Premier Draft FDN 25 November 2024
25 November 05:10 - ProfessorNorman 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Pack 1 Pick 1: Scavenging Ooze
Scavenging Ooze
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.
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.
Ravenous Amulet
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.
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.
Wardens of the Cycle
3 Just getting the Morbid trigger once is enough to feel good about things, and that's good -- but don't expect to make this go off one very turn.
3 Just getting the Morbid trigger once is enough to feel good about things, and that's good -- but don't expect to make this go off one very turn.
Sun-Blessed Healer
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.
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.
Faebloom Trick
3 Even if this didn't tap something, it'd be a pretty nice rate -- adding the tap to the mix makes it a lot more likely your new flyers can get in for a hit, too.
3 Even if this didn't tap something, it'd be a pretty nice rate -- adding the tap to the mix makes it a lot more likely your new flyers can get in for a hit, too.
Gorehorn Raider
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
Burglar Rat
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.
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.
Beast-Kin Ranger
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
Dazzling Angel
3 This is a solid stat-line and the incidental life gain is going to feel good in go-wide and lifegain decks in the format.
3 This is a solid stat-line and the incidental life gain is going to feel good in go-wide and lifegain decks in the format.
Bake into a Pie
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Swiftwater Cliffs
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Nessian Hornbeetle
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Gnarlid Colony
Savannah Lions
1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
Shivan Dragon
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Billowing Shriekmass
3 This helps set up graveyard stuff while also frequently becoming a 4/4 flyer as a result of it's trigger.
3 This helps set up graveyard stuff while also frequently becoming a 4/4 flyer as a result of it's trigger.
Witness Protection
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.
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.
Squad Rallier
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.
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.
Prideful Parent
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.
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.
Dwynen's Elite
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
Fanatical Firebrand
2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Marauding Blight-Priest
2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
Dazzling Angel
3 This is a solid stat-line and the incidental life gain is going to feel good in go-wide and lifegain decks in the format.
3 This is a solid stat-line and the incidental life gain is going to feel good in go-wide and lifegain decks in the format.
Gnarlid Colony
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.
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.
Blossoming Sands
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Grappling Kraken
Guarded Heir
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.
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.
Grappling Kraken
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.
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.
Seeker's Folly
1.5 This has two weak, narrow effects. And while having the option to choose the most useful one is nice, it's not enough to make it something that makes the cut consistently.
1.5 This has two weak, narrow effects. And while having the option to choose the most useful one is nice, it's not enough to make it something that makes the cut consistently.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Make Your Move
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Incinerating Blast
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Run Away Together
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.
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.
Hare Apparent
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.
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.
Fleeting Flight
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.
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.
Elfsworn Giant
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.
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.
Sure Strike
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Elfsworn Giant
Swiftblade Vindicator
3 You need to do a little bit of extra work with counters, auras, and the like for this to really go off -- but the baseline is fine too.
3 You need to do a little bit of extra work with counters, auras, and the like for this to really go off -- but the baseline is fine too.
Quakestrider Ceratops
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
Firespitter Whelp
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
Twinblade Blessing
2 It's a little bit clunky, but it can usually help your creature win combat or do lethal out of nowhere, and it offers a buff that makes most creatures problematic.
2 It's a little bit clunky, but it can usually help your creature win combat or do lethal out of nowhere, and it offers a buff that makes most creatures problematic.
Crackling Cyclops
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.
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.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Evolving Wilds
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.
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.
Elfsworn Giant
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.
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.
Infestation Sage
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.
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.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Wind-Scarred Crag
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Rogue's Passage
Rogue's Passage
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.
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.
Diregraf Ghoul
2 Entering tapped is a big downside unless you drop this on turn one, but at least a 2/2 body is sort of relevant on most boards.
2 Entering tapped is a big downside unless you drop this on turn one, but at least a 2/2 body is sort of relevant on most boards.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
Involuntary Employment
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.
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.
Quick-Draw Katana
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.
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.
Gorehorn Raider
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Inspiring Paladin
3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Dwynen's Elite
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
Squad Rallier
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Eager Trufflesnout
Eager Trufflesnout
3 Getting one food out of this feels good, and if you get more than that you're going to be thrilled.
3 Getting one food out of this feels good, and if you get more than that you're going to be thrilled.
Cathar Commando
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Cackling Prowler
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.
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.
Fleeting Flight
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.
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.
Spitfire Lagac
2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Sower of Chaos
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Wind-Scarred Crag
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Rune-Sealed Wall
1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Meteor Golem
Meteor Golem
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.
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.
Quakestrider Ceratops
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
Midnight Snack
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Wary Thespian
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.
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.
Tolarian Terror
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.
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.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Apothecary Stomper
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Imprisoned in the Moon
Battlesong Berserker
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.
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.
Imprisoned in the Moon
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
Wildwood Scourge
2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
Apothecary Stomper
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Gleaming Barrier
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Nessian Hornbeetle
Gorehorn Raider
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
Beast-Kin Ranger
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
Swiftwater Cliffs
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Nessian Hornbeetle
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Dwynen's Elite
Savannah Lions
1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
Shivan Dragon
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Squad Rallier
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.
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.
Dwynen's Elite
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
2.5 This'll just be a two mana 2/2 reasonably often, but it'll also make a 1/1 token a decent chunk of the time, and if it always did that it would be a 4.0.
Blossoming Sands
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Run Away Together
Run Away Together
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.
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.
Fleeting Flight
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.
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.
Sure Strike
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Quakestrider Ceratops
Quakestrider Ceratops
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
2.5 This is a huge vanilla creature -- so huge that I think it's actually going to make the cut in most Green decks, even if it doesn't do anything other than attack or block.
Twinblade Blessing
2 It's a little bit clunky, but it can usually help your creature win combat or do lethal out of nowhere, and it offers a buff that makes most creatures problematic.
2 It's a little bit clunky, but it can usually help your creature win combat or do lethal out of nowhere, and it offers a buff that makes most creatures problematic.
Crackling Cyclops
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 13: An Offer You Can't Refuse
An Offer You Can't Refuse
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Rune-Sealed Wall
Rune-Sealed Wall
1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
1.5 Purely defensive creatures are rarely worth it in Limited, and while this can surveil, that's not enough upside.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Faebloom Trick
High-Society Hunter
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.
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.
Faebloom Trick
3 Even if this didn't tap something, it'd be a pretty nice rate -- adding the tap to the mix makes it a lot more likely your new flyers can get in for a hit, too.
3 Even if this didn't tap something, it'd be a pretty nice rate -- adding the tap to the mix makes it a lot more likely your new flyers can get in for a hit, too.
Reclamation Sage
0.5 This is a sideboard card because it won't have targets often enough against most decks.
0.5 This is a sideboard card because it won't have targets often enough against most decks.
Juggernaut
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?
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?
Perforating Artist
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.
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.
Evolving Wilds
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.
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.
Courageous Goblin
2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Armasaur Guide
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.
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.
Bake into a Pie
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Quick-Draw Katana
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.
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.
Refute
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.
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.
Ajani's Pridemate
3 As usual, the Pridemate is a nice life gain payoff with a reasonable baseline.
3 As usual, the Pridemate is a nice life gain payoff with a reasonable baseline.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Bigfin Bouncer
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
2 // 3 On it's own, Tinybones can get some decent card advnatage with it's ability, but you probably need a few other discard spells to really feel like you got there with him.
2 // 3 On it's own, Tinybones can get some decent card advnatage with it's ability, but you probably need a few other discard spells to really feel like you got there with him.
Stromkirk Bloodthief
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.
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.
Skyship Buccaneer
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.
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.
Good-Fortune Unicorn
3 Extra counters are great, but starting as a three mana 2/2 isn't.
3 Extra counters are great, but starting as a three mana 2/2 isn't.
Fiery Annihilation
4 This kills most stuff and turns off death triggers and any threat of recursion. Format has a decent number of equipment, too.
4 This kills most stuff and turns off death triggers and any threat of recursion. Format has a decent number of equipment, too.
Bigfin Bouncer
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.
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.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Cathar Commando
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.
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.
Vampire Soulcaller
2 Not being able to block is a big downside, as it makes it way harder to generate a 2-for-1 with this than with something like Gravedigger.
2 Not being able to block is a big downside, as it makes it way harder to generate a 2-for-1 with this than with something like Gravedigger.
Helpful Hunter
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.
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.
Temporal Manipulation
4.5 Even spending 5 mana on Time Walk is nuts. Taking an extra turn is one of the strongest things you can do in Magic, so it's well worth it.
4.5 Even spending 5 mana on Time Walk is nuts. Taking an extra turn is one of the strongest things you can do in Magic, so it's well worth it.
Blossoming Sands
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Vanguard Seraph
2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Strix Lookout
Anthem of Champions
4 Buffing your whole board for two mana is pretty strong. You do need a board for it to do it's thing, but that's not a huge ask.
4 Buffing your whole board for two mana is pretty strong. You do need a board for it to do it's thing, but that's not a huge ask.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
Goblin Negotiation
3 This is never going to feel like efficient removal, but being able to use this to add to the board in a big way too makes up for that a little bit.
3 This is never going to feel like efficient removal, but being able to use this to add to the board in a big way too makes up for that a little bit.
Exsanguinate
1 You need a ton of mana before this is worth casting, and even then it doesn't impact the board.
1 You need a ton of mana before this is worth casting, and even then it doesn't impact the board.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Hungry Ghoul
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.
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.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Stab
4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Uncharted Voyage
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.
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.
Strix Lookout
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.
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 2 Pick 4: Run Away Together
Firespitter Whelp
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
Secluded Courtyard
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Arbiter of Woe
2.5 You're going to need some fodder to make this really work out, but there's plenty of that in the format, and the enters trigger is pretty legit.
2.5 You're going to need some fodder to make this really work out, but there's plenty of that in the format, and the enters trigger is pretty legit.
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Refute
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.
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.
Inspiring Paladin
3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
3 Even without the +1/+1 counter upside this would be a solid card, and with it becomes a very good Common.
Burglar Rat
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.
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.
Ambush Wolf
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.
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.
Run Away Together
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.
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 2 Pick 5: Gnarlid Colony
Dauntless Veteran
2.5 This attack trigger is legit, but the bad stat-line and the double-white requirement hold it back.
2.5 This attack trigger is legit, but the bad stat-line and the double-white requirement hold it back.
Brineborn Cutthroat
2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
Seeker's Folly
1.5 This has two weak, narrow effects. And while having the option to choose the most useful one is nice, it's not enough to make it something that makes the cut consistently.
1.5 This has two weak, narrow effects. And while having the option to choose the most useful one is nice, it's not enough to make it something that makes the cut consistently.
Slumbering Cerberus
2 This is an early enabler for the Red/Green deck, and it can definitely swing hard for the cost -- but it also dies to pretty much everything.
2 This is an early enabler for the Red/Green deck, and it can definitely swing hard for the cost -- but it also dies to pretty much everything.
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Campus Guide
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.
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.
Mocking Sprite
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.
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.
Gnarlid Colony
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Goblin Boarders
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Spinner of Souls
Spinner of Souls
4 This makes every trade into a 2-for-1 and has really good stats, so it can take over some games.
4 This makes every trade into a 2-for-1 and has really good stats, so it can take over some games.
Frenzied Goblin
2.5 This can definitely let an aggro deck get through for a big attack, even in the late game.
2.5 This can definitely let an aggro deck get through for a big attack, even in the late game.
Overrun
3.5 This can win a lot of games, though you do need a built out board and three green mana for it to do the job.
3.5 This can win a lot of games, though you do need a built out board and three green mana for it to do the job.
Gutless Plunderer
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.
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.
Beast-Kin Ranger
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
Quick-Draw Katana
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.
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.
Evolving Wilds
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.
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.
Fleeting Distraction
1 // 2.5 This is only going to make the cut regularly in spell decks that love the idea of a card that triggers prowess and replaces itself.
1 // 2.5 This is only going to make the cut regularly in spell decks that love the idea of a card that triggers prowess and replaces itself.
Jungle Hollow
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Snakeskin Veil
Snakeskin Veil
3 Always a great trick, it's solid in combat and great against removal. Spending one mana to win combat or blank a removal spell is a great feeling.
3 Always a great trick, it's solid in combat and great against removal. Spending one mana to win combat or blank a removal spell is a great feeling.
Arcane Epiphany
2.5 5 mana to draw 3 is powerful but a little bit expensive. However, most Blue decks will be able to make this cost 4 often enough for me to get behind playing it a good chunk of the time.
2.5 5 mana to draw 3 is powerful but a little bit expensive. However, most Blue decks will be able to make this cost 4 often enough for me to get behind playing it a good chunk of the time.
Shivan Dragon
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Crackling Cyclops
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.
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.
Apothecary Stomper
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.
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.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Swiftfoot Boots
1 For this to be good, your creature already has to be great -- and in Limited that's not very likely.
1 For this to be good, your creature already has to be great -- and in Limited that's not very likely.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Witness Protection
An Offer You Can't Refuse
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
Axgard Cavalry
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.
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.
Ambush Wolf
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
Witness Protection
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.
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.
Campus Guide
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Reclamation Sage
Reclamation Sage
0.5 This is a sideboard card because it won't have targets often enough against most decks.
0.5 This is a sideboard card because it won't have targets often enough against most decks.
Juggernaut
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?
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?
Courageous Goblin
2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Armasaur Guide
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Grow from the Ashes
Stromkirk Bloodthief
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.
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.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Vampire Soulcaller
2 Not being able to block is a big downside, as it makes it way harder to generate a 2-for-1 with this than with something like Gravedigger.
2 Not being able to block is a big downside, as it makes it way harder to generate a 2-for-1 with this than with something like Gravedigger.
Blossoming Sands
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Vanguard Seraph
2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Goblin Negotiation
An Offer You Can't Refuse
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
0 One mana to counter a noncreature spell is great! Giving your opponent a huge mana boost, though? Not so much. You basically 2-for-1 yourself when you cast this.
Goblin Negotiation
3 This is never going to feel like efficient removal, but being able to use this to add to the board in a big way too makes up for that a little bit.
3 This is never going to feel like efficient removal, but being able to use this to add to the board in a big way too makes up for that a little bit.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Secluded Courtyard
Secluded Courtyard
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Jungle Hollow
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Jungle Hollow
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Jungle Hollow
Jungle Hollow
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Solemn Simulacrum
Solemn Simulacrum
4 This generates a 3-for-1 almost every time you play it, and that's an advantage that can set you up for victory.
4 This generates a 3-for-1 almost every time you play it, and that's an advantage that can set you up for victory.
Revenge of the Rats
1 / 3.5 This is definitely a buildaround, but a legit one for graveyard decks. Making a bunch of tokens is a good way to win the game once you've dumped your library in the graveyard.
1 / 3.5 This is definitely a buildaround, but a legit one for graveyard decks. Making a bunch of tokens is a good way to win the game once you've dumped your library in the graveyard.
Abrade
3.5 Two mana deal 3s are always great, and this one can take out an artifact on occasion.
3.5 Two mana deal 3s are always great, and this one can take out an artifact on occasion.
Mischievous Mystic
4 This has good stats, and even if you only get one token out of it you're going to feel great.
4 This has good stats, and even if you only get one token out of it you're going to feel great.
Joust Through
3 It's narrow, but it's so efficient that I think that's acceptable.
3 It's narrow, but it's so efficient that I think that's acceptable.
Goblin Boarders
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Bake into a Pie
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Gutless Plunderer
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.
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.
Ambush Wolf
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.
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.
Fleeting Flight
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.
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.
Uncharted Voyage
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.
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.
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Scoured Barrens
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Quick-Draw Katana
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Refute
Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
4 This feels good early when it can get in for an attack or two, and it's abilities help it remain relevant. Once it has double strike it's a threat on any board.
4 This feels good early when it can get in for an attack or two, and it's abilities help it remain relevant. Once it has double strike it's a threat on any board.
Arbiter of Woe
2.5 You're going to need some fodder to make this really work out, but there's plenty of that in the format, and the enters trigger is pretty legit.
2.5 You're going to need some fodder to make this really work out, but there's plenty of that in the format, and the enters trigger is pretty legit.
Stroke of Midnight
0 This is never good. It's tempting to see it as efficient and flexible, but giving your opponent a 1/1 means you always end up behind. You really have to always be killing a huge bomb for that cost to be worth it, and that's not how it pans out.
0 This is never good. It's tempting to see it as efficient and flexible, but giving your opponent a 1/1 means you always end up behind. You really have to always be killing a huge bomb for that cost to be worth it, and that's not how it pans out.
Strongbox Raider
2.5 Triggering Raid on this makes it a very nice 2-for-1, but a 4-mana 5/2 is otherwise abyssmal.
2.5 Triggering Raid on this makes it a very nice 2-for-1, but a 4-mana 5/2 is otherwise abyssmal.
Stab
4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
Firebrand Archer
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
Beast-Kin Ranger
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
2.5 Making tokens can make this hit really hard, but a 3-mana 3/3 trampler isn't anythign special.
Cackling Prowler
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.
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
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Elementalist Adept
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.
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.
Tranquil Cove
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Refute
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Archmage of Runes
Archmage of Runes
4 This is a very potent spell payoff. The cost reduction and card draw go great together too, as it's more likely you can dig through your deck and cast more spells when they are cheaper.
4 This is a very potent spell payoff. The cost reduction and card draw go great together too, as it's more likely you can dig through your deck and cast more spells when they are cheaper.
Blanchwood Armor
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.
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.
Essence Scatter
3 This is always a great counterspell. It's easy to cast and usually generates some serious tempo.
3 This is always a great counterspell. It's easy to cast and usually generates some serious tempo.
Tragic Banshee
3 Morbid triggers that only do something once can be rough, as you just can't always find a way to make something day and then spend 5 mana on this. If you can it'll feel great, and it's nice that it can still kill an X/1 in a pinch.
3 Morbid triggers that only do something once can be rough, as you just can't always find a way to make something day and then spend 5 mana on this. If you can it'll feel great, and it's nice that it can still kill an X/1 in a pinch.
Goblin Boarders
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Make Your Move
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Sure Strike
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Aegis Turtle
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.
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.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Macabre Waltz
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Sylvan Scavenging
Sylvan Scavenging
4 Even a counter a turn is pretty good, but the real prize is getting those 3/3 tokens -- which those counters can help set up.
4 Even a counter a turn is pretty good, but the real prize is getting those 3/3 tokens -- which those counters can help set up.
Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
4 This feels good early when it can get in for an attack or two, and it's abilities help it remain relevant. Once it has double strike it's a threat on any board.
4 This feels good early when it can get in for an attack or two, and it's abilities help it remain relevant. Once it has double strike it's a threat on any board.
Burnished Hart
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.
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.
Imprisoned in the Moon
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
Vengeful Bloodwitch
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.
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.
Giant Growth
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
Gutless Plunderer
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.
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.
Thrill of Possibility
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Erudite Wizard
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Llanowar Elves
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
Swiftblade Vindicator
3 You need to do a little bit of extra work with counters, auras, and the like for this to really go off -- but the baseline is fine too.
3 You need to do a little bit of extra work with counters, auras, and the like for this to really go off -- but the baseline is fine too.
Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
3 The baseline here is solid and there are enough Elves in the format for this to buff a few of the creatures in your deck.
3 The baseline here is solid and there are enough Elves in the format for this to buff a few of the creatures in your deck.
Fishing Pole
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.
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.
Clinquant Skymage
2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
Icewind Elemental
2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
Cackling Prowler
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
1.5 // 2.5 You can only play this if you lots and lots of noncreature spells, since the stat-line is so bad. You need a few triggers to make up for that.
Make Your Move
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Painful Quandary
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.
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 3 Pick 6: Needletooth Pack
Firespitter Whelp
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
Self-Reflection
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.
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.
Nessian Hornbeetle
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
Sure Strike
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Broken Wings
0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
Giant Growth
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
Bushwhack
2.5 Each of these modes is kind of medium, but having a card that can fix your mana when you need it or be a mediocre removal spell is fine.
2.5 Each of these modes is kind of medium, but having a card that can fix your mana when you need it or be a mediocre removal spell is fine.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Nessian Hornbeetle
Firespitter Whelp
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
Self-Reflection
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.
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.
Nessian Hornbeetle
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
Sure Strike
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
Broken Wings
0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
0.5 This is a sideboard card. There aren't enough targets in most decks for it to be wortwhile in the main deck.
Giant Growth
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
Bushwhack
2.5 Each of these modes is kind of medium, but having a card that can fix your mana when you need it or be a mediocre removal spell is fine.
2.5 Each of these modes is kind of medium, but having a card that can fix your mana when you need it or be a mediocre removal spell is fine.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Llanowar Elves
Raise the Past
1 It's pretty hard to imagine a Limited deck that can use this effectively. White decks aren't graveyard-oriented at all in this format, and if your deck has lots of small creatures, you'd probably just be playing more of those instead of something this situational.
1 It's pretty hard to imagine a Limited deck that can use this effectively. White decks aren't graveyard-oriented at all in this format, and if your deck has lots of small creatures, you'd probably just be playing more of those instead of something this situational.
Secluded Courtyard
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Llanowar Elves
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Goblin Boarders
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Sower of Chaos
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Sanguine Syphoner
2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
Thornwood Falls
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Uncharted Voyage
Goblin Boarders
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Gutless Plunderer
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.
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.
Ambush Wolf
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.
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.
Fleeting Flight
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.
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.
Uncharted Voyage
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.
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.
Pilfer
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Cackling Prowler
Blanchwood Armor
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.
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.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Grow from the Ashes
Blanchwood Armor
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.
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.
Grow from the Ashes
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Llanowar Elves
Burnished Hart
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.
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.
Imprisoned in the Moon
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
1.5 This is flexible, but giving your opponent mana means that you can't really cast it early -- otherwise the downside can be monumental -- so it's really not that flexible.
Llanowar Elves
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
3 Playing this on turn one will win you a lot of games, but it is a pretty bad top deck late.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Cackling Prowler
Cackling Prowler
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Island
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Scavenging Ooze
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Gnarlid Colony
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Grappling Kraken
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Elfsworn Giant
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Rogue's Passage
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Eager Trufflesnout
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Meteor Golem
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Imprisoned in the Moon
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Nessian Hornbeetle
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Dwynen's Elite
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Run Away Together
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Quakestrider Ceratops
- Pack 1 Pick 13: An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Pack 1 Pick 14: Rune-Sealed Wall
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Faebloom Trick
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Bigfin Bouncer
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Strix Lookout
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Run Away Together
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Gnarlid Colony
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Spinner of Souls
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Snakeskin Veil
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Witness Protection
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Reclamation Sage
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Grow from the Ashes
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Goblin Negotiation
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Secluded Courtyard
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Jungle Hollow
- Pack 2 Pick 14: Jungle Hollow
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Solemn Simulacrum
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Refute
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Archmage of Runes
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Sylvan Scavenging
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Needletooth Pack
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Nessian Hornbeetle
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Llanowar Elves
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Uncharted Voyage
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Cackling Prowler
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Grow from the Ashes
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Llanowar Elves
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Cackling Prowler
- Pack 3 Pick 14: Island
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