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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts Limited Quiz
Answered: 0/20
Accuracy: 0
Accuracy: 0
Average Picked At: 13.26
Total Times Picked: 38
Average Last Seen At: 9.60
Total Times Seen 547
Total Times Picked: 38
Average Last Seen At: 9.60
Total Times Seen 547
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: You don’t want to be doing this. For the most part, this effect is meaningless! There are of course some cornercases – like if you have a card that destroys artifacts you can make it destroy any permanent – or if you need another artifact in play for some effect it can do that, but there’s a reason I said “corner cases.” This just doesn’t do enough.
Pro Comment: You don’t want to be doing this. For the most part, this effect is meaningless! There are of course some cornercases – like if you have a card that destroys artifacts you can make it destroy any permanent – or if you need another artifact in play for some effect it can do that, but there’s a reason I said “corner cases.” This just doesn’t do enough.
Average Picked At: 4.25
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 2.60
Total Times Seen 16
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 2.60
Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This isn’t close to efficient at utilizing any of these effects, but it does make for a kind of interesting win condition for powerstone ramp decks, which should be able to utilize these abilities multiple times. Still, the first few turns after you play it it feels pretty bad, since you aren’t really doing anything with it for awhile, and then once you do it takes some pretty amazing effort
Pro Comment: This isn’t close to efficient at utilizing any of these effects, but it does make for a kind of interesting win condition for powerstone ramp decks, which should be able to utilize these abilities multiple times. Still, the first few turns after you play it it feels pretty bad, since you aren’t really doing anything with it for awhile, and then once you do it takes some pretty amazing effort
Average Picked At: 5.75
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 4.17
Total Times Seen 53
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 4.17
Total Times Seen 53
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: I like drawing extra cards. I don’t like letting my opponent draw extra cards too, especially when they get to draw first – which they will once you play the Mine. Generally this benefits your opponent more than it benefits you because of that, and that really hurts this card’s value
Pro Comment: I like drawing extra cards. I don’t like letting my opponent draw extra cards too, especially when they get to draw first – which they will once you play the Mine. Generally this benefits your opponent more than it benefits you because of that, and that really hurts this card’s value
Average Picked At: 2.14
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.18
Total Times Seen 12
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.18
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is pretty powerful! A 6-mana 4/4 flyer is right around a 2.0, and this has the massive upside of gaining counters when you cast colored spells. This format doesn’t hve a huge multicolored theme, so most of the time you’ll just be gaining one counter at a time, but that’s plenty on a Flyer. You won’t really find yourself ever using the ability to remove counters, but that doesn’t matter – the rest of the card is plenty strong.
Pro Comment: This is pretty powerful! A 6-mana 4/4 flyer is right around a 2.0, and this has the massive upside of gaining counters when you cast colored spells. This format doesn’t hve a huge multicolored theme, so most of the time you’ll just be gaining one counter at a time, but that’s plenty on a Flyer. You won’t really find yourself ever using the ability to remove counters, but that doesn’t matter – the rest of the card is plenty strong.
Average Picked At: 3.75
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 3.19
Total Times Seen 22
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 3.19
Total Times Seen 22
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This has the ability to draw you a pretty significant number of cards because this set is so artifact-heavy. Your deck isn’t going to be so filled with artifacts that this will be completely insane of course, but I see this as drawing you several cards most of the time you play it, especially because you can exile away lands and nonartifacts.
Pro Comment: This has the ability to draw you a pretty significant number of cards because this set is so artifact-heavy. Your deck isn’t going to be so filled with artifacts that this will be completely insane of course, but I see this as drawing you several cards most of the time you play it, especially because you can exile away lands and nonartifacts.
Average Picked At: 12.57
Total Times Picked: 21
Average Last Seen At: 8.17
Total Times Seen 430
Total Times Picked: 21
Average Last Seen At: 8.17
Total Times Seen 430
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: 0 mana artifacts are exciting for constructed, but they aren’t nearly as good in Limited because what you get is usually a card that isn’t worth an entire card – and that’s definitely what Bone Saw is. Especially in a set without any real equipment theme. Playing this will feel like you took a mulligan
Pro Comment: 0 mana artifacts are exciting for constructed, but they aren’t nearly as good in Limited because what you get is usually a card that isn’t worth an entire card – and that’s definitely what Bone Saw is. Especially in a set without any real equipment theme. Playing this will feel like you took a mulligan
Average Picked At: 6.86
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 5.67
Total Times Seen 313
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 5.67
Total Times Seen 313
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Three mana for a mana rock that only produces colorless is far from ideal, but the fact this format has a big ramp and artifact theme makes a difference. The incidental life gain doesn’t hurt either
Pro Comment: Three mana for a mana rock that only produces colorless is far from ideal, but the fact this format has a big ramp and artifact theme makes a difference. The incidental life gain doesn’t hurt either
Average Picked At: 4.75
Total Times Picked: 51
Average Last Seen At: 3.65
Total Times Seen 210
Total Times Picked: 51
Average Last Seen At: 3.65
Total Times Seen 210
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a great source of ramp and fixing, and it has a baseline as a gray ogre with a useful card type.
Pro Comment: This is a great source of ramp and fixing, and it has a baseline as a gray ogre with a useful card type.
Average Picked At: 4.80
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.24
Total Times Seen 36
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.24
Total Times Seen 36
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This is a symmetrical mill card, and not really something you should be playing. It is hard to have much control over who has more permanents to untap, and you never know if this will hurt you more than your opponent. It is true that it will hurt your opponent first since they will untap first, but that still isn’t enough for me to ever play this thing.
Pro Comment: This is a symmetrical mill card, and not really something you should be playing. It is hard to have much control over who has more permanents to untap, and you never know if this will hurt you more than your opponent. It is true that it will hurt your opponent first since they will untap first, but that still isn’t enough for me to ever play this thing.
Average Picked At: 9.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.95
Total Times Seen 46
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.95
Total Times Seen 46
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Two to play and two to equip for this bonus is probably a 1.5, but this format actually has some stuff going on that makes this interesting. While you can’t go full on Thopter-Sword combo, the format does have a lot of 1/1 creature tokens. So, sacrificing this to something in the Black-Red deck, and then making a creature token one way or another means you get it back and at that point you’ve gotten some nice value – and you can even sacrifice it again if you have the means.
Pro Comment: Two to play and two to equip for this bonus is probably a 1.5, but this format actually has some stuff going on that makes this interesting. While you can’t go full on Thopter-Sword combo, the format does have a lot of 1/1 creature tokens. So, sacrificing this to something in the Black-Red deck, and then making a creature token one way or another means you get it back and at that point you’ve gotten some nice value – and you can even sacrifice it again if you have the means.
Average Picked At: 2.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 1.92
Total Times Seen 12
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 1.92
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This can churn out some beefy tokens, and that’s something made a bit easier by power stones. It does cost a fair bit of mana to get it going, but it does become a pretty nice engine before long.
Pro Comment: This can churn out some beefy tokens, and that’s something made a bit easier by power stones. It does cost a fair bit of mana to get it going, but it does become a pretty nice engine before long.
Average Picked At: 4.81
Total Times Picked: 48
Average Last Seen At: 3.75
Total Times Seen 229
Total Times Picked: 48
Average Last Seen At: 3.75
Total Times Seen 229
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is another 2 mana artifact that replaces itself, and that’s nice – especially because you can also sacrifice it and turn it into a 2-for-1, something that feels pretty doable, especially in Black-Red
Pro Comment: This is another 2 mana artifact that replaces itself, and that’s nice – especially because you can also sacrifice it and turn it into a 2-for-1, something that feels pretty doable, especially in Black-Red
Average Picked At: 2.00
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 2.13
Total Times Seen 23
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 2.13
Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: There’s really only one tribal deck in the format – UW Soldiers - and this will definitely fit in nicely there. However, you might be surprised how easily this can fit into other decks too – the format also has tons of humans and Phyrexians! I think that probably means this will work out often enough to value fairly highly.
Pro Comment: There’s really only one tribal deck in the format – UW Soldiers - and this will definitely fit in nicely there. However, you might be surprised how easily this can fit into other decks too – the format also has tons of humans and Phyrexians! I think that probably means this will work out often enough to value fairly highly.
Average Picked At: 3.53
Total Times Picked: 15
Average Last Seen At: 3.32
Total Times Seen 38
Total Times Picked: 15
Average Last Seen At: 3.32
Total Times Seen 38
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is a pretty nice card. Unblockability is the kind of thing that allows you to close out a game – or just allows you to pressure your opponent no matter what they are doing – and while you have to discard a card for the effect, you are ultimately just rummaging, since you can pay mana to draw a card when it untaps. Powerstones can pay for that ability too! This was nice last time we saw it, and I think it is pretty good here too.
Pro Comment: This is a pretty nice card. Unblockability is the kind of thing that allows you to close out a game – or just allows you to pressure your opponent no matter what they are doing – and while you have to discard a card for the effect, you are ultimately just rummaging, since you can pay mana to draw a card when it untaps. Powerstones can pay for that ability too! This was nice last time we saw it, and I think it is pretty good here too.
Average Picked At: 5.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.94
Total Times Seen 17
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.94
Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a lot of mana of course, but it is also quite the reset button, as it rids the board of all permanents apart from lands, and it even exiles them! The effect is almost unrivaled in its ability to change the state of the game, and power stones make it more doable. All that good stuff out of the way, it does still have the very real problem of being bad in situations where you’re ahead of your opponent or at parity – but it is just about the best thing you can do when you’re behind.
Pro Comment: This is a lot of mana of course, but it is also quite the reset button, as it rids the board of all permanents apart from lands, and it even exiles them! The effect is almost unrivaled in its ability to change the state of the game, and power stones make it more doable. All that good stuff out of the way, it does still have the very real problem of being bad in situations where you’re ahead of your opponent or at parity – but it is just about the best thing you can do when you’re behind.
Average Picked At: 10.55
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 6.64
Total Times Seen 109
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 6.64
Total Times Seen 109
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This format doesn’t have very good fixing, so you’re almost never going to be able to utilize this to win the game and uh..that’s all this can do.
Pro Comment: This format doesn’t have very good fixing, so you’re almost never going to be able to utilize this to win the game and uh..that’s all this can do.
Average Picked At: 6.85
Total Times Picked: 48
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 287
Total Times Picked: 48
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 287
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This replaces itself, and that is enough in this format for it to be decent enough, since the UR deck likes casting nocnreature spells and several decks like artifacts. It can also fix your mana a bit, but that’s a small part of what this card does.
Pro Comment: This replaces itself, and that is enough in this format for it to be decent enough, since the UR deck likes casting nocnreature spells and several decks like artifacts. It can also fix your mana a bit, but that’s a small part of what this card does.
Average Picked At: 1.00
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 1.08
Total Times Seen 12
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 1.08
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: A 6-mana 6/6 with Deathtouch and Lifelink is easily a 4.0, and this comes with the absurd effect of leaving behind two 3/3 tokens – each with one of those keywords – when it dies. So, your opponent either gets killed by this massive 6/6 that puts the game out of reach thanks to lifelink, or they get 3-for-1’d. Yeah, that’s a bomb – and definitely an A. Keep in mind exile effects and Aura-based removal do make the Engine a little sad, but yeah – still a bomb
Pro Comment: A 6-mana 6/6 with Deathtouch and Lifelink is easily a 4.0, and this comes with the absurd effect of leaving behind two 3/3 tokens – each with one of those keywords – when it dies. So, your opponent either gets killed by this massive 6/6 that puts the game out of reach thanks to lifelink, or they get 3-for-1’d. Yeah, that’s a bomb – and definitely an A. Keep in mind exile effects and Aura-based removal do make the Engine a little sad, but yeah – still a bomb
Average Picked At: 6.29
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 4.70
Total Times Seen 66
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 4.70
Total Times Seen 66
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This has some potential applications in this format. With powerstones and a plethora of mana sink activated abilities, you may actually be able to generate some value with this. It also gives your artifact creatures pseudo-vigilance. But, those are sort of the ideal situations for the card, and there will be plenty of times where it is meaningless.
Pro Comment: This has some potential applications in this format. With powerstones and a plethora of mana sink activated abilities, you may actually be able to generate some value with this. It also gives your artifact creatures pseudo-vigilance. But, those are sort of the ideal situations for the card, and there will be plenty of times where it is meaningless.
Average Picked At: 13.97
Total Times Picked: 29
Average Last Seen At: 8.94
Total Times Seen 510
Total Times Picked: 29
Average Last Seen At: 8.94
Total Times Seen 510
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This isn’t good in Limited. You need to be a draw go style control deck to really make this gain you life that matters, and that just doesn’t happen in Limited. This will frequently do nothing or close to nothing.
Pro Comment: This isn’t good in Limited. You need to be a draw go style control deck to really make this gain you life that matters, and that just doesn’t happen in Limited. This will frequently do nothing or close to nothing.
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