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Premier Draft FDN 30 November 2024

30 November 01:14 - Thund3r 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (15)
1 Mischievous Mystic image
2 Vampire Gourmand image
3 Infernal Vessel image
2 Hungry Ghoul image
1 Spectral Sailor image
1 Strix Lookout image
1 Arbiter of Woe image
1 Icewind Elemental image
1 Erudite Wizard image
1 Reassembling Skeleton image
1 Infestation Sage image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (8)
1 Arcane Epiphany image
1 Fake Your Own Death image
1 Fleeting Distraction image
1 Uncharted Voyage image
1 Bake into a Pie image
1 Hero's Downfall image
1 Refute image
1 Macabre Waltz image
Land (17)
8 Island image
9 Swamp image
Sideboard
1 Icewind Elemental image
1 Soul-Shackled Zombie image
1 Aegis Turtle image
1 Gorehorn Raider image
1 Clinquant Skymage image
1 Mocking Sprite image
1 Vampire Soulcaller image
1 Empyrean Eagle image
1 Angel of Finality image
1 Banishing Light image
2 Lunar Insight image
1 Make Your Move image
1 Seismic Rupture image
1 Raise the Past image
1 Ravenous Amulet image
1 Incinerating Blast image
1 Boltwave image
1 Blossoming Sands image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Mischievous Mystic
Extravagant Replication image 4 You have to wait a turn, which can be scary -- but after that it can help you run away with the game, since you'll get a copy of your best creature -- and it'll just keep doing it from there.
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.
Aetherize image 1.5 It's temping to imagine bouncing an entire alpha strike, but that won't happen very often. Can feel good in response to combat tricks, but if that's not the case, you're going down a card and your opponent isn't.
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.
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.
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.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
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.
Bake into a Pie image 3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
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.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Banishing Light
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.
Swiftblade Vindicator image 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.
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.
Resolute Reinforcements image 3 This is just a good rate, and it gets better if you've got some ways to blink or recur the Reinforcements.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
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.
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.
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.
Banishing Light image 3.5 As usual, this is pretty efficient and flexible, so it's good removal.
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.
Bloodfell Caves image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Arcane Epiphany
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.
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.
Fishing Pole image 1.5 Turning one of your creatures into a 1/1 Fish factory can be good, but it's frequently better to attack with a creature than it is to mess with this.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
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.
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.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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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Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Vampire Gourmand
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.
Divine Resilience image 1.5 This is good at blanking removal, not so good at winning combat -- and you kind of need both these days for a trick to be exciting.
Vampire Gourmand image 3.5 This is a strong sacrifice outlet since you get to replace the creature right away and get in for 2. It's good at enabling Raid, too.
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
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.
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.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
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.
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.
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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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Infernal Vessel
Aetherize image 1.5 It's temping to imagine bouncing an entire alpha strike, but that won't happen very often. Can feel good in response to combat tricks, but if that's not the case, you're going down a card and your opponent isn't.
Seismic Rupture image 0.5 This is mostly sideboard material. Most decks won't be equipped to abuse it, and most opponents won't have the right deck for it to be useful.
Infernal Vessel image 4 You spend three mana for a 2/1 and a 4/3 -- that's an excellent deal, and usually a 2-for-1.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Giant Growth image 2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
Island image
Swiftblade Vindicator image 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.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Hungry Ghoul
Fishing Pole image 1.5 Turning one of your creatures into a 1/1 Fish factory can be good, but it's frequently better to attack with a creature than it is to mess with this.
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.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Hungry Ghoul image 2.5 It has passable starting point and it's activated ability has some good applications in the format, in addition to just being solid on it's own.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Fake Your Own Death
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.
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.
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.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
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.
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.
Scoured Barrens image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Fleeting Distraction
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.
Divine Resilience image 1.5 This is good at blanking removal, not so good at winning combat -- and you kind of need both these days for a trick to be exciting.
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.
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.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
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.
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Pack 1 Pick 9: Lunar Insight
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.
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.
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.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
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.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Make Your Move
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Uncharted Voyage
Fishing Pole image 1.5 Turning one of your creatures into a 1/1 Fish factory can be good, but it's frequently better to attack with a creature than it is to mess with this.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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.
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Pack 1 Pick 12: Lunar Insight
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.
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
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Pack 1 Pick 13: Seismic Rupture
Seismic Rupture image 0.5 This is mostly sideboard material. Most decks won't be equipped to abuse it, and most opponents won't have the right deck for it to be useful.
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Pack 1 Pick 14: Blossoming Sands
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Bake into a Pie
Etali, Primal Storm image 4.5 This probably dies when it attacks, but it'll usually generate a very efficient 2-for-1 at a minimum, and the ceiling is much higher.
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.
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.
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.
Dazzling Angel image 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.
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.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Infestation Sage image 3 Getting two 1/1 bodies -- including one that can fly -- for only one mana is nice. Makes it good sacrifice fodder and a good Raid enabler.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
Bake into a Pie image 3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
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Sun-Blessed Healer image 4 A two mana 3/1 with lifelink is something you play 100% of the time, and this has an insane kicker mode in the late game.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Hero's Downfall
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite image 0 This is far too narrow for Limited. It's basically a blank card.
Hero's Downfall image 3.5 This is premium removal. It's a little hard to cast at times, but answering creatures or planeswalkers for three mana is great on an instant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bake into a Pie image 3.5 It's a little expensive but makes up for that in a big way with that food token.
Infestation Sage image 3 Getting two 1/1 bodies -- including one that can fly -- for only one mana is nice. Makes it good sacrifice fodder and a good Raid enabler.
Sure Strike image 1.5 This is a good trick in combat, but it's a little bit expensive and not useful against most removal.
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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.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Spectral Sailor
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.
Perforating Artist image 2.5 This has mediocre stats and while the Raid trigger can be pretty good if you can get it going multiple times, I'm skeptical you'll be able to.
Overrun image 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.
Spectral Sailor image 3 This is a great one drop that can chip in for damage early, and in the late game it has a nice mana sink ability.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Battlesong Berserker image 3 This adds +1/+0 and menace to the board when it comes down, and can attack as a 4/4 menace even when it's on it's own.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Strix Lookout
Thousand-Year Storm image 0 It's very difficult to make this do anything in Limited. You just don't cast enough instants and sorceries in a single turn for it to go off.
Imprisoned in the Moon image 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.
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.
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.
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.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
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.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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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Strix Lookout image 2 The stats aren't amazing, but it can attack for much of the game, and once it can't looting isn't too shabby.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Arbiter of Woe
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
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.
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.
Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
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.
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.
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.
Dazzling Angel image 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.
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Pack 2 Pick 6: Infernal Vessel
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.
Infernal Vessel image 4 You spend three mana for a 2/1 and a 4/3 -- that's an excellent deal, and usually a 2-for-1.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
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.
Elementalist Adept image 2 1 toughness prowess creatures can underperform, since they often need two triggers to survive being block by a 2/2, but Flash being in the mix helps make it more likely you can find a window to get in with it.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Refute
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
Luminous Rebuke image 2.5 This is either too narrow or too expensive, but having the choice between the modes makes it greater than the sum of its parts.
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.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
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.
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Anthem of Champions image 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.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Icewind Elemental
Empyrean Eagle image 3 An anthem for your flyers can be a powerful thing, helping you do tons of damage even when your opponent is building out their own board.
Seismic Rupture image 0.5 This is mostly sideboard material. Most decks won't be equipped to abuse it, and most opponents won't have the right deck for it to be useful.
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.
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.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Erudite Wizard
Dazzling Angel image 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.
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.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
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Sun-Blessed Healer image 4 A two mana 3/1 with lifelink is something you play 100% of the time, and this has an insane kicker mode in the late game.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Soul-Shackled Zombie
Secluded Courtyard image 0 This format doesn't have enough of a typal theme for this to ever make sense. It will rarely produce colored mana.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite image 0 This is far too narrow for Limited. It's basically a blank card.
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.
Soul-Shackled Zombie image 2.5 Draining 2 with this is going to be pretty close to automatic, and the body does a decent job of trading.
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Pack 2 Pick 11: Raise the Past
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.
Perforating Artist image 2.5 This has mediocre stats and while the Raid trigger can be pretty good if you can get it going multiple times, I'm skeptical you'll be able to.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Ravenous Amulet
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.
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.
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Pack 2 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.
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Pack 2 Pick 14: Gorehorn Raider
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Infernal Vessel
Quilled Greatwurm image 5 This keys off of any kind of combat damage, not just hitting the opponent. So it makes your attacks way better, has great stats, and can come back to the graveyard thanks to it's own ability.
Infernal Vessel image 4 You spend three mana for a 2/1 and a 4/3 -- that's an excellent deal, and usually a 2-for-1.
Overrun image 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Gnarlid Colony image 2 This was super underwhelming when we saw it last, and while this format has a +1/+1 counter theme, the creature is inefficient and trample only matters on the largest creatures.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Vampire Gourmand
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord image 2 // 3.5 This is playable even with 0 other zombies, but if you have 3 or 4 of them, it gets substantially better.
Vampire Gourmand image 3.5 This is a strong sacrifice outlet since you get to replace the creature right away and get in for 2. It's good at enabling Raid, too.
Battlesong Berserker image 3 This adds +1/+0 and menace to the board when it comes down, and can attack as a 4/4 menace even when it's on it's own.
Imprisoned in the Moon image 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 image 2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Sanguine Syphoner image 2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
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.
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.
Quick-Draw Katana image 2 This only offers a buff during your turn, and if you're an aggro deck you're probably more interested in playing more creatures than playing this thing.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Reassembling Skeleton
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.
Reassembling Skeleton image 1.5 // 3.0 This isn't great if you're just planning on bringing it back to chump with it, but if you have something meaningful to do with the body -- or you're good at milling -- it can be a nice card.
Juggernaut image 1.5 If you need a 4-drop you can probably do worse, but how often are you desperate for a 4 drop in Limited?
Empyrean Eagle image 3 An anthem for your flyers can be a powerful thing, helping you do tons of damage even when your opponent is building out their own board.
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.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
Thrill of Possibility image 2 This is always a decent card, especially in spell decks that can use it to chain multiple spell triggers together.
Luminous Rebuke image 2.5 This is either too narrow or too expensive, but having the choice between the modes makes it greater than the sum of its parts.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Clinquant Skymage
Wildwood Scourge image 2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
Angel of Finality image 2.5 This is a nice stat-line, and sometimes you'll take threshold away from your opponent.
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
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.
Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
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.
Goldvein Pick image 3 This is great Equipment. It offers a good buff for the cost, and the treasure makes it very easy to move around -- while also giving you a mana boost that you might have access to every turn.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Banishing Light image 3.5 As usual, this is pretty efficient and flexible, so it's good removal.
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.
Fanatical Firebrand image 2.5 This is really nice on turn one, and it's ping ability keeps it at least somewhat relevant all game long.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Macabre Waltz
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.
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.
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.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
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.
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.
Burst Lightning image 4 This is Shock with upside, and the upside is real -- since in the late game it can deal with much larger creatures or finish the opponent off.
Prideful Parent image 3.5 Three mana 2/2s that make 1/1s are always quality cards in Limited, and the 2/2 in this case even comes with Vigilance.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Hungry Ghoul
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
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Evolving Wilds image 2.5 This plus a basic land is always a nice way to fix for a bomb, and it can even help you get threshold.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Infestation Sage
Crystal Barricade image 1 Hexproof and preventing noncombat damage is almost irrelevant in Limited, so you're left with a purely defensive creature which is rarely good in Limited.
Strongbox Raider image 2.5 Triggering Raid on this makes it a very nice 2-for-1, but a 4-mana 5/2 is otherwise abyssmal.
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.
Infestation Sage image 3 Getting two 1/1 bodies -- including one that can fly -- for only one mana is nice. Makes it good sacrifice fodder and a good Raid enabler.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
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.
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: Mocking Sprite
Apothecary Stomper image 2.5 This is pretty solid for the cost. The counters will augment your board in a pretty big way, and even as a 4/4 the stomper isn't really a creature that can be ignored.
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.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
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.
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.
Rugged Highlands 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 3 Pick 9: Vampire Soulcaller
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Icewind Elemental
Wildwood Scourge image 2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
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.
Quick-Draw Katana image 2 This only offers a buff during your turn, and if you're an aggro deck you're probably more interested in playing more creatures than playing this thing.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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Pack 3 Pick 11: Empyrean Eagle
Empyrean Eagle image 3 An anthem for your flyers can be a powerful thing, helping you do tons of damage even when your opponent is building out their own board.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Angel of Finality
Wildwood Scourge image 2 This never feels like an efficient creature, and it doesn't exactly grow quickly.
Angel of Finality image 2.5 This is a nice stat-line, and sometimes you'll take threshold away from your opponent.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Incinerating Blast
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Boltwave
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.
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