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Core Set 2019 Limited Quiz

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Suspicious Bookcase
Average Picked At: 6.50
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 5.60
Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is a kind of decent blocker, and it has an ability that definitely pushes through damage late. If you’re in the market for artifacts or mana sinks, you’ll play this sometimes.
Arcane Encyclopedia
Average Picked At: 5.50
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 5.12
Total Times Seen 22
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is not an efficient way to draw cards, and playing something like this early is usually a bad idea because you don’t add to your board. However, in the late game, it can grind out some nice value, and it will sometimes make it in your UW deck.
Gallant Cavalry
Average Picked At: 4.00
Total Times Picked: 9
Average Last Seen At: 4.29
Total Times Seen 68
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: 4-mana for two 2/2s with Vigilance is a pretty nice rate – not hard to get a 2-for-1 with them. It fits especially well in decks looking to go wide with creature tokens, which is a big focus of RW in this format.
Aviation Pioneer
Average Picked At: 5.09
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 4.59
Total Times Seen 55
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Paying 3-mana for 2/3 worth of stats, and the 1/1 has flying is a pretty nice deal. It is also one of the better enablers for the UW artifact deck, since it gives you an evasive artifact creature so cheaply.
Timber Gorge
Average Picked At: 7.50
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 7.21
Total Times Seen 37
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: These are all good fixing, and are worth playing even in two-color decks because making your mana better is a big deal.
Divination
Average Picked At: 8.71
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 5.08
Total Times Seen 75
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Divination isn’t terrible but certainly not the kind of card you look forward to casting either. You’ll play it in Blue control decks and spell matters decks, though.
Crucible of Worlds
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 2.67
Total Times Seen 3
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This doesn’t do anything in this format.
Oreskos Swiftclaw
Average Picked At: 10.58
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 8.52
Total Times Seen 93
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Two-mana 3/1s are usually fine for aggro decks, but there are enough tokens in this format that this guy is a bit worse than usual.
Tormenting Voice
Average Picked At: 11.42
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 8.20
Total Times Seen 130
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is the kind of card that ends up being your 23rd card in Red a lot of the time. That’s what it has been every time we have seen it. It helps you dig through your deck but with a fairly significant cost. Sure, it gets a little better in the UR deck which cares about spells, but not by a lot.
Infernal Scarring
Average Picked At: 11.00
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 8.13
Total Times Seen 107
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: No toughness boost means it is kind of difficult for you to make the creature into a better attacker. Sure, unlike a lot of Auras at least this one replaces itself, but it isn’t really worth it.
Loxodon Line Breaker
Average Picked At: 11.83
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 9.12
Total Times Seen 128
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This is just a vanilla creature with mediocre stats. You’ll play this in a world where you can’t seem to find yourself enough playables or enough creatures, but in an ideal world you’re never playing it.
Sift
Average Picked At: 2.83
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 3.05
Total Times Seen 24
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is a fine draw spell if you’re a control deck in the market for one of those.
Cancel
Average Picked At: 10.14
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 6.65
Total Times Seen 84
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This just doesn’t do enough most of the time to make the cut very often. Leaving up mana for countermagic can be a big cost, and while this does counter everything, three mana is a lot to have to leave up when you’re just trading 1-for-1.
Omenspeaker
Average Picked At: 8.27
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 5.98
Total Times Seen 88
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has decent stats for a defensive deck, and relevance at all stages of the game thanks to Scry makes this an appealing card to me for my Blue decks.
Mystic Archaeologist
Average Picked At: 2.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 2.75
Total Times Seen 4
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a pretty sweet card. You can play it early if you need the two drop, and then in the late game it is the kind of mana sink that will just win games for you. If you’re flooding out, that will quickly end thanks to the extra cards, and that card advantage will let you bury your opponent. Obviously it does die to pretty much everything, but its worth it for this much power.
Woodland Stream
Average Picked At: 11.50
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 6.70
Total Times Seen 49
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: These are all good fixing, and are worth playing even in two-color decks because making your mana better is a big deal.
Lich's Caress
Average Picked At: 4.19
Total Times Picked: 16
Average Last Seen At: 3.93
Total Times Seen 50
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is a good removal spell. Sure, it is a little bit clunky at 5 mana, but It even does a good job of making up for the fact that you may well have to take your entire turn to cast it by gaining you some life, which makes up at least a little bit for the fact that you may not get to advance your board the turn you cast it.
Chaos Wand
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 1.50
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is expensive and slow for sure, but it is a great mana sink that lets you steal your opponents’ spells. Now, you never know what spells your opponent has, and sometimes this will be pretty underwhelming, but the upside is real.
Transmogrifying Wand
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is a little better than it looks – since I think it looks unplayable. It turns out that having a source of repeatable removal is pretty nice, even if it does still give your opponent a 2/4, you’re usually able to downgrade their best creatures. You can use it on your own stuff in a pinch too!
Dwarven Priest
Average Picked At: 8.64
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 7.18
Total Times Seen 100
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: 4-mana for a 2/4 isn’t terribly off-rate, and in a worst-case this is a 4-mana 2/4 that gains you 1 life. You can definitely go wider and gain a bunch with it too. This can sometimes help you stabilize, and fits especially well in the BW lifegain deck.
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