Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This has a really neat design. Its triggered ability makes it so that your opponent can’t damage it on their first turn after you play it, and its other abilities are pretty nice! Typically, you’re probably going to play it and use the +1, since you won’t have any fear of Katio dying on that next turn, and then you can start making Ninjas to protect the planeswalker too! If you play this on turn three, it will really take over the game. However, in the later game, its abilities look increasingly unimpressive. I don’t quite think its a bomb since it won’t help you out a whole lot if you’re at parity or behind. Instead, its just a really good card.

Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: This is very reminiscent of Scavenging Ooze, and that’s great company to keep. You won’t always have stuff to exile with it early, and it will definitely do a lot more work in the mid to late game – but in those situations it will really take over the game, especially because you have the ability to move it around to other creatures. I think this is a bomb, it will grow throughout the game and be a significant problem whether it is a creature or Equipment.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is a 3-mana ⅔ that will sometimes be a 3-mana ¾, and in a curve out in a RG deck there’s a good chance it goes that way.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is another card where the trigger only requires it to leave the battlefield, so it getting blinked, or going back to your hand for ninjutsu will also give you the option of paying 2 to draw a card. You won’t always have the mana vailable to do it of course, but I think you’ll have it often enough that this is a pretty solid two drop in most decks.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Like all cards that do phasing things, this has a variety of uses. You can use it to blank opposing creatures for a turn, you can use it to save some of your stuff from removal, you can use it if your opponent tries to put an Aura on one of their creatures, and so forth. I think this can phase enough things at once, and there’s enough different ways to use it, that it seems like a pretty reasonable card, though it isn’t super powerful or anything. There will be times where using this just doesn’t do anything, and that always hurts a card’s stock.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: If you have creatures who give you value with an ETB or death triggered ability, or some tokens lying around, it seems like this will be able to generate some pretty nice value for you. If you don’t, this is going to be less attractive, as you’ll typically just be upgrading one of your permanents a little bit, and there’s also no guaranteeing you have something good to sacrifice and something worth getting back, and that’s pretty rough on a 5-mana Enchantment. The good news is you can get that new permanent right away, so it does something to the board immediately. This has a pretty impressive ceiling, but I think it will be far too inconsistent to get anywhere close to being a bomb.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is premium removal. The fact it shuts down blocking, attacking, crewing vehicles, and activated abilities is great. This format does have more ways to blow up Enchantments than normal, but it also has more payoffs for Enchantments than normal, so its probably a wash.

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: We finally know who The Wanderer is after first seeing her in War of the Spark! This time around, she packs a lot more power – which makes sense. She’s a Mythic Rare this time, and she was Uncommon last time! The fact she has Flash is quite powerful, especially because her +1 is the kind of thing that will make a lot of creatures just wreck another creature in combat. A stats boost plus First Strike has a tendency to do that – you can basically use her as a combat trick on your turn, or use her on your opponent’s turn. You can of course also her other two abilities immediately and at Instant speed that first turn, which is amazing. You can kill an attacker or make a 2/2 to block a 1/1 or something. So uh, yeah. She’s insane. She’s a 4-mana planeswalker who can pretty much do it all – she can kill stuff and protect herself – and that’s usually enough to be a bomb in Limited.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Chapter I and II actually give a fairly significant buff. +1/+1 counter + Vigilance for a turn is pretty sweet, because it not only enables a better attack, it allows you to alter how a race is going. Now, sometimes paying 5 for chapter one is going to feel pretty rough – like if getting the counter and vigilance doesn’t do much for you, but at the stage in the game that you play this, it is pretty likely to be useful. Then, you end up with a pretty nice creature – with haste and Vigilance – which will mean it can swing right away, unlike most of these saga-creatures. I think this might be Green’s best Common. It gives you a ton of very real value up front, and then a very nice creature.

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: With no other creatures around, this is effectively a 4-mana 4/4 with Haste. It is unfortunate that its ability doesn’t count itself, but the card is pretty good even before that additional upside. Sometimes this will come down and be able to do a significant chunk of damage with the Attack trigger. Putting counters on stuff when it attacks can also really improve your attacks.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is a Gray Ogre who attacks as a 4/2, with some reconfigure upside. I’m not ultra impressed with this as a creature or Equipment you put on something else. I mean, its fine, but I think you end up cutting it more than you’ll play it. It just isn’t very efficient no matter how you use it, and the stats boost is only useful if you’re the attacker.

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: Well, this is a two mana 2/2 with some silly upside! Granting haste to everything is a nice enough upside to have on such a creature, but where it gets really interesting is in its ability to make Dragon tokens if you have some modified creatures. That’s not a huge ask, and it means that this is a two mana 2/2 that can really take over games where you can get that ability going. It does die to a whole lot, but it’s a two drop that is pretty scary all game long. I think it’s a bomb.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This has three pretty nice modes! If you get it late and cast it as a creature, its big enough that it can close out a game, and Ward 2 provides it a bit of protection. UG is the color pair that has the most channel in it, and the Skyturtle does a pretty good of making tha clear with its two channel abilities – and they are both abilities that do a thing that might let you get back a card with Channel. Even absent that channel synergy, the fact that you can use this to get back any card from your graveyard, or to bounce a permanent is pretty nice. For most stuff with channel, if you chopped the card up, each card individually wouldn’t be that impressive, but because this card basically has three very different modes, the flexibility is well worth it.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: These types of effects are almost always not worth it – they keep pushing them on us, though! What makes them bad is the fact that you only resize a creature. Making one into a 4/5 for 3 mana is not normally going to be a very good rate, and that’s even if you’re including the ability to turn Vehicles on like this can. You’re going to get a small stats boost in most cases, and that just isn’t worth the risk of getting blown out by removal. They did do one thing here that’s pretty interesting though: They added a cantrip. That certainly makes this better, as at worst you can sort of cycle this for three mana, and if you do manage to resize a creature and win combat you’ll actually feel like you’re doing something – but it still isn’t very good for the same reasons these effects never are: They don’t do enough for their cost and they are also very risky!

Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.0
Pro Comment: This is a super artifact-centric version of Dig Through Time. Because you have to have a decent number of Artifacts in play to make casting it worthwhile and you need ot hit two of them in the top seven cards of your library, I think this probably has to have a build around grade. This format, as I’ve been saying, has a ton of Artifacts, but this card needs you really be in on them. You probably need 10+ artifacts in your deck to get there with it, and even in this format I don’t think that’s always going to happen.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is cheap to cast and has a fairly reasonable Crew cost, especially because it will essentially crew a second Vehicle, should you have one around. And..you won’t always, in fact about half the time you probably won’t have more than one vehicle, but the times you do this is going to do some pretty silly stuff.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Like the rest of this cycle, this is hard to cast in Limited, but it does something pretty powerful. And actually, Green will have an easier time being able to cast its Invoke spell because it has better access to fixing. 5 mana fo two 4/5s with one of these keyword abilities is an amazing deal – if it were easy to cast, I would be tempted to give it a 4.5, But the challenge of casting this is real, and I think that probably holds it down to a 3.5.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: If you have enough Artifacts around and consistent access to Blue mana, this seems reasonable. If you are paying 1UU for it, then you’re not getting a very good deal – Cancel is just so much worse than Counterspell! There are enough Artifacts in this set, though, that I think this will be Counterspell often enough that I just want to give it a C. Counterspells have their problems in Limited – namely that you have to have the mana up at the right time – which in a way makes them very conditional removal – but when the mana you need to leave up is two or less, we see the Counterspells end up being fairly playable, and I think that’s what we have here.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A two mana 2/2 with lifelink is pretty nice, and reducing the cost of Enchantments is pretty nice too! As it often is, GW is about Enchantments in this set, so that will definitely be coming up.