Wilds of Eldraine Limited Ratings

The AI ratings are gathered with from the MTGA Assistant deck tracker. Pro ratings are provided by Nizzahon Magic. The Pro ratings and comments are made before the set officially releases while the AI ratings are dynamically updated with new data all the time.

  • 5.0 The absolute best you can get.
  • 4.5 Incredible bomb, but not unbeatable.
  • 4.0 Good rare or top-tier uncommon.
  • 3.5 Top-tier common or solid uncommon.
  • 3.0 Good playable that always make the cut.
  • 2.5 A solid playable that rarely gets cut.
  • 2.0 A good playable, but is sometimes cut.
  • 1.5 Filler card but sometimes gets cut.
  • 1.0 Not good filler and often gets gut.
  • 0.5 Almost Unplayable and mostly sideboard material.
  • 0.0 Not playable at all.
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Archon of the Wild Rose

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 5.0

A 4-mana 4/4 Flyer is still impressive, and this format has more than enough Auras for the rest of the Archon’s text to come up pretty often. In many White decks, that means the Archon will immediately impact the board by buffing a smaller creature and sending it into the air. It won’t always line up that way, but I think it will happen often enough with all the Aura tokens in the set for this to be a bomb.

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Archon's Glory

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 2.0

One mana for +2/+2 generally makes for a decent trick that will allow a creature to win combat fairly often – and at a very low cost, and the added bargain upside here will come up sometimes. It sort of gives it a mode where you can send a creature into the air to do lethal.

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Armory Mice

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.0

A two mana 3/1 is usually acceptable, and this will be a 3/3 some percentage of the time. I’m giving this a 2.

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Besotted Knight

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

Neither half of this card is exactly something you’d play on its own, but the fact of the matter is you can get both of these things! Using the Adventure side is likely to augment one of your early game creatures and make it more of a problem, and then you just sort of have this Hill Giant sitting in your hand, ready to come into play as soon as you don’t have anything else to do with your mana. That might know sound exciting, but I think you definitely get enough value out of this in the end for it to be a nice Common. Worth remembering too that the Role tokens have a lot of synergies in the set.

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Break the Spell

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is probably going to be something that can stay in your main deck. There are many Enchantments in this set, including the Role tokens. Destroying those normally wouldn’t be that good, but because this draws you a card when you hit one, the effect is much better. The times where you hit a legitimate Enchantment are going to feel nice too. There are plenty of expendable enchantments around and sometimes you’ll just target one of yours for value too.

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Charmed Clothier

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.5

A 5-mana 3/3 flyer is not a good rate. Getting a role token does make a difference, and a card like this also triggers Celebration, so it does some nice stuff for a couple different decks in the format.

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Cheeky House-Mouse

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

You can look at this as a two mana 2/1 with the Adventure side as an ETB ability, and that makes for a pretty nice card. Especially because it’s far more flexible than it would be if it was just a two drop.

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Cooped Up

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

Pacifism does not seem at its best in this format. There will be main deck ways to destroy Enchantments for one thing, for another all of the Adventure creatures feel pretty bad when you use up a whole card on them to remove them. It also has the usual downsides of pacifism that are true in every format – like the fact it doesn’t stop static abilities. It isn’t terrible – after all it’s removal, and it can put itself in the graveyard which the Black-White deck especially is interested in. But this feels well below “premium” removal these days.

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Cursed Courtier

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

This is basically a three mana 1/1 with lifelink most of the time, which is bad – but if your deck has enough ways to put other roles on the Courtier, things get interesting, since the Cursed Role will go away and then it will get buffed, so it will become significantly larger in a flash. There are also a few ways to sacrifice enchantments, including to the Bargain mechanic, so getting rid of this negative Aura is easier than it might seem at first. Notably, this also triggers cards with Celebration all on its own, since it gives you two nonland permanents, so you can see that this does a bunch of stuff in a bunch of different decks.

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Discerning Financier

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

If you miss a land drop he steps in and makes sure you don’t fall too far behind, and giving treasure to your opponent in the late game to draw cards is definitely going to be worth it. It does just end up being pretty close to vanilla a decent chunk of the time, though.

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Dutiful Griffin

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

A 5-mana 4/4 Flyer is pretty nice, though Air elemental isn’t quite as impressive as it once was. A creature this beefy that can come back from the graveyard is interesting, but I do think sacrificing two Enchantments is a pretty significant cost, even with Role tokens around. It does get a little more interesting if you also have some payoffs for putting Enchantments into your graveyard, but I think there are a lot of games where you just don’t have the time or resources to bring this thing back

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Eerie Interference

AI Rating: 1
Pro Rating: 0.0

Fog effects are almost always bad in Limited, even when they become one-sided. The problem is that they have far too narrow of a use-case

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Expel the Interlopers

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 5.0

Wraths can be awkward in Limited sometimes, because if you’re the beat down they don’t really do anything. But when a Wrath becomes more customizable, things tend to get more interesting, and this one definitely is. In an ideal situation you have a couple small creatures that can survive you choosing 2 while killing everything else. It still won’t always line up that way, as sometimes your opponent has small stuff too, but Expel does make it possible for you to make this feel more one-sided, and that makes it quite powerful, especially because it still effectively has the usual Wrath upside of just nuking the whole board

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Frostbridge Guard

AI Rating: 1.6
Pro Rating: 1.5

This has somewhat passable stats, and it has an ability that is useful, albeit expensive. Tapping things does bring some extra value in this format, but three for the effect is kind of brutal. I miss the days of Master Decoy

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Gallant Pie-Wielder

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.5

A three mana ⅔ with First Strike is already a fairly nice card, especially in a set with a lot of Auras, and this will have double strike sometimes. Celebrating is pretty doable, but also not something that will happen every turn

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Glass Casket

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

This was in Eldraine the last time, and it was a card that just barely reached premium removal status. It can deal with lots of things efficiently, and the fact it exiles is usually upside

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Hopeful Vigil

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 2.5

You get a reasonable body up front, and then you can sacrifice this to Bargain or other sacrifice effects. That does seem pretty doable, and the fact that you get a decent creature up front really makes this intriguing as far as two drops go. It also happens to trigger Celebration on its own.

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Kellan's Lightblades

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

This kind of removal is never amazing, since it is as restrictive as it is. For example, if you’re trying to be aggressive, something that can only target an attacker of blocker is a lot worse. And that’s definitely true here. The Bargain upside is nice, as it makes it less restrictive. It can only kill attackers or blockers, but at least it can take down those with more than three toughness. Still, this isn’t premium removal, though it does get closer to being that in a slower deck

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Knight of Doves

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.5

White has lots of expendable enchantments in the form of Role tokens, and Black-White in particular is interested in getting Enchantments into the graveyard and getting value out of them, so getting a few tokens out of this isn’t farfetched. However, I also don’t think it’s going to be automatic. This probably needs a build around grade. Your typical deck will probably struggle to make even one token with the Knight, but some decks will turn it into a real engine.

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Moment of Valor

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 1.5

Neither of these modes is very good on its own, and probably wouldn’t be a card that made the cut. This is just too expensive for this narrow of effects. But, stapling two narrow effects on to a single card does make a huge difference, and that modality is enough for this to make the cut in your deck sometimes

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Moonshaker Cavalry

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 3.0

This costs a ton of mana, but it does do something that will win you the game in most cases. You do need to have some sort of board state, but even three other creatures is usually going to help you do lethal when you cast this. The mana cost is still huge enough that this is the kind of card to be skeptical about going into the format. 8-drops just don’t work out in the majority of formats, even one with this powerful of an immediate effect.

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Plunge into Winter

AI Rating: 1.1
Pro Rating: 1.5

I think you end up with a decent rate when you cast this card, one that means you won’t feel bad about playing it. Tapping doesn’t always matter, but you do always get Scry 1 draw a card, and when tapping does matter – or even better – when you have a tap payoff in play – this gets significantly better.

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The Princess Takes Flight

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

Temporarily exiling something with Chapter 1 can be used to get an opposing creature out of the way for a bit, and it can also be a slow way to blink something, but the fact that Chapter 1 and 3 are basically part of the same effect makes the value this can generate pretty low. Chapter 2 isn’t bad, but I think the whole package here seems pretty medium. I think the best way to use this is to cast something with Bargain after Chapter II, that way you permanently rid yourself of an opposing creature. While you can certainly make that happen, when it doesn’t line up that way, it seems very mediocre

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Protective Parents

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has passable stats and a decent death trigger.

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Regal Bunnicorn

AI Rating: 4.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

This will be a pretty big two mana creature on a lot of boards, and it has a floor as a two mana 1/1. This format looks to have more permanents in it that normal too, which food, role tokens, and treasure all over the place – and I haven’t even mentioned rat tokens. The absolute ceiling here is still just a big vanilla creature, though.

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Return Triumphant

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is a lot like recommission from The Brothers’ War. That card ended up being find, but nothing special. Both let you reanimate a mana value 3 or less card and then buff it when you do. The idea is that you increase your chances of reanimating something that is worth the mana thanks to the buff, but the card still requires enough set up that I’m not super excited about it

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Rimefur Reindeer

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has some serious potential, as tapping down just one thing a turn is often pretty great at allowing your aggressive deck to rumble, and that’s especially true if the enchantment augmented one of your creatures. But, when you aren’t triggering this regularly, it is a well below rate creature.

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Savior of the Sleeping

AI Rating: 1.6
Pro Rating: 2.5

As we’ve seen there are a decent number of ways to get enchantments in the graveyard, so it isn’t that unreasonable to think getting a counter or two on this is doable

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Slumbering Keepguard

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 2.0

It is kind of nice that this is a one-drop that can threaten to get significantly larger late, as that means it maintains some relevance all game long. The incidental Scry you get doesn’t hurt either

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Solitary Sanctuary

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.0

Three mana for a stun counter and a +1/+1 counter all on its own would be a card that is pretty close to playable, and the fact this adds a counter to every tap effect definitely makes this intriguing. It probably needs a build around grade though, as your typical White deck probably just won’t be tapping things enough to make this really do its thing.

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Spellbook Vendor

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

This is going to play a whole lot like Luminarch Aspirant. Sure, you can’t stack roles on a creature, so it isn’t like this will always be able to buff your board, especially because it also costs one mana to do it’s thing. But that’s okay, because once it’s already put this Role on each of your creatures, you’re probably going to have an insurmountable advantage anyway. It isn’t hard for you to make sure you get some permanent value out of this either, as if you wait until turn three to play and then put the Aura on something else, you’ve already gotten there. Then, left unchecked, this will just win games

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Stockpiling Celebrant

AI Rating: 2.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

This can be used to rebuy ETBs and Adventures, which is cool. But if it’s not doing not doing that? Well, you’re playing an inefficient creature

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Stroke of Midnight

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 3.0

We’ve seen cards like this a lot, and this kind of effect is generally worse than it looks in Limited. Destroying anything for three is nice and all, but in a lot of ways, you can look at this as an Aura that makes a nonland permanent into a 1/1 with no abilities. When you look at it that way, it is much less impressive. Sure, that’s almost always going to downgrade something, and it doesn’t make this card bad, but it also isn’t premium removal for that reason

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A Tale for the Ages

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 1.0

Even with all the Auras in this format, I have a hard time getting behind a card that does nothing but buff those Enchanted creatures. This is because it does nothing to add to the board on its own, making for a pretty miserable fail-case – one that is likely to come up pretty often

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Three Blind Mice

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 4.5

Like most great sagas, it impacts the board right away – then chapter 2 and 3 do it again. Chapter 4 then buffs your new mouse army – and whtever else you have – by so much that your board is almost always going to be a problem. Things get exciting if you can use chapter 2 and 3 to make something better than a 1/1 mouse, and that’s possible

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Tuinvale Guide

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 2.5

This is mediocre without Celebration, and pretty nice when it is a 3/3 flying lifelinker. Triggering celebration is something you can do, but not so often that this will be anything special

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Unassuming Sage

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.0

Neither of these modes is a model of efficiency, but the second mode does at least get synergy going for Celebration and Aura decks

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Virtue of Loyalty

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

On turn two it cranks out a solid creature, and then when you cast Virtue later it will make your board into an increasingly unbeatable thing. You do need to have something on your board of course, but that’s going to be the case most of the time. The fact it untaps those creature isn’t a small thing either, as it really means your opponent has no hope in beating you in a race

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Werefox Bodyguard

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

This can be either a Banisher Priest or a Restoration Angel, and that’s awesome. What I mean by that is, you can use it to exile an opposing creature for as long as the Bodyguard sticks around, or you can use it on one of your own creatures. The latter is worth doing in response to removal or to rebuy an ETB ability. Obviously, you have to sacrifice the bodyguard to make your thing come back, but luckily it has that built in. Both modes are very powerful in the right situation

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Aquatic Alchemist

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 1.5

Unfortunately, putting an instant or sorcery on top of your library from your graveyard isn’t a great effect all on its own. In fact, it’s card disadvantage. You go down a card and don’t get one back. This makes up for that some by also giving you a creature, I’m not really blown away by it either. We’ve seen cards with this same instant or sorcery trigger do pretty well, but most of the time they don’t have a restriction on how many times they can get buffed in a turn. Basically, both sides of this are fairly weak and not very impactful

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Archive Dragon

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 2.5

A 6-mana 4/6 Flyer with Ward 2 seems…kind of okay. There’s not much in the format that can kill it efficiently between it’s size and the Ward tax, and obviously this body is good at attacking or blocking. The Scry 2 is a nice additional effect to have, but I do feel kind of like I should be getting a little extra something here, especially on an Uncommon. I think having one of these at the top of your curve in Blue seems like a good idea, though.

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Asinine Antics

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 3.5

So casting this makes all of your opponent’s stuff into 1/1s, and if you pay 6 you can do at instant speed. That second option can be particularly impressive, as it can allow you to wreck your opponent’s board when they attack or block in a certain way. Still, don’t forget that this typically doesn’t entirely remove creatures. They might be small, but they can still block, attack, use activated abilities, their static abilities will still be around – the Cursed Roles aren’t that hard to remove either -- so you get the picture. Don’t look at this like a one-sided Blue Wrath of God, because it is miles away from that. Still, it does have a big impact on the board and casting it at instant speed can sometimes be devastating

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Beluna's Gatekeeper

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

A restricted Sorcery speed bounce effect isn’t amazing, but you’ll usually have something you can bounce with this early. Usually, a bounce effect is card disadvantage, but because you get a big vanilla creature out of this later, that isn’t really the case. While it doesn’t quite deliver the two cards of value that make some adventures really strong, this does do a whole lot for a single card

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Bitter Chill

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 3.0

This effect at two mana is nice, especially because this comes with some nice insurance most versions of it don’t. One of the big downsides of Aura removal is that if your opponent sacrifices or bounces their thing, it feels horrible. In this case, if you have 1 mana up, it’s going to feel a lot less horrible. So, this really gets around that downside in a significant way, and it’s efficient – so overall, I think this is actually Blue premium removal. Something we don’t see a whole lot of

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Chancellor of Tales

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 4.0

This seems really strong, so much so that I wouldn’t have been shocked if it were a rare. There are a lot of Adventures in this set and doubling them is huge. Your normal deck will have more than enough adventures to take advantage of the chancellor. The one downside the card has is its fairly inefficient stat-line, but honestly, given how strong this is, that hardly matters

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Diminisher Witch

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

Cursing an opposing creature isn’t the most powerful thing in the world, but when you Bargain this does upgrade your board and downgrade your opponents reasonably effectively.

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Disdainful Stroke

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.5

This is a sideboard card. Most opponents won’t have enough things you can counter with this for it to be worth it.

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Extraordinary Journey

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is an interesting design, one that is really hard to wrap one’s head around without actually playing with it. But my instinct is…it seems pretty good. Exiling things is always nice, and making your opponent recast them does give you some nice tempo. So, the fact that this also draws you a card when they play those things from exile is going to generate a ton of value. In short, this can really let you pop off a big turn by exiling several things, and if that wasn’t enough to get you there, it will generate some nice value.

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Farsight Ritual

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.0

This is always a 4-mana draw 2, which isn’t great, but it does give decent card selection, even when you don’t Bargain it, and when you do bargain it, you do get to see a huge chunk of your deck

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Freeze in Place

AI Rating: 1.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

While it isn’t quite removal, stunning a creature for three turns will feel like it is sometimes. Scry 2 combines nicely too, because you can use it to find whatever it is you desperately need, now that you bought yourself some time. The Blue/White deck in the format likes tapping things too, so getting some additional value here isn’t impossible.

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Gadwick's First Duel

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 1.5 // 3.5

Just getting a Cursed token for two mana isn’t terrible…though certainly not good either. It is very easy for your opponent to move the Cursed Role since all they have to do is use an effect that lets them put a role on one of their creatures. So, it’s a good thing it does some other stuff. Scry 2 helps set up chapter III in theory, and if you can copy something like a removal spell with chapter III this card is going to feel pretty insane, especially for two mana! Not all decks will do that consistently, though

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Galvanic Giant

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

This Adventure is going to feel nice in the extreme late game. In the earlier stages of the game Galvanic Giant doesn’t seem terrible either. Sure, the stats are bad, but if you can follow it up with a five-mana card on the next turn, you’re going to be in business. Obviously, this is a case where the Adventure isn’t always going to get cast before the creature, but it’s nice having that late game ability to see a bunch of cards

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Horned Loch-Whale

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 4.5

Lagoon Breach is removal, even if it is situational, and then the whale is certainly beefy enough to trade for something, so we’re talking about a 2-for-1 here. And it is pretty much always an imposing board presence

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Ice Out

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is Cancel when you don’t Bargain it, and Counterspell when you do. 1 mana may not seem like much, but the chasm between those two cards is massive. The fact this has double blue in the cost really matters too, as Limited mana bases aren’t good enough for you to consistently be able to leave up two Blue mana for this.

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Icewrought Sentry

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

This looks pretty good to me. Tapping opposing blockers is always really good, and while paying mana for it isn’t ideal the fact that the Sentry becomes a 4/4 when you do it helps offset that downside. Blue-White has some other cards that involve tapping and getting paid off for it too, making paying that mana all the more appealing. It also doesn’t hurt that simply the threat of activation makes your opponent play the game differently. They have to account for the Sentry when thinking about how they are going to attack on their own turn.

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Ingenious Prodigy

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 4.0

This will never feel like the most efficient creature in the world, but it does scale all game long, and then it allows you to draw some cards if you want them

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Into the Fae Court

AI Rating: 2.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

A draw spell that adds to the board sounds attractive. It’s too bad that the thing it adds to the board is so insignificant though, and it makes me think this is probably a little bit too clunky to be something that always makes the cut in your Blue decks

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Johann's Stopgap

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.5

4 mana to bounce something and draw a card is usually playable. It lets you break even on cards while setting your opponent back a little. With bargain in the mix, this moves up another notch – probably to the point where the first copy is something you feel decent about having in all of your Blue decks

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Living Lectern

AI Rating: 1.1
Pro Rating: 3.0

It feels like giving this up for a card and a Sorcerer role is going to generate some serious value, and the fact it can sit around as a reasonable blocker until you feel like doing that seems pretty good

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Merfolk Coralsmith

AI Rating: 0.9
Pro Rating: 2.0

Creatures who can modulate their power always play a little better than they look, as that flexibility lets them do a wide range of things. This can trade with things that have as much as 4 toughness and hit pretty hard when you want it to. The Scry trigger is a nice additional effect too

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Misleading Motes

AI Rating: 0.9
Pro Rating: 3.0

We just saw this card but with a Lord of the Ringsy name, and it ended up being solid. It’s a 4 mana instant that removes…pretty much any creature. Keep in mind it is your opponent who decides where the creature goes

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Mocking Sprite

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has almost reasonable stats, and reducing the costs of spells has some extra weight in this format thanks to Adventures, in addition to the fact that it just plays well in any Blue/Red deck.

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Obyra's Attendants

AI Rating: 1.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

This has two-for-one potential, though it isn’t always going to be accessible. You need a board of some sort to turn Desperate Parry into a full card, but there are a number of ways you can. For example, you can triple block something and then use the Parry to make it so all your stuff survives and they lose their creature. Then you get a serviceable flyer later

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Picklock Prankster

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

There is a chance you miss with Free the Fae. You have a pretty good chance of not missing, especially in Blue/Red and Blue/Black, but this isn’t the kind of effect that will only miss on rare occasions. I think expecting it to wiff entirely a third of the time is reasonable. When you can get a card out of it it’s going to feel pretty good, especially because you also get a reasonable flyer. A creature with these two keywords goes great with the various Role tokens in the set too.

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Quick Study

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 2.0

Instant speed Divination isn’t too shabby, though it doesn’t add to the board and that can always be a problem in Limited.

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Sleep-Cursed Faerie

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 2.5

I don’t hate the idea of playing this on turn one and just letting it sit around a bit before it becomes an actual problem. You get a pretty good for your investment. The bad news is that you’ll draw it late sometimes, and you’ll have to pay a bunch of mana and spend significant time for it to become relevant. The good news is, a 3/3 flyer is good on most boards, but this does seem a little slow if you play it in the mid-to-late game.

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Sleight of Hand

AI Rating: 1.7
Pro Rating: 2.0

Seeing two cards for one mana tends to be a nice rate, and this will be especially good in this format’s spell deck, but running the first copy of this seems decent in most Blue decks. It is true that you only have so much space for cards that don’t impact the board, but this is efficient enough that it will make the cut a decent chunk of the time.

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Snaremaster Sprite

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

Three mana for a 1/1 flyer that stuns something is probably already a playable card – especially in a format with a Faerie deck and some payoffs for tapping things, so the fact that you also have the option of just playing this on turn one makes this a nice Common

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Spell Stutter

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 2.5

One of the downsides with counter magic that gives your opponent the option of paying mana to ignore it is that it gets worse as the game goes longer, but the Faerie upside here helps hedge against that. This probably needs a build around grade though, because if you’re in Blue and you’re short on Faeries it’s a lot worse

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Splashy Spellcaster

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is a powerful spell payoff, and it has high enough toughness to be difficult to deal with and attack through. It is a little sad it can’t give itself a Sorcerer Role, but upgrading all your other stuff seems pretty good to me. I think this will feel like an impressive engine, even in a Blue deck with like five spells you’ll be running this.

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Stormkeld Prowler

AI Rating: 0.9
Pro Rating: 1.5

Two +1/+1 counters is pretty nice! But a two-mana 2/1…isn’t, and by the time you play your 5-drop and make this a 4/3, it isn’t like it will be unbeatable. There will also be times where you can’t grow until well beyond that turn.

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Succumb to the Cold

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 1.5

This can be a nice tempo card that you can use to close out your opponent, and that’s especially true in Blue/White, which can get some extra value from the tapping. Still, it is fairly situational – if you can’t use it to finish your opponent off, or you have to use it defensively, it feels pretty bad

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Talion's Messenger

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5.0

This is really strong, even on its own. Looting on attack is a powerful thing as we just saw in Lord of the Rings, and this also feels kind of like Connive, another strong mechanic from the recent past. Basically, this improves your card quality while growing on its own, and then there’s the fact that it lends the ability to other Faeries too. I think you’ll have another Faerie in play often enough when you play the Messenger that it will have an immediate impact on the board, and that combined with it’s ability to snowball makes it a bomb

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Tenacious Tomeseeker

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

I like this. Getting a spell to your hand when you play a creature with passable stats sounds really good, and there are enough expendable things around in this format for that to work out pretty well. I will say Blue is probably lighter on expendable things to Bargain than any other color – it doesn’t have much in the way of treasure or food, and it even has fewer role tokens, so this won’t work out quite as well as some other Bargain cards in other colors. That said, you won’t be playing monoblue, so you may have access to that stuff anyway, and when you give up something like that, Tenacious Tomeseeker is going to be a 2-for-1

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Vantress Transmuter

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 3.0

This doesn’t quite give you two cards, but I think it gets close enough, even with Croaking Curse being Sorcery speed. It lets you downgrade a creature and up your ability to attack, and then you get a decent creature on a future turn

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Virtue of Knowledge

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 0.0

This isn’t here for Limited. Sure, there’s lots of activated and triggered abilities around, but this does stone nothing when you don’t have any of them, and you’re basically never going to have enough to make this worth it

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Water Wings

AI Rating: 0.9
Pro Rating: 2.0

This looks like a solid trick. It gives a big enough buff that it will make your creature win most combats, and the hexproof part means it also works well against removal. Flying also gives it a third mode, where sometimes you can send a creature into the air to do lethal

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Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

This looks amazing. You’re not exactly going to trigger the pay life effect, but the +1 and -2 are both so good that it doesn’t really matter. The +1 is a great card draw effect, especially because it will help grow the two 1/1s that the -2 makes. And that -2 is good on its own too, as having Ashiok come down and make those two bodies will often do enough to keep Ashiok around for a while, especially because those tokens are just going to grow every turn going forward – and they do it during combat so it will happen quickly. The ultimate is kind of an afterthought here, mostly because you will want to get real cards with the +1, so the mana value of the cards you exile won’t be that high, but there will be situations where you look at the board and just using Ashiok’s +1 twice to exile two expensive things, and then fire off the -7 will make sense. So, it is upside on a card that is already nuts without it. The total package here is an insane bomb

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Ashiok's Reaper

AI Rating: 2.4
Pro Rating: 2.5

This seems like it may be a little too clunky. The stats are bad, and while getting Enchantments into the graveyard is more doable in this format than most, it isn’t going to just happen so often that this entirely makes up for that very real problem.

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Back for Seconds

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

I would already be interested in having one copy of this in every Black deck without Bargain. This type of card just always does a great job of helping you win long games by giving you back your two best creatures from the graveyard. So the fact that this can effectively reanimate something small when you do bargain it is pretty amazing. You still probably don’t really want more than one of these because they are so bad early, but I’d value that first copy pretty highly

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Barrow Naughty

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

A two mana 1/3 with lifelink is a solid card, and that’s what this well be a decent chunk of the time, especially in Blue-Black. The buff effect is expensive and really only the kind of thing you use when you have nothing else to do

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Beseech the Mirror

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 2.0

So, this is a tutor, and it’s almost always a good idea to look at them with serious skepticism in Limited. The average power level of cards in your deck is lower than in 60 or 99 card formats, so tutoring is already inherently weaker, but the fact most of them also don’t impact the board at all is also a huge liability. If you get the Bargain on this one going it can effect the board, effectively grabbing whatever your best 4 or less card is from your deck and casting it. That gives it a better floor than most tutors have, but it does take some set up. It can still tutor up something else, but most of the time grabbing something you can’t use right away is just going to be the worst play

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Candy Grapple

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 4.0

Without Bargain this is premium removal, with it, it’s one of Black’s best commons. It can deal with so much when you Bargain, and there’s plenty of fodder around

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Conceited Witch

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 3.0

A 3 mana ⅔ with Menace is passable, and you can augment one of your creatures with this on an earlier turn – or the same turn, if you have happen to have four mana. It just seems like plenty of value to get out of a single card, and it even seems reasonably efficient

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Dream Spoilers

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 1.0

4-mana 2/2 flyer do not fair well in Limited. This is mostly because there are multiple one mana spells in each set that can deal with them, so paying FOUR often results in a huge tempo hit. The ability here is nice, especially if you can cast multiple spells, but triggering it is far from automatic and even when you do sometimes it won’t do anything. I don’t think this makes the cut very often

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Ego Drain

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 0.0

This card is awful when you don’t control a Faerie. When you do, it offers some powerful disruption, but it gets a lot less powerful when you aren’t able to use it on turn one. Even a Faerie deck will find itself without Faeries in play in the early game, and this card’s value certainly diminishes when you can’t cast it during that time.

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The End

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

So, this is mostly a 4-mana instant speed removal spell that can take down creatures or planeswalkers. The card’s two other effects won’t come up often enough to matter a ton, but they are both strictly upside. Sometimes being able to cast this for a reduced cost will make a difference, and less frequently, the ability to exile additional copies of something will make a difference too. You do get information about your opponent’s deck no matter what, and that doesn’t hurt

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Eriette's Whisper

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 1.5

4 mana to Mind Rot isn’t great, even if you do get a Role out of the deal. Spending this much and adding minimally to the board is just something you want to do in most formats.

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Faerie Dreamthief

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

think I’m already in on a one mana 1/1 flyer that Surveils 1. So, the fact this can cash itself in from the graveyard and give you back a whole card is nice

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Faerie Fencing

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

Even without the Faerie upside this is an instant speed removal spell that scales all game long. If your deck has 0 Faeries you would always play it, but it does get far better if you do have some faeries around, as it becomes incredibly efficient. Heck, you can pay one to give something -3/-3 when you have a Faerie. There are enough faeries in black that setting this up for the extra value isn’t hard, and the baseline card is already really good

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Feed the Cauldron

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

This will never let you trade up, and that’s one of the best things to do with removal spells. With this, you’ll kill something that cost the same or less. Getting that Food helps, but you don’t even always get it.

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Fell Horseman

AI Rating: 2.4
Pro Rating: 3.0

Like most of the Common adventure creatures, both sides of this look super underwhelming, but they do in fact often result in a 2-for-1, so it’s better than it looks

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Gumdrop Poisoner

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 4.5

Obviously, the idea is that her food token can help set her up later in the game, and the format has plenty of other Food around too – so, casting the Poisoner and giving something -2/-2 until end of turn really isn’t going to be that difficult. You do need to spend extra mana to gain that life usually, but that type of turn is still going to feel powerful.

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High Fae Negotiator

AI Rating: 4
Pro Rating: 3.5

That ETB really is powerful, as the gap in life between you and your opponent becomes 6, and that can drastically alter a race. Then this big body can attack and block reasonably well

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Hopeless Nightmare

AI Rating: 3.4
Pro Rating: 2.5

One mana to make your opponent discard and lose 2 life is an acceptable rate, and after that point the Nightmare is great fodder for cards with Bargain. It’s definitely a role-player, but something you probably want one of in Black if you have a few cards that Bargain

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Lich-Knights' Conquest

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 1.5

So, the idea here is to give up a bunch of expendable stuff and then reanimate some things. The problem is, even in this format, the fact you can only give up permanents of a few types is limiting, especially because this already asks for the set up cost of having something or a few somethings worth reanimating for 5 mana. That’s far from a guarantee

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Lord Skitter, Sewer King

AI Rating: 4.8
Pro Rating: 4.5

A three mana 3/3 that hates on the graveyard isn’t bad, and the fact Skitter churns out Rats is pretty nuts. Even if they can’t block, they give you the ability to pressure your opponent and they provide excellent sacrifice fodder.

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Lord Skitter's Blessing

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 3.5

This gives you a lot of value for two mana, that’s for sure. Two mana for just the Role token isn’t great, but if you can keep it or another Aura around, this starts doing the Phyrexian Arena thing. There are enough role tokens in Black for this to be pretty effective

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Lord Skitter's Butcher

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 4.0

This is a really good Uncommon. Each of these modes is really good, and you’ll be happy to choose each of them in the right situation. If you need more bodies, you’ll make a token, if you need more cards well…you’ll give up a rat or something to get it, and if you’ve got a good board state, you can give your whole board menace to go after your opponent.

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Mintstrosity

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

Two mana 3/1s tend to be solid for aggro decks, and getting a Food when this goes down is nice upside to have

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Not Dead After All

AI Rating: 1.7
Pro Rating: 1.5

This is an interesting take on this type of effect since the creature gets to return with a buff. Unfortunately, when we see this effect completely absent of an upfront power boost, it hasn’t really played super well. It does work well against removal, but not working that well in combat is a an issue.

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Rankle's Prank

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 2.5

This can have a huge impact on the game, and its modality means you can always choose only the things that hurt your opponent more than they hurt you. There will be situations where…none of these modes works that well for you, though. Like if you’re behind for example, these are all likely to hurt you more than they hurt your opponent. That probably just makes it a 2.5. There will be games where it feels far better than that grade implies, but there will be just as many where it’s significantly worse

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Rat Out

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

The Rat not being able to block here is obviously a big deal, but if you can pick off an X/1 with this while adding something to your board that’s not…too bad. The problem is a 1/1 that can’t block isn’t exactly the most significant thing to add to your board. In fact, it’s pretty close to the least significant thing you can add

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Rowan's Grim Search

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is a nice take on the usual Black card raw spell we get. If you don’t bargain, we’re talking about an instant speed draw 2 lose 2, which is playable in all but the fastest of formats. If you have something expendable to bargain, you’re looking at a card that lets you see a ton of cards for the cost – up to six of them, which is dang impressive. It helps you load the graveyard too. Now…it is still a card that doesn’t really impact the board, and you won’t always want to Bargain it, so it isn’t amazing or anything

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Scream Puff

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is pretty beefy, although I think it would be much better if it made the food on ETB. That would allow it to be one of these big creatures that helps slower decks stabilize. It can still help you do that of course, but having to rumble with it in order to get food makes the card a little bit awkward

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Shatter the Oath

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 2.5

5 mana Sorcery speed removal isn’t anything special. It’s just too expensive and clunky for that to ever be the case. This can go after two card types and it does upgrade your board a tiny bit, but overall it still seems a little too slow to be anything special

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Specter of Mortality

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5.0

If you can exile two things and pick off a bunch of stuff with this it’s going to feel pretty good, especially if it hurts your opponent more than it hurts you. Then, this will have the upside of allowing you to sweep the board of everything apart from the Specter, which is an absurdly powerful effect

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Spiteful Hexmage

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 3.0

On its own this is effectively a one mana 1/1 – but getting rid of that Curse isn’t that hard. You can simply find a way to put another role on the hexmage, or you can sacrifice it to bargain. So chances are pretty good you can find a way to get value out of the Curse. You of course also have the option later in the game to put the curse somewhere else – like on a creature that is already incapacitated in one way or another, and a 3/2 body is imposing enough that the Hexmage is likely to usually matter. Basically, I think you can get enough mileage out of the Curse and this efficient body for this to play out reasonably well

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Stingblade Assassin

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 1.5

This ETB ability almost always underperforms. It’s just hard to consistently find a way to do damage to a creature without using up some resource you didn’t really want to use up. It might be interesting with Rat tokens, because your opponent is going to be willing to block those a lot with their 2/2s or whatever, but this probably doesn’t end up being able to destroy something often enough for this to be very good

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Sugar Rush

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

This replaces itself, but the buff is highly unlikely to be that useful in combat. Sure, it probably lets you kill something, but most of the time whatever you cast this on will die two. Drawing the card does keep you from getting 2-for-1’d, but it doesn’t really make up for the tempo you lose. It does get a little better with Rat tokens, but I’d still steer clear of it most of the time

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Sweettooth Witch

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

Giving up food to hurt your opponent can definitely have a place, and even be a win condition, and the base line of the card as a three mana 3/2 that makes a food isn’t a disaster

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Taken by Nightmares

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 3.5

Even without the enchantment part, you’d always play it in your black decks. Exiling something for 4 at instant speed is just always going to be good. When you also get this to scry, it will feel amazing

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Tangled Colony

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is a pretty annoying attacker to have to deal with. You can choose to trade it with it, sure – but your opponent then gets at least two rat tokens, so you come out behind. So, you’re left with either just taking 3 at a time or losing some serious value in a trade. Now, the fact it can’t block does make it far worse, because you can’ threaten to trade when your opponent attacks you, but this is a card that’s really going to make you groan when your opponent plays it on turn two. The damage will add up quickly, and you’re always going to come out behind

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Twisted Sewer-Witch

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 4.5

This reminds me a little of Diregraf Horde, and that’s very good company to keep. You pay 5 mana here for at least 5/6 worth of stats across two bodies. And sure, one of those bodies can’t block, but that’s still completely insane! Especially because should you have any other Rats around, the Witch buffs them too. And…I think it’s safe to say you’ll have at least one other one a huge chunk of the time when you play her. This may just be the best Uncommon in the set.

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Virtue of Persistence

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 5.0

This is amazing. The adventure side is an excellent premium removal spell, and would be a B all on its own. Then, this removal spell turns into a value train in the late game and will definitely win you the game within a few turns

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Voracious Vermin

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

Three mana for a 2/1 and a 1/1 isn’t bad, and this will definitely be growing, especially in Black/Red where you throw rats at your opponent a lot of the time. Just blocking those rats will make the Vermin grow.

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Warehouse Tabby

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

Take away the Enchantment part of this card and it’s…pretty bad. A one mana 1/1 with death touch is usually pretty solid, as it can trade for anything. This has the capacity to do that, but because you have to have mana up to do it and because you spend extra mana to make it do it, it is way worse than a one mana 1/1 that always has death touch. The fact it cranks out a few 1/1s is nice, but even in this format I don’t imagine this just giving you 1/1 after 1/1.

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Wicked Visitor

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

This has passable base stats and a passable payoff for the Black/White deck, which will be the most adept at putting enchantments in the graveyard

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The Witch's Vanity

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 4.0

This looks strong. Sure, the three things it does are kind of small – but it’s almost always going to feel like you get two cards worth of value out of it. There will be situations where chapter 1 can’t kill something, but most of the time it will, and the Food and Role are going to feel like the cherry on top of a two-mana removal spell, which is pretty awesome

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Belligerent of the Ball

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has solid base stats, and on turns when you get celebration going it is going to make one of your attackers significantly better. Importantly, it can target itself. +1/+0 Menace has a surprisingly big impact on some board states

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Bellowing Bruiser

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

I’m high on most of the Adventure creatures in the set – this one doesn’t seem quite as good as the others. This is because it doesn’t really generate 2-for-1 type value or even close to it. It isn’t bad by any means, but the Adventure side is a highly situational card. It can be powerful in the right spot of course, and if you ever 8 mana to cast both halves that will feel pretty awesome, but overall, I don’t see Beat a Path being that impressive, and the same is true of a 5-mana 4/4 Haste. It’s still a solid card that will make the cut a decent chunk of the time – but most of the adventures in this set are a little better than that

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Bespoke Battlegarb

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

This doesn’t look good. Two mana to play and two to equip for +2/+0 just…isn’t where you want to be. The Celebration trigger on it will let you equip it for free, but even when that’s the case I’m not especially interested

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Boundary Lands Ranger

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has solid base stats, and if you can get it to rummage every turn it will feel pretty impressive. A two mana 2/2 that just gave you the option of rummaging every combat would be nice. That’s some pretty great card selection that can really turn a game around for you. Obviously, this doesn’t quite get there, but it seems fine

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Charming Scoundrel

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

This looks pretty good. The option that will be the most consistently powerful is the Wicked Role token – on its own that makes the Scoundrel a two mana 2/2 with Haste with upside. The other two options are where you’ll go later in the game, where getting a Wicked Role token isn’t exactly going to change things for you.

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Cut In

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

A 4-mana deal 4 sorcery isn’t premium removal, and I don’t think adding a Young Hero Role token to the mix gets this there. Still, it can kill a decent number of things and it does add to the board a tiny bit too.

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Edgewall Pack

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 3.0

A 4-mana 3/3 menace that makes a 1/1 that can’t block is pretty decent. Worth noting that it triggers card swith Celebration on its own, and there are definitely some curve outs where you play a two drop and a three drop with Celebration, where then playing the Pack would make for a pretty spicy turn 4.

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Embereth Veteran

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

A one mana 2/1 can get in for decent damage on the first couple of turns, but tends to become irrelevant fairly quickly. This helps overcome that by letting you put a Young Hero Role on something, and while it’s not the most amazing of the Roles, since it requires the creature to be small to get a buff from it, it does mean the Veteran can significantly augment your creatures in some situations

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Flick a Coin

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

Each thing this does individually isn’t that impressive but getting them all for three mana seems like a decent enough deal, especially if you’re in the market for fixing. Still, it’s a fairly low impact card that probably won’t always make the cut.

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Food Fight

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 0.0

So, this lets you sacrifice your artifacts to do 2 damage with them. That’s…could be good, but there aren’t really enough Artifacts in Red for this to really work out. If you pair with one of the food colors it might do a little more work, but it still seems really hard to build around this

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Frantic Firebolt

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 3.5

The base form of this card is mediocre, but if you can just get it to do 3 damage you’re talking about premium removal. That’s not a huge ask at all, especially in Red decks in the format, and that also means it has a really high ceiling. Basically, this has a bad floor, but it will almost never be that bad, and I think that means it does enough to be premium removal you take highly

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Gnawing Crescendo

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 2.5

These effects don’t usually pan out that well in Limited. That said, this format looks like it can go wide in both Black/Red and Red/White, meaning this might have some more uses than usual. It is nice that you get something even if your creatures die, but the 1/1s that can’t block aren’t exactly going to help you on the back swing

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Goddric, Cloaked Reveler

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

A three mana 3/3 with Haste is probably good enough to be a 3.0, so the fact that he has this sweet Celebration trigger is nice upside to have on an already good card. One cool thing about him is that you can play him and then another permanent that turn to have him do his Dragon thing immediately.

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Grabby Giant

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 2.0

This offers you some decent ramp early, and a mediocre body with an expensive activated ability late. Notably, he can ramp into himself, if you cast the adventure and then him and a 4/3 with Reach on turn three isn’t too bad.

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Grand Ball Guest

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 2.0

A vanilla two mana 2/2 is probably a 1.0 these days, and while I think triggering celebration is doable, it isn’t going to happen so much that this will be a 3/3 with trample every turn or anything

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Harried Spearguard

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 1.5

This is great in terms of sacrifice fodder, as it gives you two bodies for the price of 1. It also isn’t bad just based on the rate you get out of it. But it’s nothing special either. It will quickly get outclassed in most games and be relegated into chump block mode

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Hearth Elemental

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

The adventure side here is the kind of thing you probably only use in the later stage of the game when it allows you to reload your hand. It’s not a great idea to use it when you still have a bunch of cards so it isn’t the kind of card where you cast your adventure early and then get the creature later. Although, you can use it to make the Elemental easier to cast. But I don’t think you should give up some real cards to make that happen. That’s okay though, because it seems reasonably easy to reduce the cost of the Elemental to something decent even if you don’t load your graveyard with Stoke Genius

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Imodane, the Pyrohammer

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 2.5

This has solid stats and Red has enough commons and uncommon instants and sorceries that target things for her ability to do its thing sometimes and when she can, she’s going to be a pretty big pain for your opponent. Still, she’s going to just be a 4-mana 4/4 a decent chunk of the time

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Kindled Heroism

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 1.5

We’ve seen this trick many times before and it’s always kind of okay. The boost can allow your creature to win a decent number of combats, and when you can make that happen for only one mana it feels pretty amazing. Still, it is a combat trick and one that isn’t always very impactful

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Korvold and the Noble Thief

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 1.0

The turn you play this is going to feel really rough, because paying FOUR and not getting anything meaningful on the board is a pain. Especially because the next chapter does the same thing! But chapter III is a pretty nice payoff. You can use all that treasure to up your chances of playing your opponent’s stuff. It is a bit of a bummer that if you don’t make sure to hold on to that treasure, and your opponent is in different colors than you, you’re going to be out of luck when it comes to casting off-color things. Overall…I’m kind of skeptical here. I love the value Chapter III can generate, but it’s really slow, and I think that will make this a liability

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Merry Bards

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 2.0

So you can play this as a 4-mana 3/2 with the Role token, which means it will become a 4/3 the next time it attacks, and then a 5/4. That’s not a bad investment, and the fact you can put the token somewhere else really matters, as you can stick in on something that can get value out of it the turn you play it. Just playing this as a vanilla creature is a lot less appealing, but it isn’t a bad fail case

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Minecart Daredevil

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

I like this a lot because it resembles some of the Adventures from last Eldraine that were huge overperformers. Yes, you’ve got a medicore trick on one side and a mediocre vanilla creature on the other, but you get both on one card, and both halves of this card can conceivably trade with something and that means you’re getting a 2-for-1.

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Monstrous Rage

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 2.5

We’ve seen one mana for +3/+1 and trample before, and it usually makes for a nice trick. It’s just so cheap and makes combat so much more devastating. And in this case the +1/+1 trample part stick around! A toughness boost of only one won’t always help your creature survive, but I think the Trample and Role upside make up for that. This looks like a trick you’ll probably want as many of as you can get your hands on in an aggressive red deck

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Raging Battle-Mouse

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

This can help you get Celebration going more easily, which is nice because it has Celebration itself! +1/+1 isn’t the most exciting thing ever, but it does tend to make attacks more favorable for you. And even without celebration in the equation, playing the Mouse on turn two really increases your chances of double spelling on turn 3 and 4, and that’s a pretty good way to win the game

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Ratcatcher Trainee

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

A two mana 2/1 with first strike when it attacks is a great aggressive creature in Limited, and this one can make you a couple of 1/1s too. It is a bit odd as far as adventures go, because this is one where you probably cast it fairly often without ever using the Adventure part, where with most of them it makes a lot of sense to try to get the full value. Here, you’re not going to do that as often, but it still has big upside because if you draw it late you can get the tokens and the 2/1 all in a single turn. The Adventure side can also get celebration going all on its own

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Realm-Scorcher Hellkite

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 5.0

A 6-mana 4/6 with Flying and Haste is already pretty impressive, and this activated ability is really strong and a great place to sink your mana. It can pick off creatures or finish off your opponent quite impressively, and because of Bargain, you have the option of giving up something to get four mana right away that you can use to do 1 damage twice the turn it comes down! Most of the time, that’s going to be a deal worth taking, especially if you have some Treasure or Food lying around. This thing will basically always give you an immediate impact that is powerful and then if it sticks around the game is well and truly over for your opponent

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Redcap Gutter-Dweller

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5.0

5/5 worth of stats for 4 mana is a great starting point, and the Gutter-Dweller also happens to be able to grow and draw you cards using the expendable bodies he gives you. This can really snowball out of control in a big way

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Redcap Thief

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

This offers some nice fixing and ramp and can trigger celebration all on its own. That seems like something worth doing in Red decks in this format

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Rotisserie Elemental

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 1.5

If you play this on turn one, it has an opportunity to do some significant damage and then give itself up with a couple of rotisserie counters on it. That will feel pretty good. But if you play it at any point thereafter…it gets a lot less good, because it just won’t be able to get in

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Skewer Slinger

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

This makes X/1s pretty miserable as they can neither attack through it or block it effectively. Overall, it is definitely a defensive card more than anything, and that’s always a little awkward

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Song of Totentanz

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 3.5

They can’t block, but who cares? This gives all those Rats haste, which means they can immediately pressure your opponent. Now, the bad news about this card is that in the early game it isn’t going to feel that good, but I guess paying 2 for X isn’t all that bad either. It also doesn’t help that much if you’re behind since the rats can’t block. It seems really good late and kind of mediocre up until that point, but the upside is pretty real and the floor gets higher the more Rat and sacrifice synergy you have

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Stonesplitter Bolt

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 4.0

An instant speed X damage spell is pretty sweet. It scales all game long and can kill pretty much anything, provided you have the mana – or the permanent to Bargain

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Tattered Ratter

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

Rats can often just be chump blocked, but Tattered Ratter makes sure that that’s going to be a lot harder. It will make your opponent just have to take damage from attacking rats pretty often, as a 3-power rat can take down a whole lot of blockers. Still, there are so many board states where this is just going to be a two mana 2/2, even if you have rats, because there are often situations where your opponent isn’t interested in blocking them anyway

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Torch the Tower

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 4.0

This is premium removal. It would be without Bargain. With it it’s even better, as it can become a one mana deal 3. Sure, you do have to give something up, and sometimes that something will have to be real, but this format has a variety of tokens and other expendable things with these types, so Torch the Tower isn’t going to be that hard to get it to do 3 for a very low cost.

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Twisted Fealty

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 1.5

This format doesn’t really have a sacrifice deck, and that’s usually the place for a Threaten effect. It isn’t unplayable, though. It will have a home in some really aggressive decks

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Two-Headed Hunter

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 4.5

This looks really good. The combat trick side will alter combat significantly, usually enough for it to be in your favor, and then in the later game you get a reasonably efficient creature. This is another Adventure that has very real 2-for-1 potential.

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Unruly Catapult

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.0

This isn’t quite as impressive as Thermo-Alchemist, but it’s doing a decent impression. This will likely be a premiere payoff in the Blue/Red spells deck, and kind of unplayable everywhere else. It can inflict a ton of extra damage when you have lots of cheap spells, and an 0/4 body is decently stout.

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Virtue of Courage

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

The removal side of this on its own is probably a 2.5…the other side…well, it’s super situational. If you’re in Red you’re likely to be doing some noncombat damage to your opponent – the Catapult we just saw is an example – and when you are able to draw extra cards off of this it’s going to feel amazing. But more often than not, you’re going to end up in a deck that doesn’t do the greatest job of making the Enchantment side of this do its thing. But the good news is, you’re still never going to cut this card because it’s removal with some late-game upside that you get for free, more or less

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Witch's Mark

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is a nice Tormenting Voice variant. Even without the Role token this card is usually in the D+ or C- range, especially in a format with some graveyard stuff and a spell deck, and that’s true in this format. Actually adding to the board while digging deeper into your deck is going to feel pretty nice. You probably don’t desperately want more than one of these, although perhaps if you’re in the spell deck going deeper than that first copy might be worth it

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Witchstalker Frenzy

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 4.0

Without the cost reduction effect, this would probably be a B-. 4 mana deal 5 at instant speed is definitely efficient enough to be a great card. And there will be many turns where you can cast it a lot more cheaply. Keep in mind, you can attack and then cast this for a reduced cost before your opponent ever declares blockers. Paying 2 or even 1 for this isn’t far-fetched, and when you’re doing that it’s going to feel pretty nuts because of how effectively you’re going to trade down.

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Agatha's Champion

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is going to feel pretty bad when you don’t Bargain it, and pretty good when you do. Luckily, Bargaining seems easy to pull off in green, because you’ve got access to lots of food and role tokens

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Beanstalk Wurm

AI Rating: 1.7
Pro Rating: 2.0

Extra land effects rarely play well in Limited, especially when not accompanied by a way to draw cards, so the adventure here is often not going to be good. If you have it on turn two and have nothing else to do, it might help you ramp a bit. Even then it isn’t guaranteed though, as a missed land drop makes that advantage disintegrates and by the later stages of the game it is increasingly meaningless, and if you don’t have the extra land to begin with it’s always meaningless. The other side is a passable creature, but I think the overall package here is underwhelming

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Bestial Bloodline

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 1.0

+2/+2 is a nice boost for the cost, but you still set yourself up for an ugly 2-for-1, and even though this can come back from your graveyard the cost is so high that it is only something you do when you have absolutely nothing else you can do. And even then, it isn’t going to feel great

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Blossoming Tortoise

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 3.0

There are creature lands in this format, but they are all rare, so the fact this buffs them and makes their activated abilities cheaper doesn’t come up a whole lot. It can reduce the cost of any lands ability and there are a couple at lower rarities that it definitely makes better and that will come up sometimes, but mostly, this is a 4-mana 3/3 that can help load your graveyard and ramp your mana. And…that’s pretty nice, but nothing really impressive.

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Bramble Familiar

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 4.0

If you play it on two, you get a solid creature that can ramp your mana – and then once it’s outlived its usefulness, you can bounce it to your hand and cast it as a super clunky reanimation spell. Obviously paying 7 means it will be hard for you to get your mana back when you cast it that way, but the fact is, having the Adventure side means the Familiar actually stays useful in the extremely late game, something that wouldn’t be true otherwise

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Brave the Wilds

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 2.0

One green mana to search up a basic land is a borderline playable, especially if you’re playing more than two colors. The upside of animating a land means it can add to the board sometimes too

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Commune with Nature

AI Rating: 1.1
Pro Rating: 1.5

We’ve seen this a lot. It usually lets you draw a card for one mana, and you see a huge chunk of your deck in Limited. But it just doesn’t always make the cut, you only have so much room for cards that don’t impact the board

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Curse of the Werefox

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

It effectively gives +1/+1 to the thing you fight with, and a stats boost always makes fighting a little more appealing. Now, it does have some significant downsides. Namely, that if your opponent has any way to interact in response you probably get wrecked – whether it’s a removal spell or a combat trick on their creature – and that means you get yourself 2-for-1’d. So you have to pick your spots with this, especially because it’s a Sorcery

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Elvish Archivist

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

This set is well-equipped for the Archivist to grow and for you to draw a lot of cards, as two of the biggest mechanics in the set are Monster Role and Food – which are Enchantments and artifacts respectively. I think most Green decks will be able to make this work, so it doesn’t really need a build around grade. It does have the problem of starting small, and it gets way worse when you play it late than if you play it on turn two

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Feral Encounter

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 4.0

This looks really good. Even if you don’t cast the creature it grabs you, we’re still talking about a two mana bite effect, and those are always good. Unlike the fight we saw earlier, this effect doesn’t result in your creature taking damage, so it doesn’t have as many problems with timing as a Fight effect does. On top of that, this can also draw you a card first – and that’s a 2-for-1. Hard to say no to a two mana 2-for-1, though sometimes you won’t be able to play the card you hit, the fact you get to choose it drastically increases your chances of making it work out

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Ferocious Werefox

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

Buffing a creature at instant speed earlier and getting a reasonable 4-drop later means this delivers some serious value for a Common

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Graceful Takedown

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

So, this is another Green removal spell that doesn’t result in your creatures taking damage. Even if you have 0 enchanted creatures, you can have one thing take part in the effect, and if you do have enchanted creatures, you’ll be able to take down almost anything. It also puts you in less danger if you are able to choose multiple creatures, because a blow out is a lot harder for your opponent to produce when multiple creatures are doing the biting

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Gruff Triplets

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

6 mana for three 3/3s is already a pretty nice rate – it adds a ton to the board and makes removal look bad, but things get even sillier thanks to this death trigger, which will make your other triplets larger and larger,a nd because they have trample that isn’t something your opponent can just ignore. The biggest downside here is the triple green as in limited it can sometimes be hard to produce that exactly when you need to

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Hamlet Glutton

AI Rating: 3.4
Pro Rating: 3.0

I always love a big ol’ green creature that gains me life when it ETBs, because it allows slower decks to stabilize. If this always cost 7 it would be overcosted, but because Bargaining this looks so doable, it will often cost 5 and you won’t have to give up much to make it happen. Red-Green and Blue-Green will both always want at least one copy of this

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Hollow Scavenger

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

There is a lot you can do with Food in this format, so paying one mana and like half a card for it is pretty reasonable. Especially when the creature side of this can take advantage of that food and make itself into a pretty sizable attacker

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Howling Galefang

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 3.5

A 4-mana 4/4 with Vigilance is pretty close to a 3.0, and the upside here is pretty neat. Haste only matters for a single turn obviously enough, so you can find a way to play the adventure half of something one turn, play Galefang with Haste on the next turn, and then cast the creature side of your adventure on the next turn. It won’t always line up that way of course. This will have Haste reasonably often but it’s far from automatic

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The Huntsman's Redemption

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 4.0

This looks good. It starts out as a 3-mana 3/3 and then offers lots of additional value. The Chapter II isn’t always going to be able to do something, but when you do have something expendable around to give up, tutoring a creature up isn’t too bad. Chapter III will make two of your creatures, including the 3/3 you got with chapter I, and maybe the creature you got with Chapter II, into very real threats. Most of the value here is from Chapter I and III, with Chapter II definitely not doing something meaningful most of the time, but I think the whole package is still really strong

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Leaping Ambush

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 1.0

They put a trick like this in almost every format, and it is almost always bad. Tricks are at their best when you use them offensively, because your opponent is less likely to have mana up to blow you out – so a trick that gets like 2/3s of its value from being used defensively just isn’t worth it

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Night of the Sweets' Revenge

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 0.0

This has some serious potential. Turning all your food into mana can be pretty silly, especially because this has a pretty strong effect you can pump all that mana into. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t give your stuff trample, so there will be lots of situations where the buff doesn’t quite accomplish what you need it to. On top of that, add to it the fact that you really need a lot of Food in the first place and probably some other things to spend all that mana on – AND the fact that this doesn’t really add to the board at all and well…I think we’re talking about a pretty bad card. There are way better thing you can do with Food.

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Redtooth Genealogist

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

This looks like a very good rate to me – it is basically a better version of a three mana 2/3 that puts a +1/+1 counter somewhere, and that card is usually quite good in Limited. I think this is one of Green’s best Commons

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Redtooth Vanguard

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 3.5

This 3/1 trampler is going to be able to come back from the graveyard a ton in this format, and while you won’t always have the mana to make it happen, bringing this back constantly does represent a major problem for your opponent, whether you’re behind or ahead. If you’re ahead it can attack for free in some decks, and when you’re behind it can block and trade forever. The fact it doesn’t enter tapped like some recursive creatures is a pretty big deal too

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Return from the Wilds

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.0

A three mana 1/1 that rampant growths is a solid enough card, and ramping does look fairly viable in this format. This can also give you food when you reach the part of the game where more lands doesn’t do you any good

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Rootrider Faun

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 3.0

This has decent stats, it offers decent ramp, and it offers decent fixing. None of the things it does are very exciting, but ramp does seem like a real strategy in Green

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Royal Treatment

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is really good against removal, less good in combat. +1/+1 just isn’t a boost that will help your creature succeed often enough

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Sentinel of Lost Lore

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

You’ll usually be able to get some value out of two of the three ETB options, and you get a creature with great stats too

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Skybeast Tracker

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

A 4-mana 2/4 with Reach is not very good these days, though you could do worse if you need something defensive. This will make some food sometimes, which certainly has its uses in the format

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Spider Food

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 0.5

This format has a lot of targets for this, but there are also two lower rarity ways to Naturalize stuff in this format that are way better in the main deck. So, this is a sideboard card but one you probably won’t use very often

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Stormkeld Vanguard

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 4.0

Speaking of main deck ways to destroy artifacts and enchantments….this card looks great. It’s very easy to hit something with Bear Down, and in the case of this card even hitting a token of some kind is acceptable, because you don’t use up an entire card to do it, since later in the game you get an efficient creature that is hard to block. This will generate 2-for-1s a decent chunk of the time too

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Tanglespan Lookout

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

An Enchantress effect is looking pretty good in this format, even on a card that specifically cares about Auras. One of the big mechanics in the set just makes Aura tokens, so the Lookout is going ot be able to drw you a card pretty often. It’s also nice that it is a ⅔, as I feel like often times we’d get a 2/2 with this text box. That 3rd toughness makes a pretty huge difference in making the card’s baseline a lot less miserable

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Territorial Witchstalker

AI Rating: 1.7
Pro Rating: 1.5

A two mana 2/3 with defender isn’t great, but in a defensive deck it isn’t unplayable, but the ceiling on this card just isn’t very high, and neither is the floor.

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Thunderous Debut

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 4.5

This is really bad when you don’t Bargain, as an 8-mana draw 2 doesn’t even close to moving the needle. HOWEVER, bargaining this is easy enough and the format has enough ramp, that I think Thunderous Debut is going to have a huge impact when you cast it. It’s going to be near impossible not to get at least 8 mana worth of value out of 2 creatures from the top 20 cards of your deck and this is a 2-for-1

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Titanic Growth

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 2.0

We’ve seen this a ton and it’s always a playable trick. It makes it so most creatures can win combat against most other creatures, and the stats boost is even good against some removal

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Toadstool Admirer

AI Rating: 1
Pro Rating: 0.0

This doesn’t seem very good to me. A one mana 1/1 with Ward 2 just…doesn’t matter, and even though this can eventually put counters on itself, it only does so in the extreme late game, and it will take it way too long for it to ever be relevant

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Tough Cookie

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 4.0

A two mana 2/2 that makes a Food on ETB is already a solid playable – especially because this happens to be a Food itself, giving it even more upside and synergy. The activated ability will not be something you are always able to find the time to use, but there will also be turns where this thing animates a couple of foods and really makes your opponent’s life difficult. Note, by the way, it can animate other noncreature artifacts too. While Food is going to be the most typical thing it will animate, there are some other cards in the format it can turn into 4/4s too

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Troublemaker Ouphe

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 2.5

This feels like a two drop you want one of in every Green deck, simply because it provides main deck hate against permanent types that are very common in this format. You won’t always have something to get Bargain going, but at least the fail case is a Bear

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Up the Beanstalk

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

Making it so this draws all on its own is a pretty big deal, because it means it’s never entirely useless. Then if you have enough big spells in your deck – something Red/Green and Blue/Green both want to do, this will turn into a pretty awesome value engine

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Verdant Outrider

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 2.0

A three mana 4/2 usually has the big problem of dying to 2 power creatures, but obviously enough, Verdant Outrider can get around that. You won’t always have the time or mana to use that ability of course, but it definitely does enough for this to be solid filler

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Virtue of Strength

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 1.0

The adventure side of this is….not that exciting, but it does at least replace itself. The Enchantment side Is…even less exciting, as tripling your mana once you’re at 7 is meaningless in most Limited games

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Welcome to Sweettooth

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

This looks really good to me as it delivers so much value for the cost. You get to add to the board up front, then you get some food, and then you get a very real permanent buff

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Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

A two mana 1/1 that reduces the cost of creature activated abilities by 1 is…not that exciting. Sure, there are abilities around, but not so many that you can count on Agatha being a key player in your deck. The cool thing is she counts herself, so her ability will basically cost 5 at the most, and that ability is a pretty awesome overrun effect. If you augment her power, you can gain access to it even more quickly

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The Apprentice's Folly

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

Those first two chapters can deliver some pretty absurd value, as making a hasty token copy of your best and then second-best creature can be a pretty serious beating. The first one will even get to attack twice! The bad news is, if you can’t take advantage of those tokens in time, you’re in trouble, because the Folly ultimately takes them away from you. Still, it seems like you should be able to get enough value out of those two tokens before the Folly goes away. Worth noting that you can sacrifice this to something with bargain before you reach chapter 3, in which case the downside goes away entirely. That’s where the power really is. It will feel pretty close to a bomb if you can do it consistently

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Ash, Party Crasher

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

A two mana 2/2 with Haste is a solid starting point, and getting a +1/+1 counter or two on Ash is doable. You can get Celebration going relatively often in Red/White, with cards that make Monster Role Auras, cards that make food, or cards that make creature tokens. It isn’t automatic to get it going but even triggering this once seems pretty nice

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Eriette of the Charmed Apple

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 3.5

This first ability is pretty interesting. Basically, you can put Roles or other Auras on your opponents’ stuff to make them unable to attack if you want – some of the Roles already do downgrade opposing creatures, and that’s probably where this is best, because you don’t really want to augment a creature to add this effect. Sure, stopping them from attacking can be nice, but it isn’t usually worth buffing an opposing creature, especially because it isn’t like Erriette is invulnerable. There are enough Auras in this set for her other ability to believably drain 1 or 2 life, and that’s pretty powerful

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Faunsbane Troll

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 4.5

It is effectively a 4-mana 5/5 with Trample, something that will give your opponent pause on most boards, and it comes with the ability to shed the Role that is attached to it to fight something. As a 4/4, the Troll is likely to be able to take something down on most board states. If you wait to play it on 5, it will often feel like a 5-mana 4/4 that just kills something, and that’s quite strong. If you can get some more auras on the Troll – something that is very doable in this format – it can even do it more than once, at which point it will feel truly absurd

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The Goose Mother

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

It isn’t quite Hydroid Krasis, but it does a pretty good impression. It scales all game long and becomes even more of a flying threat – that also pumps out an increasingly impressive amount of food, which you can not only use to gain life, but also draws cards. As long as you pay at least 2 for X, the Goose Mother is always going to give you some permanent value and a very efficient body, and if it’s left unchecked it will draw you a ton of cards too

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Greta, Sweettooth Scourge

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

A three mana 3/3 that makes a Food is already close to a 3.0, so her other abilities are pretty amazing to have. Giving up food for cards is a very good deal, and sometimes buffing your creatures with Food is nice too. Keep in mind that the buff effect is only sorcery speed, while the draw a card effect is not. In the later stage of the game, you can look at this as a 5-mana 3/3 that draws you a card and you lose 1 life, which isn’t too shabby either. This looks like an excellent signpost Uncommon overall, with a great baseline and a very powerful effect on the game

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Hylda of the Icy Crown

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 2.5 // 5.0

Stun counters and tapping are featured heavily in this set, including on the UW signpost Uncommon, so actually getting these abilities going is doable. And you’ll have to, because otherwise she’s just a hard-to-cast 4-mana ¾. I do think she probably needs a build around grade, because even your typical UW deck isn’t going to have so many tap effects for this to really get going. Although, I guess even if you just have like…two, you’re going to feel pretty good, as triggering this ability only a single time is more than enough for her to feel amazing. At that point you’ll have paid 5 for a ¾ and a 4/4 that can still threaten to do way more

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Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 3.5

This effect is really powerful, even when limited to once per turn. If your deck has enough instants and sorceries in it, this will end up drawing you an extra card on many turns and that’s just crazy. This gets even better if you use draw effects or other things to manipulate the top of your library, as you increase your chances of getting that card on top. I like the high toughness here too, as it means Johann is an engine that isn’t super easy to kill

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Likeness Looter

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 4.5

A two mana 1/1 with Flying that can tap to loot is probably a 3.5 at the very worst. Looting for free just…always plays amazingly well in Limited. So, this added upside of turning into a copy of creatures in your graveyard is pretty amazing, especially because it holds on to flying

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Neva, Stalked by Nightmares

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

A gravedigger with Menace that can also get back enchantments is a card I’d already play, and this can also get larger. Keep in mind any time you put a role on a creature that already has one, it loses the one it had before, so that’s one of the built in ways in the format Neva can grow. Obviously, she works with Bargain too

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Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 4.0

A two mana 2/2 with Flash and Flying always makes the cut, so the fact that this will also chip in and make your opponent lose life while you play out other Faeries is nice, especially because so many Faeries are evasive that chipping in for one damage here and there makes it a lot easier for them to do lethal

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Rowan, Scion of War

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

A three mana 4/2 with Menace is a decent starting point. So how much extra value does the ability give you? Well…not much. Paying life is around in the format but it isn’t some huge theme, and you need to both pay life and have a card where it matters that you can reduce its cost

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Ruby, Daring Tracker

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 3.5

It can ramp your mana quite effectively, and that makes it more likely that you can get a creature with power 4 or great into play quickly, at which point Ruby herself becomes a significantly better attacker. There will also be times in the mid to late game when you draw her and can already trigger her ability, in which case she becomes a two mana ¾ with Haste, which is going to feel pretty good

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Sharae of Numbing Depths

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.5

It’s a 4-mana 2/3 that stuns something down and draws you a card. I’m always playing that. Stunning something isn’t quite as good as bouncing, but it feels pretty close! Then it works well with other tap effects too

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Syr Armont, the Redeemer

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

It can’t put the Role on itself, but provided you have something else around Syr Armont is a 5-mana 4/4 that gives something else +2/+2 and trample and uh…that’s kind of crazy, and will usually mean that whatever you just put that Role on is suddenly a way more effective attacker than it was before. Sometimes it will turn something that couldn’t attack into an attacker, and I haven’t even mentioned how good this effect is when you have other Roles and Auras around on your board. I think this is an amazing signpost Uncommon

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Talion, the Kindly Lord

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

A 4-mana ¾ Flyer is a nice starting point, and if you can get the ability on it to trigger even once, Talion will feel completely insane. Now, you won’t always be able to make that happen, but if you choose “2” for example, there’s a pretty good chance Talion will get triggered at some point. If you have information about your opponents hand it gets even better. But yeah, we’re talking about a great baseline and a completely insane ceiling

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Totentanz, Swarm Piper

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.5

As usual, Black-Red is into having things die, whether as a result of sacrificing them or otherwise. On its own, Totentanz is a three mana ⅔ that leaves behind a 1/1 that can’t block. That’s an okay card, but the fact that Totentanz can potentially become a Rat engine is pretty exciting to me

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Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

Playing this on turn three will often let you power out a 5 or even 6 drop on turn four, which is no joke. The loot effect is nice too, because it means when you don’t have something to power out with the mana Troyan produces, you can start digging for exactly that. And, looting for one mana is a pretty nice effect in Limited anyway

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Will, Scion of Peace

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

This has decent base stats, and there are some ways to make his ability actually do something – most notably, Food, but it doesn’t really feel to me like that things will line up consistently for Will to do anything special. You need both to gain life and have something where decreasing the cost actually matters, and that just won’t happen often enough for Will to be anything special

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Yenna, Redtooth Regent

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 4.0

She has solid base stats and comes with the ability to duplicate Enchantments in a set with lots of them. That’s pretty amazing, especially because if you copy Auras – like Role Tokens – she’ll untap and let you do it again potentially. There seems to be plenty for her to copy in this set

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Beluna Grandsquall

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.0

In Limited, this best part of the card is probably just the creature. The Adventure can maybe draw you a couple of cards, but it’s expensive enough and random enough that I don’t love it. I do like the idea of an efficient 4/4 trampler that will reduce the cost of some of my guards. Being three different colors definitely makes it even more of a challenge to get Beluna going in the right situation though

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Callous Sell-Sword

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

The Adventure side of this is…not good on it’s own, since it’s would be a 2-for-1. It’s basically a worse version of Bone Splinters, and it isn’t like Bone Splinters is an amazing card. Obviously, it does get better being attached to a two mana 2/2 with upside, and if you did use Burn Together to kill something that turn, it will be a 3/3. I will say that the Sell-Sword side of this is going to be harder than it looks to get counters on. We’ve seen creatures like this before – including some with Flash – and it is surprisingly difficult to manufacture situations where you end up with a sizable creature

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Cruel Somnophage

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 2.5

If this didn’t have an adventure attached, it would be a borderline playable card. There will be times where it is big for sure, but a two drop that you probably can’t play on turn two isn’t exactly ideal, and the upside is still just a large vanilla creature. However, having the adventure here definitely matters, as it helps set up the Somnophage a lot more effectively. Milling yourself or your opponent is a pretty good effect in the format too. Still, there will be times where this is very awkward, and the upside isn’t exactly through the roof.

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Decadent Dragon

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5.0

A 4-mana 4/4 with Flying and Trample that spits out treasure is already an excellent card. So, the fact you can cast this as an adventure at some point too is great, especially because an instant speed Divination-like effect is itself probably already playable. When you have the time to cast both halves, this is going to generate a 3-for-1 for you.

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Devouring Sugarmaw

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

If you can keep it around, Devouring Sugarmaw is a pretty scary creature. Luckily it doesn’t seem that hard to keep around in the format, especially because of its adventure, which will give you two piece of sacrifice fodder. I mean…on its own Have for Dinner is probably a playable card in this format, so having the upside of playing a huge hard-to-block creature is awesome. And yeah, there’s plenty of additional fodder in the format too. You can still run out of things to sacrifice of course, but overall, I think the Sugarmaw looks pretty good.

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Elusive Otter

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 4.5

Either side of this would be good on its own. So stapling them together is pretty awesome. If you need a one drop, Elusive Otter can do the job pretty well, and if you draw it late you can put a bunch of counters on your stuff first.

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Frolicking Familiar

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

You’ll often be able to pick off something small with the Adventure, and that means you’re talking about a potential 2-for-1. Then you get a 2/2 Flyer that can become a real problem of an attacker, especially when you leave your mana up, because your opponent has no idea exactly how big the Familiar is going to be

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Gingerbread Hunter

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 4.5

This is great. Sure, Puny Snack isn’t the best removal spell in the world, but when it’s attached to an efficient creature who also spits out a Food token, it doesn’t really matter. Generating a 2-for-1 with this is going to be really easy, and it’s probably going to be one of the better Uncommons in the entire format

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Heartflame Duelist

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 5.0

Like the Gingerbread Hunter we just looked at, this is removal on one side and that’s amazing – in fact, in this case the removal is far more efficient! On its own, that card is usually premium removal. The creature side is a little more underwhelming, but still not too shabby for two mana

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Imodane's Recruiter

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

The creature side is effectively a 3-mana 3/2 with Haste that also buffs your whole board. That’s a pretty nice card! The Adventure side isn’t the most efficient way to produce a couple of Knight tokens, but like with all Adventures having that option at all is a big deal. I mean, if you have the time to cast both sides, getting a 3-for-1 isn’t out of the question, and if you have eight mana you can crank out the two 2/2s and then play the recruiter, which will be really devastating. All that said, this is an Adventure creature where you’re more likely to want to play the creature before you ever get the adventure

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Kellan, the Fae-Blooded

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 4.0

A three mana 2/2 with double strike is a card you always play, and this comes with some nice upside in a format with built in Auras in the form of Monster Roles. The tutor side of the card is pretty bad on its own, but because it’s attached to a creature, you can sort of look at this as a 5-mana 2/2 with double strike that tutors something up, and that’s actually a quality card, especially because the card you get is going to synergize with Kellan

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Mosswood Dreadknight

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5.0

The Adventure side gives you a full card, and the creature side usually will too. Sometimes more, because if you trade and get to cast an Adventure we’re talking about a 3-for-1 here. I can’t imagine you normally want to play this on turn two, as a creature, although I suppose if you’ve got a really nasty curve out it can do the trick. But even treating this as a 4-mana 3/2 that draws you a card sounds really good, and you can obviously divide up when you cast the two halves to make it feel even better and if you always have the mana available when it dies, it will just keep coming back

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Picnic Ruiner

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

When it has a big enough friend around, it is going to be an intimidating attacker on any board – and that alone is enough for the Ruiner to be relevant almost all game long. This is a case where I think you probably do play this as a two drop when you have it on turn two, because while the Adventure is a nice bit of value to have, making sure you get it isn’t that important. Obviously, like a lot of these, it is fun how it synergizes with itself, as Stolen Goodies is likely to make one of your creatures have 4 or more power so that the Ruiner can do its thing. Basically, if you draw this later you’ll probably cast both halves, but if you have it early, you’re probably just playing it as a creature. Both of those options feel pretty good, though

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Pollen-Shield Hare

AI Rating: 4.8
Pro Rating: 3.5

When it has a big enough friend around, it is going to be an intimidating attacker on any board – and that alone is enough for the Ruiner to be relevant almost all game long. This is a case where I think you probably do play this as a two drop when you have it on turn two, because while the Adventure is a nice bit of value to have, making sure you get it isn’t that important. Obviously, like a lot of these, it is fun how it synergizes with itself, as Stolen Goodies is likely to make one of your creatures have 4 or more power so that the Ruiner can do its thing. Basically, if you draw this later you’ll probably cast both halves, but if you have it early, you’re probably just playing it as a creature. Both of those options feel pretty good, though There are certainly creature tokens in this format, and Hare Raising will sometimes be an absolute beating. Both sides of this have a really high ceiling, but the floor is actually pretty nice too, as even on their own both halves actually do something. I mean, imagine this as a three mana 2/2 with Hare Raising as the ETB

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Questing Druid

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

One important thing to note here is that Seek the Beast doesn’t give you as much time to play the card as we’ve seen lately, as you only have until your next end step. The good news is, it’s an Instant, so you can cast it at the end of your opponent’s turn, and then take advantage of those cards you reveal with all the mana you still have. And obviously, if you can play the Druid and then a non-green card on that turn, it’s going to feel pretty good. I will say that buffing the druid isn’t really going to be that easy. Sure, a decent chunk of your deck will buff it – but far more of it won’t, and it’s an extremely unimpressive creature if you can’t buff it consistently. Still, this certainly has 3-for-1 potential and is quite efficient

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Scalding Viper

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

While it’s not quite Brazen Borrower for a number of reasons, Scalding Viper is pretty good and will feel similar sometimes. After all, it’s a creature that can bounce a nonland permanent and then add to the board. A two mana 2/1 with the Viper’s ability is a pretty nice two drop for Limited, as it is reasonably likely to chip in some extra damage all game, so the fact this can also bounce something is nice

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Shrouded Shepherd

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 4.0

Cleave Shadows is certainly somewhat situational, but I think you’ll be surprised by how many board states there will be where it lets you kill something. And if you’re doing that the shepherd will feel pretty nuts. You can of course Cleave and then cast the creature in the same turn too, in which case their debuffed board and your buffed creature probably mean you have a pretty great attack. Even without the Adventure, Shrouded Shepherd would definitely be playable too, so this is another one of these where the total package is incredibly impressive

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Spellscorn Coven

AI Rating: 3.4
Pro Rating: 3.5

As with most of these, if you take the adventure away, we’re talking about a playable card. A 4-mana 2/3 flyer that forces your opponent to discard is exactly that, and in the earlier part of the game the fact that this bounces a spell is pretty nice. That effect normally isn’t that impressive, mostly because you would go down a card for tempo alone, but because you have the Coven to play later, that isn’t true in this case. That makes the effect a heck of a lot more powerful

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Tempest Hart

AI Rating: 1.4
Pro Rating: 3.5

Faithless looting for two mana is a really nice adventure to have. That kind of card selection can be huge, especially if you have nothing else to do on turn two. The creature side of this is decidedly less impressive because it starts inefficiently and asks you to do something that even in Blue-Green you’re not going to do so often that the Hart will just become absolutely massive. Even in a ramp deck you can only have so many cards in your deck with a mana value high enough to trigger it

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Threadbind Clique

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 4.0

Both sides of this card have been fairly underwhelming when we’ve seen them lately. Destroying only tapped creatures is highly restrictive and not especially useful when you’re the beat down. But at least it does let you do it at instant speed, so a creature doesn’t have to hit you first. Then, a 4-mana 3/3 Flyer just isn’t what it used to be. However…like with all of these, even two medium cards stapled together is two cards making the Clique really good. It’s another adventure creature with an accessible 2-for-1.

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Twining Twins

AI Rating: 4.8
Pro Rating: 4.5

The Adventure side of this isn’t always going to be super useful, but it is more flexible than most versions of the effect that we see. It can go after opposing creatures, which means that in addition to helping you blink your own stuff, you can use it to temporarily get rid of a blocker. Then, the creature side is incredibly imposing and can take over the game all on its own

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Woodland Acolyte

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 3.5

I would always play a three mana 2/2 that draws me a card, and this is a lot better than that. Because of the Adventure, you can really look at it as a potential 4-mana 2/2 that gets you a permanent back from your graveyard – and that is also a card I would probably always play. Even playing this in a deck that can never cast the Adventure sounds really good

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Agatha's Soul Cauldron

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 2.0

There are definitely activated abilities that your creatures can borrow, but most of this card’s value probably just comes from the fact that you can pit to gain +1/+1 counters on your board. Sometimes you’ll get to do something silly with activated abilities of course, but that part of the card can’t really be counted on. That said, the fact it can go after either graveyard is pretty nice, as it makes it easier and easier for you to get those counters

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Candy Trail

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 1.5

Scry 2 on turn one doesn’t sound like a bad idea in a lot of situations, although using up a whole card to do it definitely isn’t appealing. However, the fact you can cash this in for a card and life later means you don’t use up a whole card. Still, in a format without a big artifact theme, these artifacts that have tiny effects have been fairly underwhelming

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Collector's Vault

AI Rating: 2.4
Pro Rating: 1.5

This is probably a little too clunky to be worth it. Looting and treasure is nice of course, but the number of turns where you have the time and mana to activated this ability will be surprisingly limited

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Eriette's Tempting Apple

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 1.0

A 4-mana Threaten isn’t amazing, but as usual, if you can sacrifice the thing that you steal we’re talking about a potentially powerful card. But the apple’s other two effects aren’t particularly good either

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Gingerbrute

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 2.5

He’s back! He wasn’t too bad as a beater last time around, and that will be pretty true here too with all of the Role tokens. Putting one on him and going to town with him is definitely going to be a way to close out a game

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Hylda's Crown of Winter

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 4.5

This is a pretty spicy take on Icy Manipulator. Like the Manipulator, you can use it to tap an opposing creature on your opponent’s turn. That’s generally the more powerful way to use it, because it also means that creature won’t be attacking or blocking for an entire turn cycle. It’s pretty great that Hylda’s Crown can tap things for free when it’s your turn, and if you’re the beat down that will feel plenty good. Especially if you tapped something at the end of their turn, and then you do it again on your turn. That’s going to really wreak havoc on your opponent and there’s no way they can just ignore the Crown as a result. On top of all of that, the Crown’s ability to tap things plays especially well in a set where there are a handful of cards that pay you off for tapping things

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The Irencrag

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 2.5

A two mana artifact that can tap for one colorless is actually a reasonable card in Limited. We almost never see it these days. Usually, it costs three to get one that will tap for a mana. The card’s other mode will come up too, and while it isn’t exactly the most amazing piece of Equipment in the world, it offers a big enough buff to be something your opponent has to be a little concerned about

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Prophetic Prism

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is pretty solid every time we see it. It’s not going to be as good here as it would be an artifact-heavy set, but it replaces itself and does an okay job of fixing your mana

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Scarecrow Guide

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 2.0

This is another way to fix your mana that is solid, but certainly not exciting

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Soul-Guide Lantern

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 0.5

This can hate on the graveyard quite effectively, and in a pinch it can replace itself. It’s a sideboard card.

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Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

The planeswalker part of the card is usually irrelevant, although it is pretty hilarious when it is active. Still, for Limited, we have to ignore that part of the card when we evaluate it. Mostly, this is a two mana 3/1 that can grow that also happens to be a food, that also happens to like having other food and artifacts around. It works quite well with both food and Bargain

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Three Bowls of Porridge

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 1.5

None of these modes is going to feel very efficient, but they do all do…something. Picking of a small creature will probably feel the best, but tapping things is certainly nice on the right board state, especially if you have a payoff for tapping something. Then it can of course do the Food thing. Still, the ability is expensive enough that having the mana around to actually use it isn’t guaranteed, and it isn’t like any of these modes is really going to make you feel like you’re getting there

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Crystal Grotto

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 1.0

Mana filter lands usually aren’t very good in Limited. It’s just really costly to have to tap two lands for one mana, and that’s effectively what happens when you need to filter using a land. The fact that Prophetic Prism and that Scarecrow are in the set probably also means that the demand for this will be even lower, as those two can filter your mana and you only have to tap one land to do it. Crystal Grotto is usually a 1.5, and with better Common colorless fixing around, this will probably drop down to a 1.0

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Edgewall Inn

AI Rating: 4
Pro Rating: 3.0

This looks like a very nice land. Sure it enters tapped, but unlike a lot of utility lands we see, this one can produce colored mana so it isn’t a liability for your mana base. And that’s great, because the late game ability this has is pretty big. Getting back an Adventure late is going to be something that really helps you grind out a long game, since you often get a card that gives you impressive value when you do. You don’t really want more than one, but I think most decks will have enough adventures to make that first copy pretty nice

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Evolving Wilds

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 2.5

As usual, this provides nice fixing. Makes it pretty easy to splash a single card if you have one Evolving Wilds, since it effectively gives you two sources of your splash color

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Restless Bivouac

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 3.5

One of the greatest things about a creature land, especially one that gives you good fixing like all of the ones in this cycle do, is that they become very real cards by the part of the game where you don’t really need lands anymore, something that isn’t true about typical lands. This becomes an effective attacker that can even put counters on itself and if it’s left unchecked it is definitely a land that can take over the game. Worth remembering creature lands also effectively dodge Sorcery speed removal!

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Restless Cottage

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 4.0

This one transforms into a really beefy creature when you need it to. Even without the attack trigger I would love this, but hating on the graveyard and getting a Food makes this thing even more amazing

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Restless Fortress

AI Rating: 4.1
Pro Rating: 3.5

Sure, a ¼ isn’t always going to get through, but this will drain 2 life any time it attacks, so your opponent will still usually need to alter how they are playing to account for it, and that gives you some pretty real value.

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Restless Spire

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

A 2/1 with First Strike can attack on a whole lot of boards, and the fact that this one is so cheap to animate is pretty amazing. Adding Scry as the attack trigger is definitely a nice addition

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Restless Vinestalk

AI Rating: 4.2
Pro Rating: 4.0

This is the beefiest of all the creature lands in this set, and it does not disappoint. A 5/5 trampler is an imposing presence virtually all game, and this can even buff one of your other creatures! It might take longer to get going than the other 4, but once it does get going, it is certainly the one in the cycle that is the most imposing

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Blind Obedience

AI Rating: 3.4
Pro Rating: 2.5

Adding a one mana kicker to all your stuff that lets you drain 1 life is a pretty useful thing. Making your opponent’s stuff enter tapped is less good, as it is something that only matters if you’re the beatdown. However, the two things do combine fairly nicely together, since draining 1 life will pressure your opponent and the new creatures they play won’t be able to block. Even nerfing food and treasure is going to come up sometimes

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Dawn of Hope

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 3.0

This was pretty nice last time we saw it. Cranking out 1/1s with lifelink and being able to draw cards off of them is nice, and the addition of food in this format means that gaining life isn’t very difficult. This definitely has the potential to be quite the engine, though it can be a little slow to get going

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Grasp of Fate

AI Rating: 3.5
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is an oblivion ring variant, and like all of them it is premium removal. Hitting multiple permanent types and exiling for three is just that good. There’s a risk it gets destroyed of course, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive

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Greater Auramancy

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 1.5

Giving all of your enchanted creatures Shroud is pretty intriguing, since Auras are so easily available in this format. However, this is still an enchantment that does pretty much nothing on its own, and things just won’t always line up for it do something, even in this format.

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Griffin Aerie

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0

I think this has potential, at least in some decks. Food isn’t that readily available in White, but if you’re paired with Black or Green, you’re going to have food – and this basically adds “make a 2/2 flying token” to your food getting sacrificed and that’s honestly…kind of insane. There are other ways to gain life in White too of course, but that’s the one that immediately springs to mind when you see a card that has a threshold of 3 life for it to do something. It needs a build around grade, since not all White decks will trigger it enough, but I think this can make a whole lot of tokens in the right deck

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Intangible Virtue

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0

There are enough tokens in this set for this to be good in some decks. Rat tokens are probably the most plentiful, and if you’re pairing White with Black or Red, you’re likely to have some of those – in addition to Knight tokens, Bird Tokens, and Human tokens

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Karmic Justice

AI Rating: 0.7
Pro Rating: 0.0

Your opponent isn’t going to be destroying your noncreature permanents often enough for this to matter in Limited

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Knightly Valor

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

I’ve liked this Aura every time we’ve seen it. This is because it adds a body to the board in addition to offering a significant buff. Because of that body, this Aura helps get around the inherent downside they have, as it becomes much harder for you to get 2-for-1’d when the Aura gives you a token. It also triggers Celebration

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Land Tax

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 2.5

This thing can be pretty powerful. After all, it can draw you 3 cards a turn! Sure, those cards are all lands…but cards are cards! Getting all the lands out of your deck has its benefits too of course. This can even offer fixing to a White deck since it can grab any basic land. Of course…if you get this late and have more lands than your opponent it basically does nothing and that is a significant downside

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Leyline of Sanctity

AI Rating: 1.6
Pro Rating: 0.0

Giving yourself hexproof almost never matters in Limited

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Phyrexian Unlife

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 0.0

You can use this to sort of give you more life to work with, but the main problem with that is that if you’re dropping to 0 life for some reason and your solution to that problem is Phyrexian Unlife well…you probably didn’t really deal with whatever is about to drop you to 0 life, so you’re likely to get poisoned pretty quickly.

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Rest in Peace

AI Rating: 1.1
Pro Rating: 0.0

Even though this replaces itself, there isn’t enough of a reason to hate on the graveyard in this format to ever make this matter

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Smothering Tithe

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0.0

It’s probably hard for Commander players to believe, but this was pretty bad last time we saw it in Limited. I mean, even if this just spat out a treasure every single turn it wouldn’t actually be that good in a format where mana kind of loses its meaning by the late game, and this is worse than that in most ways

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As Foretold

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0.0

This is another really bad Limited card. You just can’t count on lining things up right with this to ever cast free spells

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Compulsion

AI Rating: 1
Pro Rating: 1.0

This is pretty bad. Sure, rummaging can be nice, but having to pay mana to do it is a big downside, and even though this can replace itself you have to invest 4 mana to get there.

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Copy Enchantment

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

There are enough Enchantments in this format for this to have a reasonable target pretty often. Obviously, copying a token Aura isn’t exactly ideal, but that will often be the fail case and the upside is real

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Curiosity

AI Rating: 2.8
Pro Rating: 1.0

For this to do anything, the creature you put it on generally already has to be good, and when an Aura needs that from you it gets a lot worse. If you have a lot of flyers this isn’t a bad role player, but most of the time you won’t play it

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Forced Fruition

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 0.0

The idea is to make your opponent mill themselves out before they can beat you with their overwhelming card advantage. The problem with that is if you ever play this when you’re behind or at parity, you’re probably going to lose. If you play it when you’re ahead your opponent probably can’t dig themselves out of milling themselves before they stabilize, but that still means this is a pretty big dud most of the time.

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Fraying Sanity

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

To make Fraying Sanity work you usually need some other mill around, and while there’s a little bit of that in this format, there isn’t enough to support this

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Hatching Plans

AI Rating: 3.3
Pro Rating: 3.0

This will be one of the absolute best things you can ever sacrifice to a Bargain card as you end up netting a bunch of cards and getting a bonus effect. Most decks in this format will have enough cards with Bargain to make this worth playing. The downside is, of course, that it does stone nothing when you can’t sacrifice it

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Intruder Alarm

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 0.0

This would be kind of interesting if this format had any creatures who can tap and make a free creature token, because obviously that lets you go infinite. There aren’t any of those, though, so mostly what you get out of this is pseudo-vigilance and a pseudo-lock down effect, but you don’t have any actual control over either. So, this isn’t really worth a card

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Kindred Discovery

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.5

This will probably actually work in a Faerie deck, as if you have a critical mass of those you’re going to be drawing a ton of cards, especially because their evasiveness allows themt o attack so effectively. Other Blue decks in the format aren’t likely to have enough creatures of a single type to make it work though, so this needs a build around grade

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Leyline of Anticipation

AI Rating: 1.7
Pro Rating: 0.0

Giving all your spells flash is a decent upgrade…but not usually one you want to spend an entire card on in Limited

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Omniscience

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 0.0

This is too expensive and by the time you play it, you won’t have anything to put in play for free

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Rhystic Study

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 2.0

Unlike fellow Commander all star Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study isn’t completely unplayable, although it is still way worse in Limited than it is in Commander. If you get it late it won’t do anything. However, playing it in the early to mid-game is likely to cause some significant problems for your opponent

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Spreading Seas

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

This doesn’t do much in Limited. Sure, if your opponent happens to only have one land that can produce one of their colors and you stick this on it, it can be pretty hilarious, but most of the time that’s not going to happen to them. Replacing itself just isn’t’ enough these days, it needs to actually…do something too, and this just won’t

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Bitterblossom

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5.0

This is utterly unbeatable on turn two, and no matter when you draw it, it represents a significant threat that will allow you to really snowball your advantage. It gets even sillier if you happen to be in the Faerie deck and can get extra value out of it

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Dark Tutelage

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 1.5

Drawing extra cards is good, but mana values get high enough in most Limited decks that this might be a problem. If you have a really low curve this can end up being quite the card advantage engine, but I’m skeptical you’ll end up in a deck like that very often

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Grave Pact

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 3.0

This can sometimes do some pretty cools stuff, especially if you’re sacrificing expendable creatures to make your opponent give up something real. And it even makes a trade into a 2-for-1 in your favor. There isn’t always a board state where you can take advantage of it – like if you’re behind. But it’s awesome at parity or if you’re ahead

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Leyline of the Void

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 0.0

It isn’t worth a whole card to hate on the graveyard in this format.

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Necropotence

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 4.0

Drawing a ton of cards is awesome, and that’s certainly what this allows for. If you can combine it with life gain – something Black has plenty of in this format in the form of food tokens, it won’t even really feel like it has a downside, since you’ll just keep drawing cards and having enough life to keep on doing it. The card advantage it grants is often insurmountable, but obviously if you get it when you’re behind it can be kind of a dud. It still sort of gives you a puncher’s chance because of all the cards you can draw, but if your life is low, obviously that’s going to be limited. The triple black cost can be surprisingly challenging in Limited, but this is pretty great overall

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Oppression

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 0.0

I’m not interested in a symmetrical effect that isn’t actually symmetrical, because you spent the mana and used a card to play this in the first place. So, you start out behind when both players start having to discard things

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Oversold Cemetery

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 3.0

Getting four or more creatures in your graveyard isn’t a huge ask in the mid to late game, and if you can use this to draw a couple of cards, you’re going to feel fine about it. Most Black decks will be creature heavy enough and graveyard-oriented enough for this to deliver some very real value. With adventures around, this will often effectively allow you to get back instants and sorceries too!

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Polluted Bonds

AI Rating: 1.8
Pro Rating: 1.0

This has a powerful effect, but by the time you play this your opponent won’t really be desperate to play new lands, so you aren’t putting the squeeze on them nearly as much as you might think

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Sanguine Bond

AI Rating: 1.2
Pro Rating: 0.0

There’s definitely life gain in Black, but the fact this is so expensive and does stone nothing unless you manage to draw it before you use your Food tokens and things like that is a pretty big problem

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Stab Wound

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 3.0

This has been a nice Limited card every time we’ve seen it. It feels good to outright kill something with it, but it feels even better to put it on a creature that doesn’t die because the Aura usually does enough to make that creature irrelevant while it also starts quickly pressuring your opponent’s life

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Vampiric Rites

AI Rating: 1.6
Pro Rating: 3.0

This is a pretty nice sacrifice outlet, and Black in this format has access to many rat tokens that will feel particularly good to sacrifice to this

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Waste Not

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

You can’t build a dedicated discard deck in this format

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Aggravated Assault

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 0.0

Paying a total of 8 mana for an extra combat step a good way to lose. There will be times where you can use that extra combat step to great effect, but there will be more when you have neither the time nor the mana, nor the board state to actually make this matter

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Blood Moon

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 0.0

Not enough nonbasic lands in the format

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Dragon Mantle

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 1.5

Giving a creature firebereathing isn’t particularly useful unless that creature was also pretty good, but this does replace itself, so that makes the floor on it pretty reasonable, especially for a one mana card. It isn’t a bad thing to sacrifice to Bargain either, since it will have already giving you a card

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Fiery Emancipation

AI Rating: 2.6
Pro Rating: 3.0

This can really augment your board the turn you play it, since it effectively triples the power of all of your creatures. This makes them better in combat and obviously better at damaging your opponent too. It even makes them better blockers, so this isn’t a complete disaster when you’re behind either. If you don’t have a somewhat reasonable board state it doesn’t do anything, but most of the time it will do something and sometimes it will be backbreaking

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Goblin Bombardment

AI Rating: 2.9
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.5

A free sacrifice effect isn’t the kind of thing we see all that often today because it’s so powerful. If your deck has a ton of creature tokens – like rats – this has the potential to be pretty powerful, as turning every one of your creatures into one damage can often turn a game on its head. However, you do need to have those creatures, meaning this doesn’t do a whole lot on its own. It probably needs a build around grade, because you’re going to need both a really high creature count and a lot of creature tokens before this starts to approach something worth of making your deck

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Impact Tremors

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 2.5

Like Goblin Bombardment, if your deck can make a lot of bodies, this does represent a pretty big problem for your opponent, although it is a very awkward top deck unlike Bombardment. Bombardment rewards you for already having things in play, Impact Tremors doesn’t

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Leyline of Lightning

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

This effect just isn’t worth a card, so even if you put it into play for free you’re not going to really feel good about it, in fact it will feel like you mulliganed. Having the spare mana to ping your opponent won’t happen until late, and it usually won’t be very meaningful when you have it either

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Mana Flare

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 0.0

You don’t really want to double the mana you and your opponent produce, especially because most of the time when you play this your opponent will get the first crack at all that sweet, sweet mana

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Raid Bombardment

AI Rating: 1.9
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 2.5

Another Enchantment that rewards you for having lots of small creatures – things might get interesting if you can get your hands on impact tremors and goblin bombardment along with this. Anyway, like those this probably needs a specific deck – one that makes lots of Rats seems the most appealing. But if you can do that, you can quickly damage your opponent. It’s probably an F in most decks, and a C in a deck that got there on small stuff

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Repercussion

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 0.0

This is another symmetrical effect that it’s very hard to make sure you get the best of, so it’s better not to play it

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Shared Animosity

AI Rating: 2
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0

This is another Enchantment that gets interesting alongside Rat tokens, as if you have even just three of them around it gives them a huge upgrade. In Red you aren’t that likely to have a critical mass of other creature types though, so this probably needs a build around grade

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Sneak Attack

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 1.5

If you have some big creatures, especially those with ETBs, sneak attacking them into play can be pretty nasty. And there are a few of those in the format. The bad part is that most of the time Sneak Attacking a creature doesn’t let you add to the board permanently, and if you don’t have some board presence you’re probably still going to lose. There’s a ton of power here, clearly, but making it work in Limited might be a little bit too tricky

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Defense of the Heart

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 4.5

If you can get this to trigger, obviously it’s pretty nuts, as you get your two best creatures directly on the battlefield. Making it trigger isn’t farfetched either, as I would say by the mid game most of the time in Limited, your opponent probably has three creatures. They can try their best to get under three creatures before it triggers, but if they are doing that, you’re still drastically altering their game plan

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Doubling Season

AI Rating: 3.2
Pro Rating: 1.0

This format does have a lot of tokens to double, but not very many +1/+1 counters. On its own, this is a 5-mana card that doesn’t do anything and that’s a pretty huge liability. You can definitely get some sweet value out of it sometimes, but it’s very slow and needs very specific cards

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Garruk's Uprising

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 2.5

The Red/Green and Blue/Green decks in this format can probably make decent use of this. One of the nice things about it is that it rewards you some for already having big things in play and then rewards you as well when you play them afterward, that means most of the time it will do something

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Ground Seal

AI Rating: 1.3
Pro Rating: 0.0

There’s not enough of a reason to hate on the graveyard in this format

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Hardened Scales

AI Rating: 2.1
Pro Rating: 0.0

Not enough +1/+1 counters in this format

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Leyline of Abundance

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

This format does have a few creatures who can tap for mana, but not really enough to make this card worth it. It isn’t worth just having this activated ability either. Most of the time this just won’t do anything.

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Nature's Will

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 0.0

This triggering often won’t do anything to your opponent or help you cast anything. If you play it on turn four there’s a decent chance it will help you double spell or something, but it’s usefulness quickly dissipates the longer the game goes

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Parallel Lives

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 1.5

There are a lot of tokens in this format so this probably has some potential. Like a lot of the cards in this bonus sheet though, it doesn’t really do anything on its own, and that’s always going to hurt a card significantly

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Primal Vigor

AI Rating: 1.5
Pro Rating: 0.0

This is a symmetrical version of Doubling Season, more or less. So, it’s even worse

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Prismatic Omen

AI Rating: 2.2
Pro Rating: 2.5

If you need fixing, you could do worse than this as it obviously gives you some pretty perfect mana. You aren’t always in the market for fixing of course, but if you are this works pretty nicely

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Season of Growth

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 2.0

The Scry effect alone isn’t enough to run this, but the good news is there are several green cards in the set that will trigger this, even at lower rarities. They are combat tricks of course, but this also works pretty well with all the fight and bite spells, as it will make them into 2-for-1s, which is actually pretty nuts. So, I think you can actually play one of these in most Green decks and have it do something, and in some of them it might be really nuts

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Unnatural Growth

AI Rating: 3
Pro Rating: 3.5

This works during both players combat, and as long as you have some creatures it is going to drastically upgrade your board, often allowing you to swing for massive amounts of damage, or if you’re behind, suddenly your smaller creatures can tangle with theirs. It was pretty good when we saw it last time, the only real problem is costing four Green mana, which means you won’t always be able to get it going when you want it to

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Utopia Sprawl

AI Rating: 3.8
Pro Rating: 3.0

This offers nice fixing and ramp at a very efficient rate. It lets you play three mana things on turn two which is always nice. It does only Enchant forests, which comes up sometimes, but this is still a pretty great way to get a mana advantage early. It does get worse later in the game when mana is less meaningful, but that early game upside is enough for this to be pretty good

Card Pro Rating AI Rating APA Picked ALSA Seen
ss-rare|White|Creature — Archon
5.0 4.9 1.46 41 2.00 65
ss-common|White|Instant
2.0 2 9.47 36 7.67 315
ss-common|White|Creature — Mouse
2.0 1.9 9.79 38 8.89 365
ss-common|White|Creature — Human Knight
3.0 2.3 8.60 35 7.40 304
ss-common|White|Instant
2.0 1.3 11.47 34 9.57 383
ss-common|White|Creature — Faerie Advisor
2.5 1.9 9.73 33 8.36 342
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Mouse
3.0 2.7 7.31 16 5.85 100
ss-common|White|Enchantment — Aura
2.5 3.7 4.74 38 4.59 182
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Human Noble
3.0 3.3 5.75 16 4.60 68
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Human Noble
3.0 2.5 8.12 16 5.06 105
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Griffin
3.0 2.7 7.36 14 5.86 100
ss-rare|White|Instant
0.0 1 12.14 14 8.97 143
ss-rare|White|Sorcery
5.0 4.5 2.37 35 2.20 67
ss-common|White|Creature — Elemental Soldier
1.5 1.6 10.39 23 8.45 358
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Dwarf Knight
3.5 3.3 5.75 16 4.93 100
ss-uncommon|White|Artifact
3.5 3.1 6.22 18 4.43 78
ss-common|White|Enchantment
2.5 3.6 4.92 49 4.71 207
ss-common|White|Instant
2.5 2.7 7.48 31 6.13 233
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Human Knight
1.0 // 3.5 2.5 8.06 16 6.44 125
ss-common|White|Instant
1.5 1.8 10.05 40 8.66 319
ss-mythic|White|Creature — Spirit Knight
3.0 -0 15.00 0 2.89 9
ss-common|White|Instant
1.5 1.1 11.82 39 9.65 400
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment — Saga
2.0 3.8 4.37 19 3.84 58
ss-common|White|Creature — Human Peasant
2.5 1.5 10.79 29 8.99 347
ss-rare|White|Creature — Rabbit Unicorn
3.0 4.8 1.75 40 2.20 65
ss-common|White|Sorcery
2.0 2.1 9.10 29 7.88 324
ss-common|White|Creature — Elk
2.5 1.8 9.88 24 8.74 358
ss-common|White|Creature — Human Knight
2.5 1.6 10.63 43 8.87 394
ss-common|White|Creature — Human Knight
2.0 1.5 10.88 32 8.76 349
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment
1.0 // 3.0 2.1 9.06 16 7.31 114
ss-rare|White|Creature — Human Peasant
5.0 5 1.00 59 1.00 73
ss-common|White|Creature — Dwarf Knight
1.5 2.4 8.17 47 6.60 240
ss-uncommon|White|Instant
3.0 2.1 9.00 11 5.55 96
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
1.0 3.3 5.67 6 3.54 27
ss-rare|White|Enchantment — Saga
4.5 4.6 2.00 38 2.25 72
ss-common|White|Creature — Faerie Scout
2.5 1.5 10.81 31 8.98 384
ss-common|White|Creature — Human Peasant Wizard
2.0 1.9 9.65 34 8.42 359
ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
5.0 5 1.00 2 1.00 2
ss-rare|White|Creature — Elf Fox Knight
4.0 4.5 2.31 39 2.27 68
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Elemental
1.5 1.8 9.82 34 8.54 348
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Dragon Wizard
2.5 3.3 5.83 12 4.38 70
ss-mythic|Blue|Sorcery
3.5 5 1.00 2 2.22 9
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Giant Soldier
2.5 2.7 7.40 25 6.62 259
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment — Aura
3.0 3.2 6.11 18 5.00 74
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Faerie Advisor
4.0 2.1 9.05 20 6.84 115
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Human Warlock
2.5 1.8 10.04 28 8.67 349
ss-uncommon|Blue|Instant
0.5 1.5 10.89 9 7.50 128
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
3.5 4.1 3.56 9 2.74 24
ss-rare|Blue|Instant
3.0 3.6 4.46 28 3.48 124
ss-common|Blue|Sorcery
2.0 1.1 12.00 17 9.56 329
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment — Saga
1.5 // 3.5 2.5 8.00 10 5.80 108
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Giant Wizard
3.0 1.8 9.89 9 7.10 137
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Whale
4.5 4.5 2.30 47 2.03 81
ss-common|Blue|Instant
2.0 2 9.34 29 8.29 315
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Elemental Soldier
3.0 2.5 7.88 8 5.73 91
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Human Wizard
4.0 4.9 1.26 43 1.32 74
ss-common|Blue|Sorcery
1.5 2.4 8.36 33 7.34 295
ss-common|Blue|Sorcery
2.5 1.9 9.80 44 8.39 329
ss-common|Blue|Artifact Creature — Construct
3.0 1.1 11.97 37 9.38 339
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Merfolk
2.0 0.9 12.44 25 10.11 433
ss-common|Blue|Instant
3.0 0.9 12.49 39 10.07 411
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Faerie Rogue
2.5 1.8 10.06 33 7.80 338
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Faerie Wizard
3.5 1.6 10.55 38 8.07 329
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Faerie Rogue
3.0 3.5 5.24 17 4.60 76
ss-common|Blue|Instant
2.0 2 9.46 24 7.34 297
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Faerie Wizard
2.5 4.4 2.57 30 2.54 62
ss-common|Blue|Sorcery
2.0 1.7 10.28 25 9.23 369
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Faerie Wizard
3.0 1.8 9.86 29 8.38 361
ss-common|Blue|Instant
1.0 // 2.5 2.2 8.74 35 7.42 297
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Elemental Wizard
3.5 2.9 7.00 19 5.47 106
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Human Rogue
1.5 0.9 12.42 33 10.17 410
ss-uncommon|Blue|Instant
1.5 1.5 10.78 9 7.30 128
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Faerie Noble
5.0 4.7 1.79 39 1.89 66
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Human Knight
3.5 2.6 7.76 17 5.38 105
ss-common|Blue|Creature — Human Wizard
3.0 2.1 9.22 36 8.03 323
ss-mythic|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 3.2 5.38 13 4.27 90
ss-common|Blue|Instant
2.0 0.9 12.46 26 10.32 452
ss-mythic|Black|Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
5.0 5 1.00 2 1.00 3
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature Nightmare
2.5 2.4 8.25 8 5.84 110
ss-uncommon|Black|Sorcery
3.5 3.6 4.90 10 4.23 83
ss-common|Black|Creature — Faerie
2.0 3.1 6.33 36 6.06 222
ss-mythic|Black|Sorcery
2.0 3.5 4.57 14 3.14 64
ss-common|Black|Instant
4.0 4.3 2.86 65 3.13 118
ss-common|Black|Creature — Human Warlock
3.0 3.2 6.10 42 5.52 235
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Faerie Warlock
1.0 1.5 10.75 4 6.40 139
ss-uncommon|Black|Sorcery
0.0 1.2 11.70 10 7.46 128
ss-rare|Black|Instant
3.5 4.6 2.07 43 2.08 64
ss-common|Black|Sorcery
1.5 1.3 11.42 24 8.45 349
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Faerie Warlock
3.5 3.6 4.78 23 4.72 84
ss-uncommon|Black|Instant
4.0 3.6 4.79 19 3.80 72
ss-common|Black|Instant
2.0 3.8 4.47 38 4.58 199
ss-common|Black|Creature — Zombie Knight
3.0 2.4 8.37 38 7.41 324
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Human Warlock
4.5 4.9 1.40 47 1.47 61
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Faerie Warlock
3.5 4 3.80 10 3.21 55
ss-common|Black|Enchantment
2.5 3.4 5.49 43 5.46 230
ss-rare|Black|Sorcery
1.5 3.5 5.20 5 3.97 39
ss-rare|Black|Legendary Creature — Rat Noble
4.5 4.8 1.60 48 1.72 61
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
3.5 4.7 1.89 38 1.94 68
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Rat Peasant
4.0 3.9 4.06 16 3.64 51
ss-common|Black|Creature — Horror
2.0 3.1 6.28 50 5.61 233
ss-common|Black|Instant
1.5 1.7 10.11 28 8.31 321
ss-rare|Black|Sorcery
2.5 4.5 2.44 34 2.29 81
ss-common|Black|Instant
2.0 2.8 7.18 57 6.82 296
ss-common|Black|Instant
2.0 2.2 8.76 41 7.57 295
ss-common|Black|Creature Horror
2.0 2.8 7.14 36 6.61 308
ss-common|Black|Sorcery
2.5 3.1 6.41 32 5.66 227
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Specter
5.0 4.7 1.77 44 2.31 66
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Human Warlock
3.0 4.2 3.00 46 2.81 98
ss-common|Black|Creature — Faerie Assassin
1.5 2 9.49 37 8.25 332
ss-common|Black|Instant
1.5 1.4 10.97 36 9.14 381
ss-common|Black|Creature — Human Warlock
3.0 3.3 5.77 39 5.83 240
ss-uncommon|Black|Instant
3.5 3.9 4.10 20 3.53 46
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Rat
3.5 4.7 1.84 45 1.75 73
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Human Warlock
4.5 3.8 4.43 14 3.37 51
ss-mythic|Black|Enchantment
5.0 4.9 1.33 3 1.25 4
ss-common|Black|Creature — Rat
2.0 3.1 6.35 34 5.11 193
ss-common|Black|Creature — Cat
1.5 1.4 10.94 17 7.54 287
ss-common|Black|Creature — Nightmare
2.0 1.8 10.00 37 8.10 308
ss-uncommon|Black|Enchantment — Saga
4.0 4.4 2.71 21 2.32 53
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Ogre Warrior
2.5 3.3 5.63 19 4.27 86
ss-common|Red|Creature — Ogre
2.0 1.8 10.08 37 8.42 335
ss-common|Red|Artifact — Equipment
0.0 1.5 10.79 29 9.49 386
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Human Ranger
2.5 3.2 6.05 19 5.66 110
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Human Rogue
4.0 4.5 2.30 46 2.09 77
ss-common|Red|Sorcery
2.5 3.7 4.63 46 4.12 160
ss-common|Red|Creature — Dog
3.0 3 6.66 38 5.74 222
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Human Knight
3.0 3.5 5.25 16 4.87 64
ss-common|Red|Instant
2.0 2.8 7.22 36 6.59 277
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
0.0 2.1 9.09 11 6.56 42
ss-common|Red|Instant
3.5 2.9 6.98 45 6.40 239
ss-common|Red|Instant
1.0 // 2.5 1.8 10.00 35 8.53 352
ss-rare|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Noble
4.0 4.6 2.02 44 1.95 64
ss-common|Red|Creature — Giant
2.0 2.6 7.78 32 6.03 226
ss-common|Red|Creature — Human Peasant
2.0 3.1 6.44 50 6.96 285
ss-common|Red|Creature — Human Soldier
1.5 2.5 7.91 44 7.46 265
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Elemental
3.5 3.6 4.89 18 3.62 69
ss-rare|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Knight
2.5 3.9 3.69 29 3.01 82
ss-common|Red|Instant
1.5 1.2 11.66 32 10.10 398
ss-uncommon|Red|Enchantment — Saga
1.0 1.5 10.75 4 7.23 137
ss-common|Red|Creature — Human Bard
2.0 2 9.52 44 8.21 347
ss-common|Red|Creature — Dwarf Knight
3.5 2.6 7.71 45 7.45 295
ss-uncommon|Red|Instant
2.5 3.5 5.08 13 4.16 58
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Mouse
3.5 3.5 5.17 6 4.11 22
ss-common|Red|Creature — Human Peasant
3.0 3.5 5.13 31 4.97 195
ss-mythic|Red|Creature — Dragon
5.0 4.9 1.20 5 1.20 5
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Goblin Warrior
5.0 4.7 1.84 51 1.81 61
ss-common|Red|Creature — Goblin Rogue
2.5 2.7 7.51 39 6.85 266
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Elemental
1.5 4.3 3.00 5 3.67 21
ss-common|Red|Creature — Dwarf Knight
1.5 1.4 11.00 35 8.99 397
ss-rare|Red|Sorcery
3.5 4.7 1.88 52 1.82 69
ss-uncommon|Red|Instant
4.0 3.9 4.20 20 3.68 77
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Human Peasant
2.5 2.8 7.30 20 6.22 130
ss-common|Red|Instant
4.0 4.3 3.09 47 3.44 115
ss-uncommon|Red|Sorcery
1.5 3.7 4.53 19 4.55 98
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Giant
4.5 4.2 3.32 25 3.00 68
ss-common|Red|Artifact Creature — Construct
1.0 // 3.0 2.1 9.14 37 8.49 368
ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment
3.0 4.3 2.83 6 2.92 13
ss-common|Red|Sorcery
2.0 2.2 8.76 42 7.98 326
ss-uncommon|Red|Instant
4.0 4.4 2.62 26 2.55 38
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Human Knight
3.5 4.1 3.56 18 3.11 48
ss-common|Green|Creature — Plant Wurm
2.0 1.7 10.28 18 6.43 274
ss-common|Green|Enchantment — Aura
1.0 1.3 11.43 30 9.36 397
ss-mythic|Green|Creature — Turtle
3.0 4.2 3.33 3 2.57 7
ss-rare|Green|Creature — Elemental Raccoon
4.0 4.4 2.64 39 2.39 78
ss-common|Green|Sorcery
2.0 2.5 7.98 43 7.57 285
ss-common|Green|Sorcery
1.5 1.1 11.97 30 10.17 407
ss-common|Green|Sorcery
3.0 3.5 5.16 38 5.30 228
ss-rare|Green|Creature — Elf Artificer
4.0 4.6 2.11 44 2.16 68
ss-rare|Green|Sorcery
4.0 4.4 2.54 48 2.76 93
ss-common|Green|Creature — Elf Fox Warrior
3.5 3.1 6.36 33 6.08 216
ss-uncommon|Green|Sorcery
3.5 3.5 5.33 18 4.00 78
ss-rare|Green|Creature — Satyr Warrior
5.0 5 1.00 60 1.00 70
ss-common|Green|Creature — Giant
3.0 3.4 5.50 36 4.73 174
ss-common|Green|Creature — Wolf
2.5 2.8 7.10 31 5.34 206
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Beast
3.5 3.2 6.10 10 4.70 82
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment — Saga
4.0 4.7 1.90 50 1.93 82
ss-common|Green|Instant
1.0 1.3 11.27 26 9.58 415
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment
0.0 1.4 11.14 14 7.31 87
ss-common|Green|Creature — Elf Advisor
3.0 2.8 7.10 29 6.88 288
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Elf Warrior
3.5 3.7 4.74 19 4.03 82
ss-common|Green|Sorcery
2.0 1.9 9.61 38 7.80 308
ss-common|Green|Creature — Satyr Scout
3.0 3.2 6.03 34 4.97 207
ss-uncommon|Green|Instant
2.0 3.2 6.00 16 4.50 81
ss-rare|Green|Creature — Elf Knight
3.5 4.5 2.44 34 2.33 66
ss-common|Green|Creature — Giant Archer
1.5 1.4 11.09 32 8.93 389
ss-common|Green|Sorcery
0.5 1.2 11.60 30 9.49 393
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Giant Warrior
4.0 4.1 3.40 15 3.96 67
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Satyr
3.5 3.1 6.22 18 4.67 90
ss-common|Green|Creature — Wolf
1.5 1.7 10.18 34 8.63 359
ss-rare|Green|Sorcery
4.5 3 6.60 5 5.14 34
ss-common|Green|Instant
2.0 1.2 11.78 36 9.39 409
ss-common|Green|Creature — Ouphe
0.0 1 12.27 15 9.54 381
ss-uncommon|Green|Artifact Creature — Food Golem
4.0 4.2 3.15 27 3.43 49
ss-common|Green|Creature — Ouphe
2.5 1.9 9.61 33 8.01 332
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment
2.5 3.8 4.35 17 4.59 93
ss-common|Green|Creature — Human Knight
2.0 1.5 10.69 29 9.09 366
ss-mythic|Green|Enchantment
1.0 4.2 3.00 13 3.56 67
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment — Saga
3.5 4.1 3.64 22 3.35 56
ss-mythic|Red|Green|Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
3.0 3.7 4.10 20 3.69 65
ss-rare|Blue|Red|Enchantment
3.5 2.1 9.00 8 5.52 34
ss-uncommon|White|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Peasant
3.0 3.5 5.14 14 5.46 86
ss-mythic|White|Black|Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
3.5 3.2 6.00 1 5.00 5
ss-rare|Black|Green|Creature — Troll
4.5 4.7 1.82 49 1.84 71
ss-rare|Blue|Green|Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra
5.0 5 1.02 45 1.03 71
ss-uncommon|Black|Green|Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
4.0 3.6 4.96 24 3.59 67
ss-mythic|White|Blue|Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
2.5 // 5.0 4.6 2.00 3 2.88 9
ss-uncommon|Blue|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
3.5 3 6.53 17 5.44 99
ss-rare|Blue|Black|Creature — Faerie Shapeshifter
4.5 2.9 7.00 4 3.52 26
ss-uncommon|White|Black|Legendary Creature — Human Noble
3.5 3.6 4.81 16 4.63 96
ss-uncommon|Blue|Black|Legendary Creature — Faerie Warrior
4.0 2.9 6.89 9 5.24 76
ss-mythic|Black|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
3.0 3.7 4.16 19 3.48 63
ss-uncommon|Red|Green|Legendary Creature — Human Scout
3.5 3 6.64 11 5.71 110
ss-uncommon|White|Blue|Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
3.5 3.3 5.85 13 5.60 84
ss-uncommon|White|Green|Legendary Creature — Human Knight
4.0 3.5 5.17 12 5.18 66
ss-mythic|Blue|Black|Legendary Creature — Faerie Noble
4.0 4.6 2.00 4 2.00 4
ss-uncommon|Black|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Warlock Bard
3.5 3.3 5.82 17 4.66 96
ss-uncommon|Blue|Green|Legendary Creature — Vedalken Scout
4.0 1.5 10.78 9 6.67 127
ss-mythic|White|Blue|Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
3.0 3.3 5.21 14 3.87 82
ss-rare|White|Green|Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
4.0 4.2 3.05 39 2.92 92
ss-mythic|Blue|Red|Green|Legendary Creature — Giant Noble
3.0 3.5 4.70 10 3.95 65
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Human Soldier
2.5 3.8 4.40 15 4.75 63
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Nightmare
2.5 4.1 3.24 29 3.11 79
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Dragon
5.0 4.7 1.79 52 1.79 62
ss-rare|Black|Creature — Horror
3.5 4.6 2.16 31 2.02 63
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Otter
4.5 4.3 2.75 36 2.54 92
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Otter Wizard
4.0 3.5 5.18 17 4.90 78
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Giant
4.5 4.3 3.00 27 2.72 49
ss-rare|White|Creature — Human Knight
5.0 4.6 2.18 57 2.34 89
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Human Knight
3.5 4.5 2.44 25 2.28 38
ss-mythic|Red|Legendary Creature — Human Faerie
4.0 5 1.00 4 2.00 6
ss-rare|Green|Creature Human Knight
5.0 4.7 1.79 61 1.74 82
ss-uncommon|Red|Creature — Goblin Rogue
3.5 3.5 5.29 14 4.51 79
ss-rare|White|Creature — Rabbit
3.5 4.8 1.57 7 3.05 23
ss-rare|Green|Creature — Human Druid
3.0 4.7 1.83 40 2.12 80
ss-rare|Red|Creature — Elemental Snake
4.0 4.5 2.45 49 2.67 85
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Spirit Warrior
4.0 3.5 5.25 20 4.15 67
ss-uncommon|Black|Creature — Faerie Warlock
3.5 3.4 5.57 14 3.81 57
ss-uncommon|Green|Creature — Elemental Elk
3.5 1.4 11.17 6 6.23 103
ss-uncommon|Blue|Creature — Faerie
4.0 3.9 4.18 22 3.78 74
ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Faerie Wizard
4.5 4.8 1.67 40 2.40 75
ss-uncommon|White|Creature — Human Cleric
3.5 3.8 4.38 13 3.87 64
ss-mythic||Legendary Artifact
2.0 4.6 2.00 1 1.50 2
ss-common||Artifact — Food Clue
1.5 2.2 8.83 36 7.87 316
ss-uncommon||Artifact
1.5 2.4 8.27 11 5.86 105
ss-uncommon||Legendary Artifact — Food
1.0 2.7 7.40 15 5.43 101
ss-common||Artifact Creature — Food Golem
2.5 2.6 7.69 36 6.40 247
ss-rare||Legendary Artifact
4.5 4.9 1.14 58 1.12 70
ss-rare||Legendary Artifact
2.5 3.5 5.33 3 3.88 24
ss-common||Artifact
2.0 2.8 7.09 53 6.24 271
ss-common||Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
2.0 1.8 9.95 42 8.65 346
ss-uncommon||Artifact
0.5 1.2 11.64 14 9.14 175
ss-rare||Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Knight
3.5 4.5 2.36 44 2.23 83
ss-uncommon||Artifact — Food
1.5 2.3 8.60 10 6.70 142
ss-common||Land
1.0 2.3 8.46 26 6.93 284
ss-uncommon||Land
3.0 4 3.86 21 3.57 57
ss-common||Land
2.5 3 6.46 52 5.88 267
ss-rare||Land
3.5 3.9 3.64 55 3.23 145
ss-rare||Land
4.0 4.4 2.61 41 2.49 81
ss-rare||Land
3.5 4.1 3.25 32 2.74 93
ss-rare||Land
3.5 3.6 5.00 9 3.84 28
ss-rare||Land
4.0 4.2 3.12 41 3.02 113
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
2.5 3.4 4.83 18 3.88 74
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
3.0 3 5.75 12 3.43 79
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment
3.5 3.5 5.19 16 3.88 79
ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
1.5 -0 15.00 0 4.00 3
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment
0.0 // 3.0 1.9 9.73 15 7.06 141
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment
0.0 // 3.0 1.3 11.31 13 7.09 131
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
0.0 0.7 13.00 2 5.50 21
ss-uncommon|White|Enchantment — Aura
3.0 2.7 7.47 15 5.43 120
ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
2.5 -0 15.00 0 2.50 4
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
0.0 1.6 9.14 14 5.98 133
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
0.0 2.9 7.00 2 4.78 22
ss-rare|White|Enchantment
0.0 1.1 12.00 1 6.61 24
ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
0.0 -0 15.00 0 4.00 4
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 -0 15.00 0 6.53 23
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment
1.0 1 12.15 13 8.51 192
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
3.0 2.8 6.33 15 5.81 110
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment — Aura
1.0 2.8 7.08 13 5.57 122
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 2 9.33 6 5.86 27
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment — Aura Curse
0.0 1.5 9.29 14 6.28 140
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment
3.0 3.3 5.71 31 5.22 98
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 2 9.50 2 6.06 25
ss-mythic|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 // 3.5 -0 15.00 0 5.12 8
ss-rare|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 1.7 8.93 14 6.04 114
ss-mythic|Blue|Enchantment
0.0 2.3 7.56 9 5.43 66
ss-mythic|Blue|Enchantment
2.0 -0 15.00 0 4.67 4
ss-uncommon|Blue|Enchantment — Aura
0.0 1.5 10.89 19 7.37 172
ss-mythic|Black|Tribal Enchantment — Faerie
5.0 5 1.00 1 1.00 1
ss-uncommon|Black|Enchantment
1.5 1.5 10.76 17 7.59 178
ss-mythic|Black|Enchantment
3.0 -0 15.00 0 2.33 3
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
0.0 2.2 7.80 20 5.79 127
ss-mythic|Black|Enchantment
4.0 4.6 2.00 3 2.60 5
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
0.0 1.2 10.00 11 5.81 114
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
3.0 2.9 7.00 3 4.21 15
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
1.0 1.8 8.70 10 4.97 115
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
0.0 1.2 9.90 10 5.83 135
ss-uncommon|Black|Enchantment — Aura
3.0 3.7 4.55 11 3.43 72
ss-uncommon|Black|Enchantment
3.0 1.6 10.64 14 7.00 139
ss-rare|Black|Enchantment
0.0 2.5 8.00 1 4.67 23
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
0.0 2.6 7.80 5 6.00 21
ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment
0.0 2.1 9.00 3 5.50 9
ss-uncommon|Red|Enchantment — Aura
1.5 2.6 7.78 18 6.54 146
ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment
3.0 2.6 6.71 17 4.16 100
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
1.0 // 3.5 2.9 6.00 22 4.12 90
ss-uncommon|Red|Enchantment
0.0 // 2.5 1.9 9.60 5 6.53 116
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
0.0 1.5 9.38 16 6.35 146
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
0.0 2 9.50 4 6.84 24
ss-uncommon|Red|Enchantment
0.0 // 2.5 1.9 9.62 13 6.57 162
ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment
0.0 1.3 9.83 6 5.02 61
ss-rare|Red|Enchantment
0.0 // 3.0 2 8.18 11 5.80 114
ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment
1.5 -0 15.00 0 5.00 5
ss-mythic|Green|Enchantment
4.5 -0 15.00 0 1.00 2
ss-mythic|Green|Enchantment
1.0 3.2 6.00 1 5.36 12
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment
2.5 2.1 9.00 13 6.16 124
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment
0.0 1.3 11.28 18 8.23 178
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
0.0 2.1 8.00 13 5.24 118
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
0.0 1.5 9.33 18 6.64 113
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
0.0 2.7 6.60 5 5.72 101
ss-mythic|Green|Enchantment
1.5 2.3 8.50 2 4.29 8
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
0.0 1.5 9.31 16 5.49 102
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
2.5 2.2 7.60 15 5.85 145
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment
2.0 2.5 8.00 14 5.56 122
ss-rare|Green|Enchantment
3.5 3 5.72 18 3.96 78
ss-uncommon|Green|Enchantment — Aura
3.0 3.8 4.32 22 3.85 78
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