Quick Draft BLB 9 February 2025
9 February 08:42 - JorgeCZE 7 Wins - 1 Losses
Pack 1 Pick 1: Dour Port-Mage
Dour Port-Mage
3 If you can get return a cheap creature with an ETB with this, it's going to feel great, and if nothing else it's a mana sink that draws you cards when you're flooding out.
3 If you can get return a cheap creature with an ETB with this, it's going to feel great, and if nothing else it's a mana sink that draws you cards when you're flooding out.
Blooming Blast
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
Shrike Force
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
Hazardroot Herbalist
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
Teapot Slinger
2.5 Shocking your opponent when you cast things that cost 4 or more is a real payoff, and the stat-line here is passable.
2.5 Shocking your opponent when you cast things that cost 4 or more is a real payoff, and the stat-line here is passable.
Bakersbane Duo
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Pearl of Wisdom
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
Nocturnal Hunger
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
Junkblade Bruiser
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
Carrot Cake
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
2 So, if you take all the parts together here – you pay 4 mana for 3 life and two 1/1s that scry 1. That’s not horrendous to begin with, and you can pay it for it in installments.
Banishing Light
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Nocturnal Hunger
Baylen, the Haymaker
3 This is a powerful token payoff, even if it is hard to cast. You won't always get Baylen's abilities online, but you're going to do it often enough for it be worth the splash in Green-White decks.
3 This is a powerful token payoff, even if it is hard to cast. You won't always get Baylen's abilities online, but you're going to do it often enough for it be worth the splash in Green-White decks.
Hazardroot Herbalist
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
Blacksmith's Talent
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
Rabid Gnaw
4 This is a great removal spell with real 2-for-1 potential, and if you can trigger valiant or Prowess at the same time it will feel particularly absurd.
4 This is a great removal spell with real 2-for-1 potential, and if you can trigger valiant or Prowess at the same time it will feel particularly absurd.
Nocturnal Hunger
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
3 This is an efficient removal spell. You should almost never give your opponent the food, unless you're in a desperate spot where you can't afford to pay the life.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Rust-Shield Rampager
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
2.5 This kind of evasion is surprisingly good, as it shuts off chump blocks.
Lifecreed Duo
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Playful Shove
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
2.5 If you pick off an X/1 with this it feels great, but it's also a sneaky way to trigger Valiant, and it replaces itself so it works nicely in spell decks too.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Brambleguard Veteran
Brambleguard Veteran
4 Even if it's only giving itself +1/+1 and vigilance, it'll feel good -- but oftentimes it'll buff some other creatures too.
4 Even if it's only giving itself +1/+1 and vigilance, it'll feel good -- but oftentimes it'll buff some other creatures too.
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
Clifftop Lookout
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
3.5 This is a 2-for-1 that ramps your mana, and not a bad body to blink in the Blue-Green deck.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Junkblade Bruiser
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
Moonrise Cleric
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Black/White decks, and the baseline is fine.
High Stride
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
1.5 This is a mediocre trick. It might be cheap, but it's better on defense and that's a really dangerous situation to be in with a trick, since your opponent is more likely to have mana up during combat on their turn.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Otterball Antics
Otterball Antics
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
2 While you do get two bodies in the end, the rate here isn't very good.
Builder's Talent
0.5 // 2.5 It's tough to get enough noncreature nonlands to get this going, but if you can it's a pretty solid buildaround.
0.5 // 2.5 It's tough to get enough noncreature nonlands to get this going, but if you can it's a pretty solid buildaround.
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
Sazacap's Brew
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Skyskipper Duo
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Steampath Charger
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
2 This will never feel efficient, but it's a passable two drop with a useful creature type and death trigger.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Savor
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Savor
3 This isn't the most efficient removal, but it's solid and Food is an important commodity in this format.
3 This isn't the most efficient removal, but it's solid and Food is an important commodity in this format.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
Heaped Harvest
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
1.5 This just feels out of place in this format. Ramping and multicolored stuff aren't a big theme here, and while you can sac this to Forage for value, it doesn't look good to me.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Shoreline Looter
Shoreline Looter
3 This lets you rip through your deck while loading your graveyard, and once you have threshold it becomes a card advantage engine.
3 This lets you rip through your deck while loading your graveyard, and once you have threshold it becomes a card advantage engine.
Spellgyre
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
Mouse Trapper
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
Daggerfang Duo
2 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you load your graveyard for Black-Green and Blue-Black, and it can trade for anything. That's less valuable on a three drop for sure, but it's something.
2 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you load your graveyard for Black-Green and Blue-Black, and it can trade for anything. That's less valuable on a three drop for sure, but it's something.
Raccoon Rallier
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
Thornplate Intimidator
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Pond Prophet
Long River Lurker
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
3 You almost always have a free unblockable attack when this enters, since the creature blinks when it hits your opponent -- meaning it comes back into play untapped. If you're also triggering an ETB, you're really going to be in business.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Glidedive Duo
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
Pond Prophet
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
3 This is one of the best creatures to blink, and a two mana 1/1 that draws you a card on ETB is a nice card to begin with.
Bellowing Crier
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
2 This loads your graveyard for threshold and two mana for decent base stats and a loot is solid anyway.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Sugar Coat
Dawn's Truce
0 This style of card is always too narrow in Limited. It ony does something meaningful in very specific scenarios, and that type of card is a massive liability.
0 This style of card is always too narrow in Limited. It ony does something meaningful in very specific scenarios, and that type of card is a massive liability.
Sugar Coat
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Raccoon Rallier
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Shrike Force
Blooming Blast
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
2.5 Never give your opponent the treaure early. It's a solid removal spell even without the gift part, but getting that Bolt late is pretty nice.
Shrike Force
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Pearl of Wisdom
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
2.5 Divination isn't always good in Limited these days, as you need to add to the board. But this will cost two mana reasonably often, and that's a huge upgrade.
Junkblade Bruiser
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Alania's Pathmaker
Blacksmith's Talent
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Calamitous Tide
Calamitous Tide
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
1 This doesn't do enough for how much it costs. Bouncing can only give you tempo, and in an era of lots of ETBs it may not even give you that.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Skyskipper Duo
Skyskipper Duo
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 1 Pick 13: War Squeak
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Whiskervale Forerunner
Whiskervale Forerunner
4.5 This Valiant trigger is nuts and will almost always allow you to put a creature directly on to the battlefield. There are plenty of ways to trigger valiant for free or cheap too, so doing it the turn the Forerunner comes down isn't some pipe dream.
4.5 This Valiant trigger is nuts and will almost always allow you to put a creature directly on to the battlefield. There are plenty of ways to trigger valiant for free or cheap too, so doing it the turn the Forerunner comes down isn't some pipe dream.
Starscape Cleric
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
Moonstone Harbinger
3 A three mana 1/3 flying with deathtouch is a passable baseline, and triggering this is fairly easy -- and you're likely to have more bats in play, too.
3 A three mana 1/3 flying with deathtouch is a passable baseline, and triggering this is fairly easy -- and you're likely to have more bats in play, too.
Shrike Force
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
3 Even if you never do anything to buff this, you're getting a great creature for three mana, and White has plenty of ways to augment creatures.
Splash Lasher
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Sonar Strike
2.5 This'll feel pretty efficient when you have a nice target, especially if you're gaining life. However, even if this can hit attacking, blocking, and tapped creatures, it's inability to get a creature out of the way before it blocks, and the fact it can't deal with things with more than 4 toughness make it too restrictive to be great.
2.5 This'll feel pretty efficient when you have a nice target, especially if you're gaining life. However, even if this can hit attacking, blocking, and tapped creatures, it's inability to get a creature out of the way before it blocks, and the fact it can't deal with things with more than 4 toughness make it too restrictive to be great.
Psychic Whorl
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Take Out the Trash
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
3.5 Two mana instants that do 3 are always great, and you'll rummage with this a decent chunk of the time too.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Banishing Light
Lilysplash Mentor
3 This has solid stats and is a good way to rebuy ETBs in the late game.
3 This has solid stats and is a good way to rebuy ETBs in the late game.
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
Repel Calamity
2.5 This format has fewer big creatures than most, but this does go after power AND toughness, so it'll have a decent number of targets.
2.5 This format has fewer big creatures than most, but this does go after power AND toughness, so it'll have a decent number of targets.
Banishing Light
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
3.5 This is always great removal because it goes after any nonland permanent very efficiently.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Veteran Guardmouse
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
3 This Valiant trigger makes the Guardmouse pretty impossible to block just because the threat of activation is always there.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Plumecreed Escort
Plumecreed Escort
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
Downwind Ambusher
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Uncharted Haven
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
Lifecreed Duo
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
2.5 This really enables lifegain strategies in Black/White, while also being good in the White go-wide deck and the blue-white bird deck.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Three Tree Scribe
3 This pays you off quite nicely for blinking or bouncing your stuff, which is great if you're getting value out of those effects already.
3 This pays you off quite nicely for blinking or bouncing your stuff, which is great if you're getting value out of those effects already.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Brightblade Stoat
Starforged Sword
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
1.5 The first equip being free is going to be worth a fish a decent chunk of the time, especially if you trigger valiant. It's super clunky after that though, and handing your opponent a chump blocker when you want to make a creature big is definitely a downside.
Brightblade Stoat
3.5 This has great stats and keywords and White has plenty of ways to enhance it's stats to make it even scarier.
3.5 This has great stats and keywords and White has plenty of ways to enhance it's stats to make it even scarier.
Eddymurk Crab
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
1.5 // 3.5 You need to be a deck with lots of instants and sorceries to make this work, and that's a little frustrating in this set because most of the payoffs for this kind of thing look at noncreature spells more broadly. This'll work in UR and UB a decent chunk of the time and be pretty good, but even in those decks you don't alawys have enough instants and sorceries to feel good about playing this.
Glidedive Duo
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
2.5 This ETB is surprisingly potent and also very useful for Bat and Lizard decks.
Thornplate Intimidator
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
2.5 Even withotu Offspring this would be a solid 4-drop, so the fact you can run this out late and get this punisher trigger twice is pretty sweet.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Thought-Stalker Warlock
Thought-Stalker Warlock
4 Even if you can't do damage to your opponent, a three mana 2/2 menace that makes your opponent discard is great. When you do get to choose what they discard, it'll feel downright nasty.
4 Even if you can't do damage to your opponent, a three mana 2/2 menace that makes your opponent discard is great. When you do get to choose what they discard, it'll feel downright nasty.
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
Into the Flood Maw
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
2.5 Cheap spells are extra good in formats with spell triggers, and this is one of those. Plus, Unsummon's a pretty solid card anyway.
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Mouse Trapper
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
2.5 Tapping blockers is really strong when you're an aggro deck, and you're likely to be if you're in White.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Mindwhisker
Harnesser of Storms
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
3 This only lets you play the card until the end of your turn, but it's a pretty nice way to hit land drops early and a good way to hit more impactful cards late.
Tangle Tumbler
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
Mindwhisker
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
3 The stat-line is rough, but it helps you set up threshold and is a powerful threshold payoff itself.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Starlit Soothsayer
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
2 This has almost-passable stats and a mediocre life gain trigger. You can play it, but you're never going to be happy about it.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
War Squeak
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
2 If you're a really aggressive Red/White or Red/black deck, you'll use this. The buff is real, triggers valiant, and shutting off a block can lead to lots of damage out of nowhere.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Splash Lasher
Splash Lasher
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
3 This is pretty good whether you Offspring or not, since it adds a solid body to the board while temporarily removing something. It's a great ETB to abuse in Blue-Green, too.
Sugar Coat
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
2.5 This is removal that doesn't exactly trade 1-for-1 since you leave something behind for your opponent to take advantage of. And if they are playing Black-Green or Black-White, they may even be able to get a full card worth of value out of food. But, it does shut down just about any creature.
Treetop Sentries
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
2.5 This'll feel good when you can Forage, and not so good when you can't.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Finch Formation
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Plumecreed Escort
Plumecreed Escort
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
Spellgyre
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
2 Neither option is very good here on it's own -- it's just too much mana for these effects. But the modality is enough to make it playable.
Valley Rally
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Hidden Grotto
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
2 Having some graveyard synergy to go with your fixing is nice sometimes, but not all decks will need this.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Dazzling Denial
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Psychic Whorl
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
1.5 This is Mind Rot with minimal upside, so not usually something you want to run. It can generate a 2-for-1 early, but because you don't add to the board when you do it the impact is pretty small, and in the late game it does even less.
Alania's Pathmaker
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
3 This almost always generates a 2-for-1, and while the toughness is low, the power is high enough for this to hit hard and trade pretty well in combat.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Run Away Together
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
Kindlespark Duo
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
2.5 This is a nice enabler for Red/Black and a legit win condition in Blue/Red.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Dire Downdraft
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Mind Spiral
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
2.5 You really only want one of these because they don't really add to the board and are kind of clunky, but that first one is pretty nice. If you give your opponent a fish, you can also stun their best creature, increasing your chances of making it to your next turn to take advantage of all those cards.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Run Away Together
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Run Away Together
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
2 When you can use this to bounce something your opponent doesn't want bounced and bounce something of yours you do want to bounce it feels really good, but it doesn't always line up that way.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Waterspout Warden
Waterspout Warden
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
2.5 This will often have Flying, and while it's not quite a staight up three mana 3/2 flyer, it isn't that far either.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Plumecreed Escort
Season of the Bold
3.5 Treasure isn't that useful in Limited, so you're mostly leaning on the other two modes. The good news is, that combining the two other modes is a pretty potent combination, since you draw a couple of extra cards and get Shock stapled to all of them.
3.5 Treasure isn't that useful in Limited, so you're mostly leaning on the other two modes. The good news is, that combining the two other modes is a pretty potent combination, since you draw a couple of extra cards and get Shock stapled to all of them.
Hazardroot Herbalist
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
Downwind Ambusher
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
3.5 Flashing this in to ambush block something and kill an X/1 is very doable, and it also has the upside of killing damaged creatures sometimes.
Tangle Tumbler
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
1.0 // 3.0 You can't turn this into a creature without tapping two tokens, so this isn't worth running in many decks in the format, but it looks good in Green/White and maybe Black/Green.
Plumecreed Escort
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
4 A two mana 2/1 with Flash and Flying is a playable card, and this can often generate a 2-for-1 by blanking a removal spell.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Raccoon Rallier
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
2 This would be a decent card in any format, but it's a free way to trigger valiant in this one, making it a bit better.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Seedpod Squire
Sunspine Lynx
3 These are decent stats, but most of the upside on this card is irrelevant or not very important in Limited, although Black/White being a life gain deck helps a little.
3 These are decent stats, but most of the upside on this card is irrelevant or not very important in Limited, although Black/White being a life gain deck helps a little.
Wildfire Howl
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
0.5 This is more of a sideboard card than anything. You can't really play this unless you're a Red deck that doesn't get hurt that badly by it, and that doesn't seem like a common occurence.
Starscape Cleric
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
2.5 Being unable to block is pretty brutal, but it's a fairly aggressive flyer that can bring a friend along, and when you can start triggering those life gain payoffs your opponent will be under some legitimate pressure.
Starseer Mentor
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
3.5 This stat-line is actually pretty great alongside Flying and Vigilance, and while the life change payoff isn't insane the first time, it's the kind of thing that can really snowball.
Seedpod Squire
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't as good as it used to be, but it's still a passable stat-line, and this will often enable another one of your creature's to attack when it attacks.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
Sazacap's Brew
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
Bakersbane Duo
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
3 This gives you a ton of value and synergy for a two drop.
Might of the Meek
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Uncharted Haven
Dewdrop Cure
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
Fireglass Mentor
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
3 This is a strong payoff for hitting your opponent -- something you're going to do in aggro decks pretty naturally.
Blacksmith's Talent
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
2.5 This is a nice way to trigger Valiant, and isn't a terrible card to have around even in aggro decks that are less interested in the mechanic.
Uncharted Haven
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
2.5 If you need fixing, this does it, and it's even decent in two-color decks.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Cache Grab
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
2 This loads your graveyard pretty well, but you probably need to get the Food for it to feel worth the investment.
Agate-Blade Assassin
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
2 This helps you set up life gain payoffs for Black-white and life loss payoffs for black-red in the early game, but has pretty mediocre stats.
Agate Assault
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
2.5 This is a solid removal spell that can trade up sometimes, and the graveyard hate is relevant int he format too.
Corpseberry Cultivator
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Driftgloom Coyote
Seasoned Warrenguard
2.5 This'll be a one mana 3/2 pretty often in Green/White.
2.5 This'll be a one mana 3/2 pretty often in Green/White.
Oakhollow Village
2.5 This works extra well with cards that make multiple bodies with these creature types.
2.5 This works extra well with cards that make multiple bodies with these creature types.
Driftgloom Coyote
4 Banisher Priest-like creatures are always great, and this one is extra beefy -- and gets beefier if you exile a low power creature. Adding to the board while removing something of your opponent's is simply one of the strongest things you can do.
4 Banisher Priest-like creatures are always great, and this one is extra beefy -- and gets beefier if you exile a low power creature. Adding to the board while removing something of your opponent's is simply one of the strongest things you can do.
Conduct Electricity
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
2.5 It's not efficient, but it can deal with most creatures -- and their offspring, so having one of these is kind of a necessary evil in many Red decks.
Bonebind Orator
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
2 It has passable stats and in the late game it's a way (albeit a costly way) to get something back from the graveyard. A bit awkward alongside Forage, though.
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Treeguard Duo
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
2 This ETB can be a big deal, almost giving you a free attack if your board is wide enough. It also doesn't always have a big impact.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Head of the Homestead
Persistent Marshstalker
2.5 This will often have high power, and it can just keep coming back by the mid-to-late game, and it's often going to have enough power that your opponent has to block it.
2.5 This will often have high power, and it can just keep coming back by the mid-to-late game, and it's often going to have enough power that your opponent has to block it.
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Skyskipper Duo
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
2 A 5-mana 3/3 Flyer isn't very good, but if you have ETBs to abuse, it could be worse.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Head of the Homestead
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
3.5 5-mana for a 3/2 and two 1/1s would be pretty good in any format, but this one has tons of payoffs for Rabbits and tokens and going wide more broadly, so this is going to punch above its weightclass.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Nettle Guard
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
2 This has decent stats that can get a little better if you target it with something, and it gives you some maindeck hate against artifacts and enchantments, too.
Thistledown Players
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
2 This is mostly for triggering valiant, but it's pretty mediocre overall.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Finch Formation
Long River's Pull
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
2 Double Blue is rough for a counterspell in Limited, especially one that requires you to 2-for-1 yourself if you want to counter a noncreature spell.
Junkblade Bruiser
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
2.5 A 5-mana 4/5 with Trample isn't great, but it's not a disaster either, and if you can buff this at instant speed it can produce some blowouts.
Three Tree Rootweaver
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
2.5 It's a little sad this doesn't have a relevant creature type, but a two mana 1/3 that can tap for mana of any color is a solid card.
Wax-Wane Witness
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
3 This has surprisingly beefy stats for a Common, and will often be able to attack as a 3/4 or larger.
Finch Formation
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
2.5 This is a Wind Drake with lots of upside! Gives something else flying, and in the late game it can send two creatures to the sky.
Druid of the Spade
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
2.5 You can make this a 4/3 trampler pretty often. Any type of token buffs it too, whether it's a creature token or not.
Cindering Cutthroat
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
2 The ceiling here isn't the most impressive thing in the world, and the floor is pretty bad.
Corpseberry Cultivator
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
2 This card's value comes from growing even when something else forages, because foraging just for a single +1/+1 counter isn't great.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Three Tree Mascot
Stocking the Pantry
0 This just seems too slow, especially in a format without a dedicated counter deck.
0 This just seems too slow, especially in a format without a dedicated counter deck.
Reptilian Recruiter
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
2 This kind of effect can close out games sometimes, but it also frequently does nothing, and the base stat-line here is kind of rough. Is a sneaky way to trigger valiant on your own stuff, too.
Tidecaller Mentor
3.5 Once you have threshold this is nuts, and when you don't it's not too bad to run out on turn three.
3.5 Once you have threshold this is nuts, and when you don't it's not too bad to run out on turn three.
Sunshower Druid
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
3 This gives you a lot for only one mana. It's fine as one mana 1/3 that gains you 1 life, and in the late game you can put the counter somewhere more meaningful.
Fountainport Bell
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
2 Fixing isn't at a high premium in this format, or this would be better. It is a decent way to fix, and can load your graveyard for Forage.
Three Tree Mascot
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
2 If you need fixing, this does an okay job of it while also providing you some creature type synergy.
Barkform Harvester
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
1.5 It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Mind Drill Assailant
Valley Rally
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
1.5 Mass pump like this is good in the right deck, and it's nice that this can be more of a combat trick sometimes.
Mind Drill Assailant
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
2 This'll be a 5/5 by the late game and can help you get threshold, but a 4-mana 5/5 this conditional isn't anything special.
Bumbleflower's Sharepot
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
1 Paying 2 mana for a Food is pretty awful, and paying 7 total mana to remove a nonland permanent isn't good either.
Shore Up
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
5 If you're behind, you can make a token copy of your best creature and then bounce everything else. If you're at parity or ahead, you can make two token copies of your best creature and then draw a card. Either way, you're very likely to win the game.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Diresight
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
2 This can put up to three cards in the graveyard while drawing you a couple cards and you lose some life, so it checks some boxes for various synergies in black, but it's still a card that doesn't add to the board and you can't have too many of those.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Dire Downdraft
Hazardroot Herbalist
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
2.5 You need to be giving tokens +1/+0 and deathtouch for this to really shrine, but the baseline isn't too bad either.
Dazzling Denial
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
2.5 Two mana counterspells have been solid of late, and the Bird upside is nice.
Pileated Provisioner
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
2.5 This will be putting a +1/+1 counter on something most of the time when it enters, and a 5-mana 3/4 flyer is surprisingly sturdy.
Dire Downdraft
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
3 This trade 1-for-1 pretty efficiently and 2-for-1s are on the menu because it's an instant.
Frilled Sparkshooter
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
2 This is pretty good when it comes down as a 4/4, and pretty bad when it doesn't.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Crumb and Get It
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
Sazacap's Brew
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
2 Thrill of Possibility tends to be passable in sets with a spell deck, and this has the added upside of a trick that can trigger Valiant.
Might of the Meek
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
2 You could do worse if you need a way to trigger valiant or spell payoffs.
Lightshell Duo
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
2.5 This slots well into spell decks and threshold decks, while sporting some solid stats that you can always threaten to grow.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Dewdrop Cure
Dewdrop Cure
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
2 Three mana to reanimate two small creatures is a pretty good deal, but how often will you have stuff in the graveyard to get back? Not often enough for this to always make the cut.
Brave-Kin Duo
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
2 This is a decent way to repeatedly trigger valiant, though you'd be surprised how often you don't want to spend one mana and tap a creature for this effect.
Thought Shucker
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
2 This is a pretty bad two drop early, but drawing a card with it late is pretty solid.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Crumb and Get It
Nightwhorl Hermit
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
2 A three mana 1/4 with Vigilance isn't very good, but in the late game this becomes unblockable and hits harder.
Crumb and Get It
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
2.5 This is a super efficient trick, which has extra value in a format with Valiant.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Gossip's Talent
Gossip's Talent
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
1.5 This doesn't really do enough on it's own, especially for all the mana you sink into it.
Draft Pick Overview
- Pack 1 Pick 1: Dour Port-Mage
- Pack 1 Pick 2: Nocturnal Hunger
- Pack 1 Pick 3: Brambleguard Veteran
- Pack 1 Pick 4: Otterball Antics
- Pack 1 Pick 5: Savor
- Pack 1 Pick 6: Shoreline Looter
- Pack 1 Pick 7: Pond Prophet
- Pack 1 Pick 8: Sugar Coat
- Pack 1 Pick 9: Shrike Force
- Pack 1 Pick 10: Alania's Pathmaker
- Pack 1 Pick 11: Calamitous Tide
- Pack 1 Pick 12: Skyskipper Duo
- Pack 1 Pick 13: War Squeak
- Pack 2 Pick 1: Whiskervale Forerunner
- Pack 2 Pick 2: Banishing Light
- Pack 2 Pick 3: Plumecreed Escort
- Pack 2 Pick 4: Brightblade Stoat
- Pack 2 Pick 5: Thought-Stalker Warlock
- Pack 2 Pick 6: Mindwhisker
- Pack 2 Pick 7: Splash Lasher
- Pack 2 Pick 8: Plumecreed Escort
- Pack 2 Pick 9: Dazzling Denial
- Pack 2 Pick 10: Run Away Together
- Pack 2 Pick 11: Dire Downdraft
- Pack 2 Pick 12: Run Away Together
- Pack 2 Pick 13: Waterspout Warden
- Pack 3 Pick 1: Plumecreed Escort
- Pack 3 Pick 2: Seedpod Squire
- Pack 3 Pick 3: Uncharted Haven
- Pack 3 Pick 4: Driftgloom Coyote
- Pack 3 Pick 5: Head of the Homestead
- Pack 3 Pick 6: Finch Formation
- Pack 3 Pick 7: Three Tree Mascot
- Pack 3 Pick 8: Mind Drill Assailant
- Pack 3 Pick 9: Dire Downdraft
- Pack 3 Pick 10: Crumb and Get It
- Pack 3 Pick 11: Dewdrop Cure
- Pack 3 Pick 12: Crumb and Get It
- Pack 3 Pick 13: Gossip's Talent
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