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Premier Draft FDN 29 November 2024

29 November 08:37 - Starface123 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (16)
1 Scavenging Ooze image
1 Llanowar Elves image
1 Nessian Hornbeetle image
1 Elfsworn Giant image
2 Quakestrider Ceratops image
1 Ashroot Animist image
1 Eager Trufflesnout image
1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen image
1 Elvish Archdruid image
1 Elvish Regrower image
1 Ruby, Daring Tracker image
1 Cackling Prowler image
2 Ambush Wolf image
1 Flamewake Phoenix image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (7)
1 Garruk's Uprising image
2 Bushwhack image
1 Snakeskin Veil image
2 Giant Growth image
1 Heraldic Banner image
Land (17)
1 Rugged Highlands image
6 Mountain image
10 Forest image
Sideboard
3 Elfsworn Giant image
1 Inspiring Paladin image
2 Treetop Snarespinner image
1 Aegis Turtle image
1 Ambush Wolf image
1 Spitfire Lagac image
1 Campus Guide image
1 Courageous Goblin image
1 Mossborn Hydra image
1 Icewind Elemental image
1 Grow from the Ashes image
1 Genesis Wave image
2 Broken Wings image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Scavenging Ooze
Authority of the Consuls image 0 This is pretty much only good on turn one, and even then there's no guarantee that it does anything to help you win a game. The effects it gives you are too small and not always relevant.
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.
Tragic Banshee image 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.
Claws Out image 1.5 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide and you have like 4+ cats, this'll be worth playing for sure. If you're not lowering the cost and don't have enough creatures in general, it's unplayable.
Fiery Annihilation image 4 This kills most stuff and turns off death triggers and any threat of recursion. Format has a decent number of equipment, too.
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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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 1 Pick 2: Llanowar Elves
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.
Quakestrider Ceratops image 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.
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.
Revenge of the Rats image 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.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
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.
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer image 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.
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.
Dwynen's Elite image 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.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Sanguine Syphoner image 2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Nessian Hornbeetle
Joust Through image 3 It's narrow, but it's so efficient that I think that's acceptable.
Mischievous Mystic image 4 This has good stats, and even if you only get one token out of it you're going to feel great.
Goblin Negotiation image 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.
Nessian Hornbeetle image 3.5 Growing at combat is big, and this creature can very quickly become a threat.
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.
Dwynen's Elite image 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.
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.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
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.
Swamp image
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Garruk's Uprising
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.
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.
Arbiter of Woe image 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.
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.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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.
Vampire Soulcaller image 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.
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.
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.
Forest image
Quakestrider Ceratops image 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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Elfsworn Giant
Seeker's Folly image 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.
Dragon Trainer image 4 The rate here is great, and if you can recur the Trainer, things get out of hand in a hurry.
Heraldic Banner image 1.5 This is an awkward card, because you usually don't want to name the same color for both effects -- but you have no choice here.
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
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.
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.
Bloodfell Caves image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Elfsworn Giant
Omniscience image 0 This is too expensive to be relevant, and even when you do get it in play in Limited, you probably don't have any cards you need to cast for free anyway -- since you have 10 mana.
Brass's Bounty image 0 You never need 7 treasure in Limited when you already have 7 mana.
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.
Seeker's Folly image 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Swiftfoot Boots image 1 For this to be good, your creature already has to be great -- and in Limited that's not very likely.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Bushwhack
Twinblade Blessing image 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.
Vampire Soulcaller image 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.
Bushwhack image 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.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
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.
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.
Swamp image
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Elfsworn Giant
Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
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.
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.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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.
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Pack 1 Pick 9: Inspiring Paladin
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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
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.
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.
Thornwood Falls image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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 1 Pick 10: Quakestrider Ceratops
Quakestrider Ceratops image 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.
Revenge of the Rats image 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.
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer image 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.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Treetop Snarespinner
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
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.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
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Pack 1 Pick 12: Quakestrider Ceratops
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.
Forest image
Quakestrider Ceratops image 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.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Aegis Turtle
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Island
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Pack 2 Pick 1: Ashroot Animist
Ashroot Animist image 4 This is going to send a ton of trample damage your opponents way the turn after you play it.
An Offer You Can't Refuse image 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.
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.
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.
Eager Trufflesnout image 3 Getting one food out of this feels good, and if you get more than that you're going to be thrilled.
Vampire Soulcaller image 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.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
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.
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.
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Arcane Epiphany image 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.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Eager Trufflesnout
Lunar Insight image 1.5 This has some nice extreme late game upside, but int he early game it's pretty close to a blank card.
Slumbering Cerberus image 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.
Eager Trufflesnout image 3 Getting one food out of this feels good, and if you get more than that you're going to be thrilled.
Swiftfoot Boots image 1 For this to be good, your creature already has to be great -- and in Limited that's not very likely.
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.
Fleeting Distraction image 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.
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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
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.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Fleeting Distraction image 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.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
Time Stop image 2.5 It's expensive, but close enough to Time Walk to be viable in most Blue decks.
Firespitter Whelp image 2.5 Wind Drake stats aren't what they used to be, but the upside is enough to make this solid.
Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen image 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.
Claws Out image 1.5 // 2.5 If you're good at going wide and you have like 4+ cats, this'll be worth playing for sure. If you're not lowering the cost and don't have enough creatures in general, it's unplayable.
Inspiration from Beyond image 0 // 3 This has a nice ceiling, but a miserable floor. You need lots of spells and lots of graveyard stuff going on, and neither of those are guaranteed.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Elvish Archdruid
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.
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.
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.
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.
Firebrand Archer image 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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
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Elvish Archdruid image 3 This has a passable baseline as a three mana 2/2 that can tap for Green, and most Green decks in this format will have enough Elves for there to be additional upside.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Grow from the Ashes
Boltwave image 1 This might just be a 0, but there are enough spell payoffs in the format that I'm cutting it a little bit of slack. The main problem is that a spell that only does direct damage doesn't impact the board at all -- sometimes casting it feels like mulliganing.
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.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Vampire Soulcaller image 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.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra 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.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Elvish Regrower
Elvish Regrower image 4 This is a great 2-for-1. That 4/3 body can even rumble pretty well.
Stab image 4 This is super efficient removal that can often trade up.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
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.
Preposterous Proportions image 4.5 If you have two creatures in play, this will force your opponent to block both of them. That's not great, but if you have anything more than two creatures in play, this can end the game -- often literally, not just effectively.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Ruby, Daring Tracker
Raise the Past image 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.
Savannah Lions image 1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 8: Snakeskin Veil
Snakeskin Veil image 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.
Brazen Scourge image 2.5 This is a good stat-line, but the double red makes it less likely you actually run it out on 3.
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.
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.
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.
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 9: Cackling Prowler
An Offer You Can't Refuse image 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.
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 Soulcaller image 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.
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.
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Arcane Epiphany image 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.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Ambush Wolf
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.
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.
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.
Fleeting Distraction image 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.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Ambush Wolf
Time Stop image 2.5 It's expensive, but close enough to Time Walk to be viable in most Blue decks.
Inspiration from Beyond image 0 // 3 This has a nice ceiling, but a miserable floor. You need lots of spells and lots of graveyard stuff going on, and neither of those are guaranteed.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 12: Spitfire Lagac
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
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Pack 2 Pick 13: Campus Guide
Boltwave image 1 This might just be a 0, but there are enough spell payoffs in the format that I'm cutting it a little bit of slack. The main problem is that a spell that only does direct damage doesn't impact the board at all -- sometimes casting it feels like mulliganing.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Treetop Snarespinner
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Courageous Goblin
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.
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.
Seeker's Folly image 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.
Dauntless Veteran image 2.5 This attack trigger is legit, but the bad stat-line and the double-white requirement hold it back.
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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Healer's Hawk image 3 This is a great one drop, especially in a format with lots of ways to buff the Hawk.
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.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Omniscience image 0 This is too expensive to be relevant, and even when you do get it in play in Limited, you probably don't have any cards you need to cast for free anyway -- since you have 10 mana.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Mossborn Hydra
Mossborn Hydra image 3 This starts very small and very vulnerable, and you need two land fall triggers to make it so that's not the case. Once you get there, it starts to run away with the game -- but I don't love how this starts.
Dreadwing Scavenger image 4 This is a very strong signpost Uncommon. Looting on entering and attack is super powerful, and it's likely to get you to threshold even on it's own.
Frenzied Goblin image 2.5 This can definitely let an aggro deck get through for a big attack, even in the late game.
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.
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.
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.
Marauding Blight-Priest image 2 This isn't the most exciting payoff, but it's fine -- and it's a two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror.
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.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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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Exsanguinate image 1 You need a ton of mana before this is worth casting, and even then it doesn't impact the board.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Bushwhack
Slumbering Cerberus image 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.
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.
Mild-Mannered Librarian image 2.5 This becomes a 2-for-1 in the late game, though it'll never be that great as a creature.
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.
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.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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.
Fake Your Own Death image 2.5 This is a quality trick that almost always wins combat and/or blanks removal, while generating extra value with a treasure.
Bushwhack image 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.
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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 3 Pick 4: Giant Growth
Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Diregraf Ghoul image 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.
Micromancer image 1 // 3.5 You need to have two spells this can tutor up for it to be worth it, and if you get there -- you're going to be really happy with this card.
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
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.
Giant Growth image 2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
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.
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.
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.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Rugged Highlands
Heroic Reinforcements image 3.5 If you can curve out with this at the top, you usually win the game -- and even if thigns aren't going quite that smoothly, it usually results in a big turn.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
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.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra 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.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Heraldic Banner
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.
Heroic Reinforcements image 3.5 If you can curve out with this at the top, you usually win the game -- and even if thigns aren't going quite that smoothly, it usually results in a big turn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scoured Barrens image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Heraldic Banner image 1.5 This is an awkward card, because you usually don't want to name the same color for both effects -- but you have no choice here.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Flamewake Phoenix
Flamewake Phoenix image 4 This feels great on 3, and bringing it back in the late game is very doable.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite image 0 This is far too narrow for Limited. It's basically a blank card.
Twinblade Blessing image 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.
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.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Giant Growth
Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Giant Growth image 2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
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.
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.
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.
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Pack 3 Pick 9: Genesis Wave
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.
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Broken Wings
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.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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 11: Broken Wings
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.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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Pack 3 Pick 12: Icewind Elemental
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Ambush Wolf
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
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 3 Pick 14: Elfsworn Giant
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.
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