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Murders at Karlov Manor Limited Quiz

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Defenestrated Phantom
Average Picked At: 10.32
Total Times Picked: 22
Average Last Seen At: 8.61
Total Times Seen 319
Pro Rating: 2
Pro Comment: No matter how you cast this, you’re really not getting a very good deal. You do still have the upside of having this big ol’ flyer you can cast in the early game, but like I said, it’s never going to feel that good. It isn’t terrible either. I’m giving it a C-. 
Gadget Technician
Average Picked At: 6.65
Total Times Picked: 37
Average Last Seen At: 5.45
Total Times Seen 208
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Playing this face up gives you a pretty nice rate, and the Disguise option is pretty nice too. This looks like a really good common.
Audience with Trostani
Average Picked At: 9.88
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 7.12
Total Times Seen 36
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: At worst this is three mana for a 0/1 that draws you a card. That’s not good, but as a fail case it could be worse. This set does have a bunch of different creature tokens, but it still feels like drawing two with this is pretty medium, and expecting more than that is an unreasonable expectation. You can set it up sometimes, sure, but not often enough.
Eliminate the Impossible
Average Picked At: 7.20
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 5.58
Total Times Seen 79
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: I’m not the biggest fan of this type of effect – but when they tack card draw on to it, it starts to get more interesting. The usual problem is that this is only useful in fairly narrow situations, and getting a trade to happen is hard. It can sort of function as a bad fog, or a bad combat trick, but obviously…neither of those are things you want to be going after. But, because it Investigates – and it’s relatively cheap – those problems are more acceptable.
Tolsimir, Midnight's Light
Average Picked At: 1.57
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 5
Pro Comment: 5 mana for a 3/2 lifelink and a 5/5 trampler is an incredible rate. Tolsimir's ability to make stuff block the wolf can be pretty nasty too, but this card gets most of its value from giving you two very real bodies for a very low cost.
Rubblebelt Maverick
Average Picked At: 8.32
Total Times Picked: 34
Average Last Seen At: 6.85
Total Times Seen 220
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: These days, they give us lots of Common one drops that do a whole bunch of little things, and almost all of them have been impressive in Limited – I think this is another one of those. A one mana 1/1 with Surveil 2 is probably playable to begin with, especially if you’re a graveyard deck. Add to that the ability to put a counter on something, and this card just feels like it will do a ton of work.
Warleader's Call
Average Picked At: 1.33
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 1.60
Total Times Seen 6
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Anthems are good when you have lots of creatures and the incidental damage this can chip in can really turn up the heat on your opponent. But still, it’s not the kind of card that does much unless you've already got at least a decent board.
Unyielding Gatekeeper
Average Picked At: 1.25
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 1.12
Total Times Seen 11
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: The best thing to do with this when you turn it face up is to help your creature dodge removal, but just rebuying ETBs, flipping disguised creatures, or getting rid of a problematic nonland permanent an opponent controls and giving them a detective instead makes this into a bit of a swiss army knife.
Rune-Brand Juggler
Average Picked At: 8.40
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 5.93
Total Times Seen 98
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Suspecting your creature might mean you get a good attack right away, and if nothing else the Juggler can suspect itself. It is nice that it’s a “may” trigger, if you’re in a spot where you need to block. The activated ability is pretty good, especially if you’re making tokens into suspects, something that doesn’t seem particularly far-fetched. It won’t feel quite as good to give up real creatures with that ability, but that’s not a bad fail-case either. If you have a Suspect in play and mana up, your opponent is going to be in a nightmare scenario.
Absolving Lammasu
Average Picked At: 7.73
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 6.20
Total Times Seen 106
Pro Rating: 4
Pro Comment: A 5-mana 4/3 flyer that gains 3 life when it dies is a card you’re already pretty happy with. This is because it pressures your opponent effectively, and the fail case is that it trades with a removal spell or a creature and gains you 3. So, the fact this also shuts of suspect across the board is pretty sweet. If you’re in White, you’re probably not using suspect a whole lot yourself, so if that ability it does something, it will usually power down the opposing board. Then, on top of all of that, the Lammasu also lets you suspect an opposing creature when it dies. Sure, there’s both upside and downside associated with that, but because you’re making the choice you can usually find an advantageous way to use it. This does a ton for the mana cost while sporting a fairly good stat-line – making it a very good uncommon.
Curious Cadaver
Average Picked At: 7.75
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 5.94
Total Times Seen 106
Pro Rating: 3
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 3/1 Flyer is kind of a liability. Sure, it can hit the opponent reasonably hard for the cost, but it also dies to everything, including lots of cheap removal and creature ETB abilities. This offsets that a little bit because it can come back from your graveyard, but don’t underestimate how much of a pain it is that you have to keep recasting it every time. Still, it’s an evasive creature with reasonably high power that just doesn’t stay dead, and overall that’s something I’m interested in. I could see this underwhelming in the end if that 1 toughness is extra easy to deal with in this format.
Toxin Analysis
Average Picked At: 9.84
Total Times Picked: 25
Average Last Seen At: 8.92
Total Times Seen 320
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is really cheap, and cheap tricks are often real good for their ability to punch above their weight class – and this one even gives you a clue! But…there’s a problem. It doesn’t offer anything that can help your creature survive combat. Sure, your creature can always trade thanks to this, but it’s still going to feel close enough to a 2-for-1 to sting when you have to use it that way. It does work nicely with Suspect, but I don't think that's enough.
Torch the Witness
Average Picked At: 2.47
Total Times Picked: 19
Average Last Seen At: 2.11
Total Times Seen 35
Pro Rating: 4
Pro Comment: It’s always going to feel like very efficient removal, and it scales all game long and it’s likely to let you investigate in most situations, so you even get a 2-for-1!
Agrus Kos, Spirit of Justice
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 2.00
Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 5
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 2/4 with Vigilance and Double Strike is a quality card already, so adding Suspect to the mix is pretty nice. You can use it to remove an opposing suspect if there is one, and if there’s not you can choose to give something suspect – which can be beneficial when you want to turn off a creature’s ability to block or if giving your guy menace is a big deal. Both of those are really great if you’re on the offensive, although going after your opponents creature is probably best since Agrus can exile it later. Argus can also target himself, so don’t forget that. The efficiency here is amazing, and his ability to remove creatures and/or weaken or augment them makes him a bomb.
Analyze the Pollen
Average Picked At: 2.60
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 2.57
Total Times Seen 15
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: So, this is a new take on Traverse the Ulvenwald, which isn't as good in Limited as it is in constructed. Still, it provides good fixing early and in the late game it can tutor up your best creature.
Jaded Analyst
Average Picked At: 9.87
Total Times Picked: 31
Average Last Seen At: 7.86
Total Times Seen 283
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: It feels like every single one of these creatures that has defender but loses defender when X happens has been really unimpressive, and I kind of thing this is too. I get it, you can give up a clue and attack with it, but by the time you can set that up, it isn’t like a 3/2 is going to light the world on fire. Most of the time this type of card is a 3/3, so at least it is a reasonable blocker, but a 3/2 is substantially worse.
Scene of the Crime
Average Picked At: 7.25
Total Times Picked: 8
Average Last Seen At: 5.41
Total Times Seen 84
Pro Rating: 3
Pro Comment: This looks like a pretty solid source of fixing. You’re not always gonna want to tap your creatures to make mana, as that can be a very real cost, but at least this can also produce colorless mana normally, it has useful typing as both an artifact and a clue, and you can of course throw it away for a card. This means all your eggs aren’t in that mana-fixing basket, so it will almost never feel terrible, while still having the upside of shoring up your mana.
Izoni, Center of the Web
Average Picked At: 1.50
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 1.58
Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 5
Pro Comment: This reminds me of Ishkanah, and that’s good company to keep. In black green, this will be a 6 mana 5/4 with Menace thar makes two 2/1s with Menace and reach more often than it isn't, and on rate alone that's a bomb. Throw in the ability to make more spiders every time it attacks, and the ability to give up tokens for value, and this might just be the biggest bomb in the set.
Gleaming Geardrake
Average Picked At: 6.25
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 4.62
Total Times Seen 63
Pro Rating: 4
Pro Comment: I’m on-board with a two mana 1/1 Flyer that makes a Clue, and this thing will become a pretty real threat if it’s left unchecked, as this format is replete with Clue tokens, not to mention other ways to sacrifice stuff. In short, this card has a nice fail case, and an amazing ceiling.
Steamcore Scholar
Average Picked At: 1.30
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 1.31
Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 4
Pro Comment: A three mana 2/2 with Flying and Vigilance that has you draw 2 and discard 2 is pretty great, so it’s nice that sometimes you can choose to only discard one.
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