Average Picked At: 4.67 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 3.71 Total Times Seen 15
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: A 3-mana 2/2 isn’t good, but making every single instant or sorcery spell you play do 2 to the opponent is pretty good – provided you’re playing this in a UR spells deck it can do some very real work. It is really fragile though and doesn’t give you much of a board presence, so there are some significant downsides.
Average Picked At: 1.00 Total Times Picked: 2 Average Last Seen At: 1.00 Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This is a pretty powerful planeswalker. He can sort of protect himself – either by making a creature or creatures you have better blockers, or by bringing back a small creature from your graveyard. And his ultimate isn’t the kind that completely ends the game – not immediately anyway, but over time getting 3 1/1s with lifelink every turn will kill your opponent, unless they were insanely ahead of you. He will make your board better and snowball the way good planeswalkers do if they are left unchecked. The lack of a way to protect himself or draw cards does keep away from bomb status, but I still think he’s really good.
Average Picked At: 7.43 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 4.98 Total Times Seen 69
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This has passable French Vanilla stats, so you’ll play it sometimes.
Average Picked At: 11.57 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 8.28 Total Times Seen 114
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This has mediocre stats, but they aren’t so mediocre that you never play it.
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.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 0 Average Last Seen At: 6.25 Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: This is pretty bad. Obviously it is quite efficient, but the fact that it goes away every time it does anything is pretty rough.
Average Picked At: 11.17 Total Times Picked: 12 Average Last Seen At: 7.68 Total Times Seen 116
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: A 4-mana 4/2 menace is some pretty aggressive stats. A lot of the time he will at least get you a 2-for-1, thanks to that Menace. Menace creatures are always super amazing with combat tricks too, since you KNOW your opponent has to set themselves up for a 2-for-1 if they want to kill it. So this will be a nice pick up for aggressive black decks, but it’s nothing special.
Average Picked At: 9.67 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 7.25 Total Times Seen 105
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: Even in a format with a lifegain archetype, Revitalize doesn’t tend to be worth it.
Average Picked At: 3.50 Total Times Picked: 2 Average Last Seen At: 2.94 Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: A 3-mana 2/3 that gains you 3 life when it comes into place is pretty nice, and this one also gains you 3 life if it is targeted by an opponent. The fact that sometimes it will be difficult to block makes it even a little bit more valuable, but like most of these Mares, it is playable enough without that line of text that it definitely isn’t a sideboard card. That’s just some color-specific upside on a solid card.
Average Picked At: 12.25 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 7.79 Total Times Seen 90
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: If your deck has a lot of flyers or is interested in being defensive earlier, you will play this on occasion.
Average Picked At: 5.00 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 3.03 Total Times Seen 39
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: Bonds is premium removal and one of the best commons in this set.
Average Picked At: 11.75 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 7.55 Total Times Seen 33
Pro Rating: 0.0 Pro Comment: This generally won’t be able to mill your opponent out on its own, so don’t play it. Spending mana on this kind of thing is a bad idea when you could be adding to your board.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 10.67 Total Times Seen 37
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.
Average Picked At: 12.36 Total Times Picked: 11 Average Last Seen At: 8.88 Total Times Seen 115
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: Adding a cantrip to this effect is a big upgrade. That said, it is still way too situational to be worth it most of the time. It is easy to imagine ideal scenarios where this feels like a Fog with a cantrip effect, or even better – it lets you set up some awesome blocks, but those situations are too rare.
Average Picked At: 3.00 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 2.63 Total Times Seen 8
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is expensive, but it definitely gives you your mana’s worth most of the time. 7 mana to put the best creature into play from your top 7 wouldn’t be that good, BUT – the fact that this lets that creature do damage equal to its power generally means you’re getting a 2-for-1 here, and you’ll normally also be able to get 7 mana’s worth of value out of the deal.
Average Picked At: 9.50 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 7.30 Total Times Seen 29
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: A 4-mana 3/3 Menace as a floor isn’t bad, and sure you can make it a 5/5 if you sac a creature, and there are ways to sacrifice for value in this set, but it is still kind of tough to set up a little to often.
Average Picked At: 9.65 Total Times Picked: 23 Average Last Seen At: 7.50 Total Times Seen 126
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This gives a nice stats boost for the mana, but I think steering clear of this Aura is the right thing most of the time. Unless you have Vine Mare of course.
Average Picked At: 1.33 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 2.00 Total Times Seen 10
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is a very efficient French Vanilla creature that will also make your deck.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 0 Average Last Seen At: 10.43 Total Times Seen 59