Premier Draft BLB 13 August 2024
13 August 12:51 - KKBMTG 7 Wins - 1 LossesMaindeck
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Sideboard
Pack 1 Pick 1: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Muerra, Trash Tactician
3.5 The mana she gives you makes it easier for you to expend, and the payoffs are great -- but you still need to have the cards to get her going.
3.5 The mana she gives you makes it easier for you to expend, and the payoffs are great -- but you still need to have the cards to get her going.
Vinereap Mentor
4 This is a ton of value for only two mana. Two food tokens are pretty close to a full card of value in this format.
4 This is a ton of value for only two mana. Two food tokens are pretty close to a full card of value in this format.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
3.5 This is mostly just a big french vanilla creature in Limited and that's pretty good -- but it's not amazing.
3.5 This is mostly just a big french vanilla creature in Limited and that's pretty good -- but it's not amazing.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Fell
Wishing Well
0 If you spend mana and a card on this, you're going to lose. That's because you just won't be able to get anything out of it consistently enough. Casting this is like mulliganing, but worse because you paid mana.
0 If you spend mana and a card on this, you're going to lose. That's because you just won't be able to get anything out of it consistently enough. Casting this is like mulliganing, but worse because you paid mana.
Stormcatch Mentor
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Brightblade Stoat
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.
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Moonrise Cleric
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.
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.
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.
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.
Glidedive Duo
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Hidden Grotto
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.
High Stride
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
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.
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.
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.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Heaped Harvest
Stargaze
1 Sinking a bunch of mana into this draws you a bunch of cards and loads up your graveyard, but I just don't feel like you've got the time to do that in Limited formats these days -- especially when you have to pay life.
1 Sinking a bunch of mana into this draws you a bunch of cards and loads up your graveyard, but I just don't feel like you've got the time to do that in Limited formats these days -- especially when you have to pay life.
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.
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.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 7: Bonecache Overseer
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.
Heartfire Hero
2.5 If you drop this on one and can support it with targeted effects, it can run away with the game.
2.5 If you drop this on one and can support it with targeted effects, it can run away with the game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Sunshower Druid
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High Stride
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Treetop Sentries
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Stormcatch Mentor
Stormcatch Mentor
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Rockface Village
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Mudflat Village
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.
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 13: Nightwhorl Hermit
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 1: Season of Weaving
Season of Weaving
2.5 This is a great trick for Blue decks, especially when you get spell triggers while blanking a removal spell.
2.5 This is a great trick for Blue decks, especially when you get spell triggers while blanking a removal spell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hugs, Grisly Guardian
4.5 Even if you just pay 1 for X, you're getting a 5-mana 5/5 Trampler that effectively draws you a card, and in the late game he's likely to give you several cards.
4.5 Even if you just pay 1 for X, you're getting a 5-mana 5/5 Trampler that effectively draws you a card, and in the late game he's likely to give you several cards.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Wick's Patrol
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 3: Heaped Harvest
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.
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.
Hop to It
3.5 Three bodies for three mana is a nice deal, especially in a format where White wants to go wide and can get extra value out of tokens.
3.5 Three bodies for three mana is a nice deal, especially in a format where White wants to go wide and can get extra value out of tokens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 4: Fabled Passage
Fabled Passage
3 This is good fixing that you'll run in any two-color deck too. Getting that land untapped from the mid game on is a big upgrade from Evolving Wilds.
3 This is good fixing that you'll run in any two-color deck too. Getting that land untapped from the mid game on is a big upgrade from Evolving Wilds.
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.
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Starlit Soothsayer
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.
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.
Starseer Mentor
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
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.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red 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.
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.
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.
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: Ravine Raider
Brambleguard Captain
2 This stat-line is rough, but it offers a pretty solid buff every turn and can trigger valiant.
2 This stat-line is rough, but it offers a pretty solid buff every turn and can trigger valiant.
Dewdrop Cure
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
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.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Ravine Raider
Festival of Embers
1 This has some potential, as it's been well established that casting spells from your graveyard is busted. However, spending 5 on this up front is a huge liability, and you need action in your graveyard for it to do anything on your next turn, too.
1 This has some potential, as it's been well established that casting spells from your graveyard is busted. However, spending 5 on this up front is a huge liability, and you need action in your graveyard for it to do anything on your next turn, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Hidden Grotto
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Nocturnal Hunger
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Daggerfang Duo
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.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 11: Scales of Shale
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Rockface Village
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Run Away Together
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.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Mind Drill Assailant
Hired Claw
4 This is pretty easy to grow in most decks, especially if you've got lots of lizards around. It triggers itself too, so you can attack with it on two, leaving up two mana, at which point your opponent just has to take the hit, and it's likely to grow later in the game too.
4 This is pretty easy to grow in most decks, especially if you've got lots of lizards around. It triggers itself too, so you can attack with it on two, leaving up two mana, at which point your opponent just has to take the hit, and it's likely to grow later in the game too.
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
Flowerfoot Swordmaster
2.5 This is a really good Valiant trigger when you've got enough Mice, and you're likely to in Red-White.
2.5 This is a really good Valiant trigger when you've got enough Mice, and you're likely to in Red-White.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested
5 Even if you have 0 other birds this card's great, and if you're in Blue-White there's a good chance you're going to get this trigger the turn Kastral comes down.
5 Even if you have 0 other birds this card's great, and if you're in Blue-White there's a good chance you're going to get this trigger the turn Kastral comes down.
Parting Gust
3 This can be a nice way to blink one of your creatures, and if you give your opponent a fish, it can be removal too! Giving your opponent a fish does obviously make that significantly worse. While you do remove something, you give your opponent something back so it's not quite a 1-for-1. However, it has an alternate mode and exile is pretty nice removal.
3 This can be a nice way to blink one of your creatures, and if you give your opponent a fish, it can be removal too! Giving your opponent a fish does obviously make that significantly worse. While you do remove something, you give your opponent something back so it's not quite a 1-for-1. However, it has an alternate mode and exile is pretty nice removal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Thought-Stalker Warlock
Wishing Well
0 If you spend mana and a card on this, you're going to lose. That's because you just won't be able to get anything out of it consistently enough. Casting this is like mulliganing, but worse because you paid mana.
0 If you spend mana and a card on this, you're going to lose. That's because you just won't be able to get anything out of it consistently enough. Casting this is like mulliganing, but worse because you paid mana.
Brambleguard Captain
2 This stat-line is rough, but it offers a pretty solid buff every turn and can trigger valiant.
2 This stat-line is rough, but it offers a pretty solid buff every turn and can trigger valiant.
Thought-Stalker Warlock
4 Even if you can't do damage to your opponent, a three mana 2/2 menace that makes your opponent discard is great. When you do get to choose what they discard, it'll feel downright nasty.
4 Even if you can't do damage to your opponent, a three mana 2/2 menace that makes your opponent discard is great. When you do get to choose what they discard, it'll feel downright nasty.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
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.
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.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
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.
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 3 Pick 4: Curious Forager
Dour Port-Mage
3 If you can get return a cheap creature with an ETB with this, it's going to feel great, and if nothing else it's a mana sink that draws you cards when you're flooding out.
3 If you can get return a cheap creature with an ETB with this, it's going to feel great, and if nothing else it's a mana sink that draws you cards when you're flooding out.
Tangle Tumbler
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
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.
Curious Forager
3 This is pretty bad when you can't get something back with it, but you can get that 2-for-1 often enough for it to be pretty good overall.
3 This is pretty bad when you can't get something back with it, but you can get that 2-for-1 often enough for it to be pretty good overall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Treetop Sentries
Tidecaller Mentor
3.5 Once you have threshold this is nuts, and when you don't it's not too bad to run out on turn three.
3.5 Once you have threshold this is nuts, and when you don't it's not too bad to run out on turn three.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Stickytongue Sentinel
Hired Claw
4 This is pretty easy to grow in most decks, especially if you've got lots of lizards around. It triggers itself too, so you can attack with it on two, leaving up two mana, at which point your opponent just has to take the hit, and it's likely to grow later in the game too.
4 This is pretty easy to grow in most decks, especially if you've got lots of lizards around. It triggers itself too, so you can attack with it on two, leaving up two mana, at which point your opponent just has to take the hit, and it's likely to grow later in the game too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
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.
Gev, Scaled Scorch
4 Because casting a Lizard pings your opponent before it enters the battlefield, this makes all your Lizards enter with a counter, which is pretty strong, and putting counters on non-lizards isn't a massive challenge either.
4 Because casting a Lizard pings your opponent before it enters the battlefield, this makes all your Lizards enter with a counter, which is pretty strong, and putting counters on non-lizards isn't a massive challenge either.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Peerless Recycling
Peerless Recycling
2.5 You have to make a choice with Peerless Recycling -- is giving your opponent a random card from their deck better than you getting another permanent back from your graveyard? Most of the time, I think you do give them the card.
2.5 You have to make a choice with Peerless Recycling -- is giving your opponent a random card from their deck better than you getting another permanent back from your graveyard? Most of the time, I think you do give them the card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Finch Formation
Stocking the Pantry
0 This just seems too slow, especially in a format without a dedicated counter deck.
0 This just seems too slow, especially in a format without a dedicated counter deck.
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.
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.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
Stormcatch Mentor
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Splash Portal
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 10: Sonar Strike
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Mind Spiral
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
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.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Finch Formation
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Psychic Whorl
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.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Fell
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Brightblade Stoat
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Moonrise Cleric
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Hidden Grotto
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Heaped Harvest
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Bonecache Overseer
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Sunshower Druid
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Treetop Sentries
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Stormcatch Mentor
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Rockface Village
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Mudflat Village
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Nightwhorl Hermit
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Season of Weaving
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Wick's Patrol
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Heaped Harvest
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Fabled Passage
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Starlit Soothsayer
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Ravine Raider
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Ravine Raider
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Hidden Grotto
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Nocturnal Hunger
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Daggerfang Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Scales of Shale
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Rockface Village
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Run Away Together
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Mind Drill Assailant
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Kastral, the Windcrested
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Thought-Stalker Warlock
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Curious Forager
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Treetop Sentries
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Stickytongue Sentinel
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Peerless Recycling
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Finch Formation
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Splash Portal
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Sonar Strike
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Mind Spiral
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Finch Formation
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Psychic Whorl
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