Average Picked At: 1.80 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 2.33 Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This is an excellent and efficient creature, and one that your opponent has no hope of interacting with on your turn. Its nice to know that you can use tricks and stuff on the Spellbreaker and know with certainty things will go your way!
Average Picked At: 8.82 Total Times Picked: 28 Average Last Seen At: 7.31 Total Times Seen 229
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: You’ll play this in decks that can really take advantage of +1/+1 counter synergy, but it isn’t that great in other decks, where its just inefficient – both before and after adapting.
Average Picked At: 10.52 Total Times Picked: 31 Average Last Seen At: 9.25 Total Times Seen 291
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This has mediocre stats and a pretty mediocre ability. Untapping one of your other creatures just doesn’t make a huge difference most of the time.
Average Picked At: 8.20 Total Times Picked: 15 Average Last Seen At: 5.70 Total Times Seen 81
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This guildmage might be the most underwhelming of the group, but its still pretty good! One problem is that both of the abilities kind of do the same thing, so it isn’t as flexible as the others. Turning off a blocker can really allow you to get in for huge damage, and animating a land for a turn can do that too.
Average Picked At: 11.25 Total Times Picked: 32 Average Last Seen At: 9.30 Total Times Seen 305
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This is an alright 3-drop. The stats are pretty mediocre, but the 2 life helps off-set that a little bit.
Average Picked At: 4.80 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 3.85 Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This offer some very nice fixing, and if you’re in the market for that they are definitely nice. They are worth taking any time you are splashing a color or they are in both of your colors.
Average Picked At: 8.03 Total Times Picked: 36 Average Last Seen At: 7.58 Total Times Seen 217
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This can sometimes generate a 2-for-1, and at the very least it really makes life difficult for any opponent that has an X/1 in play. It is also pretty good sacrifice fodder, and gets Spectacle going. It is a surprisingly effective one drop!
Average Picked At: 6.68 Total Times Picked: 25 Average Last Seen At: 5.73 Total Times Seen 181
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Casting this with the Addendum feels pretty good, as you end up breaking even on cards and getting some pretty good tempo, and you can of course cast it without the Addendum in a pinch – like if your opponent is trying to use a combat trick or something.
Average Picked At: 5.62 Total Times Picked: 13 Average Last Seen At: 5.09 Total Times Seen 66
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: The second ability is where most of the value is on this one, since pinging your opponent for only a single Red is a pretty darn good deal, and also sets up all of your Spectacle. Its nice you can disrupt your opponent’s hand in the late game too.
Average Picked At: 6.00 Total Times Picked: 4 Average Last Seen At: 4.61 Total Times Seen 28
Pro Rating: 0.5 Pro Comment: This is a decent sideboard card. You’re really only going to want to bring it in against decks with artifacts and enchantments worth targeting, though. The other ability isn’t enough on its own.
Average Picked At: 9.89 Total Times Picked: 36 Average Last Seen At: 8.84 Total Times Seen 312
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This little creature can be a real menace for your opponent to deal with. It doesn’t pump itself efficiently, but in the late game it is a pretty nice attacker that your opponent will really hate blocking, and obviously it is hard to block early too – though it doesn’t exactly hit hard.
Average Picked At: 8.95 Total Times Picked: 37 Average Last Seen At: 8.49 Total Times Seen 266
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: This is a French Vanilla flyer with decent stats. Most of the time you hope you don’t play it, but it isn’t a disaster if you do.
Average Picked At: 4.89 Total Times Picked: 9 Average Last Seen At: 4.66 Total Times Seen 58
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is a really nice creature, whether or not you manage to cast it for Spectacle. It is a real challenge to block thanks to death touch, and it can hit really hard. If you do cast it on turn two it feels pretty insane!
Average Picked At: 2.71 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 2.23 Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: This costs quadruple Blue mana, which can be a little rough, but it also utterly reshapes the board. Even just casting it for six is often game breaking, and if you get to 8 the game is completely over. That’s a lot of mana, but not an unusual amount in this format.
Average Picked At: 10.88 Total Times Picked: 24 Average Last Seen At: 8.62 Total Times Seen 266
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: Edict effects are always pretty underwhelming in Limited, since board states tend to be pretty clogged up, especially in this format. If you really need removal, and have a decent number of creatures with 4 or more power, it is a decent card, but it is basically never more than that.
Average Picked At: 10.69 Total Times Picked: 13 Average Last Seen At: 9.12 Total Times Seen 321
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: You’ll play this if you need a two-mana 1/3, but you aren’t going to assemble a mill deck with this thing.
Average Picked At: 10.33 Total Times Picked: 6 Average Last Seen At: 5.78 Total Times Seen 78
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: This isn’t really worth it. The Scry isn’t enough, and playing a silly mini-game with it to steal your opponent’s stuff is rough. If your opponent has no way at all to produce Blue mana it definitely gets a little more interesting, but this format has such good mana that I wouldn’t count on them not having it.
Average Picked At: 11.23 Total Times Picked: 22 Average Last Seen At: 9.36 Total Times Seen 281
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: The idea here is that this can set up your cards that have Spectacle. And, it can do that for sure, but its body is otherwise a pretty big liability, and the Rakdos decks don’t have that hard of a time of making sure Spectacle is online anyway. If your deck is really leading hard into the mechanic, Spear Spewer is a worthy inclusion, but it is by no means a necessity for those types of decks. 118 - Spikewheel Acrobat – 1.5 This really only feels worth it if you get the Spectacle going, and even then it isn’t exactly amazing, as most 2 drops in the set can still trade for it.
Average Picked At: 7.29 Total Times Picked: 14 Average Last Seen At: 5.00 Total Times Seen 72
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: This costs a lot of mana for something that doesn’t add a body to the board, and while it does effect it as soon you attack alone with something, it requires further set up beyond that to really be relevant.
Average Picked At: 11.15 Total Times Picked: 13 Average Last Seen At: 8.78 Total Times Seen 132
Pro Rating: 0.0 Pro Comment: This is mostly just a really fancy version of Fog, something that is just never worth it in Limited. You don’t want to go down a card just to buy yourself a single turn in this format.