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Premier Draft FDN 30 November 2024

30 November 06:37 - callmarx 7 Wins - 0 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (14)
1 Dreadwing Scavenger image
1 Micromancer image
3 Mischievous Mystic image
1 Vampire Gourmand image
2 Bigfin Bouncer image
1 Hungry Ghoul image
1 Abyssal Harvester image
2 Tolarian Terror image
1 Tragic Banshee image
1 Reassembling Skeleton image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (10)
1 Think Twice image
2 Essence Scatter image
3 Fleeting Distraction image
1 Refute image
2 Eaten Alive image
1 Ravenous Amulet image
Land (16)
2 Dismal Backwater image
8 Island image
6 Swamp image
Sideboard
1 Gutless Plunderer image
1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord image
1 Brineborn Cutthroat image
1 Infestation Sage image
1 Mocking Sprite image
1 Elementalist Adept image
1 Burst Lightning image
1 Macabre Waltz image
1 Involuntary Employment image
1 Imprisoned in the Moon image
1 Thrill of Possibility image
1 Goblin Negotiation image
1 Run Away Together image
1 Bloodfell Caves image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Dreadwing Scavenger
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
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.
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.
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.
Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
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.
Bloodfell Caves image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Micromancer
Time Stop image 2.5 It's expensive, but close enough to Time Walk to be viable in most Blue decks.
Stromkirk Bloodthief image 1.5 Last time we saw this was in a way more vampire-heavy set and it was not very good. It's probably going to be worse here. The stat-line is bad and the trigger is surprisingly hard to get.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite image 0 This is far too narrow for Limited. It's basically a blank card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Mischievous Mystic
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.
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.
Wardens of the Cycle image 3 Just getting the Morbid trigger once is enough to feel good about things, and that's good -- but don't expect to make this go off one very turn.
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.
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.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
Cackling Prowler image 2.5 A 4-mana 4/3 with Ward 2 is pretty decent, as the Ward heps offset some of the problems of that stat-line, and it gives it more time to grow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Vampire Gourmand
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goblin Boarders image 2 This isn't that exciting even when you do Raid.
Treetop Snarespinner image 2 This is a decent defensive creature, and it's activated ability is pretty nice in the late game.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Burst Lightning
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.
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.
Healer's Hawk image 3 This is a great one drop, especially in a format with lots of ways to buff the Hawk.
Lightshell Duo image 2.5 This'll never be great, but it slots in nicely to your spell and graveyard decks.
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.
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.
Bite Down image 3.5 This is always great removal, and while you have to be careful agaisnt interaction, being an instant helps make it easy to find the rightw indow for it.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Think Twice
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.
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.
Cephalid Inkmage image 2.5 This is pretty good at enabling threshold, making it more likely it will be unblockable.
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.
Spitfire Lagac image 2 This has mediocre stats and an underwhelming landfall trigger.
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.
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.
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.
Island image
Pack 1 Pick 7: Essence Scatter
Essence Scatter image 3 This is always a great counterspell. It's easy to cast and usually generates some serious tempo.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
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.
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.
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.
Swamp image
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.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Bigfin Bouncer
Brineborn Cutthroat image 2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mountain image
Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Bloodfell Caves
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
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.
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.
Bloodfell Caves image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Hungry Ghoul
Stromkirk Bloodthief image 1.5 Last time we saw this was in a way more vampire-heavy set and it was not very good. It's probably going to be worse here. The stat-line is bad and the trigger is surprisingly hard to get.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite image 0 This is far too narrow for Limited. It's basically a blank card.
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.
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.
Jungle Hollow image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Fleeting Distraction
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.
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.
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.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Refute
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.
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.
Tranquil Cove image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Macabre Waltz
Macabre Waltz image 2.5 Giving up a land late to get two good creatures back from the yard is a good way to win those games, although this is pretty bad when you get it early.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Island
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Pack 2 Pick 1: Mischievous Mystic
Solemn Simulacrum image 4 This generates a 3-for-1 almost every time you play it, and that's an advantage that can set you up for victory.
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.
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.
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.
Bite Down image 3.5 This is always great removal, and while you have to be careful agaisnt interaction, being an instant helps make it easy to find the rightw indow for it.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swamp image
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.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Gutless Plunderer
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.
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.
Stromkirk Bloodthief image 1.5 Last time we saw this was in a way more vampire-heavy set and it was not very good. It's probably going to be worse here. The stat-line is bad and the trigger is surprisingly hard to get.
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.
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.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Cathar Commando image 2.5 This has a passable stat-line and Flash can allow it to trade up sometimes, and having disenchant in your main deck is nice.
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.
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.
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.
Healer's Hawk image 3 This is a great one drop, especially in a format with lots of ways to buff the Hawk.
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Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Abyssal Harvester
Abyssal Harvester image 4 It's harder than you might think to have something die consistently for this to make tokens of, but the good news is you only have to do it once to feel pretty good about things.
Fiendish Panda image 4 This is usually going to be a 2-for-1, and if you're good at gaining life it can become a threat in its own right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
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.
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.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid image 4 Her Landfall trigger wins games, and while she's a bit slow and has a bad stat-line, the life she gains you helps make up for that -- and makes it more likely you'll cast those new cards you draw, too.
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.
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.
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.
Giant Growth image 2 This is always a nice trick. It wins most combats very efficiently and can even blank some removal.
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.
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.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 5: Essence Scatter
Essence Scatter image 3 This is always a great counterspell. It's easy to cast and usually generates some serious tempo.
Stroke of Midnight image 0 This is never good. It's tempting to see it as efficient and flexible, but giving your opponent a 1/1 means you always end up behind. You really have to always be killing a huge bomb for that cost to be worth it, and that's not how it pans out.
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.
Make Your Move image 0.5 There aren't enough artifacts or enchantments in this format for this to be main deck material.
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.
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.
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Healer's Hawk image 3 This is a great one drop, especially in a format with lots of ways to buff the Hawk.
Swiftwater Cliffs image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Brineborn Cutthroat image 2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Tolarian Terror
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Felidar Savior image 4 For 4 mana, you get 4/5 worth of stats, 2/2 of which effectively has haste, and 2/3 of which has lifelink. That's an amazing rate, and counters and life gain have support in the format.
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.
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.
Wind-Scarred Crag image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Mischievous Mystic
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.
Savannah Lions image 1.5 Feels pretty good on turn one, but quickly becomes irrelevant.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
Helpful Hunter image 3.5 Two mana 1/1s that draw a card are also quality Limited cards, and there's no reason that won't be true here.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
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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.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Bigfin Bouncer
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
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.
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.
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.
Campus Guide image 1.5 This is the fixing you play when you're desperate. Or the two drop you play when you're desperate. Mostly, it's bad at being either of those things, so you hope you don't play it.
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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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Involuntary Employment
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.
Icewind Elemental image 2.5 5-mana 3/4 Flyers have held up pretty well in Limited, and a loot trigger is pretty powerful.
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.
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.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 10: Imprisoned in the Moon
Stromkirk Bloodthief image 1.5 Last time we saw this was in a way more vampire-heavy set and it was not very good. It's probably going to be worse here. The stat-line is bad and the trigger is surprisingly hard to get.
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.
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.
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Vanguard Seraph image 2 It's been awhile since a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer was exciting, and this life gain payoff is underwhelming.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Thrill of Possibility
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.
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.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 12: Fleeting Distraction
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.
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.
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Pack 2 Pick 13: Brineborn Cutthroat
Pilfer image 2 This is a nice way to disrupt your opponent, although not adding to the board is always a problem.
Brineborn Cutthroat image 2 This has bad starting stats but there are enough cards with flash and instants in the set for it to grow.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Goblin Negotiation
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.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Infestation Sage
Twinflame Tyrant image 5 This augments all damage, so the turn you play it it will virtually always let all of your creatures attack in a big way, and it can smash in for 6 at a time on it's own.
Self-Reflection image 1.5 It's tough to feel like you're getting your mana's worth, since you need an impressive creature to copy. Flashback does mean you get a 2-for-1 eventually, though.
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.
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.
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.
Crackling Cyclops image 1.5 This probably asks too much to be worth it. It'll be a 0/4 way too often, and it isn't like a 3/4 is that exciting.
Campus Guide image 1.5 This is the fixing you play when you're desperate. Or the two drop you play when you're desperate. Mostly, it's bad at being either of those things, so you hope you don't play it.
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.
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.
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.
Banishing Light image 3.5 As usual, this is pretty efficient and flexible, so it's good 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.
Scoured Barrens image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Tragic Banshee
Soulstone Sanctuary image 3 This hurts your mana base for sure, but having a land that can permanently turn into a creature is a big deal in the late game.
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.
Serra Angel image 3 This is still a pretty legit creature in Limited. The stat-line's great and it performs well as both an attacker and blocker, which is great, since it has Vigilance.
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.
Courageous Goblin image 2.5 This'll be able to rumble on turn 3 as a 3/2 Menace reasonably often in this format.
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.
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.
Helpful Hunter image 3.5 Two mana 1/1s that draw a card are also quality Limited cards, and there's no reason that won't be true here.
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.
Sower of Chaos image 1.5 The stat-line's mediocre and the ability is too expensive.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra 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.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Ravenous Amulet
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bloodfell Caves 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 4: Eaten Alive
Drake Hatcher image 4 This attacking you is pretty scary, since you don't know how big it can get -- that makes it both hard to block and hard not to block, since you don't want your opponent to get a free Drake.
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.
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Incinerating Blast image 2 It's removal, but it's clunky as heck.
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.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Eaten Alive
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Reassembling Skeleton
Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sanguine Syphoner image 2.5 This attack trigger plays pretty well, especially in a format with a life gain deck.
Involuntary Employment image 1.0 // 2.5 You can't really play this unless you're crazy aggressive or you have good sacrifice outlets. If you do have those things, it can be solid.
Gleaming Barrier image 1 If this format had an artifact theme this might be more useful, as is it's just a bad defensive creature that gives you a little mana back.
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Pack 3 Pick 7: Tolarian Terror
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.
Shivan Dragon image 2 This can win the game, but it's big, slow and clunky. It's a passable top-curve threat.
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.
Gorehorn Raider image 2.5 This is strong when you can Raid, and pretty mediocre when you can't.
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.
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.
Blossoming Sands image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Fleeting Distraction
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.
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.
Erudite Wizard image 1.5 This has a weak starting stat-line and isn't that easy to grow.
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.
Think Twice image 2.5 This is never super efficient, but it does draw you 2 cards, and if you mill it, it's like adding the card to your hand which is pretty sweet.
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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 3 Pick 9: Mocking Sprite
Self-Reflection image 1.5 It's tough to feel like you're getting your mana's worth, since you need an impressive creature to copy. Flashback does mean you get a 2-for-1 eventually, though.
Rogue's Passage image 1.5 This effect generally isn't worth making your mana worse for. Sure, it can be nice late -- but that's not even a guarantee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Dismal Backwater
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.
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.
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.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra 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.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Run Away Together
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.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 12: Dismal Backwater
Clinquant Skymage image 2 This starting stat-line is absolutely abyssmal, but the text box does mean it can grow in a hurry.
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.
Dismal Backwater image 2.5 These all offer nice fixing, and the lifegain on the BW can be extra nice.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Elementalist Adept
Elementalist Adept image 2 1 toughness prowess creatures can underperform, since they often need two triggers to survive being block by a 2/2, but Flash being in the mix helps make it more likely you can find a window to get in with it.
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Pack 3 Pick 14: Forest
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