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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Limited Quiz

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Florian, Voldaren Scion
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: |This starts with great stats. A 3-mana 3/3 with First STrike is relevant pretty much all game long, and Florian does one better by also being a source of card advantage, provided you can cause your opponent to lose life on your turn. And, yeah, a 3-mana 3/3 with First Strike is going to be pretty capable at getting in all on its own, especially if you play it on turn three! BR also has lots of ways of doing 1 or 2 damage to the opponent that will also make the ability work.
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
Average Picked At: 5.71
Total Times Picked: 228
Average Last Seen At: 5.31
Total Times Seen 1065
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: A two mana 1/1 with the life gain effect certainly isn’t impressive. The Disturb effect really matters though, as getting back a flyer that can also gain you some life. Neither half of this card is going to be letting you trade very often because they are so small, but this still seems like a solid Common.
Shadowbeast Sighting
Average Picked At: 6.19
Total Times Picked: 233
Average Last Seen At: 5.70
Total Times Seen 1154
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is decently efficient when you first cast it, and when you cast it the second time you’re going to be getting a 2-for-1.
Patrician Geist
Average Picked At: 2.11
Total Times Picked: 28
Average Last Seen At: 2.22
Total Times Seen 50
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a Wind Drake with all kinds of upside. First, it pumps one of the most common creatures in the format, and if yo’ure in Blue, its going to be tough to end up in a deck where this doesn’t pump like 5 of your creatures. And second, it gives you a discount on both flashback and Disturb. And don’t forget all those Disturb creatures are spirits too!
Unnatural Growth
Average Picked At: 3.14
Total Times Picked: 21
Average Last Seen At: 3.05
Total Times Seen 67
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: First up, I’d like to note that quadruple green, is actually pretty hard to get consistently in your typical Limited deck. Limited mana bases aren’t very good in most formats, and I don’t see a reason for that to be different here. So, in other words, unless you’re really heavy Green, you won’t be casting this regularly. If you can cast it, it does have a pretty impressive effect, and one that will alter the board state immediately, since you can play it in your first main phase, go to combat, and get a big boost. Your board will usually be able to take some advantage of that, and sometimes it will just be incredible. So, I’m sort of torn as to how I grade this thing. If it were triple Green, I think I would probably give it like a 3.5 so I think the quadruple Green is enough to downgrade it to 3.0.
Neonate's Rush
Average Picked At: 9.98
Total Times Picked: 161
Average Last Seen At: 8.68
Total Times Seen 1786
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: When you manage to kill a creature with this, it is going to feel incredible. When you can’t, this is less true. However, it is an enabler for all the pseudo-bloodthirst in the format and it replaces itself, AND it will often only cost two mana, making the outcome a lot more palatable.
Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer
Average Picked At: 3.00
Total Times Picked: 15
Average Last Seen At: 2.63
Total Times Seen 68
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A three mana ⅔ with Flying and Haste is great! And that’s good, because the rest of the stuff this card does won’t come up a ton. If your opponent really wants to cast a spell that does damage, they can just cast it on the Stalwart, so you aren’t downgrading their spells a huge amount with that. The additional one point of damage thing will come up some of course, as you’re likely to have 1-3 spells that do damage, but it won’t exactly be a huge deal either. So yeah, this is a great efficient creature with upside that is mostly minor.
Willow Geist
Average Picked At: 3.53
Total Times Picked: 17
Average Last Seen At: 3.53
Total Times Seen 78
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: So at worst, this is a one mana 1/1 that gains you a life when it dies. You would probably never play that card in Limited. So, how easy will it be to get counters on this? Well...reasonably. But it isn’t like you’ll be exiling stuff early most of the time, so in the early game it is pretty unimpressive, and it takes quite a while to grow. Getting it to 2/2 on turn 4 or 5 is probably realistic, and you aren’t exactly killing it if that’s what you’re doing. It does grow more the longer the game goes on, which is nice, but yeah.
Champion of the Perished
Average Picked At: 2.26
Total Times Picked: 35
Average Last Seen At: 2.32
Total Times Seen 70
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0
Pro Comment: Obviously, for this to be worth it, you’re going to need Zombies. But, the good news is that this set has plenty of them! You probably need to at least consistently get this to 2/2 or 3/3 for it to be worth it, and that seems very doable. Note also that it counts Zombie tokens too, not just nontoken Zombies. So, yeah, this probably needs a build around, because it is so all in on Zombies and has an abysmal floor. If you only have like 3-5 Zombies, it is hard to imagine it is worth it -- you probably need 7 or more, at which point things can get really silly. Still, it starts fragile, and some times even with that many Zombies you just won’t get them, or you’ll get the champion after you’ve already played several Zombies, and that is a pretty big bummer. This is probably a build around C+ or something like that, with the caveat that, if you have like 10+ zombies, it starts to get pretty crazy. Because the floor is so low on it, I don’t really think you can first pick it. But, if you’re deep into Zombies, it definitely should move up in your pick order.
Galvanic Iteration
Average Picked At: 6.28
Total Times Picked: 18
Average Last Seen At: 4.85
Total Times Seen 137
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This starts with great stats. A 3-mana 3/3 with First STrike is relevant pretty much all game long, and Florian does one better by also being a source of card advantage, provided you can cause your opponent to lose life on your turn. And, yeah, a 3-mana 3/3 with First Strike is going to be pretty capable at getting in all on its own, especially if you play it on turn three! BR also has lots of ways of doing 1 or 2 damage to the opponent that will also make the ability work.
Champion of the Perished
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0
Pro Comment: Obviously, for this to be worth it, you’re going to need Zombies. But, the good news is that this set has plenty of them! You probably need to at least consistently get this to 2/2 or 3/3 for it to be worth it, and that seems very doable. Note also that it counts Zombie tokens too, not just nontoken Zombies. So, yeah, this probably needs a build around, because it is so all in on Zombies and has an abysmal floor. If you only have like 3-5 Zombies, it is hard to imagine it is worth it -- you probably need 7 or more, at which point things can get really silly. Still, it starts fragile, and some times even with that many Zombies you just won’t get them, or you’ll get the champion after you’ve already played several Zombies, and that is a pretty big bummer. This is probably a build around C+ or something like that, with the caveat that, if you have like 10+ zombies, it starts to get pretty crazy. Because the floor is so low on it, I don’t really think you can first pick it. But, if you’re deep into Zombies, it definitely should move up in your pick order.
Vampire Socialite
Average Picked At: 5.56
Total Times Picked: 68
Average Last Seen At: 4.99
Total Times Seen 374
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: The baseline of a two mana 2/2 with Menace is a pretty good starting point, and then you add in all the vampire and pseudo-bloodthirst upside, and you have a pretty nice signpost uncommon. One really nice thing here is that you get paid off if you already have vampires in play when you play it and if you play it first. This looks like a strong signpost uncommon. One that might be worth taking with a first pick sometimes.
Drownyard Amalgam
Average Picked At: 10.09
Total Times Picked: 188
Average Last Seen At: 8.49
Total Times Seen 1709
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This sets up some graveyard value for you and has a decent defensive body, not to mention an ability that will sometimes help you close out a game. A lot of the time though, it just won’t do enough. Seems reasonable in some controlling decks.
Burn the Accursed
Average Picked At: 6.64
Total Times Picked: 169
Average Last Seen At: 6.05
Total Times Seen 1121
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This isn’t exactly premium, but is an instant that kills most stuff, damages your opponent, and even exiles creatures, which certainly matters here.
Stuffed Bear
Average Picked At: 12.73
Total Times Picked: 120
Average Last Seen At: 10.05
Total Times Seen 2056
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This set doesn’t have much of an Artifact theme. If it did, the BEar would be a little more interesting. As it is, it is a creature that you have to pay mana for every turn to actually make into a creature. And, while that activation isn’t so bad the first time around, you eventually end up having to pay a ton of mana for this to actually be a card on the board that matters, and I don’t really think you want to be doing that.
Rockfall Vale
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Like with virtually every Rare dual land cycle, these are pretty nice for fixing, and you’ll take them over most medium cards, but you don’t want to go after them super hard or anything.
Return to Nature
Average Picked At: 12.29
Total Times Picked: 130
Average Last Seen At: 9.92
Total Times Seen 1955
Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: Its nice that this does three different things, making it a more reasonable main deck card, but I’m still pretty skeptical about main decking it on a regular basis. This format has artifacts and enchantments, but not a ton of them, and while exiling something from a graveyard is nice, yo’ure often only getting half a card of value when you do it, since your opponent already cast their spell with flashback or their creature with disturb. I think this should probably still start in your sideboard.
Hound Tamer // Untamed Pup
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: You would always play this card if it was always Hound Tamer. It has good stats and an ability that can be a nice place to sink mana in the late game, so obviously the fact it can also be a larger creature that grants Trample to a bunch of stuff is awesome.
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: So, this is a two mana 1/1 that will also give you a 2/2 on your end step. That’s a pretty great deal, even if the creature comes with “decayed.” You can just send that 2/2 in every single turn, since you’ll get it back for free. There will definitely be times where a 2/2 Zombie that can’t block isn’t awesome, but there will be lots of times where its pretty nice. If you can find a way to sacrifice it every turn, you’re going to have an engine on your hands!
Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: If it is day time, you get a pretty decent two drop that might be able to trade for something and ramp your mana a bit -- or even better, just ramp you mana without dying! If its night, you get a really nice Werewolf/Wolf lord that will be pumping a good chunk of your deck in RG. And, of course, like with all of these, it can go back and forth between the two modes. Additionally, setting thing up on turn two to start keeping track of day and night might be a big deal, too. Overall, I think this is a strong enough signpost Uncommon that it pulls you into its color pair, even very early on.
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