Average Picked At: 4.18 Total Times Picked: 112 Average Last Seen At: 3.63 Total Times Seen 335
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: There are lots of ETBs in this set – and remember that includes Fabricate creatures – so playing this on turn 6 as a 4/4 Flyer that gives you another ETB trigger happens pretty often, and that’s a pretty great deal.
Average Picked At: 11.92 Total Times Picked: 159 Average Last Seen At: 9.39 Total Times Seen 2792
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: This is cheap, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a hard counter, and the fact that it can’t counter artifacts definitely matters in this set.
Average Picked At: 10.73 Total Times Picked: 260 Average Last Seen At: 9.30 Total Times Seen 2749
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: The aggressive decks in the format tend to feel fine about including this in their deck, even if it is a 3-mana 3/3 with downside.
Average Picked At: 4.40 Total Times Picked: 353 Average Last Seen At: 4.45 Total Times Seen 1191
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: 4 mana to kill any creature or artifact is great in this format, even at Sorcery speed. This is premium removal.
Average Picked At: 2.98 Total Times Picked: 42 Average Last Seen At: 3.16 Total Times Seen 121
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: People always overrate this kind of card because they see “Hexproof” and “Indestructible.” And, yeah, those are two really strong keywords, but finding a way to utilize a card like this is harder than it looks. It isn’t bad, but it just isn’t the bomb that I think a lot of players think it will be – a card this situational just can’t be! Sure, it can be used to help a bunch of creatures survive combat, or to blank a removal spell and things like that, but again – try playing with the card, and you’ll see just how often having it in your hand just doesn’t matter.
Average Picked At: 1.24 Total Times Picked: 25 Average Last Seen At: 1.24 Total Times Seen 29
Pro Rating: 5.0 Pro Comment: This Ajani is a bomb. The -2 lets you exile any creature, and the +2 is going to draw you one or more cards most of the time. Even if Ajani just gets to use the -2 twice, you’re getting a pretty great deal, and if you’re allowed to keep it in play any longer than that, it is pretty impossible for your opponent to win.
Average Picked At: 4.26 Total Times Picked: 120 Average Last Seen At: 4.28 Total Times Seen 383
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This is quite the signpost uncommon! It basically gives you a 3-for-1 and gains you some life to give you a better chance of surviving long enough to use those cards, which is great.
Average Picked At: 2.12 Total Times Picked: 24 Average Last Seen At: 2.26 Total Times Seen 59
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: When you can get this going, it is a lot of fun. You’re most likely to do it in UW, but more often than not, you don’t get enough ETB abilities to make this worth it.
Average Picked At: 6.05 Total Times Picked: 21 Average Last Seen At: 4.48 Total Times Seen 158
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This card is hard to set up in most Limited games. First, you have to be holding on to cards in your hand for it do anything – and most of the time in the late game you have like 0-1 cards in your hand, so it isn’t exactly going to be lighting up a creature or anything. Now, if you have this in your deck, you are obviously going to be a little more inclined to hold on to cards in your hand, but still – 4mana to do 2 damage and rummage twice just isn’t that good, and won’t even always have a relevant target.
Average Picked At: 3.53 Total Times Picked: 128 Average Last Seen At: 3.51 Total Times Seen 332
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: It is kind of amazing how much this does for you. The fairly efficient trampling body coupled with +5 life is just a big deal, and often enough to get you back at parity from behind. It really helps you stabilize against the format’s aggro decks.
Average Picked At: 2.81 Total Times Picked: 121 Average Last Seen At: 2.64 Total Times Seen 253
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: If you play this on turn two, it can just run away with the game, since it will just keep making Energy and making itself larger. Later in the game, it isn’t quite as imposing, but it still represents a very real threat that has to be accounted for.
Average Picked At: 11.02 Total Times Picked: 201 Average Last Seen At: 9.00 Total Times Seen 2640
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This has alright stats and an evasive keyword ability. You’ll play it sometimes.
Average Picked At: 1.17 Total Times Picked: 60 Average Last Seen At: 1.81 Total Times Seen 63
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: This is crazy easy to crew and has massive stats and evasion for its cost, and it can even use up energy to gain you life, at which point your opponent is going to have a challenging time racing you.
Average Picked At: 6.16 Total Times Picked: 365 Average Last Seen At: 5.95 Total Times Seen 1674
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is one of White’s best commons. A 3-mana 3/3 or a 3-mana 2/2 and a 1/1 is quite nice, especially because White has lots of ways to pay you off for going wide.
Average Picked At: 5.28 Total Times Picked: 80 Average Last Seen At: 4.28 Total Times Seen 391
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is super clunky as a 5-mana Sorcery, but being able to divide damage is big, and doing 4 or so with it isn’t that far-fetched. You can often get a 2-for-1 if you are doing 4+, and sometimes this will do a lot more than that.
Average Picked At: 4.85 Total Times Picked: 26 Average Last Seen At: 3.89 Total Times Seen 139
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This is an alright counterspell for Limited since it can deal with so many different things, but you still won’t play it that often.
Average Picked At: 4.25 Total Times Picked: 121 Average Last Seen At: 4.28 Total Times Seen 369
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This is, at worst, a 3-mana 2/3 that makes a 1/1 Thopter – that’s a card you’d always play, and obviously it has the potential to churn out more than one Thopter token.
Average Picked At: 5.61 Total Times Picked: 129 Average Last Seen At: 5.29 Total Times Seen 544
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This card is great. RW is aggressive enough that blanking a blocker when this attacks can often mean game over for your opponent, and its important to note that it also makes things unable to block when it crews Vehicles, which is nice.
Pro Rating: 5.0 Pro Comment: This comes down with a pretty large evasive body and destroys your opponent’s best creature while also gaining you life. That can turn the game around in a really big way, and that makes this an incredible bomb.
Average Picked At: 5.76 Total Times Picked: 88 Average Last Seen At: 4.55 Total Times Seen 465
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This has huge power for only 4 mana and crew 1, and can often get in for 6 the first time without being blocked. It doesn’t always happen – especially in a format with a bunch of Servos – but even if they lose a servo and take 5, it doesn’t feel too bad. If you do get in that first time though, the Dragster is pretty incredible.