Traditional Draft BLB 19 August 2024
19 August 10:08 - Warr 3 Wins - 0 Losses
Pack 1 Pick 1: Moonrise Cleric
Byway Barterer
4 A three mana 3/3 with Menace is a nice aggressive creature, and this is likely to reload your hand in a big way.
4 A three mana 3/3 with Menace is a nice aggressive creature, and this is likely to reload your hand in a big way.
Hoarder's Overflow
0 This is just too slow to actually get anything out of.
0 This is just too slow to actually get anything out of.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 2: Vinereap Mentor
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Curious Forager
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Nocturnal Hunger
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.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 5: Wear Down
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.
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.
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Starlit Soothsayer
Long River Lurker
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
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.
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 7: Short Bow
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Daggerfang Duo
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 10: 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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 11: Sunshower Druid
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Pond Prophet
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Bellowing Crier
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 1: Moonstone Harbinger
Baylen, the Haymaker
3 This is a powerful token payoff, even if it is hard to cast. You won't always get Baylen's abilities online, but you're going to do it often enough for it be worth the splash in Green-White decks.
3 This is a powerful token payoff, even if it is hard to cast. You won't always get Baylen's abilities online, but you're going to do it often enough for it be worth the splash in Green-White decks.
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.
Moonstone Harbinger
3 A three mana 1/3 flying with deathtouch is a passable baseline, and triggering this is fairly easy -- and you're likely to have more bats in play, too.
3 A three mana 1/3 flying with deathtouch is a passable baseline, and triggering this is fairly easy -- and you're likely to have more bats in play, too.
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.
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
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.
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.
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 2: Treeguard Duo
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.
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.
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.
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3: Moonrise Cleric
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Patchwork Banner
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Bakersbane Duo
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heirloom Epic
1.5 // 3.0 If you're really good at going wide (like in Green-White), this is a pretty sweet card advantage engine.
1.5 // 3.0 If you're really good at going wide (like in Green-White), this is a pretty sweet card advantage engine.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Bark-Knuckle Boxer
Bark-Knuckle Boxer
3 These are good aggro stats, and an indestructible 3/2 is a relevant body all game long.
3 These are good aggro stats, and an indestructible 3/2 is a relevant body all game long.
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
Three Tree Rootweaver
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Junkblade Bruiser
Mabel's Mettle
2 This has 2-for-1 upside since it buffs two creatures, and it's also a great way to trigger valiant at instant speed.
2 This has 2-for-1 upside since it buffs two creatures, and it's also a great way to trigger valiant at instant speed.
Seedglaive Mentor
3 A three mana 3/2 with Vigilance and Haste is a great starting point, and there are plenty of ways to trigger Valiant in this format.
3 A three mana 3/2 with Vigilance and Haste is a great starting point, and there are plenty of ways to trigger Valiant in this format.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 8: Vinereap Mentor
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Stickytongue Sentinel
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.
Lupinflower Village
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
2.5 Cashing this in late to draw a card will feel pretty good.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Druid of the Spade
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.
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
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.
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 2 Pick 11: Agate-Blade Assassin
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Psychic Whorl
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Mind Drill Assailant
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Downwind Ambusher
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.
Downwind Ambusher
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
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.
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.
Teapot Slinger
2.5 Shocking your opponent when you cast things that cost 4 or more is a real payoff, and the stat-line here is passable.
2.5 Shocking your opponent when you cast things that cost 4 or more is a real payoff, and the stat-line here is passable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2: Savor
Sunspine Lynx
3 These are decent stats, but most of the upside on this card is irrelevant or not very important in Limited, although Black/White being a life gain deck helps a little.
3 These are decent stats, but most of the upside on this card is irrelevant or not very important in Limited, although Black/White being a life gain deck helps a little.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whiskerquill Scribe
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
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 3 Pick 4: Polliwallop
Mockingbird
4 This lets you copy your own creatures or your opponents, although you do need to spend more mana to copy bigger creatures. Still, you're likely to get your mana's worth when you cast this.
4 This lets you copy your own creatures or your opponents, although you do need to spend more mana to copy bigger creatures. Still, you're likely to get your mana's worth when you cast this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 5: Moonrise Cleric
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 6: Wick's Patrol
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.
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.
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.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Mudflat Village
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.
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.
Three Tree Rootweaver
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 8: Heaped Harvest
Daring Waverider
4 This is usually going to be a 6-mana 4/4 that kills something on ETB. Obviously it takes some set up to get there, but all you have to do is have cast a removal spell at some point in the game, so it's not that much set up.
4 This is usually going to be a 6-mana 4/4 that kills something on ETB. Obviously it takes some set up to get there, but all you have to do is have cast a removal spell at some point in the game, so it's not that much set up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 9: Hidden Grotto
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.
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.
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.
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 10: Curious Forager
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 11: Shoreline Looter
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Three Tree Mascot
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.
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 3 Pick 13: Tempest Angler
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.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Moonrise Cleric
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Vinereap Mentor
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Curious Forager
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Nocturnal Hunger
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Wear Down
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Starlit Soothsayer
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Short Bow
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Bonecache Overseer
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Daggerfang Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Bumbleflower's Sharepot
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Sunshower Druid
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Pond Prophet
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Bellowing Crier
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Moonstone Harbinger
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Treeguard Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Moonrise Cleric
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Patchwork Banner
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Bakersbane Duo
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Bark-Knuckle Boxer
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Junkblade Bruiser
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Vinereap Mentor
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Stickytongue Sentinel
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Druid of the Spade
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Agate-Blade Assassin
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Psychic Whorl
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Mind Drill Assailant
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Downwind Ambusher
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Savor
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Polliwallop
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Moonrise Cleric
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Wick's Patrol
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Mudflat Village
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Heaped Harvest
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Hidden Grotto
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Curious Forager
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Shoreline Looter
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Three Tree Mascot
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Tempest Angler
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