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Quick Draft DSK 10 October 2024

10 October 10:12 - nano69 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (13)
1 Shroudstomper image
1 Fear of Surveillance image
1 Unsettling Twins image
1 Fear of the Dark image
1 Hardened Escort image
1 Shepherding Spirits image
1 The Swarmweaver image
1 Cult Healer image
1 Spectral Snatcher image
1 Spineseeker Centipede image
1 Broodspinner image
1 Fear of Lost Teeth image
1 Cryptid Inspector image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (10)
1 Withering Torment image
1 Seized from Slumber image
1 Give In to Violence image
1 Nowhere to Run image
1 Ethereal Armor image
1 Hedge Shredder image
1 Exorcise image
1 Drag to the Roots image
1 Horrid Vigor image
1 Sporogenic Infection image
Land (17)
1 Gloomlake Verge image
1 Valgavoth's Lair image
5 Plains image
5 Swamp image
5 Forest image
Sideboard
1 Hardened Escort image
1 Shroudstomper image
1 Ripchain Razorkin image
1 Tunnel Surveyor image
1 Cackling Slasher image
1 Resurrected Cultist image
1 Unwanted Remake image
2 Jump Scare image
1 Get Out image
1 Horrid Vigor image
1 Grievous Wound image
1 Found Footage image
1 Say Its Name image
1 Cracked Skull image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Gloomlake Verge
Gloomlake Verge image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
House Cartographer image 3 This Survival trigger is a great way to avoid missing a land drop, and it can fix your mana too.
Let's Play a Game image 1.5 Even if you always got all three of these effects, they are narrow enough that this card wouldn't be insane, so jumping through hoops to get them all doesn't seem worth it to me.
Midnight Mayhem image 3 This will really make your attack way better if you're ahead, and if you're behind getting those three tokens makes it pretty hard for you to lose before your next turn.
Unwanted Remake image 0 Yeah...you don't want this. 2-for-1ing yourself is a bad call.
Friendly Teddy image 1.5 You and your opponent both draw, but you come out ahead since you're the one who had a 2/2.
Most Valuable Slayer image 2.5 This can buff stuff the turn it comes down, and the boost it offers is enough to make your attacks much better.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Stalked Researcher image 1.5 Two-mana 3/3s with defender that lose defender when something happens don't perform well, over all. Combat tricks are too good and creatures are too efficient these days for a defensive creature to be worthwhile.
Living Phone image 2 The stat-line is bad, but this has a decent shot at drawing you a card when it dies, especially in Red-White.
Fanatic of the Harrowing image 2.5 Making your opponent discard while you get to loot is pretty nice, especially in a graveyard format.
Final Vengeance image 1.5 // 3.5 If you're in the BR sacrifice deck you can do some nasty things with this. If you're not...you can end up 2-for-1ing yourself with this, and that's not what you want to be doing.
Neglected Manor image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Patched Plaything image 3 A 2/1 with double strike for 3 is pretty solid, and it also has synergy with all the "2 power or less" cards in the set and the reanimation in the set, since you can get it back as a 4/3 double striker when you bring it back.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Valgavoth's Lair
Leyline of Hope image 0 Leylines are almost always horrible in Limited because they have ultra narrow effects that aren't worth a card, and that's definitely the case here.
Smoky Lounge image 1.0 // 3.5 I don't love that the Loung doesn't impact the board at all, but Misty Salon can really allow you to win the game with a bunch of doors in play. Problem is, I don't think every blue-red deck can pull that off, so it needs a build around grade.
Nowhere to Run image 4 Two mana for -3/-3 at instant speed is already great, but this also triggers Eerie and is good sacrifice fodder. Sometimes the ward/hexproof upside will matter too.
Shardmage's Rescue image 3 One mana tricks that give hexproof and a stats boost have performed really well lately because they can win combat and blank removal, and in this format you get extra value out of Enchantments.
Fear of Immobility image 2.5 You can use this as a nice tempo play, but you can also tap your own survival creature in a pinch!
Meat Locker image 3 Meat Locker has an effect that impacts the board, and Drowned Diner lets you dig deeper in your deck later in the game. I'm pretty happy with both of those things.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Grasping Longneck image 2.5 This has passable stats and a death trigger that makes up for it's low toughness, and the Enchantment typing is pretty important.
Fear of the Dark image 3 This will frequently have Menace and Deathtouch. It won't quite always have them -- Glimmers are around, including at lower rarities -- but it has them often enough to be a nice 5-drop, especially in decks that care about Enchantments.
Clockwork Percussionist image 2 This is a decent one drop, especially for Black-Red where you can sacrifice it and get the trigger.
Stalked Researcher image 1.5 Two-mana 3/3s with defender that lose defender when something happens don't perform well, over all. Combat tricks are too good and creatures are too efficient these days for a defensive creature to be worthwhile.
Lakeside Shack image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Valgavoth's Lair image 3 The enchantment typing here is huge, as it gives you a way to trigger eerie with a land -- and it even fixes your mana!
Pack 1 Pick 3: Shroudstomper
Shroudstomper image 3.5 This is a great reanimation target for the Black-White deck, and hard-casting it is still pretty good.
Infernal Phantom image 3.5 This is a nightmare for your opponent to interact with since even without Eerie it's going to be able to frequently 2-for-1 your opponent, and with eerie, it gets even sillier.
Paranormal Analyst image 1.5 // 4.0 This is an insane Manifest Dread build around, as it turns every manifest into a 2/2 that draws you a card - - and there's plenty of manifest.
Vanish from Sight image 2.5 This effect for 4 mana is always solid removal. It's never insane, but it trades 1-for-1 and as an instant has 2-for-1 potential. The surveil is nice added value.
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Acrobatic Cheerleader image 2.5 If you play this on two when you're on the play, there's a good chance it will get flying. And, there are plenty of ways to get it flying even in the late game. It's a quality two drop.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Glimmerlight image 2 This is a solid equipment that can even trigger eerie.
Grasping Longneck image 2.5 This has passable stats and a death trigger that makes up for it's low toughness, and the Enchantment typing is pretty important.
Swamp image
Fear of Being Hunted image 2 This isn't super easy to cast on turn three, when it's probably at it's best. And it isn't like this stat-line is insane to begin with. The Enchantment type does help make this better.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Withering Torment
Withering Torment image 3.5 This has lots of targets in the format, and it's well worth losing life for removal this efficient and flexible.
Baseball Bat image 2.5 This is pretty good the turn you play it, and probably allows you to get in for a big swing -- and it can even enable survival. But after that first equip, it's pretty clunky.
Malevolent Chandelier image 0 The stat-line is bad, and the activated ability is clunky. You shouldn't play this.
Shepherding Spirits image 2 This feels pretty mediocre whether you cycle it away or hard cast it, and it even feels mediocre as a reanimation target. But, it's not terrible in any of those spots either.
Scorching Dragonfire image 3.5 This is premium removal, and exiling the creature is a big deal in a graveyard format -- and it even stops death triggers!
Fear of the Dark image 3 This will frequently have Menace and Deathtouch. It won't quite always have them -- Glimmers are around, including at lower rarities -- but it has them often enough to be a nice 5-drop, especially in decks that care about Enchantments.
Living Phone image 2 The stat-line is bad, but this has a decent shot at drawing you a card when it dies, especially in Red-White.
Don't Make a Sound image 2 Two mana counterspells have been pretty good lately, although most of them come with more upside than this.
Derelict Attic image 2 Three mana to draw 2 and lose 2 life is decently playable, and this one triggers eerie. Widow's Walk isn't great, but it's upside on a decent card.
Lakeside Shack image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Ghostly Keybearer image 2 4-mana 3/3 Flyers have gotten pretty underwhelming of late, and this card's upside seems a bit too narrow to me.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Seized from Slumber
Sawblade Skinripper image 3.5 This has nice base stats and the ability to grow and ping stuff is a huge deal, especially if you have some more sacrifice around. It counts sacrifices of any kind, too.
Shrewd Storyteller image 3.5 This trigger is great because it can allow you to snowball with Survival creatures, as if they keep growing, they can keep attacking. So, whether you put the counter on the Storyteller or something else, it's going to feel pretty good.
Stalked Researcher image 1.5 Two-mana 3/3s with defender that lose defender when something happens don't perform well, over all. Combat tricks are too good and creatures are too efficient these days for a defensive creature to be worthwhile.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
Wary Watchdog image 2.5 This can put up to three cards into the graveyard all on it's own, and it has passable stats to begin with.
Seized from Slumber image 2 This is a passable removal spell if you're not an aggro deck, but if you're the beat down it's pretty bad since it's either inefficient or incapable of killing blockers.
Innocuous Rat image 3.5 Spending two mana to get a 1/1 and a 2/2 is great, and that 2/2 has big upside.
Cryptid Inspector image 3 This isn't very hard to grow, especially in Blue/Green, and having Vigilance makes it both a brick wall and a great attacker.
Plains image
Pack 1 Pick 6: Fear of Surveillance
Scrabbling Skullcrab image 1.5 I wouldn't count on milling your opponent out with this. You may get more value milling yourself in this format, but it's a super underwhelming body and the Eerie trigger isn't very good overall.
Hand That Feeds image 2.5 This will be a two mana 4/2 with Menace often enough that it's a nice two drop.
Fear of Immobility image 2.5 You can use this as a nice tempo play, but you can also tap your own survival creature in a pinch!
Balemurk Leech image 2 This stat-line is no longer very efficient, and the eerie trigger isn't anything to write home about.
Enter the Enigma image 2 When this effect is good, it's really good -- and when it isn't, you can just throw it away. This format doesn't have a spell deck though, and that hurts it's stock some.
Frantic Strength image 1.5 This can trigger Eerie at instant speed or save a Survival creature in combat, but it's pretty clunky.
Fear of Surveillance image 2.5 This is a solid two drop, and the Enchantment type gives it an extra bump.
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Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Unsettling Twins
Orphans of the Wheat image 2 I get it, this is supposed to help you with Survival, but the stat-line is bad and even with a buff the Orphans aren't that impressive.
Grab the Prize image 1.5 If you need to get delirium, this can help while digging you deeper in your library. But without a spell deck in this format, it's probably going to underperform.
Unsettling Twins image 4 This is a great common. You pay 4 mana for two 2/2s, and the second 2/2 has massive upside.
Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Glimmerburst image 2.5 An instant-speed 4-mana draw 2 that adds to the board -- and triggers eerie, is something that I'd like one copy of in many Blue decks.
Fanatic of the Harrowing image 2.5 Making your opponent discard while you get to loot is pretty nice, especially in a graveyard format.
Hand That Feeds image 2.5 This will be a two mana 4/2 with Menace often enough that it's a nice two drop.
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Pack 1 Pick 8: Fear of the Dark
Cathartic Parting image 2.5 There are enough artifacts and enchantments in this set for this to be main deck material, and shuffling your stuff back into your library can have real value too.
Friendly Teddy image 1.5 You and your opponent both draw, but you come out ahead since you're the one who had a 2/2.
Enter the Enigma image 2 When this effect is good, it's really good -- and when it isn't, you can just throw it away. This format doesn't have a spell deck though, and that hurts it's stock some.
Living Phone image 2 The stat-line is bad, but this has a decent shot at drawing you a card when it dies, especially in Red-White.
Grab the Prize image 1.5 If you need to get delirium, this can help while digging you deeper in your library. But without a spell deck in this format, it's probably going to underperform.
Fear of the Dark image 3 This will frequently have Menace and Deathtouch. It won't quite always have them -- Glimmers are around, including at lower rarities -- but it has them often enough to be a nice 5-drop, especially in decks that care about Enchantments.
Bleeding Woods image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Unwanted Remake
Let's Play a Game image 1.5 Even if you always got all three of these effects, they are narrow enough that this card wouldn't be insane, so jumping through hoops to get them all doesn't seem worth it to me.
Unwanted Remake image 0 Yeah...you don't want this. 2-for-1ing yourself is a bad call.
Friendly Teddy image 1.5 You and your opponent both draw, but you come out ahead since you're the one who had a 2/2.
Living Phone image 2 The stat-line is bad, but this has a decent shot at drawing you a card when it dies, especially in Red-White.
Fanatic of the Harrowing image 2.5 Making your opponent discard while you get to loot is pretty nice, especially in a graveyard format.
Neglected Manor image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Hardened Escort
Smoky Lounge image 1.0 // 3.5 I don't love that the Loung doesn't impact the board at all, but Misty Salon can really allow you to win the game with a bunch of doors in play. Problem is, I don't think every blue-red deck can pull that off, so it needs a build around grade.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Fear of the Dark image 3 This will frequently have Menace and Deathtouch. It won't quite always have them -- Glimmers are around, including at lower rarities -- but it has them often enough to be a nice 5-drop, especially in decks that care about Enchantments.
Stalked Researcher image 1.5 Two-mana 3/3s with defender that lose defender when something happens don't perform well, over all. Combat tricks are too good and creatures are too efficient these days for a defensive creature to be worthwhile.
Lakeside Shack image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Give In to Violence
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Swamp image
Pack 1 Pick 12: Shepherding Spirits
Shepherding Spirits image 2 This feels pretty mediocre whether you cycle it away or hard cast it, and it even feels mediocre as a reanimation target. But, it's not terrible in any of those spots either.
Don't Make a Sound image 2 Two mana counterspells have been pretty good lately, although most of them come with more upside than this.
Derelict Attic image 2 Three mana to draw 2 and lose 2 life is decently playable, and this one triggers eerie. Widow's Walk isn't great, but it's upside on a decent card.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Ripchain Razorkin
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
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Pack 1 Pick 14: Forest
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Pack 2 Pick 1: The Swarmweaver
The Swarmweaver image 5 Even without delirium this would be nuts as you get three bodies at a great rate, and once you have delirium it gets even sillier. Especially because you're likely to have more insects and spiders in Black/Green.
Piggy Bank image 3.5 This is a great rate and you're almost always going to feel like you're coming out ahead when it dies thanks to that Treasure.
Unwanted Remake image 0 Yeah...you don't want this. 2-for-1ing yourself is a bad call.
Scrabbling Skullcrab image 1.5 I wouldn't count on milling your opponent out with this. You may get more value milling yourself in this format, but it's a super underwhelming body and the Eerie trigger isn't very good overall.
Killer's Mask image 3.5 This is a three mana 2/2 Menace with massive upside because of Manifest Dread, and because a Menace equipment is a decent thing to have around.
Acrobatic Cheerleader image 2.5 If you play this on two when you're on the play, there's a good chance it will get flying. And, there are plenty of ways to get it flying even in the late game. It's a quality two drop.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Spectral Snatcher image 2.5 This is tough to kill without your opponent 2-for-1ing themselves, and the fact you can cycle it away early for a Swamp and reanimate it is pretty great for Black/white decks.
Jump Scare image 2.5 This is a solid trick and in a format with Survival, having creatures survive combat and kill the opposing creature will be extra swingy.
Creeping Peeper image 2.5 This can produce mana for Manifest Dread or all the Enchantments in the format, and that's pretty useful.
Impossible Inferno image 3 5 mana removal generally isn't premium, but if you get Delirium -- which is very doable -- this becomes a 2-for-1 and makes up for the cost.
Razortrap Gorge image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Unsettling Twins image 4 This is a great common. You pay 4 mana for two 2/2s, and the second 2/2 has massive upside.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Nowhere to Run
Ghost Vacuum image 2.5 This is pretty insane if you get it early, as you can disrupt graveyard decks while turning this into a win condition. If you get it late, though, it's pretty bad as you don't have the time for this sort of thing in many situations.
Painter's Studio image 2 Neither side really impact the board and that's a pretty big problem. Painter's Studio is basically a red Divination, and the Gallery can augment attacks -- but it's a bit of a win-more card.
Saw image 1.5 The buff is weak, and this is only worth using in the extreme late game in most cases.
Nowhere to Run image 4 Two mana for -3/-3 at instant speed is already great, but this also triggers Eerie and is good sacrifice fodder. Sometimes the ward/hexproof upside will matter too.
Winter's Intervention image 3 Removing a creature -- and sometimes even trading up -- is pretty great when you also gain life.
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Daggermaw Megalodon image 2 This can be imposing in the late game, and cashing it in early for an Island isn't too bad.
Grand Entryway image 3 I think this is sneaky good. On rate alone it doesn't sound great, but it can trigger Eerie three times -- and on the cheap, and both sides of the room impact the board.
Impossible Inferno image 3 5 mana removal generally isn't premium, but if you get Delirium -- which is very doable -- this becomes a 2-for-1 and makes up for the cost.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Spineseeker Centipede image 3.5 A three mana 2/1 without the delirium effect here would probably be a 3.0, since grabbing a land is such good value -- a 2-for-1 is pretty easy to produce! So, the fact that this gains a relevant body later in the game is pretty awesome.
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Rampaging Soulrager image 1.5 A three mana 1/4 is bad, and making this into a 4/4 is going to take significant work.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Grievous Wound
Grievous Wound image 0 This costs 5 mana and basically does nothing unless you're already ahead and can attack your opponent effectively.
Fear of Falling image 2.5 5-mana 4/4 Flyers aren't as good as they used to be, especially when they don't have ETB or death triggers, but this attack trigger is pretty good at giving this an effect even when it isn't your turn.
Commune with Evil image 2.5 I'm interested in the first copy of this if I'm in a Delirium deck, as it can get Delirium singlehandedly. Not adding to the board is a bit of a problem, but the life gain helps.
Twist Reality image 2 You're overpaying for either of these, but getting the option between them makes this playable.
Innocuous Rat image 3.5 Spending two mana to get a 1/1 and a 2/2 is great, and that 2/2 has big upside.
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Friendly Ghost image 2.5 This ETB is likely to give you an attack you didn't have before, and the French vanilla stat-line isn't too bad either.
Ragged Playmate image 2 This is a sub-par stat-line and it has a mediocre activated ability, but it's a two drop with two types, so it's more playable than it looks.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Bleeding Woods image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Glassworks image 4 Three mana to do 4 to something is perfectly solid, and this comes with Enchantment and door upside, plus just unlocking Shattered Yard late is pretty great.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Ethereal Armor
Pyroclasm image 0.5 This is a sideboard card and a really narrow one -- you need to have high toughness creatures and your opponent needs to have lots of low toughness creatures.
Ethereal Armor image 2 If you're in an Enchantment heavy deck this can perform fairly well, although it's still risky like all auras are.
Miasma Demon image 3 This is a big flyer that can turn every card in your hand into a free -2/-2 removal spell. That can help you set up delirium or reanimate something, while also killing stuff.
Bashful Beastie image 2.5 A 5-mana 5/4 that dies into a 2/2 token is solid, and this is significantly better than that.
Tunnel Surveyor image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make a 1/1 always perform well, and this one triggers Eerie.
Fear of Immobility image 2.5 You can use this as a nice tempo play, but you can also tap your own survival creature in a pinch!
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Neglected Manor image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Hand That Feeds image 2.5 This will be a two mana 4/2 with Menace often enough that it's a nice two drop.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Shroudstomper
Shroudstomper image 3.5 This is a great reanimation target for the Black-White deck, and hard-casting it is still pretty good.
Get Out image 2.5 This can counter almost every spell in the format, and the Enchantment mode is useful on occasion. The double Blue holds it back a bit, though.
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
Final Vengeance image 1.5 // 3.5 If you're in the BR sacrifice deck you can do some nasty things with this. If you're not...you can end up 2-for-1ing yourself with this, and that's not what you want to be doing.
Cryptid Inspector image 3 This isn't very hard to grow, especially in Blue/Green, and having Vigilance makes it both a brick wall and a great attacker.
Living Phone image 2 The stat-line is bad, but this has a decent shot at drawing you a card when it dies, especially in Red-White.
Seized from Slumber image 2 This is a passable removal spell if you're not an aggro deck, but if you're the beat down it's pretty bad since it's either inefficient or incapable of killing blockers.
Piranha Fly image 1.5 This isn't so efficient that it should be entering the battlefield tapped. That's just rough in an era where you often need to trade your two drop -- you have to wait a whole turn to do it with this.
Peculiar Lighthouse image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Fear of Immobility image 2.5 You can use this as a nice tempo play, but you can also tap your own survival creature in a pinch!
Pack 2 Pick 6: Jump Scare
Skullsnap Nuisance image 3 The stat-line's solid, and you're definitely going to load your graveyard and smooth out your draws with this trigger.
Grasping Longneck image 2.5 This has passable stats and a death trigger that makes up for it's low toughness, and the Enchantment typing is pretty important.
Fanatic of the Harrowing image 2.5 Making your opponent discard while you get to loot is pretty nice, especially in a graveyard format.
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Creeping Peeper image 2.5 This can produce mana for Manifest Dread or all the Enchantments in the format, and that's pretty useful.
Innocuous Rat image 3.5 Spending two mana to get a 1/1 and a 2/2 is great, and that 2/2 has big upside.
Jump Scare image 2.5 This is a solid trick and in a format with Survival, having creatures survive combat and kill the opposing creature will be extra swingy.
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Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Jump Scare
Fear of Failed Tests image 1.5 This is a largely defensive creature that wants you to do damage with it, which just seems...weird. It's not going to get in for a hit very often.
Daggermaw Megalodon image 2 This can be imposing in the late game, and cashing it in early for an Island isn't too bad.
Ragged Playmate image 2 This is a sub-par stat-line and it has a mediocre activated ability, but it's a two drop with two types, so it's more playable than it looks.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Don't Make a Sound image 2 Two mana counterspells have been pretty good lately, although most of them come with more upside than this.
Jump Scare image 2.5 This is a solid trick and in a format with Survival, having creatures survive combat and kill the opposing creature will be extra swingy.
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Impossible Inferno image 3 5 mana removal generally isn't premium, but if you get Delirium -- which is very doable -- this becomes a 2-for-1 and makes up for the cost.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Cult Healer
Attack-in-the-Box image 2 This has passable base-stats, and a 6/4 can attack on just about any board -- and it can put itself into your graveyard for delirium too.
Vanish from Sight image 2.5 This effect for 4 mana is always solid removal. It's never insane, but it trades 1-for-1 and as an instant has 2-for-1 potential. The surveil is nice added value.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Malevolent Chandelier image 0 The stat-line is bad, and the activated ability is clunky. You shouldn't play this.
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Cult Healer image 3 This is going to have life link a lot, and that can really alter races.
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Pack 2 Pick 9: Spectral Snatcher
Unwanted Remake image 0 Yeah...you don't want this. 2-for-1ing yourself is a bad call.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Spectral Snatcher image 2.5 This is tough to kill without your opponent 2-for-1ing themselves, and the fact you can cycle it away early for a Swamp and reanimate it is pretty great for Black/white decks.
Jump Scare image 2.5 This is a solid trick and in a format with Survival, having creatures survive combat and kill the opposing creature will be extra swingy.
Creeping Peeper image 2.5 This can produce mana for Manifest Dread or all the Enchantments in the format, and that's pretty useful.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Hardened Escort
Saw image 1.5 The buff is weak, and this is only worth using in the extreme late game in most cases.
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
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Rampaging Soulrager image 1.5 A three mana 1/4 is bad, and making this into a 4/4 is going to take significant work.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Horrid Vigor
Twist Reality image 2 You're overpaying for either of these, but getting the option between them makes this playable.
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Tunnel Surveyor
Tunnel Surveyor image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make a 1/1 always perform well, and this one triggers Eerie.
Anthropede image 1.5 These are below-rate stats, and while blowing up a room has value -- the cost is pretty real here, and you certainly won't always have a target anyway.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Get Out
Get Out image 2.5 This can counter almost every spell in the format, and the Enchantment mode is useful on occasion. The double Blue holds it back a bit, though.
Piranha Fly image 1.5 This isn't so efficient that it should be entering the battlefield tapped. That's just rough in an era where you often need to trade your two drop -- you have to wait a whole turn to do it with this.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Island
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Pack 3 Pick 1: Hedge Shredder
Hedge Shredder image 3.5 This is easy to crew and milling yourself is a big deal in this set.
Let's Play a Game image 1.5 Even if you always got all three of these effects, they are narrow enough that this card wouldn't be insane, so jumping through hoops to get them all doesn't seem worth it to me.
Savior of the Small image 2 Not only do you need to trigger survival, you need a small creature in your graveyard for this ability to do something -- and the stats are below-rate. Triggering it once will be good, but I'm skeptical about that being easy.
Violent Urge image 2 Without Delirium this is a sub-part trick, with it it's significantly better -- and can even find lethal out of nowhere.
Rootwise Survivor image 2.5 Haste means finding a window where you can get this in and trigger survival is easier, but the below-rate stats are pretty concerning.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Tunnel Surveyor image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make a 1/1 always perform well, and this one triggers Eerie.
Grab the Prize image 1.5 If you need to get delirium, this can help while digging you deeper in your library. But without a spell deck in this format, it's probably going to underperform.
Piranha Fly image 1.5 This isn't so efficient that it should be entering the battlefield tapped. That's just rough in an era where you often need to trade your two drop -- you have to wait a whole turn to do it with this.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Strangled Cemetery image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Norin, Swift Survivalist image 1 Norin's trigger can let you retrigger ETBs, but having to recast the things that get blocked is a pretty big problem. It is a "may" trigger at least.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Exorcise
Exorcise image 3.5 This'll virtually always have a target, and it will frequently trade up.
Unnerving Grasp image 4 This is a Manifest Dread version of Man-O-War, and that seems excellent. Adding to the board while taking away from your opponent's board is great, and this 2/2 has massive upside.
Razorkin Hordecaller image 3.5 This plays offense and defense pretty well thanks to the token it makes, and it's a pretty good rate overall.
Sporogenic Infection image 3 This is a pretty weird take on an edict effect. You have some control over it, since the creature it gets put on can't be sacrificed -- and you can even put it on your own creature if your opponent only has one. But it definitely removes something and then gives you a ltitle upside beyond that.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Moldering Gym image 2.5 Weight Room adds to the board, so this looks pretty solid to me. It's kind of like fixing in the early game that's kind of free, since you get a big creature later.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Balemurk Leech image 2 This stat-line is no longer very efficient, and the eerie trigger isn't anything to write home about.
Ragged Playmate image 2 This is a sub-par stat-line and it has a mediocre activated ability, but it's a two drop with two types, so it's more playable than it looks.
Possessed Goat image 2 This ability can make the Goat relevant on any board, and help you load the graveyard.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Murky Sewer image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Oblivious Bookworm image 4 A two mana 2/3 that loots every turn is already really, really good. And Blue/Green decks won't even have to discard with it every time.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Spineseeker Centipede
Shroudstomper image 3.5 This is a great reanimation target for the Black-White deck, and hard-casting it is still pretty good.
Oblivious Bookworm image 4 A two mana 2/3 that loots every turn is already really, really good. And Blue/Green decks won't even have to discard with it every time.
Spineseeker Centipede image 3.5 A three mana 2/1 without the delirium effect here would probably be a 3.0, since grabbing a land is such good value -- a 2-for-1 is pretty easy to produce! So, the fact that this gains a relevant body later in the game is pretty awesome.
Underwater Tunnel image 2.5 I don't love that the cheaper side doesn't impact the board, but Slimy Aquarium does -- so it's sort of like you pay 5-mana for a 3/3 with Surveil 2, but you pay in installments. That's not too bad.
Most Valuable Slayer image 2.5 This can buff stuff the turn it comes down, and the boost it offers is enough to make your attacks much better.
Friendly Ghost image 2.5 This ETB is likely to give you an attack you didn't have before, and the French vanilla stat-line isn't too bad either.
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Vanish from Sight image 2.5 This effect for 4 mana is always solid removal. It's never insane, but it trades 1-for-1 and as an instant has 2-for-1 potential. The surveil is nice added value.
Vicious Clown image 2 3 mana for a creature that is always a 4/3 isn't exactly exciting, and this is worse in most ways.
Winter's Intervention image 3 Removing a creature -- and sometimes even trading up -- is pretty great when you also gain life.
Etched Cornfield image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Say Its Name
Popular Egotist image 2.5 This sacrifice is a little more expensive than I would like it to be, but also coming with a general sacrifice payoff is pretty sweet.
Greenhouse image 1 Neither side affects the board, and Greenhouse is almost entirely irrelevant. The Gazebo is an overcosted draw spell.
Haunted Screen image 2 This is better than most three mana mana rocks because it actually turns into a threat late.
Manifest Dread image 2.5 This is right on rate for manifesting dread, and particualrly spicy in a Blue/green deck with lots of payoffs for manifest.
Friendly Teddy image 1.5 You and your opponent both draw, but you come out ahead since you're the one who had a 2/2.
Enter the Enigma image 2 When this effect is good, it's really good -- and when it isn't, you can just throw it away. This format doesn't have a spell deck though, and that hurts it's stock some.
Cackling Slasher image 1.5 Any time we see an under-statted creature who can be decent if a creature die in a turn, it ends up being surprisingly hard to get that counter.
Say Its Name image 3 This is a great enabler for green graveyard decks, and the combo with Altanak isn't impossible.
Vicious Clown image 2 3 mana for a creature that is always a 4/3 isn't exactly exciting, and this is worse in most ways.
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Clammy Prowler image 2 The stat-line's not great, but it triggers eerie and has some decent utility.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Broodspinner
Broodspinner image 4 This is great when you play it on two, and the ability is a game-winner in the late game.
Frantic Strength image 1.5 This can trigger Eerie at instant speed or save a Survival creature in combat, but it's pretty clunky.
Grasping Longneck image 2.5 This has passable stats and a death trigger that makes up for it's low toughness, and the Enchantment typing is pretty important.
Hand That Feeds image 2.5 This will be a two mana 4/2 with Menace often enough that it's a nice two drop.
Tunnel Surveyor image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make a 1/1 always perform well, and this one triggers Eerie.
Resurrected Cultist image 1.5 A 4/1's not great, and being able to bring it back once doesn't really make up for that.
Hardened Escort image 2.5 This has decent stats and a legit attack trigger that is particularly good with Survival creatures.
Scorching Dragonfire image 3.5 This is premium removal, and exiling the creature is a big deal in a graveyard format -- and it even stops death triggers!
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Cult Healer image 3 This is going to have life link a lot, and that can really alter races.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Drag to the Roots
Grievous Wound image 0 This costs 5 mana and basically does nothing unless you're already ahead and can attack your opponent effectively.
Drag to the Roots image 3.5 The baseline is solid removal, and the upside is super efficient removal.
Rampaging Soulrager image 1.5 A three mana 1/4 is bad, and making this into a 4/4 is going to take significant work.
Winter's Intervention image 3 Removing a creature -- and sometimes even trading up -- is pretty great when you also gain life.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Spectral Snatcher image 2.5 This is tough to kill without your opponent 2-for-1ing themselves, and the fact you can cycle it away early for a Swamp and reanimate it is pretty great for Black/white decks.
Frantic Strength image 1.5 This can trigger Eerie at instant speed or save a Survival creature in combat, but it's pretty clunky.
Cult Healer image 3 This is going to have life link a lot, and that can really alter races.
Underwater Tunnel image 2.5 I don't love that the cheaper side doesn't impact the board, but Slimy Aquarium does -- so it's sort of like you pay 5-mana for a 3/3 with Surveil 2, but you pay in installments. That's not too bad.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Fear of Lost Teeth
Fear of Infinity image 2 I think not being able to block hurts this in a big way. Lifelink makes up for it a little bit. If this format ends up being slower, this'll go up -- but right now I'm not super impressed.
Saw image 1.5 The buff is weak, and this is only worth using in the extreme late game in most cases.
Fear of Lost Teeth image 3 This gives you a lot for one mana. It's got a solid baseline and it's great sacrifice fodder and gets you halfway to delirium all on it's own.
Cryptid Inspector image 3 This isn't very hard to grow, especially in Blue/Green, and having Vigilance makes it both a brick wall and a great attacker.
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Meat Locker image 3 Meat Locker has an effect that impacts the board, and Drowned Diner lets you dig deeper in your deck later in the game. I'm pretty happy with both of those things.
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Ticket Booth image 3 I love that the Booth adds a real body to the board earlier, and you can unlock the Tunnel late at a time where it makes your attacks way better.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Cryptid Inspector
Cryptid Inspector image 3 This isn't very hard to grow, especially in Blue/Green, and having Vigilance makes it both a brick wall and a great attacker.
Stalked Researcher image 1.5 Two-mana 3/3s with defender that lose defender when something happens don't perform well, over all. Combat tricks are too good and creatures are too efficient these days for a defensive creature to be worthwhile.
Friendly Teddy image 1.5 You and your opponent both draw, but you come out ahead since you're the one who had a 2/2.
Cackling Slasher image 1.5 Any time we see an under-statted creature who can be decent if a creature die in a turn, it ends up being surprisingly hard to get that counter.
Boilerbilges Ripper image 2 You have to sacrifice something that isn't worth an entire card, or this won't feel worth it. When you can do that, though -- this ETB is pretty strong.
Abandoned Campground image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Grasping Longneck image 2.5 This has passable stats and a death trigger that makes up for it's low toughness, and the Enchantment typing is pretty important.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Horrid Vigor
Let's Play a Game image 1.5 Even if you always got all three of these effects, they are narrow enough that this card wouldn't be insane, so jumping through hoops to get them all doesn't seem worth it to me.
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
Horrid Vigor image 2.5 This wins a creature virtually any combat and blanks virtually any removal spell -- that's exactly what you want in a trick.
Grab the Prize image 1.5 If you need to get delirium, this can help while digging you deeper in your library. But without a spell deck in this format, it's probably going to underperform.
Piranha Fly image 1.5 This isn't so efficient that it should be entering the battlefield tapped. That's just rough in an era where you often need to trade your two drop -- you have to wait a whole turn to do it with this.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Sporogenic Infection
Sporogenic Infection image 3 This is a pretty weird take on an edict effect. You have some control over it, since the creature it gets put on can't be sacrificed -- and you can even put it on your own creature if your opponent only has one. But it definitely removes something and then gives you a ltitle upside beyond that.
Give In to Violence image 2 This is a little bit too expensive for me to be excited about, but it's a trick that does the job in Black aggro decks.
Balemurk Leech image 2 This stat-line is no longer very efficient, and the eerie trigger isn't anything to write home about.
Erratic Apparition image 2 The base stats here are pretty bad, but it'll often attack as a 2/4.
Murky Sewer image 3 These offer great fixing, as they will usually be untapped by the mid to late game.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Found Footage
Found Footage image 1.5 This helps load your graveyard, but it's other effect is more irrelevant than you'd expect.
Vanish from Sight image 2.5 This effect for 4 mana is always solid removal. It's never insane, but it trades 1-for-1 and as an instant has 2-for-1 potential. The surveil is nice added value.
Vicious Clown image 2 3 mana for a creature that is always a 4/3 isn't exactly exciting, and this is worse in most ways.
Ripchain Razorkin image 2 The stat-line's not great here, and the activated ability is really only good in the late game.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Cackling Slasher
Cackling Slasher image 1.5 Any time we see an under-statted creature who can be decent if a creature die in a turn, it ends up being surprisingly hard to get that counter.
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Clammy Prowler image 2 The stat-line's not great, but it triggers eerie and has some decent utility.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Resurrected Cultist
Resurrected Cultist image 1.5 A 4/1's not great, and being able to bring it back once doesn't really make up for that.
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Pack 3 Pick 14: Cracked Skull
Cracked Skull image 1.5 Getting two pretty weak effects for three mana isn't great, but this is an Enchantment format, so this is probably a little better than it looks.
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