Quick Draft BLB 25 October 2024
25 October 05:37 - SevenDeuceOff720 7 Wins - 2 LossesMaindeck
| Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (10) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1
Savor
|
|||
| Creature (13) | |||
| Land (17) | |||
|
8
Swamp
|
|||
|
8
Plains
|
|||
Sideboard
|
1
Stargaze
|
|||
Pack 1 Pick 1: Azure Beastbinder
Azure Beastbinder
4 This can't be blocked by anything that can kill it, and it's ability to turn creatures into blank 2/2s lasts into your opponent's turn! This can really alter the game in a big way, especially for a two drop.
4 This can't be blocked by anything that can kill it, and it's ability to turn creatures into blank 2/2s lasts into your opponent's turn! This can really alter the game in a big way, especially for a two drop.
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
Flamecache Gecko
3 This can enable some really nice early starts, where you have a one drop and two two-drops in play on turn two. It has diminishing returns later in the game, but at a minimum you can use it's ability with the mana it produces.
3 This can enable some really nice early starts, where you have a one drop and two two-drops in play on turn two. It has diminishing returns later in the game, but at a minimum you can use it's ability with the mana it produces.
Three Tree Scribe
3 This pays you off quite nicely for blinking or bouncing your stuff, which is great if you're getting value out of those effects already.
3 This pays you off quite nicely for blinking or bouncing your stuff, which is great if you're getting value out of those effects already.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rabbit Response
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Rabid Gnaw
Rabid Gnaw
4 This is a great removal spell with real 2-for-1 potential, and if you can trigger valiant or Prowess at the same time it will feel particularly absurd.
4 This is a great removal spell with real 2-for-1 potential, and if you can trigger valiant or Prowess at the same time it will feel particularly absurd.
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
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.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
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.
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.
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.
Early Winter
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
1.5 This is the removal spell you use when you're really desperate. It's just too expensive to ever be efficient, even with two modes.
Rust-Shield Rampager
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Repel Calamity
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.
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.
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
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.
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.
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.
Shrike Force
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
Rockface Village
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
2.5 This is a land that can trigger Valiant, and giving yoru stuff haste and a tiny buff is nice utility anyway.
Pawpatch Formation
2 Drawing a card and making a food is always a passable effect, and when the other two modes are good, they tend to be really good.
2 Drawing a card and making a food is always a passable effect, and when the other two modes are good, they tend to be really good.
Mouse Trapper
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
Stickytongue Sentinel
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
2 This has decent stats and can help you rebuy ETBs.
Sazacap's Brew
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Raccoon Rallier
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Banishing Light
Persistent Marshstalker
2.5 This will often have high power, and it can just keep coming back by the mid-to-late game, and it's often going to have enough power that your opponent has to block it.
2.5 This will often have high power, and it can just keep coming back by the mid-to-late game, and it's often going to have enough power that your opponent has to block it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Treeguard Duo
Huskburster Swarm
1.5 // 3.5 This is a pretty sweet buildaround for the two graveyard decks in the format. This creature is huge and impossible to block without at best getting 2-for-1'd.
1.5 // 3.5 This is a pretty sweet buildaround for the two graveyard decks in the format. This creature is huge and impossible to block without at best getting 2-for-1'd.
Tangle Tumbler
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Treeguard Duo
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
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.
Sinister Monolith
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
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.
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.
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.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Lifecreed Duo
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.
Into the Flood Maw
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
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.
Lifecreed Duo
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Rabbit Response
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
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.
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.
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.
Rabbit Response
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
1 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide, this'll be a solid inclusion in your deck. If you're not, it's pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Head of the Homestead
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
Bellowing Crier
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Nettle Guard
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Diresight
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Splash Portal
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.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
Valley Floodcaller
3.5 You'll buff most of your creatures when you cast noncreature spells, the problem is many decks in the format won't have that many of them.
3.5 You'll buff most of your creatures when you cast noncreature spells, the problem is many decks in the format won't have that many of them.
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
5 You usually want to wait until you get to 5 mana so that you start out with a 2-for-1, and then Zoraline threatens to keep reanimating things and gaining life on subsequent turns too.
5 You usually want to wait until you get to 5 mana so that you start out with a 2-for-1, and then Zoraline threatens to keep reanimating things and gaining life on subsequent turns too.
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
Ruthless Negotiation
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
Coruscation Mage
3 This is a nice spell payoff, especially when you can Offspring. If you have lots of cheap spells, you can lower your opponent's life total in a hurry.
3 This is a nice spell payoff, especially when you can Offspring. If you have lots of cheap spells, you can lower your opponent's life total in a hurry.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Savor
Hivespine Wolverine
3.5 The +1/+1 counter mode is the one that'll come up the most often and it's a pretty good deal -- but when you can naturalize something or take down a problematic token, that'll feel pretty good too.
3.5 The +1/+1 counter mode is the one that'll come up the most often and it's a pretty good deal -- but when you can naturalize something or take down a problematic token, that'll feel pretty good too.
Stormcatch Mentor
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
2.5 A two mana 1/1 with Prowess is pretty bad, and while Haste and a cost reduction effect are nice, this doesn't do quite enough to overcome the bad baseline to be a really exciting signpost uncommon.
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.
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
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.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Starseer Mentor
Starscape Cleric
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
Clifftop Lookout
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
Starseer Mentor
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
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.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
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.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
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.
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.
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.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
Wandertale Mentor
4 This is a great way to accelerate your mana, and if you drop it on two and play a 4-drop on three, this'll get it's first counter, and it's likely to grow from there.
4 This is a great way to accelerate your mana, and if you drop it on two and play a 4-drop on three, this'll get it's first counter, and it's likely to grow from there.
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.
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.
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.
Agate Assault
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Star Charter
Huskburster Swarm
1.5 // 3.5 This is a pretty sweet buildaround for the two graveyard decks in the format. This creature is huge and impossible to block without at best getting 2-for-1'd.
1.5 // 3.5 This is a pretty sweet buildaround for the two graveyard decks in the format. This creature is huge and impossible to block without at best getting 2-for-1'd.
Star Charter
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
1.5 // 4 If you are good at gaining or losing life, this is going to be one of the best cards in your deck. In that kind of deck, the trigger is basically an ETB ability, and you're virtually always going to draw a card off the trigger. But if you can't consistently trigger it, it's a pretty mediocre creature.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Carrot Cake
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.
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.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
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.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Pileated Provisioner
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
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.
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.
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.
Rust-Shield Rampager
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
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 2 Pick 8: Three Tree Mascot
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.
Finch Formation
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
Veteran Guardmouse
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
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.
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.
Three Tree Mascot
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Ruthless Negotiation
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
Ruthless Negotiation
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
2 This can generate a 3-for-1 in an ideal world, and it's nice that at a minimum you get to draw a card when you flash it back.
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.
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.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Three Tree Mascot
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.
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Waterspout Warden
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.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Starlit Soothsayer
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.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Pack 2 Pick 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
Valley Floodcaller
3.5 You'll buff most of your creatures when you cast noncreature spells, the problem is many decks in the format won't have that many of them.
3.5 You'll buff most of your creatures when you cast noncreature spells, the problem is many decks in the format won't have that many of them.
Hivespine Wolverine
3.5 The +1/+1 counter mode is the one that'll come up the most often and it's a pretty good deal -- but when you can naturalize something or take down a problematic token, that'll feel pretty good too.
3.5 The +1/+1 counter mode is the one that'll come up the most often and it's a pretty good deal -- but when you can naturalize something or take down a problematic token, that'll feel pretty good too.
Splash Lasher
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
Mouse Trapper
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fireglass Mentor
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Moonrise Cleric
Mindwhisker
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
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.
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Whiskerquill Scribe
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
1.5 Two mana 2/2s aren't great these days, and this Valiant trigger is nothing special.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Parting Gust
Parting Gust
3 This can be a nice way to blink one of your creatures, and if you give your opponent a fish, it can be removal too! Giving your opponent a fish does obviously make that significantly worse. While you do remove something, you give your opponent something back so it's not quite a 1-for-1. However, it has an alternate mode and exile is pretty nice removal.
3 This can be a nice way to blink one of your creatures, and if you give your opponent a fish, it can be removal too! Giving your opponent a fish does obviously make that significantly worse. While you do remove something, you give your opponent something back so it's not quite a 1-for-1. However, it has an alternate mode and exile is pretty nice removal.
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.
Plumecreed Escort
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
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.
Ravine Raider
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
3 This is a pretty scary one drop. It can get in for lots of damage early, allowing aggro decks to trigger their payoffs for doing damage, and because you can pump it, it really stays relevant all game long.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Glidedive Duo
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
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.
Reptilian Recruiter
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
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.
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
Corpseberry Cultivator
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
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.
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.
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 5: Uncharted Haven
Sinister Monolith
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
Into the Flood Maw
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thornplate Intimidator
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Thistledown Players
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.
Peerless Recycling
2.5 You have to make a choice with Peerless Recycling -- is giving your opponent a random card from their deck better than you getting another permanent back from your graveyard? Most of the time, I think you do give them the card.
2.5 You have to make a choice with Peerless Recycling -- is giving your opponent a random card from their deck better than you getting another permanent back from your graveyard? Most of the time, I think you do give them the card.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
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.
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.
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.
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 7: Early Winter
Wear Down
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
0.5 This isn't a format where you mainboard Naturalize.
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.
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.
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.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
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.
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 8: Stargaze
Stargaze
1 Sinking a bunch of mana into this draws you a bunch of cards and loads up your graveyard, but I just don't feel like you've got the time to do that in Limited formats these days -- especially when you have to pay life.
1 Sinking a bunch of mana into this draws you a bunch of cards and loads up your graveyard, but I just don't feel like you've got the time to do that in Limited formats these days -- especially when you have to pay life.
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.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
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.
Skyskipper Duo
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Psychic Whorl
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Hidden Grotto
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.
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.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Barkform Harvester
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.
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.
High Stride
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Long River's Pull
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
High Stride
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Sinister Monolith
Sinister Monolith
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
2.5 This is a bit expensive for something that doesn't exactly add to the board, but you do get the first life drain trigger the turn you play it, and it can quickly snowball from there. Being able to cash it in for cards is no small thing, either.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Azure Beastbinder
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Rabid Gnaw
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Repel Calamity
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Banishing Light
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Treeguard Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Treeguard Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Lifecreed Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Rabbit Response
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Head of the Homestead
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Nettle Guard
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Diresight
- Pack 1 Pick 13: Splash Portal
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Savor
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Starseer Mentor
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Carrot Cake
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Star Charter
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Carrot Cake
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Pileated Provisioner
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Three Tree Mascot
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Ruthless Negotiation
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Three Tree Mascot
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Waterspout Warden
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Starlit Soothsayer
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Mind Drill Assailant
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Downwind Ambusher
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Moonrise Cleric
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Parting Gust
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Glidedive Duo
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Uncharted Haven
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Thistledown Players
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Early Winter
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Stargaze
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Psychic Whorl
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Hidden Grotto
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Barkform Harvester
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Long River's Pull
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Sinister Monolith
Card name
Find decks with this card: