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Shadows of the Past Limited Quiz

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Bonds of Faith
Average Picked At: 5.75
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 7.50
Total Times Seen 7
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: The modality here can be pretty nice, though most of the time you’re going to use it as removal. And sometimes, the creature you really want to use it on is a Human, and in those cases this can be pretty bad.
Drogskol Captain
Average Picked At: 4.33
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.68
Total Times Seen 25
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is an amazing spirit payoff that has solid base stats as a Wind Drake. While it doesn’t grant hexproof to itself, granting to all of your spirits is no joke.
Traveler's Amulet
Average Picked At: 9.15
Total Times Picked: 13
Average Last Seen At: 7.94
Total Times Seen 142
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This nicely fixes your mana, while also giving you an Artifact in the graveyard for Delirium.
Mist Raven
Average Picked At: 3.50
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 4.00
Total Times Seen 8
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This leds you add a pretty real body to the board while also subtracting from your opponent’s board. This gives you a huge leg up in most games, whether you’re ahead or behind.
Elder Cathar
Average Picked At: 9.19
Total Times Picked: 16
Average Last Seen At: 8.17
Total Times Seen 136
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is a pretty nice payoff for Humans. Paying 3 mana for 4/4 worth of stats feels pretty good, and also makes the Cathar good sacrifice fodder.
Young Wolf
Average Picked At: 6.00
Total Times Picked: 9
Average Last Seen At: 7.40
Total Times Seen 50
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: In the end, you get a 1/1 and a 2/2 for one mana. Sure, you don’t have them both at the same time, but you’re still getting an amazing rate – and the wolf is great for sacrificing too!
Avacyn's Collar
Average Picked At: 8.40
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 6.59
Total Times Seen 54
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: The boost this offers isn’t really worth it, unless you have a lot of Humans, because then you can turn trades into an advantage.
Rally the Peasants
Average Picked At: 12.67
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 9.09
Total Times Seen 20
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: Being able to buff your whole board on two separate attacks with only one card is pretty powerful! If you have the mana, you can also do it all at once!
Spider Spawning
Average Picked At: 4.00
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 5.00
Total Times Seen 10
Pro Rating: 1.0 // 4.5
Pro Comment: This card is insane, and was one of the defining cards of original Innistrad draft. Just like that format, this one is loaded up with ways to mill yourself, so Spider Spawning is incredibly effective both times you cast it, and makes many game-states unwinnable for your opponent. This really only works in a deck that is built around it, but it will usually be the most powerful card in your deck when you pull that off.
Huntmaster of the Fells // Ravager of the Fells
Average Picked At: 1.00
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 1.00
Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 2/2 that makes a 2/2 and gains you 2 life is a great Limited card. Huntmaster of the Fells is far better than that! Partly because it can transform into the larger Ravager of the Fells while damaging stuff, and partly because when it flips back to the Huntmaster, you get that original trigger all over again!
Diregraf Captain
Average Picked At: 4.80
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.86
Total Times Seen 43
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is a better Zombie payoff than the one in the main set. Lords are always quite powerful, and the additions of deathtouch and damaging your opponent when a Zombie dies is great.
Tragic Slip
Average Picked At: 15.00
Total Times Picked: 0
Average Last Seen At: 5.25
Total Times Seen 6
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is not a very good removal spell without Morbid, though it is just barely passable. With morbid, though, it can kill virtually everything for only one mana. That upside is accessible, and enough for this to be premium.
Stromkirk Captain
Average Picked At: 4.40
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 5.04
Total Times Seen 38
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This offers an impressive boost to your Vampires, which will be the bulk of your creatures in Black/Red.
Hollowhenge Scavenger
Average Picked At: 12.00
Total Times Picked: 9
Average Last Seen At: 9.35
Total Times Seen 67
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is passable without Morbid, and the times where you can add this very real body to the board and gain 5 life are incredible.
Bump in the Night
Average Picked At: 13.00
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 8.53
Total Times Seen 62
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: Cards that damage your opponent and don’t do anything else are rarely worth it in Limited. This does have the capacity to do up to six for only one card, but you have to pay 7 mana to get there. It is kind of a funny card, because it has kind of an ugly baseline, but it actually gets better in multiples, since you are more likely to find a critical mass that lets you burn out your opponent. Problem is, since this is part of a bonus sheet, actually getting multiples of it won’t happen very often.
Galvanic Juggernaut
Average Picked At: 9.00
Total Times Picked: 1
Average Last Seen At: 4.55
Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 5/5 is nice. One that has a text box entirely filled with downside is not.
Selhoff Occultist
Average Picked At: 12.25
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 11.26
Total Times Seen 68
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Milling yourself with this is more often what you want to be doing in this format, as milling your opponent might just end up helping them. Overall, this has mediocre stats and an effect that isn’t all that impressive.
Mystic Retrieval
Average Picked At: 7.00
Total Times Picked: 4
Average Last Seen At: 6.18
Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is very slow and clunky. You do eventually get a 2-for-1 out of it, but there are better ways to recur instants and sorceries in this format.
Bloodflow Connoisseur
Average Picked At: 11.70
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 10.20
Total Times Seen 66
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Free sacrifice effects that aren’t limited to once per turn always play incredibly well. Your opponent can’t ever rule out that you’re going to use this ability, and they always have to respect it. There is plenty of sacrifice fodder in the format, too.
Demonmail Hauberk
Average Picked At: 11.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 7.38
Total Times Seen 21
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This gives a decent enough boost for its casting cost, but sacrificing a creature is a steep price to pay for many decks.
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