cast multiple spells in a turn, and the effect is symmetrical.
Slickshot Vault-Buster
1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
Conduit Pylons
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Sterling Supplier
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Vengeful Townsfolk
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
2.5 This is more efficient than most creatures with this ability that we've seen. A 3-mana 3/3 really won't feel terrible, like the two-mana 1/1s and 4-mana 3/3s we usually see.
Fblthp, Lost on the Range
4.5 Fblthp is a card advantage engine, and his Ward at least makes it so your opponent can never deal with him efficiently.
4.5 Fblthp is a card advantage engine, and his Ward at least makes it so your opponent can never deal with him efficiently.
Essence Capture
2.5 When it lines up, this feels pretty good.
2.5 When it lines up, this feels pretty good.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Lassoed by the Law
Drover Grizzly
2.5 The stat-line is passable, and don't forget it grants itself trample too.
2.5 The stat-line is passable, and don't forget it grants itself trample too.
Loan Shark
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Stubborn Burrowfiend
2.5 This'll definitely get big sometimes, but I don't love how conditional the buff is. It's going to be at it's best in a B/G deck, but I'm also not sure how much they want to be saddling.
2.5 This'll definitely get big sometimes, but I don't love how conditional the buff is. It's going to be at it's best in a B/G deck, but I'm also not sure how much they want to be saddling.
Unfortunate Accident
4 Destroying your opponent's best creature and adding to the board is very powerful, and the fail case here is Murder.
4 Destroying your opponent's best creature and adding to the board is very powerful, and the fail case here is Murder.
Lassoed by the Law
4 This is great Removal that also gives you a relevant body, hard not to be excited about that.
4 This is great Removal that also gives you a relevant body, hard not to be excited about that.
This Town Ain't Big Enough
2 The best way to use this is to bounce your thing and an opponent's thing, and if you do that in response to removal or something that seems nice. However, it won't always line up that way, and the other options with the card aren't very attractive.
2 The best way to use this is to bounce your thing and an opponent's thing, and if you do that in response to removal or something that seems nice. However, it won't always line up that way, and the other options with the card aren't very attractive.
Fake Your Own Death
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Back for More
2.5 The ceiling here is incredibly high. You reanimate something at instant speed, use it to ambush block, and then have it fight something else. If the creature is big enough, it can survive all of that! But setting that up and getting the stats to line up correctly is pretty tough.
2.5 The ceiling here is incredibly high. You reanimate something at instant speed, use it to ambush block, and then have it fight something else. If the creature is big enough, it can survive all of that! But setting that up and getting the stats to line up correctly is pretty tough.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Forlorn Flats
Pitiless Carnage
0 This can have a super powerful effect in the extreme late game. But it's pretty awful the rest of the game, so you really can't play it.
0 This can have a super powerful effect in the extreme late game. But it's pretty awful the rest of the game, so you really can't play it.
Thunder Lasso
2 The turn you play this will feel pretty great, as it can really upgrade your attacks. The problem is how clunky it is when you have to Equip it thereafter.
2 The turn you play this will feel pretty great, as it can really upgrade your attacks. The problem is how clunky it is when you have to Equip it thereafter.
Beastbond Outcaster
3.5 You'll draw with this often enough for it to be a very good card. And even if you don't draw, it's not a bad rate.
3.5 You'll draw with this often enough for it to be a very good card. And even if you don't draw, it's not a bad rate.
Plan the Heist
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
Rodeo Pyromancers
2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
2.5 In a format with Plot, this looks pretty good. It helps you have the mana to plot things, and casting something with Plot for free on your next turn and netting two red mana is sweet too. You won't always be able to use it, but I think you'll be able to often enough.
Loan Shark
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
3 When you draw a card with this it will feel like a 4.0, when you don't, it will feel like a 1.0. I think it will be easy enough to draw with to get up to a 3.
Armored Armadillo
1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
1 A one mana 0/4 is largely irrelevant, and the ability is too expensive.
Desperate Bloodseeker
2.5 A two mana 2/2 Lifelink is a card you pretty much always play, so it's nice that this can commit a crime or load your graveyard too.
2.5 A two mana 2/2 Lifelink is a card you pretty much always play, so it's nice that this can commit a crime or load your graveyard too.
Forlorn Flats
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Sterling Supplier
Binding Negotiation
2 It's nice that this can go after Plotted cards. When you do that it will almost feel like Time Walk. It still has the downside of most discard spells of course -- it doesn't impact the board and has dimnishing returns the later games get, but it's efficient enough to be solid.
2 It's nice that this can go after Plotted cards. When you do that it will almost feel like Time Walk. It still has the downside of most discard spells of course -- it doesn't impact the board and has dimnishing returns the later games get, but it's efficient enough to be solid.
Bandit's Haul
1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
1 Three mana rocks rarely work in Limited, and while this can draw you cards it only does it very slowly.
Shackle Slinger
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
Geyser Drake
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
3 This looks like a very nice Common. It has decent enough stats, and it's ability at a minimum makes your Instants easier to cast, but the set also has a ton of Flash that Geyser Drake can help you with.
Reach for the Sky
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
1.5 It's great that this replaces itself, but it's too expensive for it to be a trick/aura that I'm interested in using.
Sterling Supplier
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Overzealous Muscle
2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
2 This only working on your turn is kind of sad, but it's a fairly capable attacker thanks to it's ability to gain indestructibility.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Bounding Felidar
Mobile Homestead
2 The rate isn't very good, but I think the upside of ramping your mana sometimes makes it playable.
2 The rate isn't very good, but I think the upside of ramping your mana sometimes makes it playable.
Bounding Felidar
2.5 This is a huge payoff for Saddling, as the counters and life are sure to alter a race in your favor.
2.5 This is a huge payoff for Saddling, as the counters and life are sure to alter a race in your favor.
Step Between Worlds
0 Wheel effects don't work too well in Limited, since they are symmetrical. If you Plot this first, it means you can use your new cards right away. However, it also means that you spent six mana to do nothing on your previous turn.
0 Wheel effects don't work too well in Limited, since they are symmetrical. If you Plot this first, it means you can use your new cards right away. However, it also means that you spent six mana to do nothing on your previous turn.
Trick Shot
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Phantom Interference
3 This can take care of a spell on turn two, and it has the upside of being a 5-mana 2/2 flyer that counters a spell -- that's a card I would always play.
3 This can take care of a spell on turn two, and it has the upside of being a 5-mana 2/2 flyer that counters a spell -- that's a card I would always play.
Gold Pan
2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
2 You can equip this right away if you want to, thanks to the treasure. Paying one to Equip for this boost is kind of passable, too.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Trick Shot
Gold Rush
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
2 This is a decent trick that gives you back one mana, and it can even help you splash. There aren't so many treasures in Green that this will often give more than +2/+2.
Requisition Raid
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
3 This is a really nice Disenchant that comes with big upside, between being able to take down two permanents once and buffing your whole board.
Sterling Supplier
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Fake Your Own Death
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
2.5 This type of trick is always solid. It's good in combat, good against removal, and has the upside of working well with ETB.
Trick Shot
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
2.5 This is a little expensive, but it'll have a token to hit reasonably often and it can kill just about anything at instant speed. You probably don't want more than one of them, though.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Mirage Mesa
Jem Lightfoote, Sky Explorer
4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
4 This is a pretty amazing payoff for doing things at instant speed or plotting, and the stat-line isn't bad either.
Sheriff of Safe Passage
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
2 The floor is pretty bad here, and the ceiling is just a big vanilla creature.
Ambush Gigapede
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
1.5 It's temping to imagine the 2-for-1s this can give you, but it's super expensive and surprisingly ineffective.
Mirage Mesa
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
2.5 This is very nice fixing.
Outlaws' Fury
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
2.5 A mass board pump that draws you a card tends to play pretty well, and Red is quite good at going wide in this format.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Seize the Secrets
Shackle Slinger
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
3 It's nice that this commits crimes for no additional mana, and stunning and tapping things has some pretty real value, especially if you're curving out, which the Slinger really likes.
Seize the Secrets
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
2.5 A two mana draw 2 is pretty serious business, and that mode will be accessible enough.
Lush Oasis
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
1 This weak ability isn't worth the hit to your mana base.
Djinn of Fool's Fall
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
1.5 This feels really inefficient no matter how you cast it.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Sterling Supplier
Magebane Lizard
1.5 This is a weirdly defensive stat-line on a creature with an aggressive ability. It's also pretty awkward that Red is one of the colors that wants to cast multiple spells in a turn, and the effect is symmetrical.
1.5 This is a weirdly defensive stat-line on a creature with an aggressive ability. It's also pretty awkward that Red is one of the colors that wants to cast multiple spells in a turn, and the effect is symmetrical.
Slickshot Vault-Buster
1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
1.5 A 4-mana 3/4 with Vigilance 100% of the time is a 2.5 at the very best, and this isn't pretty far from having those stats all the time.
Sterling Supplier
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
3 It's a 5-drop so you don't want a bunch of them, but 5-mana for 4/5 worth of stats, 3/4 of which has Flying, is a really good deal. You probably don't want more than one of these, though.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Highway Robbery
Highway Robbery
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
2 Because you can sacrifice lands to this, it's much better in the late game than most Tormenting Voice-like effects.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Plan the Heist
Plan the Heist
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
2.5 Not affecting the board can be a liability, but a 4-mana draw 3 is pretty efficient -- and this has some additional upside.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Kaervek, the Punisher
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Slickshot Show-Off
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Prickly Pair
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Rattleback Apothecary
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Nezumi Linkbreaker
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Mourner's Surprise
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Jagged Barrens
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Botanical Sanctum
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Fake Your Own Death
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Corrupted Conviction
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Steer Clear
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Steer Clear
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Reach for the Sky
- Pack 1 Pick 14: Forest
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Dust Animus
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Journey to Nowhere
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Reckless Lackey
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Prosperity Tycoon
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Terminal Agony
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Consuming Ashes
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Mirage Mesa
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Irascible Wolverine
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Quick Draw
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Quick Draw
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Caught in the Crossfire
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Steer Clear
- Pack 2 Pick 14: Highway Robbery
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Path to Exile
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Murder
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Skulduggery
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Conduit Pylons
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Lassoed by the Law
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Forlorn Flats
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Sterling Supplier
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Bounding Felidar
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Trick Shot
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Mirage Mesa
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Seize the Secrets
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Sterling Supplier
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Highway Robbery
- Pack 3 Pick 14: Plan the Heist
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