Quick Draft BLB 18 August 2024
18 August 11:04 - BugGutsGaming 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Pack 1 Pick 1: Finneas, Ace Archer
Finneas, Ace Archer
4 Finneas is going to be able to buff lots of creatures in Green-White when he turns sideways, so giving him up to get all those buffs is worth it, especially if you draw a card.
4 Finneas is going to be able to buff lots of creatures in Green-White when he turns sideways, so giving him up to get all those buffs is worth it, especially if you draw a card.
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.
Bushy Bodyguard
3 You want to Offspring this and Forage at least once, and that's pretty doable. If you do it once, you spend 4 for a 2/1 and a 3/3, and sometimes you can do it twice, which is even more efficient.
3 You want to Offspring this and Forage at least once, and that's pretty doable. If you do it once, you spend 4 for a 2/1 and a 3/3, and sometimes you can do it twice, which is even more efficient.
Brazen Collector
3.5 A two mana 2/1 with First Strike is a nice creature and this can generate some extra mana, which every deck's going to be happy with in the early game.
3.5 A two mana 2/1 with First Strike is a nice creature and this can generate some extra mana, which every deck's going to be happy with in the early game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Curious Forager
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.
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.
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.
Blooming Blast
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
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.
Cruelclaw's Heist
3.5 You almost always want to give the gift here, because you get to take the card after they draw -- and being able to cast the card you make them discard is amazing.
3.5 You almost always want to give the gift here, because you get to take the card after they draw -- and being able to cast the card you make them discard is amazing.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Overprotect
Overprotect
3 This is a great trick that blanks removal, helps a creature when virtually any combat, and trample over for tons of damage. You can't really ask for more from a trick.
3 This is a great trick that blanks removal, helps a creature when virtually any combat, and trample over for tons of damage. You can't really ask for more from a trick.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Warren Elder
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 5: Intrepid Rabbit
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.
Plumecreed Mentor
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 6: Druid of the Spade
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Barkform Harvester
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Pawpatch Formation
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Treeguard Duo
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 10: Druid of the Spade
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Veteran Guardmouse
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Starforged Sword
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Sunshower Druid
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 2 Pick 1: Mouse Trapper
Lunar Convocation
1.5 // 3.5 Your deck really has to be good at gaining and losing life for this to work out. While it can do the life loss part for you, not having to spend the mana for it is far better.
1.5 // 3.5 Your deck really has to be good at gaining and losing life for this to work out. While it can do the life loss part for you, not having to spend the mana for it is far better.
Sugar Coat
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Finneas, Ace Archer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Finneas, Ace Archer
4 Finneas is going to be able to buff lots of creatures in Green-White when he turns sideways, so giving him up to get all those buffs is worth it, especially if you draw a card.
4 Finneas is going to be able to buff lots of creatures in Green-White when he turns sideways, so giving him up to get all those buffs is worth it, especially if you draw a card.
Pack 2 Pick 3: 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.
Valley Rally
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
Coruscation Mage
3 This is a nice spell payoff, especially when you can Offspring. If you have lots of cheap spells, you can lower your opponent's life total in a hurry.
3 This is a nice spell payoff, especially when you can Offspring. If you have lots of cheap spells, you can lower your opponent's life total in a hurry.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Repel Calamity
2.5 This format has fewer big creatures than most, but this does go after power AND toughness, so it'll have a decent number of targets.
2.5 This format has fewer big creatures than most, but this does go after power AND toughness, so it'll have a decent number of targets.
Pack 2 Pick 4: High Stride
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Clifftop Lookout
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 6: Thistledown Players
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2 Pick 7: Head of the Homestead
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.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Wear Down
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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 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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Veteran Guardmouse
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Three Tree Mascot
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Valley Rally
Valley Rally
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
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 2 Pick 12: Whiskerquill Scribe
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.
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 2 Pick 13: Might of the Meek
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.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Fecund Greenshell
Helga, Skittish Seer
4 Casting her is a bit of a challenge, but if you just get her triggered ability a single time it will have been worth it. And, because she can tap for mana, there's a chance you can just keep casting things as you draw them.
4 Casting her is a bit of a challenge, but if you just get her triggered ability a single time it will have been worth it. And, because she can tap for mana, there's a chance you can just keep casting things as you draw them.
Plumecreed Mentor
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
Galewind Moose
3.5 Flashing this in to kill an attacker and then untapping is a pretty great feeling, and this is an imposing presence on just about any board.
3.5 Flashing this in to kill an attacker and then untapping is a pretty great feeling, and this is an imposing presence on just about any board.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Longstalk Brawl
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Wax-Wane Witness
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.
Sugar Coat
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Dewdrop Cure
Mindwhisker
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
Blooming Blast
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Rabbit Response
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 6: Overprotect
Overprotect
3 This is a great trick that blanks removal, helps a creature when virtually any combat, and trample over for tons of damage. You can't really ask for more from a trick.
3 This is a great trick that blanks removal, helps a creature when virtually any combat, and trample over for tons of damage. You can't really ask for more from a trick.
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 7: Peerless Recycling
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.
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Wax-Wane Witness
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 9: Heaped Harvest
Plumecreed Mentor
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
3 If you can put a counter somewhere when this enters it feels great, and there's potential for more counters after that.
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.
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.
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.
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 10: 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.
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.
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.
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 11: Treetop Sentries
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 12: 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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Sazacap's Brew
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.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Finneas, Ace Archer
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Curious Forager
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Overprotect
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Warren Elder
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Intrepid Rabbit
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Druid of the Spade
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Barkform Harvester
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Pawpatch Formation
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Treeguard Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Druid of the Spade
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Veteran Guardmouse
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Starforged Sword
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Sunshower Druid
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Mouse Trapper
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Finneas, Ace Archer
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Burrowguard Mentor
- Pack 2 Pick 4: High Stride
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Clifftop Lookout
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Thistledown Players
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Head of the Homestead
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Wear Down
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Veteran Guardmouse
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Three Tree Mascot
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Valley Rally
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Whiskerquill Scribe
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Might of the Meek
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Fecund Greenshell
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Longstalk Brawl
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Wax-Wane Witness
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Dewdrop Cure
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Rabbit Response
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Overprotect
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Peerless Recycling
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Wax-Wane Witness
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Heaped Harvest
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Nightwhorl Hermit
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Treetop Sentries
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Bumbleflower's Sharepot
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Sazacap's Brew
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