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Premier Draft KLR 20 August 2021

20 August 11:39 - Rhenin 7 Wins - 2 Losses
Maindeck
Creature (17)
1 Propeller Pioneer image
1 Fen Hauler image
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation image
2 Glint-Sleeve Artisan image
3 Contraband Kingpin image
1 Aetherborn Marauder image
2 Aether Swooper image
1 Restoration Gearsmith image
1 Thriving Turtle image
1 Herald of Anguish image
1 Cloudblazer image
1 Gearshift Ace image
1 Weaponcraft Enthusiast image
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (6)
2 Die Young image
1 Midnight Oil image
1 Revoke Privileges image
1 Prophetic Prism image
1 Malfunction image
Land (17)
6 Island image
5 Plains image
5 Swamp image
1 Aether Hub image
Sideboard
1 Thriving Turtle image
1 Whirler Virtuoso image
2 Countless Gears Renegade image
1 Prakhata Pillar-Bug image
2 Dukhara Peafowl image
1 Foundry Screecher image
1 Weldfast Wingsmith image
1 Alley Strangler image
1 Night Market Aeronaut image
1 Planar Bridge image
1 Ballista Charger image
2 Implement of Malice image
1 Destructive Tampering image
1 Tezzeret's Ambition image
1 Ice Over image

Pack 1 Pick 1: Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Kambal, Consul of Allocation image 3.0 Kambal’s ability punishes enough cards for him to be something you play most of the time in BW. Just triggering it once is pretty good, and if he does any more than that, you’ll really be in business.
Airdrop Aeronauts image 3.5 A 5-mana 4/3 flyer is a passable card, and this will gain you 5 life often enough to be a pretty nice creature for your deck.
Gearshift Ace image 3.5 This has really good base stats, and being able to give Vehicles first strike is very real upside.
Aether Hub image 3.5 This gives you really good fixing, especially because having more energy to use on it really isn’t that hard.
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.
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.
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.
Ruinous Gremlin image 1.5 This is passable in your main deck because there are enough Artifacts it can target, but you sort of hope you have some better artifact hate.
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.
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.
Countless Gears Renegade image 2.5 You’ll get the 1/1 out of this like half the time, and it will feel great when you do. When that doesn’t work out, it will feel pretty mediocre.
Workshop Assistant image 2.0 It isn’t super difficult to have an Artifact in your graveyard for this to return, but because of its mediocre stats, it will mostly just be chump blocking and returning an artifact, which isn’t amazing.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 2: Whirler Virtuoso
Hope of Ghirapur image 1.5 One mana 1/1 flyers tend to get outclassed quickly, but this one is an Artifact in a set that cares about them, and has a tiny bit of additional upside. Turning off removal for a turn isn’t a bad idea in some cases. Still, this little Thopter won’t really feel worth a card all the time.
Whirler Virtuoso image 4.0 This is, at worst, a 3-mana 2/3 that makes a 1/1 Thopter – that’s a card you’d always play, and obviously it has the potential to churn out more than one Thopter token.
Ceremonious Rejection image 0.5 Even in a format with this many Artifacts, this is mostly just too narrow to put in your main deck.
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.
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.
Countless Gears Renegade image 2.5 You’ll get the 1/1 out of this like half the time, and it will feel great when you do. When that doesn’t work out, it will feel pretty mediocre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tezzeret's Ambition image 1.5 This is a really clunky draw spell, but some decks will be interested in paying 5 to draw 3 with this.
Eager Construct image 1.5 If you need a two drop or an Artifact, you could do worse.
Pack 1 Pick 3: Glint-Sleeve Artisan
Planar Bridge image 0.5 This is too slow and costly to be worth it in this format.
Decoction Module image 1.5 This gives you a bunch of energy over the course of the game, and can help you rebuy ETB effects, but in most decks it doesn’t really feel worth it.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
Rush of Vitality image 1.5 This is a decent trick that you’ll run in some of your aggro decks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 4: Contraband Kingpin
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.
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.
Ruinous Gremlin image 1.5 This is passable in your main deck because there are enough Artifacts it can target, but you sort of hope you have some better artifact hate.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
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.
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.
Highspire Infusion image 1.5 Even with the Energy, this is a pretty mediocre trick.
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.
Hijack image 1.0 While there are aggressive decks in this format, I haven’t really found that Hijack is worth it most of the time, even in them. It is basically a blank card until you can use it to do lethal, and that’s too inconsistent.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Pack 1 Pick 5: Aetherborn Marauder
Botanical Sanctum image 3.0 These give you good fixing and will come into play untapped in the early game, which is nice.
Aetherborn Marauder image 3.0 If you can move even one counter to this, it becomes quite potent. Even with 0 counters, it is at least passable, and sometimes it will get even scarier!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Malfunction image 3.0 4 mana is a little clunky, but this shuts down most creatures and artifacts in the format.
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.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Pack 1 Pick 6: Glint-Sleeve Artisan
Aeronaut Admiral image 3.0 This has almost passable stats, and the ability to give Vehicles flying is pretty relevant in the format.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 1 Pick 7: Midnight Oil
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.
Ovalchase Dragster image 2.5 This has huge power for only 4 mana and crew 1, and can often get in for 6 the first time without being blocked. It doesn’t always happen – especially in a format with a bunch of Servos – but even if they lose a servo and take 5, it doesn’t feel too bad. If you do get in that first time though, the Dragster is pretty incredible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1 Pick 8: Aether Swooper
Demolition Stomper image 1.0 Most of the vehicles in this set are solid or better. This isn’t one of them. Yeah, its huge when it gets going, but Crew 5 is massive and even if really small creatures can’t block it, its still very chumpable, and takes a lot of set up.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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 1 Pick 9: Countless Gears Renegade
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.
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.
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.
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.
Countless Gears Renegade image 2.5 You’ll get the 1/1 out of this like half the time, and it will feel great when you do. When that doesn’t work out, it will feel pretty mediocre.
Workshop Assistant image 2.0 It isn’t super difficult to have an Artifact in your graveyard for this to return, but because of its mediocre stats, it will mostly just be chump blocking and returning an artifact, which isn’t amazing.
Pack 1 Pick 10: Countless Gears Renegade
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.
Countless Gears Renegade image 2.5 You’ll get the 1/1 out of this like half the time, and it will feel great when you do. When that doesn’t work out, it will feel pretty mediocre.
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.
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.
Eager Construct image 1.5 If you need a two drop or an Artifact, you could do worse.
Pack 1 Pick 11: Planar Bridge
Planar Bridge image 0.5 This is too slow and costly to be worth it in this format.
Rush of Vitality image 1.5 This is a decent trick that you’ll run in some of your aggro decks.
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.
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 1 Pick 12: Prakhata Pillar-Bug
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.
Hijack image 1.0 While there are aggressive decks in this format, I haven’t really found that Hijack is worth it most of the time, even in them. It is basically a blank card until you can use it to do lethal, and that’s too inconsistent.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
Pack 1 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.
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 14: Foundry Screecher
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.
Pack 2 Pick 1: Revoke Privileges
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.
Inventor's Apprentice image 1.5 If your deck can have this be a 2/3 reasonably consistently, it is a sort of alright card, as a 2/3 body is at least somewhat relevant even late, but it isn’t exactly blowing your opponent away either.
Renegade Wheelsmith image 4.0 This card is great. RW is aggressive enough that blanking a blocker when this attacks can often mean game over for your opponent, and its important to note that it also makes things unable to block when it crews Vehicles, which is nice.
Empyreal Voyager image 3.5 This has solid stats and can supply you with Energy, which you’re very interested in UG, so it’s a pretty nice card to have.
Revoke Privileges image 4.0 This is a really effective removal spell, capable of completely shutting down a whole lot of cards in the format for only three mana. The fact it stops Crewing from happening is really important.
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.
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.
Ornamental Courage image 1.0 This isn’t a great trick. The small power boost doesn’t help you win very many combats.
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.
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!
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.
Irontread Crusher image 2.0 This vehicle isn’t as exciting as some of the others, but it can do the job.
Pack 2 Pick 2: Restoration Gearsmith
Dynavolt Tower image 1.0 // 3.5 So, even if you end up with a ton of spells, you have to cast three before this can use its ability the first time. That’s way too slow. The good news is, if you have other Energy sources, you can get it going a little more effectively – but your deck has to have both a lot of energy and a lot of instants and sorceries to get this going, and that just won’t be most decks.
Veteran Motorist image 3.5 Most of the time, this will kill your opponent’s best creature and bolt your opponent in the face. If that’s not premium removal, I don’t know what is.
Restoration Gearsmith image 4.0 This almost always has something to get back for you, and that means it is almost always an easy 2-for-1.
Siege Modification image 1.0 So, this is a crazy swingy card. If you get a vehicle down early and slap this on it, your opponent just dies if they don’t have an answer. Problem is, if they do have that answer, you probably lose as a result of the devastating 2-for-1 you just endured that probably left you with almost no board state. That’s generally too risky for me.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
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.
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 Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 3: Ballista Charger
Paradox Engine image 0.0 This doesn’t do anything in Limited.
Outland Boar image 3.5 This definitely isn’t exciting but it has good stats and is hard to block, and that’s a nice thing to have in RG.
Ballista Charger image 2.5 This isn’t as exciting as some of the other vehicles in the set, but it is big and can pick off small creatures or damage the opponent when it attacks.
Ice Over image 2.5 It is a bummer that this doesn’t tap down the thing you attach it too, but it is still some serviceable removal.
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.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
Consulate Turret image 1.0 This format has some nice Energy payoffs. This isn’t one of them. Only hitting players is a big problem, and even though it can just tap to give you energy, it usually doesn’t feel like its worth a card.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 4: Malfunction
Servo Exhibition image 2.5 White really is loaded up with ways to go wide at the lower rarities, and this is another nice example of that.
Renegade Rallier image 3.0 This asks for a significant amount of work, but it isn’t impossible to set up. For example, if you attack with your two-drop and trade with the opponent, you can just play the Rallier and get it back! That’s a sequence that feels pretty good, and it isn’t outrageous or anything like that. However, sometimes you can’t get Revolt going, or don’t have the right creatures in your graveyard, and in those cases, the Rallier can be a bummer.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
Irontread Crusher image 2.0 This vehicle isn’t as exciting as some of the others, but it can do the job.
Prakhata Pillar-Bug image 2.5 Yet another efficient artifact creature that can gain a useful keyword, and yet another 2.5.
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.
Malfunction image 3.0 4 mana is a little clunky, but this shuts down most creatures and artifacts in the format.
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.
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.
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 5: Prophetic Prism
Spirebluff Canal image 3.0 These give you good fixing and will come into play untapped in the early game, which is nice.
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.
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.
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.
Hijack image 1.0 While there are aggressive decks in this format, I haven’t really found that Hijack is worth it most of the time, even in them. It is basically a blank card until you can use it to do lethal, and that’s too inconsistent.
Workshop Assistant image 2.0 It isn’t super difficult to have an Artifact in your graveyard for this to return, but because of its mediocre stats, it will mostly just be chump blocking and returning an artifact, which isn’t amazing.
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.
Prophetic Prism image 3.0 The fac this replaces itself is a pretty big deal. Most of the time filter artifacts aren’t worth a card, but this is literally worth a card and then some because of that. And, this format really cares about artifacts.
Ruinous Gremlin image 1.5 This is passable in your main deck because there are enough Artifacts it can target, but you sort of hope you have some better artifact hate.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 6: Contraband Kingpin
Servo Exhibition image 2.5 White really is loaded up with ways to go wide at the lower rarities, and this is another nice example of that.
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.
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.
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.
Tezzeret's Ambition image 1.5 This is a really clunky draw spell, but some decks will be interested in paying 5 to draw 3 with this.
Ice Over image 2.5 It is a bummer that this doesn’t tap down the thing you attach it too, but it is still some serviceable removal.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 7: Thriving Turtle
Shrewd Negotiation image 2.5 This is a little less situational than it looks. The format has a ton of 1/1 tokens, and trading a random token for your opponent’s best things can be a pretty big deal. It does take a significant amount of set up, and is pretty clunky, but it has a pretty high ceiling.
Thriving Turtle image 2.5 If you play this on turn one, it can become a very real creature on the board. It generally won’t be able to attack forever because its power starts so low, but by the time it has to stop attacking, it has the kind of size that isn’t easy to attack through.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
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!
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.
Alley Evasion image 1.0 This set does have lots of ETB abilities, but this card is still mostly just a dud. Both modes are underpowered and situational.
Pack 2 Pick 8: Dukhara Peafowl
Rush of Vitality image 1.5 This is a decent trick that you’ll run in some of your aggro decks.
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.
Eager Construct image 1.5 If you need a two drop or an Artifact, you could do worse.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 9: Weldfast Wingsmith
Renegade Wheelsmith image 4.0 This card is great. RW is aggressive enough that blanking a blocker when this attacks can often mean game over for your opponent, and its important to note that it also makes things unable to block when it crews Vehicles, which is 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.
Ornamental Courage image 1.0 This isn’t a great trick. The small power boost doesn’t help you win very many combats.
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.
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!
Pack 2 Pick 10: Implement of Malice
Siege Modification image 1.0 So, this is a crazy swingy card. If you get a vehicle down early and slap this on it, your opponent just dies if they don’t have an answer. Problem is, if they do have that answer, you probably lose as a result of the devastating 2-for-1 you just endured that probably left you with almost no board state. That’s generally too risky for me.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it 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.
Weldfast Monitor image 2.5 Like the rest of this cycle, this is a pretty solid creature to have in your Red decks.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 11: Alley Strangler
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
Consulate Turret image 1.0 This format has some nice Energy payoffs. This isn’t one of them. Only hitting players is a big problem, and even though it can just tap to give you energy, it usually doesn’t feel like its worth a card.
Pack 2 Pick 12: Implement of Malice
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.
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.
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: Destructive Tampering
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.
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.
Pack 2 Pick 14: Tezzeret's Ambition
Tezzeret's Ambition image 1.5 This is a really clunky draw spell, but some decks will be interested in paying 5 to draw 3 with this.
Pack 3 Pick 1: Herald of Anguish
Herald of Anguish image 5.0 This is big and evasive, can be powered out early with improvise, forces your opponent to discard cards, and can give up artifacts to weaken creatures. Herald of Anguish will just win you the game most of the time, though you’ll often find the discard part doesn’t matter. That doesn’t really matter though, because everything else about it is amazing.
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.
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.
Cloudblazer image 4.0 This is quite the signpost uncommon! It basically gives you a 3-for-1 and gains you some life to give you a better chance of surviving long enough to use those cards, which is great.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Thriving Turtle image 2.5 If you play this on turn one, it can become a very real creature on the board. It generally won’t be able to attack forever because its power starts so low, but by the time it has to stop attacking, it has the kind of size that isn’t easy to attack through.
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.
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.
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.
Revoke Privileges image 4.0 This is a really effective removal spell, capable of completely shutting down a whole lot of cards in the format for only three mana. The fact it stops Crewing from happening is really important.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Pack 3 Pick 2: Aether Swooper
Electrostatic Pummeler image 1.0 There just aren’t enough way to pump the pummeler or to make a ton of energy for this to be worth it in most of the time.
Servo Exhibition image 2.5 White really is loaded up with ways to go wide at the lower rarities, and this is another nice example of that.
Scrapper Champion image 3.0 This guy sure is fragile for a 4-mana creature, but if you get to untap and attack with him, he’s not going to be easy to stop, as a 3/3 with double strike demands your opponnet’s respect all game long, and obviously, it can really get out of control if you make some more energy.
Thriving Turtle image 2.5 If you play this on turn one, it can become a very real creature on the board. It generally won’t be able to attack forever because its power starts so low, but by the time it has to stop attacking, it has the kind of size that isn’t easy to attack through.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
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.
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!
Pack 3 Pick 3: Aether Hub
Aether Hub image 3.5 This gives you really good fixing, especially because having more energy to use on it really isn’t that hard.
Bomat Bazaar Barge image 3.0 This doesn’t have as insane of stats as some of the other Vehicles around, but it draws you a card, and that more than makes up for that.
Workshop Assistant image 2.0 It isn’t super difficult to have an Artifact in your graveyard for this to return, but because of its mediocre stats, it will mostly just be chump blocking and returning an artifact, which isn’t amazing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prophetic Prism image 3.0 The fac this replaces itself is a pretty big deal. Most of the time filter artifacts aren’t worth a card, but this is literally worth a card and then some because of that. And, this format really cares about artifacts.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 4: Cloudblazer
Gifted Aetherborn image 3.5 This has great stats, gains you life, and can trade with anything. Not much more to say about it!
Cloudblazer image 4.0 This is quite the signpost uncommon! It basically gives you a 3-for-1 and gains you some life to give you a better chance of surviving long enough to use those cards, which is great.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Pack 3 Pick 5: Gearshift Ace
Embraal Bruiser image 3.0 This is often a two mana 3/1 with Menace, and that’s a pretty real threat – not just something your opponent can just disregard. It is hard to effectively stop this thing early.
Gearshift Ace image 3.5 This has really good base stats, and being able to give Vehicles first strike is very real upside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Druid of the Cowl image 2.5 This has decent stats and ramps your mana, which makes it a solid card.
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.
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 6: Contraband Kingpin
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highspire Infusion image 1.5 Even with the Energy, this is a pretty mediocre trick.
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.
Ice Over image 2.5 It is a bummer that this doesn’t tap down the thing you attach it too, but it is still some serviceable removal.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 7: Weaponcraft Enthusiast
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.
Renegade Rallier image 3.0 This asks for a significant amount of work, but it isn’t impossible to set up. For example, if you attack with your two-drop and trade with the opponent, you can just play the Rallier and get it back! That’s a sequence that feels pretty good, and it isn’t outrageous or anything like that. However, sometimes you can’t get Revolt going, or don’t have the right creatures in your graveyard, and in those cases, the Rallier can be a bummer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 8: Ice Over
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.
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.
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.
Ice Over image 2.5 It is a bummer that this doesn’t tap down the thing you attach it too, but it is still some serviceable removal.
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.
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.
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 3 Pick 9: Die Young
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.
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.
Thriving Turtle image 2.5 If you play this on turn one, it can become a very real creature on the board. It generally won’t be able to attack forever because its power starts so low, but by the time it has to stop attacking, it has the kind of size that isn’t easy to attack through.
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.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Pack 3 Pick 10: Thriving Turtle
Thriving Turtle image 2.5 If you play this on turn one, it can become a very real creature on the board. It generally won’t be able to attack forever because its power starts so low, but by the time it has to stop attacking, it has the kind of size that isn’t easy to attack through.
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.
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.
Alley Strangler image 1.5 This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 11: Die Young
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 12: Propeller Pioneer
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.
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.
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.
Pack 3 Pick 13: Night Market Aeronaut
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.
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 14: Fen Hauler
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.
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