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Premier Draft KLR 15 August 2021

15 August 10:40 - guyincognito88 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (10)
2 Hunt the Weak image
1 Mind Rot image
1 Wildest Dreams image
1 Unbridled Growth image
1 Subtle Strike image
2 Daring Demolition image
1 Nature's Way image
1 Live Fast image
Creature (14)
1 Fen Hauler image
1 Servant of the Conduit image
3 Kujar Seedsculptor image
1 Maulfist Revolutionary image
1 Gifted Aetherborn image
1 Druid of the Cowl image
1 Fourth Bridge Prowler image
1 Maulfist Squad image
1 Riparian Tiger image
1 Winding Constrictor image
1 Thriving Rhino image
1 Arborback Stomper image
Land (16)
8 Forest image
7 Swamp image
1 Blooming Marsh image
Sideboard
1 Wind-Kin Raiders image
1 Self-Assembler image
1 Sage of Shaila's Claim image
1 Reservoir Walker image
1 Dukhara Peafowl image
1 Welding Sparks image
1 Subtle Strike image
1 Metallic Rebuke image
2 Fortuitous Find image
1 Precise Strike image
1 Ornamental Courage image
1 Renegade Map image
1 Universal Solvent image
1 Implement of Examination image
1 Appetite for the Unnatural image
1 Commencement of Festivities image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Servant of the Conduit
Metalwork Colossus image 1.5 It isn’t especially easy to get this into reasonably castable territory, especially because a lot of your artifacts will be tokens and stuff like that, but it can happen in some decks.
Servant of the Conduit image 3.5 This is a bear that ramps and fixes for you. And gives you energy. Yeah, that’s a pretty nice Uncommon.
Rogue Refiner image 4.0 This does a whole lot for only three mana! A 3-mana 3/2 that draws you a card would already be quite impressive, so the addition of Energy is great. This helps power your energy synergies while also just being a 2-for-1.
Aether Meltdown image 3.0 This can pretty much shut down a lot of creatures – and vehicles – in the format for only two mana, while also giving you a bit of Energy to use with other cards. It is of course frustrating that things can still block once you use this, and that keeps it from being amazing, but it does a pretty good job.
Fourth Bridge Prowler image 1.5 You can play this and kill something with the ETB a decent chunk of the time, but it does tend to get worse as the game goes on.
Gearseeker Serpent image 3.0 This is a very nice Common for Blue decks in this format, which really like Artifacts. It often costs 4 or 5 mana, and is a great finisher in this format thanks to its bulk and potential evasiveness.
Defiant Salvager image 1.5 Only being able to sacrifice things at Sorcery speed is rough, even in a format that has a lot of Servos to gobble up.
Cathartic Reunion image 1.0 This mostly isn’t worth it. It is just some clunky card selection that asks for significant set up. There isn’t enough of a graveyard theme in the format for it to be more than that.
Built to Last image 2.0 This is a decent trick that gets even better if you’re rumbling with artifact creatures. It is a decent inclusion in aggro decks.
Attune with Aether image 3.0 This card is sneaky good. It is basically one mana to draw a card and gain two energy, and that’s a great deal. And sure, the card you draw is a land, but that’s fine! It basically lets you play fewer lands in your deck, gives you energy for all the cards that care about that and fixes your mana. It just does so much for only one Green.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Mobile Garrison image 2.0 This isn’t as impressive stats-wise as some other vehicles, but it crews for 2 and untaps an artifact or creature when it attacks, which can include whatever crewed it, and that ends up being pretty decent.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Kujar Seedsculptor
Refurbish image 1.0 Even in a set with this many Artifacts, you don’t often have one in your graveyard that is worth paying 4 mana to reanimate.
Tezzeret's Touch image 3.0 Making any ol’ artifact into a 5/5 for three mana wouldn’t be that good, because it would set you up for a 2-for-1 without that much of a payoff. However, Tezzeret’s touch gets around that by giving you the artifact back when it dies, and that makes it pretty nice. However, it is kind of awkward that it doesn’t work with Servos, which are one of the more attractive targets for an effect like this.
Weaponcraft Enthusiast image 3.5 If this just also had its ETB effect, it would be completely insane, since you would just add a 3-mana 3/2 to the board and kill something. Obviously, the Revolt requirement makes it significantly less insane, and this will just be the 3/2 a little more often than you’d like. Still, when you do get Revolt going, it will still feel like you’re doing something amazing.
Irontread Crusher image 2.0 This vehicle isn’t as exciting as some of the others, but it can do the job.
Inventor's Goggles image 3.0 This gives a kind of passable boost for the casting and Equip cost, but what really makes it a nice card is the fact that it equips for free to an Artificer when it enters the battlefield, and this format has a ton of them. Playing this on turn one and an Artificer on turn two happens all the time in this format, and is a pretty amazing start.
Glint-Sleeve Artisan image 3.0 This is one of White’s best commons. A 3-mana 3/3 or a 3-mana 2/2 and a 1/1 is quite nice, especially because White has lots of ways to pay you off for going wide.
Kujar Seedsculptor image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Renegade Map image 3.0 This card might not look very exciting, but it does a whole lot! It does stuff with your Artifact synergies, can set up Revolt for free, lets you play fewer lands, and helps you splash.
Maulfist Squad image 2.5 Like most of the Fabricate creatures, this is pretty solid, as both options are pretty reasonable. A 4-mana 4/2 with Menace is nice on boards where you are the beat down and your opponent won’t be blocking it any time soon, and 4 mana for a 3/1 and a 1/1 is pretty good when you’re behind.
Gearseeker Serpent image 3.0 This is a very nice Common for Blue decks in this format, which really like Artifacts. It often costs 4 or 5 mana, and is a great finisher in this format thanks to its bulk and potential evasiveness.
Chandra's Revolution image 3.0 4 mana for 4 damage at Sorcery speed isn’t the most amazing thing, and the land tap down part of the card doesn’t give it much of an upgrade. Still, it is reasonably efficient removal.
Herald of the Fair image 2.0 This has mediocre stats, but an ETB ability that often lets you attack more effectively. Still, it is pretty replaceable and not remotely impressive.
Fragmentize image 2.0 This is actually mainboardable in this format, as there are plenty of targets for it. In an ideal world, you probably start it in your sideboard in best of 3, though.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Wind-Kin Raiders
Ravenous Intruder image 2.0 This is a pretty threatening attacker even with just a single artifact on the table, and if you have more, it can be a real problem for the opponent. Problem is, you don’t always have artifacts you want to give up to pump the Intruder.
Wind-Kin Raiders image 3.5 If you can cast this for 5, it feels pretty good, and that’s very easy to do. Anything less than that and you really feel like you’re getting a steal.
Fen Hauler image 2.5 This is a solid finisher for Black decks with a decent number of Artifacts. It is quite large, paying 5 for it is pretty realistic, and it can’t be blacked by a ton of creatures in the format, including most of the creature tokens.
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Inspired Charge image 0.5 // 2.5 You would definitely prefer to get Dawnfeather Eagle, but with all of the Servos in White, you end up going wide enough to make this work in a decent chunk of decks, and it can definitely sub in for the eagle in those decks. If you aren’t good at going wide, it is pretty unplayable.
Unbridled Growth image 1.0 This is something you’ll play if you’re really hard up for fixing, but will avoid most of the time.
Metallic Rebuke image 1.0 Even in an artifact deck, this isn’t great. Not being a hard counter gives it diminishing returns as the game goes on.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Renegade Map image 3.0 This card might not look very exciting, but it does a whole lot! It does stuff with your Artifact synergies, can set up Revolt for free, lets you play fewer lands, and helps you splash.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Pack 1 Pick 4: Maulfist Revolutionary
Creeping Mold image 1.0 This does kill a lot of Artifacts, but as a 4 mana Sorcery, it is too clunky to be worth it most of the time.
Maulfist Revolutionary image 4.0 This has great stats + trample, and also gives you extra +1/+1 counters and energy, both things Green decks are interested in.
Thriving Rhino image 3.0 This is the best card in the “Thriving” cycle. The first time it attacks it becomes a ¾, and that’s a pretty real body – especially on turn 4, but even in the later part of the game.
Leave in the Dust image 2.5 Bounce + Draw a card is pretty solid, since it actually lets you go 1-for-1 with your opponent in addition to the tempo.
Shipwreck Moray image 1.0 This probably isn’t the Energy payoff you were looking for. It has really mediocre starting stats, and takes a ton of energy to ever actually do anything.
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Select for Inspection image 2.0 One mana to bounce a creature is a really good deal, even if it can only go after tapped creatures. It can give you some very nice tempo, and tacking on the Scry is nice additional upside.
Audacious Infiltrator image 2.5 This ability comes up more than you might think with all the thopters and servos running around. One of the big downsides about being an X/1 is usually that you die to something like a token, but that’s not a problem here, so it is just a creature with a decent aggressive statline.
Cathartic Reunion image 1.0 This mostly isn’t worth it. It is just some clunky card selection that asks for significant set up. There isn’t enough of a graveyard theme in the format for it to be more than that.
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Gifted Aetherborn
Midnight Oil image 4.0 The downside here might look big, but in reality it just ends up being a card advantage engine. Now, you do need to have a reasonably low curve and be pretty aggressive to get full value out of Midnight Oil, but once you do, it will be pretty incredible. Your opponent just won’t be able to keep up with all the extra cards you draw, and even once you run out of counters, you’ll find yourself able to stay away from being damage much by it.
Servo Schematic image 2.0 This gives you two artifacts on turn two, which is pretty good at setting up Improvise and other Artifact payoffs. Ideally, your deck also has some ways to sacrifice the Schematic so you can get that second servo.
Gifted Aetherborn image 3.5 This has great stats, gains you life, and can trade with anything. Not much more to say about it!
Built to Last image 2.0 This is a decent trick that gets even better if you’re rumbling with artifact creatures. It is a decent inclusion in aggro decks.
Eager Construct image 1.5 If you need a two drop or an Artifact, you could do worse.
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Revolutionary Rebuff image 1.0 This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Irontread Crusher image 2.0 This vehicle isn’t as exciting as some of the others, but it can do the job.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Welding Sparks
Whirlermaker image 1.5 This is really slow, but if you’re a control deck, it does a decent job as a win condition.
Underhanded Designs image 3.0 Most of the value here comes from this turning into a removal spell, but being able to drain the opponent from time to time is nice additional upside. Not every deck will be able to consistently make it into a removal spell, but it isn’t that hard to accomplish either.
Self-Assembler image 0.5 // 3.0 If you have one Self Assembler, don’t play it. If you manage to get a second one, you’re actually kind of in business. A 5-mana 4/4 isn’t good, but it does draw you another one, and making sure you have those plays on back to back turns is pretty nice. Because of the mana cost running more than 3 probably isn’t a great idea, but chaining those three together is pretty nice, even with mediocre stats.
Aviary Mechanic image 2.5 This has a solid baseline as a bear, and its ETB ability actually does something like half the time, and that’s pretty nice.
Welding Sparks image 4.0 This is a great Common, one that would be really good even if it always does 3, but will be doing 4+ pretty often.
Reckless Fireweaver image 2.5 This has alright stats and does often chip in a few damage with its ability, especially if you’re making servos.
Highspire Artisan image 2.5 The two choices you have here are pretty nice. A 3-mana ¼ with Reach can block a lot of stuff all game long while also turning on +1/+1 counter synergies, and a 3-mana 0/3 with Reach that also gives you a 1/1 token isn’t too shabby either.
Aether Poisoner image 3.5 This is another very good Common in this cycle. With death touch, it is a real pain to block or attack through, and that means it often has no problem making that 1/1 token. Attacking with it into a block and making that 1/1 feels pretty good, and it can obviously get even more out of hand!
Metallic Rebuke image 1.0 Even in an artifact deck, this isn’t great. Not being a hard counter gives it diminishing returns as the game goes on.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Druid of the Cowl
Underhanded Designs image 3.0 Most of the value here comes from this turning into a removal spell, but being able to drain the opponent from time to time is nice additional upside. Not every deck will be able to consistently make it into a removal spell, but it isn’t that hard to accomplish either.
Built to Smash image 2.0 This is a really nice trick for aggro decks, as +3/+3 for one mana is enough to win just about any combat. When you can give an artifact creature Trample, it feels especially absurd! Obviously, since the trick only works on attackers, you’ve really gotta be the beatdown to take advantage of it.
Reservoir Walker image 1.5 3 life and 3 energy isn’t really enough to offset the bad stats this has. It isn’t unplayable, but you won’t play it very often.
Druid of the Cowl image 2.5 This has decent stats and ramps your mana, which makes it a solid card.
Dukhara Peafowl image 2.5 This is an artifact in a set that cares about that, and has decent stats and the ability to gain flying. You’ll play this pretty often in Blue.
Woodweaver's Puzzleknot image 1.5 If you’re interested in energy, this can give you 6 all on its own while also gaining you 6 life. That life gain actually matters too, because playing this and sacrificing this is pretty slow, but the life gain does offset that a bit. You won’t play this in any but the most all-in energy decks.
Maulfist Squad image 2.5 Like most of the Fabricate creatures, this is pretty solid, as both options are pretty reasonable. A 4-mana 4/2 with Menace is nice on boards where you are the beat down and your opponent won’t be blocking it any time soon, and 4 mana for a 3/1 and a 1/1 is pretty good when you’re behind.
Nimble Innovator image 1.5 4-mana for a 2/2 is pretty ugly, but at least it draws you a card. It can give you a 2-for-1 often enough to make the cut sometimes.
Pack 1 Pick 8: Kujar Seedsculptor
Wind-Kin Raiders image 3.5 If you can cast this for 5, it feels pretty good, and that’s very easy to do. Anything less than that and you really feel like you’re getting a steal.
Inventor's Goggles image 3.0 This gives a kind of passable boost for the casting and Equip cost, but what really makes it a nice card is the fact that it equips for free to an Artificer when it enters the battlefield, and this format has a ton of them. Playing this on turn one and an Artificer on turn two happens all the time in this format, and is a pretty amazing start.
Propeller Pioneer image 3.0 This is another nice card that really gets you going wide, and having the option to make it a 4-mana 3/2 Flyer when that’s what you need is pretty nice.
Reservoir Walker image 1.5 3 life and 3 energy isn’t really enough to offset the bad stats this has. It isn’t unplayable, but you won’t play it very often.
Kujar Seedsculptor image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Nimble Innovator image 1.5 4-mana for a 2/2 is pretty ugly, but at least it draws you a card. It can give you a 2-for-1 often enough to make the cut sometimes.
Consulate Skygate image 0.5 Yeah, you mostly won’t play this. It just doesn’t do anything but block, and it doesn’t even do that very well.
Pack 1 Pick 9: Fourth Bridge Prowler
Fourth Bridge Prowler image 1.5 You can play this and kill something with the ETB a decent chunk of the time, but it does tend to get worse as the game goes on.
Cathartic Reunion image 1.0 This mostly isn’t worth it. It is just some clunky card selection that asks for significant set up. There isn’t enough of a graveyard theme in the format for it to be more than that.
Built to Last image 2.0 This is a decent trick that gets even better if you’re rumbling with artifact creatures. It is a decent inclusion in aggro decks.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Maulfist Squad
Tezzeret's Touch image 3.0 Making any ol’ artifact into a 5/5 for three mana wouldn’t be that good, because it would set you up for a 2-for-1 without that much of a payoff. However, Tezzeret’s touch gets around that by giving you the artifact back when it dies, and that makes it pretty nice. However, it is kind of awkward that it doesn’t work with Servos, which are one of the more attractive targets for an effect like this.
Irontread Crusher image 2.0 This vehicle isn’t as exciting as some of the others, but it can do the job.
Inventor's Goggles image 3.0 This gives a kind of passable boost for the casting and Equip cost, but what really makes it a nice card is the fact that it equips for free to an Artificer when it enters the battlefield, and this format has a ton of them. Playing this on turn one and an Artificer on turn two happens all the time in this format, and is a pretty amazing start.
Maulfist Squad image 2.5 Like most of the Fabricate creatures, this is pretty solid, as both options are pretty reasonable. A 4-mana 4/2 with Menace is nice on boards where you are the beat down and your opponent won’t be blocking it any time soon, and 4 mana for a 3/1 and a 1/1 is pretty good when you’re behind.
Herald of the Fair image 2.0 This has mediocre stats, but an ETB ability that often lets you attack more effectively. Still, it is pretty replaceable and not remotely impressive.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Unbridled Growth
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Inspired Charge image 0.5 // 2.5 You would definitely prefer to get Dawnfeather Eagle, but with all of the Servos in White, you end up going wide enough to make this work in a decent chunk of decks, and it can definitely sub in for the eagle in those decks. If you aren’t good at going wide, it is pretty unplayable.
Unbridled Growth image 1.0 This is something you’ll play if you’re really hard up for fixing, but will avoid most of the time.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Pack 1 Pick 12: Subtle Strike
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Select for Inspection image 2.0 One mana to bounce a creature is a really good deal, even if it can only go after tapped creatures. It can give you some very nice tempo, and tacking on the Scry is nice additional upside.
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Pack 1 Pick 13: Subtle Strike
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Pack 1 Pick 14: Metallic Rebuke
Metallic Rebuke image 1.0 Even in an artifact deck, this isn’t great. Not being a hard counter gives it diminishing returns as the game goes on.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Daring Demolition
Animation Module image 3.5 This can really go nuts. This format has a ton of +1/+1 counters, especially in BG, and having the option to make a Servo every time you put one of those counters on something is great. The activated ability is a little clunky, but it’s a pretty decent mana sink.
Hidden Stockpile image 3.0 On its own, you can sacrifice a servo to it every turn to Scry, and then get a Servo at the end of every turn. In addition to just being a funny little value engine, it also helps trigger other Revolt cards, and BW is fairly interested in that.
Illusionist's Stratagem image 1.5 This is really situational, though it does feel pretty awesome when you blink two creatures with ETB abilities and draw a card. You’d be surprised how often this does very little, though.
Contraband Kingpin image 3.0 The Kingpin has a very annoying body for aggressive decks to deal with since it can block a ton of stuff and survive while also gaining you life. Then, in the mean time, you get to Scry any time an Artifact ETBs, and that’s some nice additional upside.
Revolutionary Rebuff image 1.0 This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Impeccable Timing image 2.5 This is situational, but the format does have a significant number of small creatures, and people will inevitably be attacking or blocking, so you’ll find yourself playing this a decent chunk of the time.
Implement of Malice image 2.0 If you consistently can use this to make an opponent discard and you draw, it feels alright. It just won’t always do that. Still, at least it isn’t blank in the late game, since you can basically cash it in for a card. It also gets revolt going.
Aether Chaser image 3.5 This has great stats to begin with, so adding the ability to make Servo tokens is great. A 2/1 first striker is often relevant pretty much all game, whether you’re the one attacking or blocking, so having that Energy/servo upside is great, especially because going wide is very viable in this set.
Salivating Gremlins image 2.5 This will be a 4/3 with Trample on lots of turns, and that’s a relevant body all game long. If you’re really good at making servos, sometimes it will be even bigger!
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Daring Demolition image 4.0 4 mana to kill any creature or artifact is great in this format, even at Sorcery speed. This is premium removal.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Live Fast image 2.0 Drawing some cards and getting some energy is something you’ll want in some Black decks, but not all of them.
Night Market Lookout image 1.5 If you’re really aggressive or plan on crewing vehicles a lot – or both – this can be an alright inclusion, but most of the time you’ll stay away from it.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Riparian Tiger
Inventors' Fair image 2.5 If you get to three or more artifacts, this gives you some nice incidental life gain, and can also be used to tutor up an artifact. Getting to three artifacts isn’t a stretch, but you also won’t always have an Artifact really worth tutoring up. Obviously, this gets better in an artifact-heavy deck that has some super powerful Artifacts, like a Gearhulk or something.
Minister of Inquiries image 1.0 There’s not really a mill deck in this format, though sometimes a deck with a lot of energy and a few Ministers can pull it off. Mostly, though, it is a strategy to be avoided in this format.
Weaponcraft Enthusiast image 3.5 If this just also had its ETB effect, it would be completely insane, since you would just add a 3-mana 3/2 to the board and kill something. Obviously, the Revolt requirement makes it significantly less insane, and this will just be the 3/2 a little more often than you’d like. Still, when you do get Revolt going, it will still feel like you’re doing something amazing.
Herald of the Fair image 2.0 This has mediocre stats, but an ETB ability that often lets you attack more effectively. Still, it is pretty replaceable and not remotely impressive.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Salivating Gremlins image 2.5 This will be a 4/3 with Trample on lots of turns, and that’s a relevant body all game long. If you’re really good at making servos, sometimes it will be even bigger!
Inspired Charge image 0.5 // 2.5 You would definitely prefer to get Dawnfeather Eagle, but with all of the Servos in White, you end up going wide enough to make this work in a decent chunk of decks, and it can definitely sub in for the eagle in those decks. If you aren’t good at going wide, it is pretty unplayable.
Aether Tradewinds image 1.0 This effect is supposed to be here to help you abuse ETB abilities, but it often just isn’t worth going down a card to do this.
Rush of Vitality image 1.5 This is a decent trick that you’ll run in some of your aggro decks.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Riparian Tiger image 2.0 This isn’t the greatest finisher ever for Green energy decks, but you could do worse too. Even without any other help, it is a 5-mana 4/4 Trampler that attacks as a 6/6 the first time it attacks, and that’s a creature that is very difficult to effectively block.
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Druid of the Cowl image 2.5 This has decent stats and ramps your mana, which makes it a solid card.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Nature's Way
Era of Innovation image 1.0 This looks like it would be a pretty sweet buildaround, but its mostly a dud. The set does have lots of artifacts and artificers, but getting to 6 energy with this is really hard, and it has the problem of not adding to the board in any significant way in the mean time. Sure, if you get to draw those three cards with it you probably win, but by playing a two mana card that doesn’t do anything up front, you are drastically decreasing your chances of lasting long enough to do that in the first place!
Nature's Way image 3.5 Your creature doesn’t get a stats boost from this, so it has to already be decently sized for this to be worth it – but the good news is, you’re in Green, and that’s just going to be the case most of the time! Also, it doesn’t “fight.” The damage it does is one-sided, so your creature’s toughness doesn’t matter! And the keywords it gives are pretty nice too, especially since you probably just got rid of a blocker.
Woodweaver's Puzzleknot image 1.5 If you’re interested in energy, this can give you 6 all on its own while also gaining you 6 life. That life gain actually matters too, because playing this and sacrificing this is pretty slow, but the life gain does offset that a bit. You won’t play this in any but the most all-in energy decks.
Select for Inspection image 2.0 One mana to bounce a creature is a really good deal, even if it can only go after tapped creatures. It can give you some very nice tempo, and tacking on the Scry is nice additional upside.
Reservoir Walker image 1.5 3 life and 3 energy isn’t really enough to offset the bad stats this has. It isn’t unplayable, but you won’t play it very often.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Dawnfeather Eagle image 3.5 This is one of the sets best Commons. It just has such a massive impact on virtually any board state, and that’s a lot to say about a Common! +1/+1 and Vigilance to your whole team while you also add a flying threat to the table is amazing. The stats boost + Vigilance makes it so you can suddenly attack your opponent, both because your creatures get larger and because they have vigilance, making it much harder for your opponent to kill you on the back swing. This is excellent top curve for aggressive White decks in this format, and the best decks often have at least two of these.
Revolutionary Rebuff image 1.0 This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Lifecraft Cavalry image 2.0 This is kind of alright even when you don’t revolt, and pretty scary when you can. It isn’t terrible top curve.
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Cathartic Reunion image 1.0 This mostly isn’t worth it. It is just some clunky card selection that asks for significant set up. There isn’t enough of a graveyard theme in the format for it to be more than that.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Daring Demolition
Blossoming Defense image 2.0 This is a nice trick that has additional utility against removal spells thanks to Hexproof.
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Daring Demolition image 4.0 4 mana to kill any creature or artifact is great in this format, even at Sorcery speed. This is premium removal.
Reservoir Walker image 1.5 3 life and 3 energy isn’t really enough to offset the bad stats this has. It isn’t unplayable, but you won’t play it very often.
Aviary Mechanic image 2.5 This has a solid baseline as a bear, and its ETB ability actually does something like half the time, and that’s pretty nice.
Destructive Tampering image 0.5 // 2.5 This looks like something you’d never play in most formats, but two things make this actually an okay card in really aggressive decks. One of these is simply the fact that it often has targets to destroy with the first option, the other is just that turning off (almost) all blockers is often enough for the aggro decks to finish off an opponent who has stabilized. You really only want it in that one deck, but you’re kind of always on the look out for that one copy if that’s what your deck looks like.
Unbridled Growth image 1.0 This is something you’ll play if you’re really hard up for fixing, but will avoid most of the time.
Conviction image 1.0 This Aura just isn’t worth it. The stats boost isn’t great, and being able to return it to your hand doesn’t really help make it much better.
Bastion Mastodon image 2.5 Being an artifact matters in this set, and this offers a decent body that can gain Vigilance. Like the rest of this cycle, Bastion Mastodon is pretty solid.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Peema Outrider image 3.5 The choice between a 4-mana 4/4 Trample and a 4-mana 3/3 Trample with a 1/1 Servo token is a good decision to have to make, because either option is giving you a great deal.
Pack 2 Pick 5: Winding Constrictor
Winding Constrictor image 3.5 This has great stats, and giving you extra energy and extra +1/+1 counters comes up a whole lot in this format.
Consulate Skygate image 0.5 Yeah, you mostly won’t play this. It just doesn’t do anything but block, and it doesn’t even do that very well.
Aether Inspector image 2.0 This whole cycle is pretty nice, but the Inspector is probably the worst of the bunch. It starts out with worse stats and feels a little bit overcosted. But still, it’s a reasonable playable.
Dukhara Peafowl image 2.5 This is an artifact in a set that cares about that, and has decent stats and the ability to gain flying. You’ll play this pretty often in Blue.
Cogworker's Puzzleknot image 2.5 This can really help you go wide in a hurry, which is useful for White decks, and it also gives you two artifacts on turn two, which can really help out cards with Improvise.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Fourth Bridge Prowler image 1.5 You can play this and kill something with the ETB a decent chunk of the time, but it does tend to get worse as the game goes on.
Attune with Aether image 3.0 This card is sneaky good. It is basically one mana to draw a card and gain two energy, and that’s a great deal. And sure, the card you draw is a land, but that’s fine! It basically lets you play fewer lands in your deck, gives you energy for all the cards that care about that and fixes your mana. It just does so much for only one Green.
Chandra's Pyrohelix image 3.0 At worst, this kills an X/2 for two mana, which is fine – and sometimes you can take out 2 X/1s, which will feel amazing. It can also go after your opponent when necessary.
Salivating Gremlins image 2.5 This will be a 4/3 with Trample on lots of turns, and that’s a relevant body all game long. If you’re really good at making servos, sometimes it will be even bigger!
Pack 2 Pick 6: Self-Assembler
Tezzeret's Touch image 3.0 Making any ol’ artifact into a 5/5 for three mana wouldn’t be that good, because it would set you up for a 2-for-1 without that much of a payoff. However, Tezzeret’s touch gets around that by giving you the artifact back when it dies, and that makes it pretty nice. However, it is kind of awkward that it doesn’t work with Servos, which are one of the more attractive targets for an effect like this.
Nimble Innovator image 1.5 4-mana for a 2/2 is pretty ugly, but at least it draws you a card. It can give you a 2-for-1 often enough to make the cut sometimes.
Herald of the Fair image 2.0 This has mediocre stats, but an ETB ability that often lets you attack more effectively. Still, it is pretty replaceable and not remotely impressive.
Lathnu Sailback image 0.5 You’re almost never desperate enough to stick this in your deck. A 5-mana 5/4 just doesn’t do anything in this format.
Self-Assembler image 0.5 // 3.0 If you have one Self Assembler, don’t play it. If you manage to get a second one, you’re actually kind of in business. A 5-mana 4/4 isn’t good, but it does draw you another one, and making sure you have those plays on back to back turns is pretty nice. Because of the mana cost running more than 3 probably isn’t a great idea, but chaining those three together is pretty nice, even with mediocre stats.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Mind Rot image 1.0 This is basically never good in Limited, and that’s not different here!
Sky Skiff image 2.5 The mana and crew cost here are both quite low, and thanks to Flying this can attack pretty much all game long.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Kujar Seedsculptor
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Kujar Seedsculptor image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Sweatworks Brawler image 2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 with Menace is kind of alright, and you’ll find yourself playing this for three mana pretty often.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
Herald of the Fair image 2.0 This has mediocre stats, but an ETB ability that often lets you attack more effectively. Still, it is pretty replaceable and not remotely impressive.
Weldfast Wingsmith image 2.0 This has mediocre starting stats, but it does gain Flying often enough to be a decent inclusion in artifact-heavy decks.
Defiant Salvager image 1.5 Only being able to sacrifice things at Sorcery speed is rough, even in a format that has a lot of Servos to gobble up.
Peema Outrider image 3.5 The choice between a 4-mana 4/4 Trample and a 4-mana 3/3 Trample with a 1/1 Servo token is a good decision to have to make, because either option is giving you a great deal.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Implement of Examination
Tezzeret's Touch image 3.0 Making any ol’ artifact into a 5/5 for three mana wouldn’t be that good, because it would set you up for a 2-for-1 without that much of a payoff. However, Tezzeret’s touch gets around that by giving you the artifact back when it dies, and that makes it pretty nice. However, it is kind of awkward that it doesn’t work with Servos, which are one of the more attractive targets for an effect like this.
Revolutionary Rebuff image 1.0 This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Implement of Examination image 2.0 So, you basically pay a total of 4 mana for two cards, which isn’t completely terrible – and you can spread it out over a couple of turns. It is also an artifact, and one that can get Revolt going.
Commencement of Festivities image 0.5 Fog is slightly better in this format than in most, where I would give it a 0.0. This is because there are decks in the format that try to win the game in a single swing either after pumping their whole board or casting Destructive Revelry, and siding this in against those decks is actually kind of reasonable.
Built to Last image 2.0 This is a decent trick that gets even better if you’re rumbling with artifact creatures. It is a decent inclusion in aggro decks.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Eddytrail Hawk image 2.5 Giving other stuff flying can have a pretty big impact, and the Hawk can do it twice without any outside help, making it a decent card.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Live Fast
Revolutionary Rebuff image 1.0 This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Implement of Malice image 2.0 If you consistently can use this to make an opponent discard and you draw, it feels alright. It just won’t always do that. Still, at least it isn’t blank in the late game, since you can basically cash it in for a card. It also gets revolt going.
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Live Fast image 2.0 Drawing some cards and getting some energy is something you’ll want in some Black decks, but not all of them.
Night Market Lookout image 1.5 If you’re really aggressive or plan on crewing vehicles a lot – or both – this can be an alright inclusion, but most of the time you’ll stay away from it.
Pack 2 Pick 10: Fortuitous Find
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Inspired Charge image 0.5 // 2.5 You would definitely prefer to get Dawnfeather Eagle, but with all of the Servos in White, you end up going wide enough to make this work in a decent chunk of decks, and it can definitely sub in for the eagle in those decks. If you aren’t good at going wide, it is pretty unplayable.
Aether Tradewinds image 1.0 This effect is supposed to be here to help you abuse ETB abilities, but it often just isn’t worth going down a card to do this.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Fortuitous Find
Select for Inspection image 2.0 One mana to bounce a creature is a really good deal, even if it can only go after tapped creatures. It can give you some very nice tempo, and tacking on the Scry is nice additional upside.
Spireside Infiltrator image 2.5 This can crew most of the vehicles worth playing in the format while also doing 1 damage to your opponent, and even if it isn’t crewing, it is a 3-mana 3/2 that does 1 to the opponent every time it attacks. It does surprisingly well in aggressive decks.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Fortuitous Find image 2.0 If your deck has a good mix of artifacts and creatures – and ideally, artifact creatures, this feels pretty good, since you can pay 3 to get two creatures back, and that’s a nice little play in the late game. Pretty much a dead card early, and if your graveyard doesn’t have the right composition, its pretty bad.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Reservoir Walker
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Reservoir Walker image 1.5 3 life and 3 energy isn’t really enough to offset the bad stats this has. It isn’t unplayable, but you won’t play it very often.
Conviction image 1.0 This Aura just isn’t worth it. The stats boost isn’t great, and being able to return it to your hand doesn’t really help make it much better.
Pack 2 Pick 13: Dukhara Peafowl
Dukhara Peafowl image 2.5 This is an artifact in a set that cares about that, and has decent stats and the ability to gain flying. You’ll play this pretty often in Blue.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Precise Strike
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Blooming Marsh
Blooming Marsh image 3.0 These give you good fixing and will come into play untapped in the early game, which is nice.
Restoration Specialist image 2.5 Even in a set with this many Artifacts, you don’t often have one in your graveyard that is worth paying 4 mana to reanimate.
Narnam Renegade image 2.5 This can trade with anything without Revolt, and with Revolt it also becomes a decent attacker.
Contraband Kingpin image 3.0 The Kingpin has a very annoying body for aggressive decks to deal with since it can block a ton of stuff and survive while also gaining you life. Then, in the mean time, you get to Scry any time an Artifact ETBs, and that’s some nice additional upside.
Live Fast image 2.0 Drawing some cards and getting some energy is something you’ll want in some Black decks, but not all of them.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
Aviary Mechanic image 2.5 This has a solid baseline as a bear, and its ETB ability actually does something like half the time, and that’s pretty nice.
Pendulum of Patterns image 0.5 Yeah, this isn’t really worth it. Early on it gains you some life, but that doesn’t matter a whole lot in this format. Then, later, you can cash it in for a card for a wopping 5 mana. Even in a format that loves artifacts, there isn’t much of a reason to play this thing.
Die Young image 3.0 This is a nice removal spell. At worst, it is two mana to give something -2/-2, and if you have other energy around, it can take down larger things.
Dawnfeather Eagle image 3.5 This is one of the sets best Commons. It just has such a massive impact on virtually any board state, and that’s a lot to say about a Common! +1/+1 and Vigilance to your whole team while you also add a flying threat to the table is amazing. The stats boost + Vigilance makes it so you can suddenly attack your opponent, both because your creatures get larger and because they have vigilance, making it much harder for your opponent to kill you on the back swing. This is excellent top curve for aggressive White decks in this format, and the best decks often have at least two of these.
Welding Sparks image 4.0 This is a great Common, one that would be really good even if it always does 3, but will be doing 4+ pretty often.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Hunt the Weak image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Thriving Rhino
Spire Patrol image 3.5 This adds a reasonably efficient flyer to the board while locking down your opponent’s best creature for a turn cycle, so it does a great job of helping you stabilize or press an advantage.
Narnam Renegade image 2.5 This can trade with anything without Revolt, and with Revolt it also becomes a decent attacker.
Engineered Might image 2.5 This card is such a bummer as far as signposts go. Luckily, GW has other ways to pump the whole board that are better, because if this was the card that you were counting on to win you the game when you go wide, you’d be in trouble! Being a sorcery for 5 mana is just really rough, and gives your opponent way more information than you’d like. Pumping one creature as a secondary option is alright I guess, but its still a sorcery that can be easily responded to. I don’t think you even always play this in your GW decks, and that’s pretty sad.
Renegade Map image 3.0 This card might not look very exciting, but it does a whole lot! It does stuff with your Artifact synergies, can set up Revolt for free, lets you play fewer lands, and helps you splash.
Shipwreck Moray image 1.0 This probably isn’t the Energy payoff you were looking for. It has really mediocre starting stats, and takes a ton of energy to ever actually do anything.
Nimble Innovator image 1.5 4-mana for a 2/2 is pretty ugly, but at least it draws you a card. It can give you a 2-for-1 often enough to make the cut sometimes.
Thriving Rhino image 3.0 This is the best card in the “Thriving” cycle. The first time it attacks it becomes a ¾, and that’s a pretty real body – especially on turn 4, but even in the later part of the game.
Highspire Infusion image 1.5 Even with the Energy, this is a pretty mediocre trick.
Built to Last image 2.0 This is a decent trick that gets even better if you’re rumbling with artifact creatures. It is a decent inclusion in aggro decks.
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Lathnu Sailback image 0.5 You’re almost never desperate enough to stick this in your deck. A 5-mana 5/4 just doesn’t do anything in this format.
Chandra's Revolution image 3.0 4 mana for 4 damage at Sorcery speed isn’t the most amazing thing, and the land tap down part of the card doesn’t give it much of an upgrade. Still, it is reasonably efficient removal.
Night Market Aeronaut image 1.5 There is a big difference between a 4-mana 2/2 flyer and a 4-mana 3/3 flyer, and Revolt can be difficult enough to get going that this isn’t that great.
Pack 3 Pick 3: Arborback Stomper
Fabrication Module image 3.5 If you’re good at making Energy, this is a pretty darn powerful payoff for it, as getting those +1/+1 counters is a big deal. In the late game, its ability basically gives you an energy AND a +1/+1 counter too, and that’s not a terrible mana sink.
Arborback Stomper image 4.0 It is kind of amazing how much this does for you. The fairly efficient trampling body coupled with +5 life is just a big deal, and often enough to get you back at parity from behind. It really helps you stabilize against the format’s aggro decks.
Welding Sparks image 4.0 This is a great Common, one that would be really good even if it always does 3, but will be doing 4+ pretty often.
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Dukhara Peafowl image 2.5 This is an artifact in a set that cares about that, and has decent stats and the ability to gain flying. You’ll play this pretty often in Blue.
Impeccable Timing image 2.5 This is situational, but the format does have a significant number of small creatures, and people will inevitably be attacking or blocking, so you’ll find yourself playing this a decent chunk of the time.
Consulate Skygate image 0.5 Yeah, you mostly won’t play this. It just doesn’t do anything but block, and it doesn’t even do that very well.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Night Market Lookout image 1.5 If you’re really aggressive or plan on crewing vehicles a lot – or both – this can be an alright inclusion, but most of the time you’ll stay away from it.
Metallic Rebuke image 1.0 Even in an artifact deck, this isn’t great. Not being a hard counter gives it diminishing returns as the game goes on.
Cogworker's Puzzleknot image 2.5 This can really help you go wide in a hurry, which is useful for White decks, and it also gives you two artifacts on turn two, which can really help out cards with Improvise.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Wildest Dreams
Wildest Dreams image 2.5 This is pretty slow, but by the late game in can get you back a whole bunch of cards. Now, granted, you have to tap out and not add to the board when you do it most of the time, but that’s okay. And, in a fail case, you can just pay three with it to return one thing to your hand, and that’s not too shabby in a pinch. So yeah, reasonable floor here and an insane ceiling.
Foundry Hornet image 2.5 A 4-mana 2/3 Flyer isn’t great, but it is kind of passable. You have to be able to give your opponent’s creatures -1/-1 with this a decent chunk of the time to really get there, but that’s not especially hard to do in Black.
Servant of the Conduit image 3.5 This is a bear that ramps and fixes for you. And gives you energy. Yeah, that’s a pretty nice Uncommon.
Druid of the Cowl image 2.5 This has decent stats and ramps your mana, which makes it a solid card.
Welding Sparks image 4.0 This is a great Common, one that would be really good even if it always does 3, but will be doing 4+ pretty often.
Universal Solvent image 1.5 If you really need Artifacts and/or removal, you can play this, but most of the time you won’t.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Foundry Screecher image 2.5 This has passable stats to begin with, and becomes a 3/1 flyer for 3 if you have an Artifact, and that’s a pretty legitimate threat in the air.
Reckless Fireweaver image 2.5 This has alright stats and does often chip in a few damage with its ability, especially if you’re making servos.
Self-Assembler image 0.5 // 3.0 If you have one Self Assembler, don’t play it. If you manage to get a second one, you’re actually kind of in business. A 5-mana 4/4 isn’t good, but it does draw you another one, and making sure you have those plays on back to back turns is pretty nice. Because of the mana cost running more than 3 probably isn’t a great idea, but chaining those three together is pretty nice, even with mediocre stats.
Aether Tradewinds image 1.0 This effect is supposed to be here to help you abuse ETB abilities, but it often just isn’t worth going down a card to do this.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Fen Hauler
Invigorated Rampage image 2.0 In really aggressive decks, this trick can really be a beating, as it can add a ton of damage to the board out of nowhere. Now, its rough that it doesn’t increase your creature’s toughness at all, but that just doesn’t really matter if the card lets you run over a couple of your opponent’s creatures while doing a bunch of damage.
Fen Hauler image 2.5 This is a solid finisher for Black decks with a decent number of Artifacts. It is quite large, paying 5 for it is pretty realistic, and it can’t be blacked by a ton of creatures in the format, including most of the creature tokens.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Dawnfeather Eagle image 3.5 This is one of the sets best Commons. It just has such a massive impact on virtually any board state, and that’s a lot to say about a Common! +1/+1 and Vigilance to your whole team while you also add a flying threat to the table is amazing. The stats boost + Vigilance makes it so you can suddenly attack your opponent, both because your creatures get larger and because they have vigilance, making it much harder for your opponent to kill you on the back swing. This is excellent top curve for aggressive White decks in this format, and the best decks often have at least two of these.
Sky Skiff image 2.5 The mana and crew cost here are both quite low, and thanks to Flying this can attack pretty much all game long.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Cogworker's Puzzleknot image 2.5 This can really help you go wide in a hurry, which is useful for White decks, and it also gives you two artifacts on turn two, which can really help out cards with Improvise.
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Aether Swooper image 3.5 This often feels like a two mana ½ that makes a 1/1 token on ETB, and that is a very powerful card. If you play this on turn two, you are virtually guaranteed to get that token, and if you can generate a little bit more Energy, it can really get going. It is also a great place to put Artificer’s Goggles!
Commencement of Festivities image 0.5 Fog is slightly better in this format than in most, where I would give it a 0.0. This is because there are decks in the format that try to win the game in a single swing either after pumping their whole board or casting Destructive Revelry, and siding this in against those decks is actually kind of reasonable.
Pack 3 Pick 6: Hunt the Weak
Nature's Way image 3.5 Your creature doesn’t get a stats boost from this, so it has to already be decently sized for this to be worth it – but the good news is, you’re in Green, and that’s just going to be the case most of the time! Also, it doesn’t “fight.” The damage it does is one-sided, so your creature’s toughness doesn’t matter! And the keywords it gives are pretty nice too, especially since you probably just got rid of a blocker.
Furious Reprisal image 2.0 This looks like it would be pretty amazing at first glance – hard not to imagine killing two things with it, right? Well, yeah – it will do that sometimes, but it is also a clunky 4-mana sorcery that can’t do anything about larger creatures, and that’s not exactly what you want to be spending your mana on a lot of the time. And don’t get me wrong, it isn’t bad, it is just also nowhere near a premium removal spell, or even close to being a card you always play.
Refurbish image 1.0 Even in a set with this many Artifacts, you don’t often have one in your graveyard that is worth paying 4 mana to reanimate.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Appetite for the Unnatural image 2.0 This is a passable main deck card in this format since there are plenty of targets.
Hunt the Weak image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Shipwreck Moray image 1.0 This probably isn’t the Energy payoff you were looking for. It has really mediocre starting stats, and takes a ton of energy to ever actually do anything.
Reckless Fireweaver image 2.5 This has alright stats and does often chip in a few damage with its ability, especially if you’re making servos.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Mind Rot
Underhanded Designs image 3.0 Most of the value here comes from this turning into a removal spell, but being able to drain the opponent from time to time is nice additional upside. Not every deck will be able to consistently make it into a removal spell, but it isn’t that hard to accomplish either.
Subtle Strike image 2.5 This can often give you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, and that’s great! It won’t always line up that way, but even when it doesn’t it tends to do a pretty good job of making combat go your way.
Commencement of Festivities image 0.5 Fog is slightly better in this format than in most, where I would give it a 0.0. This is because there are decks in the format that try to win the game in a single swing either after pumping their whole board or casting Destructive Revelry, and siding this in against those decks is actually kind of reasonable.
Mind Rot image 1.0 This is basically never good in Limited, and that’s not different here!
Rush of Vitality image 1.5 This is a decent trick that you’ll run in some of your aggro decks.
Implement of Examination image 2.0 So, you basically pay a total of 4 mana for two cards, which isn’t completely terrible – and you can spread it out over a couple of turns. It is also an artifact, and one that can get Revolt going.
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Night Market Lookout image 1.5 If you’re really aggressive or plan on crewing vehicles a lot – or both – this can be an alright inclusion, but most of the time you’ll stay away from it.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Ornamental Courage
Speedway Fanatic image 2.0 Giving Vehicles haste is nice, and a two mana 2/1 with Haste isn’t the worst thing ever, either.
Cathartic Reunion image 1.0 This mostly isn’t worth it. It is just some clunky card selection that asks for significant set up. There isn’t enough of a graveyard theme in the format for it to be more than that.
Pendulum of Patterns image 0.5 Yeah, this isn’t really worth it. Early on it gains you some life, but that doesn’t matter a whole lot in this format. Then, later, you can cash it in for a card for a wopping 5 mana. Even in a format that loves artifacts, there isn’t much of a reason to play this thing.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Glint-Sleeve Artisan image 3.0 This is one of White’s best commons. A 3-mana 3/3 or a 3-mana 2/2 and a 1/1 is quite nice, especially because White has lots of ways to pay you off for going wide.
Ornamental Courage image 1.0 This isn’t a great trick. The small power boost doesn’t help you win very many combats.
Reckless Fireweaver image 2.5 This has alright stats and does often chip in a few damage with its ability, especially if you’re making servos.
Pack 3 Pick 9: Hunt the Weak
Live Fast image 2.0 Drawing some cards and getting some energy is something you’ll want in some Black decks, but not all of them.
Pendulum of Patterns image 0.5 Yeah, this isn’t really worth it. Early on it gains you some life, but that doesn’t matter a whole lot in this format. Then, later, you can cash it in for a card for a wopping 5 mana. Even in a format that loves artifacts, there isn’t much of a reason to play this thing.
Welding Sparks image 4.0 This is a great Common, one that would be really good even if it always does 3, but will be doing 4+ pretty often.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Hinterland Drake image 2.5 This has pretty aggressive flying stats, and that’s enough to offset the fact that it can’t block Artifact creatures – it will mostly be attacking anyway.
Hunt the Weak image 3.0 You have to be careful with this, because your opponent killing the creature you put the counter on will just blow you out of the game. However, when the coast is clear, permanently pumping a creature and killing an opposing creature is quite strong, especially in a set that has +1/+1 counter payoffs.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Renegade Map
Renegade Map image 3.0 This card might not look very exciting, but it does a whole lot! It does stuff with your Artifact synergies, can set up Revolt for free, lets you play fewer lands, and helps you splash.
Nimble Innovator image 1.5 4-mana for a 2/2 is pretty ugly, but at least it draws you a card. It can give you a 2-for-1 often enough to make the cut sometimes.
Highspire Infusion image 1.5 Even with the Energy, this is a pretty mediocre trick.
Frontline Rebel image 2.0 The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Lathnu Sailback image 0.5 You’re almost never desperate enough to stick this in your deck. A 5-mana 5/4 just doesn’t do anything in this format.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Sage of Shaila's Claim
Sage of Shaila's Claim image 1.5 Energy is important in this format and all, but this two drop still doesn’t usually feel like its worth the card.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Fireforger's Puzzleknot image 1.5 So, this can kill a couple of X/1s or an X/2 for 4 mana. That’s not exactly incredible, but hey – its an artifact, and that helps elevate it a bit.
Metallic Rebuke image 1.0 Even in an artifact deck, this isn’t great. Not being a hard counter gives it diminishing returns as the game goes on.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Universal Solvent
Universal Solvent image 1.5 If you really need Artifacts and/or removal, you can play this, but most of the time you won’t.
Precise Strike image 1.5 This is one mana, and can help enough creatures win combat that it is a semi-reasonable inclusion in aggro decks.
Aether Tradewinds image 1.0 This effect is supposed to be here to help you abuse ETB abilities, but it often just isn’t worth going down a card to do this.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Commencement of Festivities
Aether Theorist image 2.0 This has decent stats and can improve your draws for no mana – in addition to the fact that it might give you energy to use elsewhere. Its pretty decent.
Commencement of Festivities image 0.5 Fog is slightly better in this format than in most, where I would give it a 0.0. This is because there are decks in the format that try to win the game in a single swing either after pumping their whole board or casting Destructive Revelry, and siding this in against those decks is actually kind of reasonable.
Pack 3 Pick 14: Appetite for the Unnatural
Appetite for the Unnatural image 2.0 This is a passable main deck card in this format since there are plenty of targets.
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