Average Picked At: 7.44 Total Times Picked: 9 Average Last Seen At: 7.70 Total Times Seen 153
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This kind of effect is pretty underwhelming, as it just doesn’t accomplish enough most of the time. However, the fact that this format has a spell deck definitely upgrades it a bit, and Surveil isn’t too bad either.
Average Picked At: 2.67 Total Times Picked: 6 Average Last Seen At: 2.50 Total Times Seen 10
Pro Rating: 5.0 Pro Comment: If you have a lot of spells, this thing can be a pretty big problem for your opponent. If you attack with it, they really can be put in a bind, wondering what exactly you have in your hand and how big the Cyclops will get. Because it has 8 toughness, it isn’t exactly easy to take down in combat, and it has trample, making the whole decision pretty miserable for your opponent.
Average Picked At: 6.29 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 5.00 Total Times Seen 48
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This is big and it has hexproof, but the cost is very real even with Convoke, and it isn’t like 5 toughness is impossible to take down in combat.
Average Picked At: 7.50 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 5.61 Total Times Seen 30
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This isn’t a bad Undergrowth payoff, and casting it for 5 or 6 is fairly doable. The land part of the card is mostly irrelevant though, so you’re basically just playing a big vanilla creature.
Average Picked At: 1.56 Total Times Picked: 9 Average Last Seen At: 1.70 Total Times Seen 10
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: Tajic comes down and adds a ton of damage to the board, especially if your opponent’s shields are down. He of course brings his own stats, but he will also typically have something to Mentor. Meanwhile, he can keep attacking later in games thanks to his ability to gain first strike, and he even makes it so your opponent can’t do non-combat damage to your other creatures. Now, that last part isn’t that exciting, because Tajic can still die to non-combat damage, and he’s probably what they want to kill anyway – but either way, Tajic is a bomb.
Average Picked At: 7.82 Total Times Picked: 22 Average Last Seen At: 7.50 Total Times Seen 146
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This is a surprisingly pesky two-drop that is pretty difficult to attack through or block profitably in the early game, and that’s pretty nice.
Average Picked At: 6.96 Total Times Picked: 28 Average Last Seen At: 7.31 Total Times Seen 148
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: Its nice that this can start going to sky once it can’t get in on the ground, but it isn’t exactly efficient as a creature, and paying two mana to make it Fly isn’t always something you’ll have the mana for.
Average Picked At: 9.73 Total Times Picked: 15 Average Last Seen At: 9.09 Total Times Seen 196
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: 3 power on a flyer for 4 mana is a decent deal…but the one toughness is pretty rough, as it means your opponent can often trade up for this thing with cheap removal or 1/1 flying tokens.
Average Picked At: 5.35 Total Times Picked: 31 Average Last Seen At: 6.05 Total Times Seen 114
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This needs friends to attack with, but that’s okay, because that’s usually what you’re going to be doing in a Boros deck that likes mentoring stuff, and this can train pretty much all the creatures that are one and two drops, making it a pretty nice Common.
Average Picked At: 9.44 Total Times Picked: 18 Average Last Seen At: 8.18 Total Times Seen 149
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: These are good fixing, but they get bonus points because there are several cards in the set that pay you off for playing Gates.
Average Picked At: 2.00 Total Times Picked: 1 Average Last Seen At: 2.71 Total Times Seen 8
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: Both halves of this would be cards you’d always play. Find gives you two creatures back for only two mana, and Finality is a board sweeper that you have some control over. You can usually find a way to use the counters to make something you control bigger than a 4/4, and this often feels like Duneblast when you can pull that off.
Average Picked At: 9.09 Total Times Picked: 32 Average Last Seen At: 9.39 Total Times Seen 202
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This trick is fine. One mana for +2/+2 tends to be solid in Limited, and the life gain tacked on is nice.
Average Picked At: 8.11 Total Times Picked: 18 Average Last Seen At: 8.00 Total Times Seen 154
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: As usual with this card that has been reprinted a ton, it is a reasonable trick that can help almost any creature win combat.
Average Picked At: 8.82 Total Times Picked: 28 Average Last Seen At: 8.51 Total Times Seen 175
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This isn’t a bad thing to sacrifice to various effects, but its stats are pretty disappointing.
Average Picked At: 7.52 Total Times Picked: 23 Average Last Seen At: 7.98 Total Times Seen 159
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: One mana 1/1s that leave behind 1/1s tend to be pretty decent in Limited, and that’s certainly the case here, especially with White aggro decks being so real in the format.
Average Picked At: 3.60 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 4.00 Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: These are good fixing.
Average Picked At: 1.00 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 2.18 Total Times Seen 11
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is a pretty good payoff for doing Golgari things, as this gives you an efficient and evasive creature that can end the game pretty quickly! Stocking your graveyard is doable in the format, but not so easy you really want to take this card super early.
Average Picked At: 6.47 Total Times Picked: 17 Average Last Seen At: 6.48 Total Times Seen 134
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: Deathtouchers can trade with anything which is sweet – but the more they cost, the less impressive that becomes, since you won’t be getting a mana advantage out of a trade nearly as often.
Average Picked At: 12.00 Total Times Picked: 20 Average Last Seen At: 10.15 Total Times Seen 211
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This is a decent trick, and it is sweet that sometimes you can cast it when you seemingly have no mana.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 0 Average Last Seen At: 1.00 Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: A two mana 1/3 with Surveil 1 when it enters the battlefield is already pretty playable, so its nice that Lazav can also copy creature cards in your graveyard.