Premier Draft BLB 7 August 2024
7 August 11:39 - Villibesti 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Pack 1 Pick 1: Burrowguard Mentor
Emberheart Challenger
4 Even without Valiant this is a great two drop, and Valiant gives this little creature the ability to draw you extra cards, so it certainly still says relevant all game long.
4 Even without Valiant this is a great two drop, and Valiant gives this little creature the ability to draw you extra cards, so it certainly still says relevant all game long.
Starscape Cleric
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
Spellgyre
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
Splash Lasher
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
Burrowguard Mentor
3 This isn't very impressive on it's own, but it can be quite the threat on most boards.
3 This isn't very impressive on it's own, but it can be quite the threat on most boards.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Hunter's Talent
Builder's Talent
0.5 // 2.5 It's tough to get enough noncreature nonlands to get this going, but if you can it's a pretty solid buildaround.
0.5 // 2.5 It's tough to get enough noncreature nonlands to get this going, but if you can it's a pretty solid buildaround.
Hazel's Nocturne
3 The first copy of this should be valued relatively highly, as it's the kind of card that wins games late. Getting two creatures back at instant speed and draining the opponent 2 life is a big swing, especially when you untap and play the best creature that was in your graveyard.
3 The first copy of this should be valued relatively highly, as it's the kind of card that wins games late. Getting two creatures back at instant speed and draining the opponent 2 life is a big swing, especially when you untap and play the best creature that was in your graveyard.
Patchwork Banner
2.5 Lots of decks in this format have 10 creatures with the same type, so this feels like a straight up anthem at times.
2.5 Lots of decks in this format have 10 creatures with the same type, so this feels like a straight up anthem at times.
Hunter's Talent
4 This is Rabid Bite with insane upside. It's probably Green's best Uncommon, and maybe the best Uncommon in the set.
4 This is Rabid Bite with insane upside. It's probably Green's best Uncommon, and maybe the best Uncommon in the set.
Longstalk Brawl
2.5 Prey Upon isn't always good enough, so it's nice that you can give your opponent a Fish in situations where you need a little something extra.
2.5 Prey Upon isn't always good enough, so it's nice that you can give your opponent a Fish in situations where you need a little something extra.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Early Winter
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
Rust-Shield Rampager
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
Long River Lurker
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Feather of Flight
Starscape Cleric
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
Clifftop Lookout
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
Feather of Flight
3 This is a great aura because it has Flash and it replaces itself up front, while sending your best creature into the air.
3 This is a great aura because it has Flash and it replaces itself up front, while sending your best creature into the air.
Sonar Strike
2.5 This'll feel pretty efficient when you have a nice target, especially if you're gaining life. However, even if this can hit attacking, blocking, and tapped creatures, it's inability to get a creature out of the way before it blocks, and the fact it can't deal with things with more than 4 toughness make it too restrictive to be great.
2.5 This'll feel pretty efficient when you have a nice target, especially if you're gaining life. However, even if this can hit attacking, blocking, and tapped creatures, it's inability to get a creature out of the way before it blocks, and the fact it can't deal with things with more than 4 toughness make it too restrictive to be great.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Savor
3 This isn't the most efficient removal, but it's solid and Food is an important commodity in this format.
3 This isn't the most efficient removal, but it's solid and Food is an important commodity in this format.
Harnesser of Storms
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Harvestrite Host
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
Harvestrite Host
3 The baseline here is solid, but the card gets really insane when you have multiple ways to make multiple rabbits -- and there are ways to do that at Common and Uncommon.
3 The baseline here is solid, but the card gets really insane when you have multiple ways to make multiple rabbits -- and there are ways to do that at Common and Uncommon.
Heirloom Epic
1.5 // 3.0 If you're really good at going wide (like in Green-White), this is a pretty sweet card advantage engine.
1.5 // 3.0 If you're really good at going wide (like in Green-White), this is a pretty sweet card advantage engine.
Raccoon Rallier
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
Bakersbane Duo
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
Mouse Trapper
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Carrot Cake
Downwind Ambusher
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Treeguard Duo
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Skyskipper Duo
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Rabbit Response
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Might of the Meek
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
Corpseberry Cultivator
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Rabbit Response
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Carrot Cake
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Finch Formation
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
Veteran Guardmouse
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Uncharted Haven
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
Reptilian Recruiter
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Pearl of Wisdom
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
Short Bow
2.5 This is a great way to repeatedly trigger Valiant and it offers a decent buff to begin with.
2.5 This is a great way to repeatedly trigger Valiant and it offers a decent buff to begin with.
Thornplate Intimidator
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
Pearl of Wisdom
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
Roughshod Duo
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Pileated Provisioner
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Hazel's Nocturne
Hazel's Nocturne
3 The first copy of this should be valued relatively highly, as it's the kind of card that wins games late. Getting two creatures back at instant speed and draining the opponent 2 life is a big swing, especially when you untap and play the best creature that was in your graveyard.
3 The first copy of this should be valued relatively highly, as it's the kind of card that wins games late. Getting two creatures back at instant speed and draining the opponent 2 life is a big swing, especially when you untap and play the best creature that was in your graveyard.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Early Winter
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Harnesser of Storms
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Harnesser of Storms
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Lupinflower Village
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Bumbleflower's Sharepot
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Valley Mightcaller
Scavenger's Talent
1.5 This is probably too slow to really do what it wants you to do. You just can't sink all this mana into it and have the payoff be that you have a difficult-to-use reanimation effect.
1.5 This is probably too slow to really do what it wants you to do. You just can't sink all this mana into it and have the payoff be that you have a difficult-to-use reanimation effect.
Valley Mightcaller
3 If you can drop this on one, it's going to get huge. Unlike the other Valley creatures though, it isn't good on a board that already has a bunch of creatures with the right types.
3 If you can drop this on one, it's going to get huge. Unlike the other Valley creatures though, it isn't good on a board that already has a bunch of creatures with the right types.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Brightblade Stoat
3.5 This has great stats and keywords and White has plenty of ways to enhance it's stats to make it even scarier.
3.5 This has great stats and keywords and White has plenty of ways to enhance it's stats to make it even scarier.
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
Whiskerquill Scribe
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
Scales of Shale
1 // 3.0 This isn't going to be a good trick if you're usually paying 3 for it, but if you're black/red and can pay one Black for it consistent, it's a super potent combat trick. One that can blank removal and win virtually any combat.
1 // 3.0 This isn't going to be a good trick if you're usually paying 3 for it, but if you're black/red and can pay one Black for it consistent, it's a super potent combat trick. One that can blank removal and win virtually any combat.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Three Tree Rootweaver
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Portent of Calamity
1 This is tough to make work in Limited, since you have to hit a bunch of cards with different types to take full advantage of it. Oftentimes you'll draw like two cards off of this despite spending a lot on it, and you just can't do that.
1 This is tough to make work in Limited, since you have to hit a bunch of cards with different types to take full advantage of it. Oftentimes you'll draw like two cards off of this despite spending a lot on it, and you just can't do that.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Thornvault Forager
Scavenger's Talent
1.5 This is probably too slow to really do what it wants you to do. You just can't sink all this mana into it and have the payoff be that you have a difficult-to-use reanimation effect.
1.5 This is probably too slow to really do what it wants you to do. You just can't sink all this mana into it and have the payoff be that you have a difficult-to-use reanimation effect.
Thornvault Forager
4 A two mana 2/2 that can tap for Green is always great, and this can do way more than that between it's ability to generate more mana and tutor up squirrels.
4 A two mana 2/2 that can tap for Green is always great, and this can do way more than that between it's ability to generate more mana and tutor up squirrels.
Quaketusk Boar
3.5 It's nothing fancy, but it's a threat that has to be answered on many boardstates.
3.5 It's nothing fancy, but it's a threat that has to be answered on many boardstates.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Knightfisher
3.5 This has imposing stats and in most Blue decks (and especially blue-white) will spit out lots of Fish tokens.
3.5 This has imposing stats and in most Blue decks (and especially blue-white) will spit out lots of Fish tokens.
Daggerfang Duo
2 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you load your graveyard for Black-Green and Blue-Black, and it can trade for anything. That's less valuable on a three drop for sure, but it's something.
2 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you load your graveyard for Black-Green and Blue-Black, and it can trade for anything. That's less valuable on a three drop for sure, but it's something.
Bakersbane Duo
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Three Tree Mascot
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Treeguard Duo
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Treeguard Duo
For the Common Good
1.5 If you can make a couple copies with this it doesn't feel too bad, but it doesn't seem great either. In the late game you can generate lots of copies, but it's pretty mediocre until then.
1.5 If you can make a couple copies with this it doesn't feel too bad, but it doesn't seem great either. In the late game you can generate lots of copies, but it's pretty mediocre until then.
Wandertale Mentor
4 This is a great way to accelerate your mana, and if you drop it on two and play a 4-drop on three, this'll get it's first counter, and it's likely to grow from there.
4 This is a great way to accelerate your mana, and if you drop it on two and play a 4-drop on three, this'll get it's first counter, and it's likely to grow from there.
Shoreline Looter
3 This lets you rip through your deck while loading your graveyard, and once you have threshold it becomes a card advantage engine.
3 This lets you rip through your deck while loading your graveyard, and once you have threshold it becomes a card advantage engine.
Treeguard Duo
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Banishing Light
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Druid of the Spade
Bonecache Overseer
1.5 // 3.5 This is a nice buildaround for the Black/Green deck, which can draw cards with this often enough to generate some serious value.
1.5 // 3.5 This is a nice buildaround for the Black/Green deck, which can draw cards with this often enough to generate some serious value.
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
Long River Lurker
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
Might of the Meek
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
Early Winter
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Longstalk Brawl
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Longstalk Brawl
2.5 Prey Upon isn't always good enough, so it's nice that you can give your opponent a Fish in situations where you need a little something extra.
2.5 Prey Upon isn't always good enough, so it's nice that you can give your opponent a Fish in situations where you need a little something extra.
Nocturnal Hunger
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Jolly Gerbils
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
Jolly Gerbils
3 Many of the gift cards in the set are solid cards when you don't gift, and you have to think about whether or not giving your opponent something is worth the extra effect you're going to get. Jolly Gerbils makes that equation a lot simpler -- you should just always gift, because you're going to come out ahead and get a more powerful version of the card.
3 Many of the gift cards in the set are solid cards when you don't gift, and you have to think about whether or not giving your opponent something is worth the extra effect you're going to get. Jolly Gerbils makes that equation a lot simpler -- you should just always gift, because you're going to come out ahead and get a more powerful version of the card.
Scales of Shale
1 // 3.0 This isn't going to be a good trick if you're usually paying 3 for it, but if you're black/red and can pay one Black for it consistent, it's a super potent combat trick. One that can blank removal and win virtually any combat.
1 // 3.0 This isn't going to be a good trick if you're usually paying 3 for it, but if you're black/red and can pay one Black for it consistent, it's a super potent combat trick. One that can blank removal and win virtually any combat.
Finch Formation
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Junkblade Bruiser
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
Mudflat Village
2.5 Being able to turn your land into the best creature in your graveyard in the late game is nice utility.
2.5 Being able to turn your land into the best creature in your graveyard in the late game is nice utility.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Warren Elder
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Agate Assault
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
Warren Elder
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Thistledown Players
Pawpatch Formation
2 Drawing a card and making a food is always a passable effect, and when the other two modes are good, they tend to be really good.
2 Drawing a card and making a food is always a passable effect, and when the other two modes are good, they tend to be really good.
Into the Flood Maw
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Might of the Meek
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Roughshod Duo
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Brave-Kin Duo
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
Whiskerquill Scribe
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Bakersbane Duo
Quaketusk Boar
3.5 It's nothing fancy, but it's a threat that has to be answered on many boardstates.
3.5 It's nothing fancy, but it's a threat that has to be answered on many boardstates.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Bakersbane Duo
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Frilled Sparkshooter
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Frilled Sparkshooter
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Ravine Raider
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Fecund Greenshell
Fecund Greenshell
5 The baseline here is a 2-for-1 that adds a big body to the board, and triggering this more than once is very doable. Then, in the extreme late game it just wins you the game.
5 The baseline here is a 2-for-1 that adds a big body to the board, and triggering this more than once is very doable. Then, in the extreme late game it just wins you the game.
Whiskervale Forerunner
4.5 This Valiant trigger is nuts and will almost always allow you to put a creature directly on to the battlefield. There are plenty of ways to trigger valiant for free or cheap too, so doing it the turn the Forerunner comes down isn't some pipe dream.
4.5 This Valiant trigger is nuts and will almost always allow you to put a creature directly on to the battlefield. There are plenty of ways to trigger valiant for free or cheap too, so doing it the turn the Forerunner comes down isn't some pipe dream.
Ruthless Negotiation
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
Splash Portal
2 This is definitely at it's best in Blue-Green or Blue-Red. Blue-Green because you're more likely to have ETBs and Blue-Red because it's a spell that replaces itself. But, it's passable in the other Blue decks too.
2 This is definitely at it's best in Blue-Green or Blue-Red. Blue-Green because you're more likely to have ETBs and Blue-Red because it's a spell that replaces itself. But, it's passable in the other Blue decks too.
Consumed by Greed
3.5 This is a solid removal spell as a baseline, and sometimes it'll be worth giving your opponent a card to get a good creature back from your graveyard.
3.5 This is a solid removal spell as a baseline, and sometimes it'll be worth giving your opponent a card to get a good creature back from your graveyard.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Moonrise Cleric
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
Bellowing Crier
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
Nocturnal Hunger
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
Polliwallop
3 This is a good removal spell in any green deck, and a great one in Frogs.
3 This is a good removal spell in any green deck, and a great one in Frogs.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Driftgloom Coyote
Sinister Monolith
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
Lilysplash Mentor
3 This has solid stats and is a good way to rebuy ETBs in the late game.
3 This has solid stats and is a good way to rebuy ETBs in the late game.
Wick's Patrol
4 This is a 6-mana 5/3 that kills a creature, and it'll often kill a substantial creature. The mill trigger is nice too, as it not only makes the Patrol more likely to kill something good, it also sets up Forage and Threshold.
4 This is a 6-mana 5/3 that kills a creature, and it'll often kill a substantial creature. The mill trigger is nice too, as it not only makes the Patrol more likely to kill something good, it also sets up Forage and Threshold.
Star Charter
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
Tempest Angler
2 This has a bad baseline, and you really need two counters before it ever feels like it was worthwhile, and in the time it takes you to get there, you're in trouble.
2 This has a bad baseline, and you really need two counters before it ever feels like it was worthwhile, and in the time it takes you to get there, you're in trouble.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Warren Elder
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
Bellowing Crier
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
Roughshod Duo
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
Driftgloom Coyote
4 Banisher Priest-like creatures are always great, and this one is extra beefy -- and gets beefier if you exile a low power creature. Adding to the board while removing something of your opponent's is simply one of the strongest things you can do.
4 Banisher Priest-like creatures are always great, and this one is extra beefy -- and gets beefier if you exile a low power creature. Adding to the board while removing something of your opponent's is simply one of the strongest things you can do.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Hazardroot Herbalist
Byway Barterer
4 A three mana 3/3 with Menace is a nice aggressive creature, and this is likely to reload your hand in a big way.
4 A three mana 3/3 with Menace is a nice aggressive creature, and this is likely to reload your hand in a big way.
Fell
3.5 This is super efficient to remove any creature, although being a Sorcery means you aren't going to produce many blowouts.
3.5 This is super efficient to remove any creature, although being a Sorcery means you aren't going to produce many blowouts.
Hazardroot Herbalist
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
Oakhollow Village
2.5 This works extra well with cards that make multiple bodies with these creature types.
2.5 This works extra well with cards that make multiple bodies with these creature types.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Thornplate Intimidator
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
Seasoned Warrenguard
2.5 This'll be a one mana 3/2 pretty often in Green/White.
2.5 This'll be a one mana 3/2 pretty often in Green/White.
Reptilian Recruiter
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Early Winter
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Intrepid Rabbit
Lilypad Village
2.5 Surveil 2 for one mana is a pretty nice ability to have on a land, even if you can't trigger it all the time.
2.5 Surveil 2 for one mana is a pretty nice ability to have on a land, even if you can't trigger it all the time.
Blacksmith's Talent
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Intrepid Rabbit
3.5 4 mana for a 3/2 and a 1/1 is a card you'll play pretty often, and this has the upside of being more flexible than that and having an ETB ability. One you'll get twice when you Offspring.
3.5 4 mana for a 3/2 and a 1/1 is a card you'll play pretty often, and this has the upside of being more flexible than that and having an ETB ability. One you'll get twice when you Offspring.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Sazacap's Brew
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Warren Elder
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
2.5 White is good at going wide, so having a two drop that can buff the whole board is something you're going to be after.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Burrowguard Mentor
Burrowguard Mentor
3 This isn't very impressive on it's own, but it can be quite the threat on most boards.
3 This isn't very impressive on it's own, but it can be quite the threat on most boards.
Moonrise Cleric
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Uncharted Haven
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Psychic Whorl
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Treetop Sentries
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Lifecreed Duo
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Flamecache Gecko
3 This can enable some really nice early starts, where you have a one drop and two two-drops in play on turn two. It has diminishing returns later in the game, but at a minimum you can use it's ability with the mana it produces.
3 This can enable some really nice early starts, where you have a one drop and two two-drops in play on turn two. It has diminishing returns later in the game, but at a minimum you can use it's ability with the mana it produces.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Star Charter
Star Charter
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
Roughshod Duo
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
2 This is a bad stat-line, but it's a decent expend payoff.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
Psychic Whorl
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
Fireglass Mentor
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Polliwallop
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Nocturnal Hunger
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
Polliwallop
3 This is a good removal spell in any green deck, and a great one in Frogs.
3 This is a good removal spell in any green deck, and a great one in Frogs.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Cache Grab
Tempest Angler
2 This has a bad baseline, and you really need two counters before it ever feels like it was worthwhile, and in the time it takes you to get there, you're in trouble.
2 This has a bad baseline, and you really need two counters before it ever feels like it was worthwhile, and in the time it takes you to get there, you're in trouble.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Bellowing Crier
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Wax-Wane Witness
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Nightwhorl Hermit
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Frilled Sparkshooter
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Burrowguard Mentor
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Hunter's Talent
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Feather of Flight
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Harvestrite Host
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Carrot Cake
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Rabbit Response
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Carrot Cake
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Pearl of Wisdom
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Pileated Provisioner
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Hazel's Nocturne
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Harnesser of Storms
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Lupinflower Village
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Bumbleflower's Sharepot
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Valley Mightcaller
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Thornvault Forager
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Treeguard Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Druid of the Spade
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Longstalk Brawl
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Jolly Gerbils
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Warren Elder
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Thistledown Players
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Brave-Kin Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Bakersbane Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Frilled Sparkshooter
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Frilled Sparkshooter
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Ravine Raider
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Fecund Greenshell
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Driftgloom Coyote
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Hazardroot Herbalist
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Intrepid Rabbit
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Burrowguard Mentor
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Treetop Sentries
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Star Charter
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Polliwallop
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Cache Grab
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Wax-Wane Witness
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Nightwhorl Hermit
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Frilled Sparkshooter
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