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Premier Draft FDN 20 November 2024

20 November 07:53 - TristSieghart 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (18)
1 Scavenging Ooze image
3 Llanowar Elves image
1 Prideful Parent image
2 Wary Thespian image
1 Armasaur Guide image
3 Inspiring Paladin image
1 Gnarlid Colony image
2 Apothecary Stomper image
1 Vanguard Seraph image
1 Meteor Golem image
1 Cackling Prowler image
1 Affectionate Indrik image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (5)
1 Grow from the Ashes image
2 Felling Blow image
1 Fleeting Flight image
1 Bite Down image
Land (17)
8 Plains image
9 Forest image
Sideboard
1 Tolarian Terror image
2 Hare Apparent image
1 Skyship Buccaneer image
1 Brineborn Cutthroat image
1 Aegis Turtle image
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid image
1 Elementalist Adept image
1 Grow from the Ashes image
1 Sure Strike image
1 Witness Protection image
1 Blanchwood Armor image
1 Self-Reflection image
1 Incinerating Blast image
1 Make Your Move image
1 Macabre Waltz image
1 Evolving Wilds image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Scavenging Ooze
Koma, World-Eater image 4.5 If this attacks there's a very good chance you get those 4 3/3 tokens, and Koma has a pretty good shot at attacking thanks to it's Ward and it's sheer size.
Scavenging Ooze image 4.5 This little two drop can wreak havoc on graveyards while growing to a massive size and gaining you life -- it's relevant all game long.
Resolute Reinforcements image 3 This is just a good rate, and it gets better if you've got some ways to blink or recur the Reinforcements.
Vampire Nighthawk image 4 This is great whether you're ahead or behind, since it can trade for anything, attack effectively, and gain lots of life.
Strongbox Raider image 2.5 Triggering Raid on this makes it a very nice 2-for-1, but a 4-mana 5/2 is otherwise abyssmal.
Armasaur Guide image 2.5 You can get a counter from this even when it doesn't attack, and it's nice it can put the counter on itself too, as a 5/5 vigilance is pretty formidable.
Eaten Alive image 3 Not going to be as good here as it was in Crimson Vow, as decayed zombie tokens aren't everywhere, but it's still petty awesome when you do have something expendable to give up.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Elfsworn Giant image 3.5 This is a very strong landfall trigger, and while the stat-line isn't incredible, it's not thard to make sure you get at least one 1/1 out of this, and if it's left alone, it becomes a value engine.
Fanatical Firebrand image 2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Strix Lookout image 2 The stats aren't amazing, but it can attack for much of the game, and once it can't looting isn't too shabby.
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Painful Quandary image 0 This was awful last time and it will be here too. It doesn't impact the board and there's not even a guarantee that the effect will do anything meaningful.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Llanowar Elves
Joust Through image 3 It's narrow, but it's so efficient that I think that's acceptable.
Ravenous Amulet image 1.5 This is too slow to work out very well. If you have lots of fodder you might be able to go off, though.
Grappling Kraken image 3 It's expensive, but it has a very strong landfall trigger. Once it's in play, each land you draw becomes a removal spell -- so you don't really care if you flood out.
Vampire Gourmand image 3.5 This is a strong sacrifice outlet since you get to replace the creature right away and get in for 2. It's good at enabling Raid, too.
Macabre Waltz image 2.5 Giving up a land late to get two good creatures back from the yard is a good way to win those games, although this is pretty bad when you get it early.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Llanowar Elves image 3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Fleeting Flight image 2 This is a solid trick, it'll win combat most of the time and has the "oops I win" upside of sending your big creature into the air.
Bloodfell Caves image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Bulk Up image 1.5 The ceiling here is real -- you can spend 8 mana and quadruple power. The flower is awful -- since it doesnt' buff toughness at all, it's not much of a combat trick.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Prideful Parent
Reclamation Sage image 0.5 This is a sideboard card because it won't have targets often enough against most decks.
Resolute Reinforcements image 3 This is just a good rate, and it gets better if you've got some ways to blink or recur the Reinforcements.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Prideful Parent image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make 1/1s are always quality cards in Limited, and the 2/2 in this case even comes with Vigilance.
Eaten Alive image 3 Not going to be as good here as it was in Crimson Vow, as decayed zombie tokens aren't everywhere, but it's still petty awesome when you do have something expendable to give up.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
Elfsworn Giant image 3.5 This is a very strong landfall trigger, and while the stat-line isn't incredible, it's not thard to make sure you get at least one 1/1 out of this, and if it's left alone, it becomes a value engine.
Bigfin Bouncer image 3 Adding a 3/2 to the board and bouncing your opponent's best creature feels pretty nice -- although it can be a little rough against "enters" triggers.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
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Ambush Wolf image 2.5 This can trade up when it ambush blocks, and when it doesn't it can add significantly to the board during your opponent's end step, and maybe even hate on the graveyard.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Grow from the Ashes
Battlesong Berserker image 3 This adds +1/+0 and menace to the board when it comes down, and can attack as a 4/4 menace even when it's on it's own.
Rogue's Passage image 1.5 This effect generally isn't worth making your mana worse for. Sure, it can be nice late -- but that's not even a guarantee.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Broken Wings image 0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
Axgard Cavalry image 1.5 This stat-line is pretty bad these days, and Haste is too narrow of a keyword ability for this to be very useful.
Stab image 4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Grow from the Ashes image 2 It can be tough to play a card that doesn't add to the board, but this can fix and ramp really effecitvely, and can be particularly good with landfall.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Plains image
Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Felling Blow
Stromkirk Bloodthief image 1.5 Last time we saw this was in a way more vampire-heavy set and it was not very good. It's probably going to be worse here. The stat-line is bad and the trigger is surprisingly hard to get.
Felling Blow image 3 This is a little bit clunky and you have to be careful about when you cast it -- but when the coast is clear, it's going to kill something and make your creature a better attacker at the same time.
Witness Protection image 1 This is a removal spell that gives you less than a 1-for-1. Leaving a 1/1 creature around is brutal since it can still attack and block, and if you have any X/1s it can be super miserable.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
Beast-Kin Ranger image 2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
Refute image 2 Cancel is usually not a card that always makes the cut, and this probably doesn't quite get there either -- although adding Loot to the mix is definitely better.
Broken Wings image 0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
Inspiring Paladin image 3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Island image
Helpful Hunter image 3.5 Two mana 1/1s that draw a card are also quality Limited cards, and there's no reason that won't be true here.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Fleeting Flight
Rogue's Passage image 1.5 This effect generally isn't worth making your mana worse for. Sure, it can be nice late -- but that's not even a guarantee.
Fleeting Flight image 2 This is a solid trick, it'll win combat most of the time and has the "oops I win" upside of sending your big creature into the air.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Gutless Plunderer image 1.5 Three-mana 2/2s with death touch aren't anything special and even if you get this Raid trigger it's hard to feel good about casting this.
Armasaur Guide image 2.5 You can get a counter from this even when it doesn't attack, and it's nice it can put the counter on itself too, as a 5/5 vigilance is pretty formidable.
Bite Down image 3.5 This is always great removal, and while you have to be careful agaisnt interaction, being an instant helps make it easy to find the rightw indow for it.
Crypt Feaster image 2 The floor is mediocre and so is the ceiling. This isn't really the graveyard payoff you're looking for, but you'll play it.
Island image
Pack 1 Pick 7: Llanowar Elves
Juggernaut image 1.5 If you need a 4-drop you can probably do worse, but how often are you desperate for a 4 drop in Limited?
Ruby, Daring Tracker image 3.5 She accelerates your mana to get you to bigger creatures, and then becomes a big creature herself at that point. Pretty good top-deck, too.
Llanowar Elves image 3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Burglar Rat image 2.5 This is always a solid Limited creature. It's certainly not a full-blown 2-for-1, but it gets a card up front and then you have a body around to block or sacrifice.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
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Pack 1 Pick 8: Wary Thespian
Aetherize image 1.5 It's temping to imagine bouncing an entire alpha strike, but that won't happen very often. Can feel good in response to combat tricks, but if that's not the case, you're going down a card and your opponent isn't.
Zombify image 2 It's rare for reanimation effects to be great in Limited, especially at 4+ mana. It's just tough to get your mana's worth.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Wary Thespian image 2.5 Green isn't super graveyard-oriented in the format, but the solid stat-line and card selection this offers will be welcome in pretty much any Green deck.
Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
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Pack 1 Pick 9: Armasaur Guide
Armasaur Guide image 2.5 You can get a counter from this even when it doesn't attack, and it's nice it can put the counter on itself too, as a 5/5 vigilance is pretty formidable.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Elfsworn Giant image 3.5 This is a very strong landfall trigger, and while the stat-line isn't incredible, it's not thard to make sure you get at least one 1/1 out of this, and if it's left alone, it becomes a value engine.
Fanatical Firebrand image 2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Strix Lookout image 2 The stats aren't amazing, but it can attack for much of the game, and once it can't looting isn't too shabby.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Evolving Wilds
Grappling Kraken image 3 It's expensive, but it has a very strong landfall trigger. Once it's in play, each land you draw becomes a removal spell -- so you don't really care if you flood out.
Macabre Waltz image 2.5 Giving up a land late to get two good creatures back from the yard is a good way to win those games, although this is pretty bad when you get it early.
Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Bulk Up image 1.5 The ceiling here is real -- you can spend 8 mana and quadruple power. The flower is awful -- since it doesnt' buff toughness at all, it's not much of a combat trick.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Tolarian Terror
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
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Pack 1 Pick 12: Sure Strike
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
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Pack 1 Pick 13: Witness Protection
Witness Protection image 1 This is a removal spell that gives you less than a 1-for-1. Leaving a 1/1 creature around is brutal since it can still attack and block, and if you have any X/1s it can be super miserable.
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Pack 1 Pick 14: Island
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Pack 2 Pick 1: Inspiring Paladin
High-Society Hunter image 4.5 This has good stats and can take over the game with that first swing, since it'll grow to an even more massive size and draw you a card.
Zombify image 2 It's rare for reanimation effects to be great in Limited, especially at 4+ mana. It's just tough to get your mana's worth.
Blanchwood Armor image 0 You would need a mono-green deck with lots of hexproof for this to be a thing, and you can't pull that off in this format.
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
Dragon Trainer image 4 The rate here is great, and if you can recur the Trainer, things get out of hand in a hurry.
Sanguine Syphoner image 2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
Inspiring Paladin image 3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Uncharted Voyage image 3 These 4-mana "Time Ebb" effects always tend to perform well. They give you good 1-for-1 removal that can even be disruptive, and adding Surveil to the mix is nice.
Llanowar Elves image 3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Hungry Ghoul image 2.5 It has passable starting point and it's activated ability has some good applications in the format, in addition to just being solid on it's own.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Bite Down
Etali, Primal Storm image 4.5 This probably dies when it attacks, but it'll usually generate a very efficient 2-for-1 at a minimum, and the ceiling is much higher.
Doubling Season image 0 This doesn't add to the board at all, and you very quickly need to start generating value from it to make that happen -- but there won't be decks in this format that can do that.
Inspiring Call image 1.5 You need a lot of creatures with counters for this to feel worth it, and while this format certainly has decks that can do it, having a baseline of being a blank card is brutal.
Vengeful Bloodwitch image 2.5 This trigger is nice, and the format is reasonably well set up for you to get some life drain going, but the stat-line is bad and it's still fairly situational.
Abrade image 3.5 Two mana deal 3s are always great, and this one can take out an artifact on occasion.
Hare Apparent image 1.5 // 2.5 You can't really play this if you only have one, but if you have 4+, you'll get enough tokens for them to be worthwhile.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
Bite Down image 3.5 This is always great removal, and while you have to be careful agaisnt interaction, being an instant helps make it easy to find the rightw indow for it.
Quick-Draw Katana image 2 This only offers a buff during your turn, and if you're an aggro deck you're probably more interested in playing more creatures than playing this thing.
Goblin Surprise image 2.5 Neither mode is great. The tokens are a bit below rate and the buff is situational, but having a choice between them is a big upgrade.
Infestation Sage image 3 Getting two 1/1 bodies -- including one that can fly -- for only one mana is nice. Makes it good sacrifice fodder and a good Raid enabler.
Refute image 2 Cancel is usually not a card that always makes the cut, and this probably doesn't quite get there either -- although adding Loot to the mix is definitely better.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Gnarlid Colony
Self-Reflection image 1.5 It's tough to feel like you're getting your mana's worth, since you need an impressive creature to copy. Flashback does mean you get a 2-for-1 eventually, though.
Zombify image 2 It's rare for reanimation effects to be great in Limited, especially at 4+ mana. It's just tough to get your mana's worth.
Rogue's Passage image 1.5 This effect generally isn't worth making your mana worse for. Sure, it can be nice late -- but that's not even a guarantee.
Cat Collector image 4 If this was 5-mana for a 3/2 that makes a 1/1 and gains you 3 life, you'd play that card happily -- and this has lots of upside beyond that.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Uncharted Voyage image 3 These 4-mana "Time Ebb" effects always tend to perform well. They give you good 1-for-1 removal that can even be disruptive, and adding Surveil to the mix is nice.
Eaten Alive image 3 Not going to be as good here as it was in Crimson Vow, as decayed zombie tokens aren't everywhere, but it's still petty awesome when you do have something expendable to give up.
Gnarlid Colony image 2 This was super underwhelming when we saw it last, and while this format has a +1/+1 counter theme, the creature is inefficient and trample only matters on the largest creatures.
Healer's Hawk image 3 This is a great one drop, especially in a format with lots of ways to buff the Hawk.
Armasaur Guide image 2.5 You can get a counter from this even when it doesn't attack, and it's nice it can put the counter on itself too, as a 5/5 vigilance is pretty formidable.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Goldvein Pick image 3 This is great Equipment. It offers a good buff for the cost, and the treasure makes it very easy to move around -- while also giving you a mana boost that you might have access to every turn.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Inspiring Paladin
Ajani's Pridemate image 3 As usual, the Pridemate is a nice life gain payoff with a reasonable baseline.
Garruk's Uprising image 1.5 This isn't really the payoff you're looking for, mostly because it does stone nothing on it's own.
Perforating Artist image 2.5 This has mediocre stats and while the Raid trigger can be pretty good if you can get it going multiple times, I'm skeptical you'll be able to.
Grappling Kraken image 3 It's expensive, but it has a very strong landfall trigger. Once it's in play, each land you draw becomes a removal spell -- so you don't really care if you flood out.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Inspiring Paladin image 3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Guarded Heir image 3.5 This is expensive, but it delivers what a 6-mana card could. It's virtually impossible for you to win the game the turn after you cast it, even when you're behind -- and it can pull you ahead if you're at parity.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Apothecary Stomper
Genesis Wave image 1 You need a ton of mana for casting this to be worthwhile, and you just can't get there in Limited often enough.
Meteor Golem image 2 Adding a 3/3 to the board and destroying your opponents best permanent is powerful, but not all decks are going to get to 7 mana.
Vampire Gourmand image 3.5 This is a strong sacrifice outlet since you get to replace the creature right away and get in for 2. It's good at enabling Raid, too.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Fanatical Firebrand image 2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Elementalist Adept image 2 1 toughness prowess creatures can underperform, since they often need two triggers to survive being block by a 2/2, but Flash being in the mix helps make it more likely you can find a window to get in with it.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Inspiring Paladin
Fiendish Panda image 4 This is usually going to be a 2-for-1, and if you're good at gaining life it can become a threat in its own right.
Balmor, Battlemage Captain image 4 This is a great signpost that can turn just about any board lethal out of nowhere.
Crackling Cyclops image 1.5 This probably asks too much to be worth it. It'll be a 0/4 way too often, and it isn't like a 3/4 is that exciting.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Hare Apparent image 1.5 // 2.5 You can't really play this if you only have one, but if you have 4+, you'll get enough tokens for them to be worthwhile.
Sanguine Syphoner image 2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
Campus Guide image 1.5 This is the fixing you play when you're desperate. Or the two drop you play when you're desperate. Mostly, it's bad at being either of those things, so you hope you don't play it.
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Inspiring Paladin image 3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Vanguard Seraph
Adventuring Gear image 1.5 Offering no buff at all on many turns is a problem, even if the buff can be great in the early game when you're hitting all your land drops.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Goblin Surprise image 2.5 Neither mode is great. The tokens are a bit below rate and the buff is situational, but having a choice between them is a big upgrade.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
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Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Felling Blow
Felling Blow image 3 This is a little bit clunky and you have to be careful about when you cast it -- but when the coast is clear, it's going to kill something and make your creature a better attacker at the same time.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
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Pack 2 Pick 9: Blanchwood Armor
Zombify image 2 It's rare for reanimation effects to be great in Limited, especially at 4+ mana. It's just tough to get your mana's worth.
Blanchwood Armor image 0 You would need a mono-green deck with lots of hexproof for this to be a thing, and you can't pull that off in this format.
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Hungry Ghoul image 2.5 It has passable starting point and it's activated ability has some good applications in the format, in addition to just being solid on it's own.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Hare Apparent
Abrade image 3.5 Two mana deal 3s are always great, and this one can take out an artifact on occasion.
Hare Apparent image 1.5 // 2.5 You can't really play this if you only have one, but if you have 4+, you'll get enough tokens for them to be worthwhile.
Quick-Draw Katana image 2 This only offers a buff during your turn, and if you're an aggro deck you're probably more interested in playing more creatures than playing this thing.
Goblin Surprise image 2.5 Neither mode is great. The tokens are a bit below rate and the buff is situational, but having a choice between them is a big upgrade.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Self-Reflection
Self-Reflection image 1.5 It's tough to feel like you're getting your mana's worth, since you need an impressive creature to copy. Flashback does mean you get a 2-for-1 eventually, though.
Rogue's Passage image 1.5 This effect generally isn't worth making your mana worse for. Sure, it can be nice late -- but that's not even a guarantee.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Incinerating Blast
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Meteor Golem
Meteor Golem image 2 Adding a 3/3 to the board and destroying your opponents best permanent is powerful, but not all decks are going to get to 7 mana.
Fanatical Firebrand image 2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Mountain
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Pack 3 Pick 1: Llanowar Elves
Etali, Primal Storm image 4.5 This probably dies when it attacks, but it'll usually generate a very efficient 2-for-1 at a minimum, and the ceiling is much higher.
Youthful Valkyrie image 2.5 This is an okayish stat-line, and most White decks will have like 3 angels, so the upside is accessible.
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Midnight Snack image 1 This doesn't impact the board much on it's own, and even if it's giving you food, finding a turn where you can sink a bunch of mana into it and use it's ability is going to be a rarity.
Frenzied Goblin image 2.5 This can definitely let an aggro deck get through for a big attack, even in the late game.
Giant Growth image 2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
Hare Apparent image 1.5 // 2.5 You can't really play this if you only have one, but if you have 4+, you'll get enough tokens for them to be worthwhile.
Burst Lightning image 4 This is Shock with upside, and the upside is real -- since in the late game it can deal with much larger creatures or finish the opponent off.
Llanowar Elves image 3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Hungry Ghoul image 2.5 It has passable starting point and it's activated ability has some good applications in the format, in addition to just being solid on it's own.
Run Away Together image 1.5 It's temping to imagine scenarios where you bounce a creature with an "enters" trigger or help a creature dodge removal, but this is mostly just an awkward bounce spell.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
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Sun-Blessed Healer image 4 A two mana 3/1 with lifelink is something you play 100% of the time, and this has an insane kicker mode in the late game.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Apothecary Stomper
Meteor Golem image 2 Adding a 3/3 to the board and destroying your opponents best permanent is powerful, but not all decks are going to get to 7 mana.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid image 4 Her Landfall trigger wins games, and while she's a bit slow and has a bad stat-line, the life she gains you helps make up for that -- and makes it more likely you'll cast those new cards you draw, too.
Infernal Vessel image 4 You spend three mana for a 2/1 and a 4/3 -- that's an excellent deal, and usually a 2-for-1.
Mischievous Pup image 1.5 This was underwhelming last time we saw it -- it has a bad stat-line and a narrow enters trigger, so it's not going to make the cut all the time.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Squad Rallier image 2.5 The stat-line is a bit underwhelming, but that activated ability is exactly what you want in the mid-to-late game. It's some serious flood insurance.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
Strix Lookout image 2 The stats aren't amazing, but it can attack for much of the game, and once it can't looting isn't too shabby.
Stab image 4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
Thornwood Falls image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Brineborn Cutthroat image 2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Wary Thespian
Banner of Kinship image 1.5 The set really doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to be a factor in 99% of decks.
Juggernaut image 1.5 If you need a 4-drop you can probably do worse, but how often are you desperate for a 4 drop in Limited?
Hero's Downfall image 3.5 This is premium removal. It's a little hard to cast at times, but answering creatures or planeswalkers for three mana is great on an instant.
Perforating Artist image 2.5 This has mediocre stats and while the Raid trigger can be pretty good if you can get it going multiple times, I'm skeptical you'll be able to.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Crackling Cyclops image 1.5 This probably asks too much to be worth it. It'll be a 0/4 way too often, and it isn't like a 3/4 is that exciting.
Campus Guide image 1.5 This is the fixing you play when you're desperate. Or the two drop you play when you're desperate. Mostly, it's bad at being either of those things, so you hope you don't play it.
Wary Thespian image 2.5 Green isn't super graveyard-oriented in the format, but the solid stat-line and card selection this offers will be welcome in pretty much any Green deck.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Bake into a Pie image 3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Aegis Turtle image 1 This isn't worth a card. All it does is block, and it doesn't do it all that well, since it just absorbs damage and can't trade for anything.
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Pack 3 Pick 4: Cackling Prowler
Time Stop image 2.5 It's expensive, but close enough to Time Walk to be viable in most Blue decks.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid image 4 Her Landfall trigger wins games, and while she's a bit slow and has a bad stat-line, the life she gains you helps make up for that -- and makes it more likely you'll cast those new cards you draw, too.
Midnight Snack image 1 This doesn't impact the board much on it's own, and even if it's giving you food, finding a turn where you can sink a bunch of mana into it and use it's ability is going to be a rarity.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Tolarian Terror image 1.5 // 4 If you're in a spell heavy deck like UR, or a UB deck that's good at milling itself, the Terror is going to be a super powerful card that can often end games.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
Cackling Prowler image 2.5 A 4-mana 4/3 with Ward 2 is pretty decent, as the Ward heps offset some of the problems of that stat-line, and it gives it more time to grow.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Grow from the Ashes
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord image 2 // 3.5 This is playable even with 0 other zombies, but if you have 3 or 4 of them, it gets substantially better.
Rune-Sealed Wall image 1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
Burnished Hart image 2 This ramps and fixes your mana pretty well, while also providing a body that can chump block. Not all decks want that, but I think enough of them will.
Inspiring Paladin image 3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Elementalist Adept image 2 1 toughness prowess creatures can underperform, since they often need two triggers to survive being block by a 2/2, but Flash being in the mix helps make it more likely you can find a window to get in with it.
Grow from the Ashes image 2 It can be tough to play a card that doesn't add to the board, but this can fix and ramp really effecitvely, and can be particularly good with landfall.
Run Away Together image 1.5 It's temping to imagine scenarios where you bounce a creature with an "enters" trigger or help a creature dodge removal, but this is mostly just an awkward bounce spell.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Garruk's Uprising image 1.5 This isn't really the payoff you're looking for, mostly because it does stone nothing on it's own.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Affectionate Indrik
Painful Quandary image 0 This was awful last time and it will be here too. It doesn't impact the board and there's not even a guarantee that the effect will do anything meaningful.
Grappling Kraken image 3 It's expensive, but it has a very strong landfall trigger. Once it's in play, each land you draw becomes a removal spell -- so you don't really care if you flood out.
Affectionate Indrik image 3 Adding this to the board while killing a 3/3 feels pretty good, though it does have limitations against larger creatures.
Zombify image 2 It's rare for reanimation effects to be great in Limited, especially at 4+ mana. It's just tough to get your mana's worth.
Fishing Pole image 1.5 Turning one of your creatures into a 1/1 Fish factory can be good, but it's frequently better to attack with a creature than it is to mess with this.
Witness Protection image 1 This is a removal spell that gives you less than a 1-for-1. Leaving a 1/1 creature around is brutal since it can still attack and block, and if you have any X/1s it can be super miserable.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Macabre Waltz image 2.5 Giving up a land late to get two good creatures back from the yard is a good way to win those games, although this is pretty bad when you get it early.
Rugged Highlands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Skyship Buccaneer
Skyship Buccaneer image 3.5 If you always drew with this, it would be a 4.5! However, you just can't count on always raiding. And when you don't, it's a 2.0.
Seismic Rupture image 0.5 This is mostly sideboard material. Most decks won't be equipped to abuse it, and most opponents won't have the right deck for it to be useful.
Crypt Feaster image 2 The floor is mediocre and so is the ceiling. This isn't really the graveyard payoff you're looking for, but you'll play it.
Witness Protection image 1 This is a removal spell that gives you less than a 1-for-1. Leaving a 1/1 creature around is brutal since it can still attack and block, and if you have any X/1s it can be super miserable.
Refute image 2 Cancel is usually not a card that always makes the cut, and this probably doesn't quite get there either -- although adding Loot to the mix is definitely better.
Mocking Sprite image 2 Last time we saw this, the stat-line really held it back. This format has fewer incidental ways to kill it, but I'm still skeptical of it being able to stick around.
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Witness Protection image 1 This is a removal spell that gives you less than a 1-for-1. Leaving a 1/1 creature around is brutal since it can still attack and block, and if you have any X/1s it can be super miserable.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Make Your Move
Rune-Sealed Wall image 1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
Bulk Up image 1.5 The ceiling here is real -- you can spend 8 mana and quadruple power. The flower is awful -- since it doesnt' buff toughness at all, it's not much of a combat trick.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
Uncharted Voyage image 3 These 4-mana "Time Ebb" effects always tend to perform well. They give you good 1-for-1 removal that can even be disruptive, and adding Surveil to the mix is nice.
Squad Rallier image 2.5 The stat-line is a bit underwhelming, but that activated ability is exactly what you want in the mid-to-late game. It's some serious flood insurance.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Aetherize image 1.5 It's temping to imagine bouncing an entire alpha strike, but that won't happen very often. Can feel good in response to combat tricks, but if that's not the case, you're going down a card and your opponent isn't.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Hare Apparent
Youthful Valkyrie image 2.5 This is an okayish stat-line, and most White decks will have like 3 angels, so the upside is accessible.
Midnight Snack image 1 This doesn't impact the board much on it's own, and even if it's giving you food, finding a turn where you can sink a bunch of mana into it and use it's ability is going to be a rarity.
Frenzied Goblin image 2.5 This can definitely let an aggro deck get through for a big attack, even in the late game.
Hare Apparent image 1.5 // 2.5 You can't really play this if you only have one, but if you have 4+, you'll get enough tokens for them to be worthwhile.
Run Away Together image 1.5 It's temping to imagine scenarios where you bounce a creature with an "enters" trigger or help a creature dodge removal, but this is mostly just an awkward bounce spell.
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Pack 3 Pick 10: Brineborn Cutthroat
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Thornwood Falls image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Brineborn Cutthroat image 2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Aegis Turtle
Crackling Cyclops image 1.5 This probably asks too much to be worth it. It'll be a 0/4 way too often, and it isn't like a 3/4 is that exciting.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Aegis Turtle image 1 This isn't worth a card. All it does is block, and it doesn't do it all that well, since it just absorbs damage and can't trade for anything.
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Pack 3 Pick 12: Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Tatyova, Benthic Druid image 4 Her Landfall trigger wins games, and while she's a bit slow and has a bad stat-line, the life she gains you helps make up for that -- and makes it more likely you'll cast those new cards you draw, too.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Elementalist Adept
Elementalist Adept image 2 1 toughness prowess creatures can underperform, since they often need two triggers to survive being block by a 2/2, but Flash being in the mix helps make it more likely you can find a window to get in with it.
Run Away Together image 1.5 It's temping to imagine scenarios where you bounce a creature with an "enters" trigger or help a creature dodge removal, but this is mostly just an awkward bounce spell.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Macabre Waltz
Macabre Waltz image 2.5 Giving up a land late to get two good creatures back from the yard is a good way to win those games, although this is pretty bad when you get it early.
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