Draft Trainer

March of the Machine: The Aftermath Limited Quiz

Answered: 0/20
Accuracy: 0
Blot Out
Average Picked At: 5.00
Total Times Picked: 9
Average Last Seen At: 3.12
Total Times Seen 46
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This will usually allow you to remove your opponent’s best creature, though sometimes you’ll only be able to get rid of something less important than that.
Tranquil Frillback
Average Picked At: 2.43
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.22
Total Times Seen 18
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This three mana 3/3 comes with some pretty nice ETB options. Early it is a reasonably efficient creature, and the later the game gets, the more likely you’ll be able to both pay the mana for the effects and make use of them. Even just gaining 4 and blowing up an Incubator is going to feel good for five mana, and exiling graveyards has some meaning in this format too.
Tyvar the Bellicose
Average Picked At: 1.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.50
Total Times Seen 6
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: On his own, Tyvar is a 4-mana 5/4 with deathtouch when it attacks. That’s a passable card, and this format does have some other elves around that he can give deathtouch. On the other hand, there aren’t very many creature cards that produce mana in the format, so that part of the card is going to be a little more elusive.
Karn, Legacy Reforged
Average Picked At: 2.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 2.91
Total Times Seen 11
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: At worst, Karn is a 5-mana 5/5. That’s a passable stat-line, and if you have some other Artifact stuff going on, he can potentially become bigger and give you some “powerstone” mana. Unfortunately, this format doesn’t really have very many expensive Artifacts you’re actually interested in playing, so his upside is a bit limited.
Samut, Vizier of Naktamun
Average Picked At: 12.00
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 2.80
Total Times Seen 11
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: If Samut can come down and hit the opponent right away, you’re going to feel pretty great. If you play it on turn three, you have a pretty reasonable shot at pulling that off too since not many things can effectively take it down in combat that early. It does get worse the longer the game goes, but it does work well with other cards that have Haste.
Nashi, Moon's Legacy
Average Picked At: 5.25
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 3.30
Total Times Seen 24
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: When you cast rats or legendaries from your graveyard this will feel great, and that isn’t impossible, especially because the set has more legendaries than normal, and Blue-Black has lots of self-mill effects. A three mana ¾ with Menace and Ward 1 isn’t bad either
Feast of the Victorious Dead
Average Picked At: 8.67
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 6.01
Total Times Seen 109
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: So this does stone nothing on turns where nothing dies. That’s…really bad. Sure, sometimes you will be able to get a ton of counters and gain a ton of life, and that has the potential to off-set the fact that this is a do-nothing so often. Also, you can play it in your second main phase so that your opponent doesn’t know you’re going to get the bonus, but this type of card always underperforms. You have far less control over making things die than you think.
Niv-Mizzet, Supreme
Average Picked At: 2.00
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 3.05
Total Times Seen 21
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: This is castable in this format for sure, it has hexproof from most removal in the set and is a huge flyer, so that’s a great place to be. Unfortunately his ability to give two-color spells jump-start is pretty close to irrelevant in the set, but the rest of the card is enough for this to be great
Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
Average Picked At: 4.00
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 3.33
Total Times Seen 9
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: There really aren’t enough Dragons in this set for Sarkhan to become a copy of consistently. He’s mostly just got semi-passable stats and might give you some very rare upside.
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Average Picked At: 5.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 4.33
Total Times Seen 4
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: There aren’t enough creatures with these types for her to do her thing very often. You may end up with 1-2, and when you cast one of them that will feel pretty nuts! But mostly? She’s a 5-mana ⅘ with Vigilance and Ward 3. Which is fine, but not much else.
Plargg and Nassari
Average Picked At: 5.25
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 3.33
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: This basically draws you an extra card every turn. Your opponent can make sure you get the worst card of the two, but you’re always going to get one spell that you can cast for free, and that’s hugely beneficial. The only downside is you have to wait a turn for this to get going.
Arni Metalbrow
Average Picked At: 4.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.06
Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: These effects are never as good as they look in Limited. When you can cheat a creature into play with Arni’s effect it will feel pretty busted, but you’d be surprised how often you either don’t have the mana or the creature card to actually take advantage of it. The upside is massive, but there will be many games where this is effectively a three mana 3/3.
Kolaghan Warmonger
Average Picked At: 9.93
Total Times Picked: 15
Average Last Seen At: 6.33
Total Times Seen 132
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: There are very few dragons in this set, especially at lower rarities. So, this will typically just be a three mana 3/2 with Haste. That’s not a terrible card, but not something that always makes the cut either.
Filter Out
Average Picked At: 12.40
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 7.82
Total Times Seen 152
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: There aren’t enough noncreature nonlands for this to be worthwhile. Sure, you can maybe rebuy a Battle, or get rid of some incubators that haven’t transformed, but that’s too narrow.
Campus Renovation
Average Picked At: 13.00
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 8.50
Total Times Seen 154
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This has the potential to deliver a 4-for-1, and that’s certainly intriguing – but you are far from guaranteed to have an Enchantment and Artifact in your graveyard, especially in Red-White in this format. You will very rarely get a full 4-for-1 here, and most of the time it will probably just be an expensive sorcery-speed 2-for-1, which is pretty bad.
Open the Way
Average Picked At: 4.80
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.00
Total Times Seen 31
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: So, this is basically Explosive Vegetation, or Invasion of Zendikar. Only, you don’t have as much control over the lands you get. Ramp is definitely a thing in this format if you have the right bombs, but this is a pretty clunky way of doing it.
Rocco, Street Chef
Average Picked At: 5.33
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 4.45
Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: Giving your opponent an extra card isn’t amazing, and they do get a chance to use the card first. However, the fact you get some value back when they do play that card, and then you also get your own extra card every turn plus that bonus effect is pretty great
Nahiri's Resolve
Average Picked At: 5.33
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.38
Total Times Seen 29
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This stats boost alone isn’t really worth how much the card costs, so the question is how much mileage you can get out of the end step trigger. At worst, it does give your creatures pseudo-vigilance, and at best you can use it to rebuy ETB abilities. There are enough of those in the set for that to actually matter, but not so many that this will consistently be all that impressive.
Spark Rupture
Average Picked At: 10.50
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 6.04
Total Times Seen 35
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: In Limited, this will be a three mana cantrip 99% of the time, and that just isn’t enough to move the needle. You’ll never have or run into enough planeswalkers to make this worth it.
Sigarda, Font of Blessings
Average Picked At: 1.75
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 1.75
Total Times Seen 8
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 4/3 with Flying is a great starting point, and there are certainly enough Humans and Angels in the set for you to actually cast one off of the top of your library sometimes. Hexproof to the rest of your board is always nice, but oftentimes this will be your best permanent anyway, so it doesn’t change what your opponent does a whole lot.
Name Answer You

Enter The Battlefield Prepared

With the MTGA Assistant deck tracker MTGA Assistant