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Streets of New Capenna Limited Quiz
Answered: 0/20
Accuracy: 0
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Average Picked At: 5.21
Total Times Picked: 14
Average Last Seen At: 3.69
Total Times Seen 63
Total Times Picked: 14
Average Last Seen At: 3.69
Total Times Seen 63
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has some pretty incredible upside – not only doing the Pithing Needle thing to a permanent but also stealing its activated abilities. Problem is, in Limited, there will be many instances where that part of the card is just irrelevant. There just isn’t always something around worth naming, and you don’t have enough knowledge of the opposing deck most of the time to name something relevant. Its still a two mana ⅔ with upside, and there will be times where it feels incredible – but other times it will just feel Vanilla.
Pro Comment: This has some pretty incredible upside – not only doing the Pithing Needle thing to a permanent but also stealing its activated abilities. Problem is, in Limited, there will be many instances where that part of the card is just irrelevant. There just isn’t always something around worth naming, and you don’t have enough knowledge of the opposing deck most of the time to name something relevant. Its still a two mana ⅔ with upside, and there will be times where it feels incredible – but other times it will just feel Vanilla.
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has some pretty incredible upside – not only doing the Pithing Needle thing to a permanent but also stealing its activated abilities. Problem is, in Limited, there will be many instances where that part of the card is just irrelevant. There just isn’t always something around worth naming, and you don’t have enough knowledge of the opposing deck most of the time to name something relevant. Its still a two mana ⅔ with upside, and there will be times where it feels incredible – but other times it will just feel Vanilla.
Pro Comment: This has some pretty incredible upside – not only doing the Pithing Needle thing to a permanent but also stealing its activated abilities. Problem is, in Limited, there will be many instances where that part of the card is just irrelevant. There just isn’t always something around worth naming, and you don’t have enough knowledge of the opposing deck most of the time to name something relevant. Its still a two mana ⅔ with upside, and there will be times where it feels incredible – but other times it will just feel Vanilla.
Average Picked At: 7.58
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 4.37
Total Times Seen 112
Total Times Picked: 12
Average Last Seen At: 4.37
Total Times Seen 112
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: Looks like they gave Modern and Legacy Death’s Shadow decks a new tool! This isn’t great for Limited, though. You won’t be able to cast this until your life gets to about 10, and at that point it is going to be a vanilla 5-mana 7/7. That’s obviously a good rate, but when you take into account the fact that this was stuck in your hand for a really long time, it doesn’t look nearly as good. Basically, in the mid to late game it will feel efficient, and earlier than that it is going to feel pretty miserable. It is going to be stuck in your hand way too often.
Pro Comment: Looks like they gave Modern and Legacy Death’s Shadow decks a new tool! This isn’t great for Limited, though. You won’t be able to cast this until your life gets to about 10, and at that point it is going to be a vanilla 5-mana 7/7. That’s obviously a good rate, but when you take into account the fact that this was stuck in your hand for a really long time, it doesn’t look nearly as good. Basically, in the mid to late game it will feel efficient, and earlier than that it is going to feel pretty miserable. It is going to be stuck in your hand way too often.
Average Picked At: 2.71
Total Times Picked: 24
Average Last Seen At: 2.50
Total Times Seen 58
Total Times Picked: 24
Average Last Seen At: 2.50
Total Times Seen 58
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A 3-mana ¼ with Deathtouch and Haste is already a pretty great deal, and you can expect to get the Devil token a decent chunk of the time. Those tokens are especially good to sacrifice to Casualty effects on Maestros cards!
Pro Comment: A 3-mana ¼ with Deathtouch and Haste is already a pretty great deal, and you can expect to get the Devil token a decent chunk of the time. Those tokens are especially good to sacrifice to Casualty effects on Maestros cards!
Average Picked At: 7.14
Total Times Picked: 150
Average Last Seen At: 6.30
Total Times Seen 1062
Total Times Picked: 150
Average Last Seen At: 6.30
Total Times Seen 1062
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Cards that just fight and don’t offer a stats boost of any kind tend to be pretty medium. Buffing the creature makes it so that a wider variety of creatures can do something useful with them, and you just don’t get that here at all. It does combo interestingly with shield tokens, since it can enable you to fight with a shielded creature without losing it, and that does kind of expand the range of creatures that can fight with this and survive.
Pro Comment: Cards that just fight and don’t offer a stats boost of any kind tend to be pretty medium. Buffing the creature makes it so that a wider variety of creatures can do something useful with them, and you just don’t get that here at all. It does combo interestingly with shield tokens, since it can enable you to fight with a shielded creature without losing it, and that does kind of expand the range of creatures that can fight with this and survive.
Average Picked At: 2.95
Total Times Picked: 22
Average Last Seen At: 2.62
Total Times Seen 50
Total Times Picked: 22
Average Last Seen At: 2.62
Total Times Seen 50
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: You can flash this in to bounce a spell back to your opponents hand, while also getting a Connive trigger that will make it a 4/2 with lifelink in some cases. It isn’t quite a 2-for-1 situation, since you are only gaining tempo and not a whole card, but this is going to feel pretty good when you cast it.
Pro Comment: You can flash this in to bounce a spell back to your opponents hand, while also getting a Connive trigger that will make it a 4/2 with lifelink in some cases. It isn’t quite a 2-for-1 situation, since you are only gaining tempo and not a whole card, but this is going to feel pretty good when you cast it.
Average Picked At: 6.27
Total Times Picked: 55
Average Last Seen At: 4.71
Total Times Seen 303
Total Times Picked: 55
Average Last Seen At: 4.71
Total Times Seen 303
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This will have death touch pretty often, though not usually on your opponent’s turn, which is a bit of a bummer. Giving the whole board death touch isn’t out of the question either, since you can make two bodies with one card with several different cards in the format.
Pro Comment: This will have death touch pretty often, though not usually on your opponent’s turn, which is a bit of a bummer. Giving the whole board death touch isn’t out of the question either, since you can make two bodies with one card with several different cards in the format.
Average Picked At: 5.92
Total Times Picked: 134
Average Last Seen At: 5.53
Total Times Seen 839
Total Times Picked: 134
Average Last Seen At: 5.53
Total Times Seen 839
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: I think people will be tempted to compare this to Virus Beetle, but I think the Official will feel more like a Ravenous Rats than a Beetle. The Beetle had the advantage of being an artifact, and in a set with ninjutsu that could rebuy ETB abilities – so it isn’t going to overperform quite like that card did. However, this is still pretty well placed in this format, mostly because you can take a card away from your opponent and then sacrifice this to something with Casualty and you end up with pretty decent value. In the late game, sometimes it won’t have anything to hit of course, but at least it adds something to the board.
Pro Comment: I think people will be tempted to compare this to Virus Beetle, but I think the Official will feel more like a Ravenous Rats than a Beetle. The Beetle had the advantage of being an artifact, and in a set with ninjutsu that could rebuy ETB abilities – so it isn’t going to overperform quite like that card did. However, this is still pretty well placed in this format, mostly because you can take a card away from your opponent and then sacrifice this to something with Casualty and you end up with pretty decent value. In the late game, sometimes it won’t have anything to hit of course, but at least it adds something to the board.
Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: Unsurprisingly, this card looks really good. If you already have something in play, Elspeth offers a huge upgrade with her +1, which will get you a +1/+1 counter and a keyword ability counter. That upgrade is massive! Giving something vigilance means you can attack and still protect Elspeth which is pretty sweet, and all the other keywords have their place too. And you probably will often just start there. However, even on an empty board or one where she isn’t well-protected, she can use her -3 to find something to put on the table with a shield counter. That counter will really allow that creature to do a good job of protecting her so she can live another day. You do need to make sure you have a decent number of 3 or less creatures around to really take full advantage of her -3, but most decks will be able to. Not she can grab any permanent with a mana value of 3 or less, but the shield counter won’t do much on other permanents and other permanents are less likely to protect her. But uh, yeah. She’s going to be tough to beat when she comes down, whichever of her initial abilities she uses. And, on top of that, she can get to the point where she makes an Angel army pretty quickly!
Pro Comment: Unsurprisingly, this card looks really good. If you already have something in play, Elspeth offers a huge upgrade with her +1, which will get you a +1/+1 counter and a keyword ability counter. That upgrade is massive! Giving something vigilance means you can attack and still protect Elspeth which is pretty sweet, and all the other keywords have their place too. And you probably will often just start there. However, even on an empty board or one where she isn’t well-protected, she can use her -3 to find something to put on the table with a shield counter. That counter will really allow that creature to do a good job of protecting her so she can live another day. You do need to make sure you have a decent number of 3 or less creatures around to really take full advantage of her -3, but most decks will be able to. Not she can grab any permanent with a mana value of 3 or less, but the shield counter won’t do much on other permanents and other permanents are less likely to protect her. But uh, yeah. She’s going to be tough to beat when she comes down, whichever of her initial abilities she uses. And, on top of that, she can get to the point where she makes an Angel army pretty quickly!
Average Picked At: 1.23
Total Times Picked: 26
Average Last Seen At: 1.26
Total Times Seen 28
Total Times Picked: 26
Average Last Seen At: 1.26
Total Times Seen 28
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This looks pretty good, as it can quickly help you go crazy wide, and it will get especially spicy alongside cards with Alliance. The downside of a card like this is that it does stone nothing if you’re behind, since you need to be attacking to generate value, but Rabble Rousing can upgrade your board enough that you can attack effectively when you just couldn’t before you played it. Getting the Hideaway card out of this isn’t going to be super easy, but it is certainly doable.
Pro Comment: This looks pretty good, as it can quickly help you go crazy wide, and it will get especially spicy alongside cards with Alliance. The downside of a card like this is that it does stone nothing if you’re behind, since you need to be attacking to generate value, but Rabble Rousing can upgrade your board enough that you can attack effectively when you just couldn’t before you played it. Getting the Hideaway card out of this isn’t going to be super easy, but it is certainly doable.
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: This looks really good to me. Even without Blitz, coming with the ability to make a Blitzish version of one of your creatures in play is pretty darn good, because it means you can send in a hasty copy of your best creature that will also draw you a card when it dies, and that means you get back the card you discarded. And its going to die, because it has the same clause that Blitz creatures do. She herself also has Blitz, which sometimes will allow her to come down and finish off an opponent out of nowhere, or make a copy of something right away, but I actually think just straight-up casting her is the way to get the most value out of her. She’s a bit fragile, but it seems like she will be able to take over games.
Pro Comment: This looks really good to me. Even without Blitz, coming with the ability to make a Blitzish version of one of your creatures in play is pretty darn good, because it means you can send in a hasty copy of your best creature that will also draw you a card when it dies, and that means you get back the card you discarded. And its going to die, because it has the same clause that Blitz creatures do. She herself also has Blitz, which sometimes will allow her to come down and finish off an opponent out of nowhere, or make a copy of something right away, but I actually think just straight-up casting her is the way to get the most value out of her. She’s a bit fragile, but it seems like she will be able to take over games.
Average Picked At: 8.22
Total Times Picked: 132
Average Last Seen At: 7.13
Total Times Seen 1187
Total Times Picked: 132
Average Last Seen At: 7.13
Total Times Seen 1187
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Without Casualty, this kind of counter spell isn't great, since your opponent is likely to have the spare mana the longer the game goes on. With casualty…I still don't think it is great, but obviously it will allow you to counter more spells more often.
Pro Comment: Without Casualty, this kind of counter spell isn't great, since your opponent is likely to have the spare mana the longer the game goes on. With casualty…I still don't think it is great, but obviously it will allow you to counter more spells more often.
Average Picked At: 8.27
Total Times Picked: 113
Average Last Seen At: 6.84
Total Times Seen 1101
Total Times Picked: 113
Average Last Seen At: 6.84
Total Times Seen 1101
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is a Wind Drake with some solid upside – life link is no joke on an evasive creature, and can really alter races!
Pro Comment: This is a Wind Drake with some solid upside – life link is no joke on an evasive creature, and can really alter races!
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This seems like a pretty sweet engine, but it is a fairly clunky Enchantment. It does add to the board in some sense, because you can immediately turn the treasure into 1/1s if you need to, but it just isn’t a big enough payoff for the most part.
Pro Comment: This seems like a pretty sweet engine, but it is a fairly clunky Enchantment. It does add to the board in some sense, because you can immediately turn the treasure into 1/1s if you need to, but it just isn’t a big enough payoff for the most part.
Average Picked At: 9.04
Total Times Picked: 52
Average Last Seen At: 6.82
Total Times Seen 443
Total Times Picked: 52
Average Last Seen At: 6.82
Total Times Seen 443
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: I am not normally super into 5 mana reanimation spells in Limited. It is just too hard to actually get a full five mana of value out of your graveyard on a consistent basis. However, this format looks like it might have what this kind of card needs. The Connive mechanic means you can discard things to reanimate pretty easily, so I think this might be one of those formats where this is a nice card.
Pro Comment: I am not normally super into 5 mana reanimation spells in Limited. It is just too hard to actually get a full five mana of value out of your graveyard on a consistent basis. However, this format looks like it might have what this kind of card needs. The Connive mechanic means you can discard things to reanimate pretty easily, so I think this might be one of those formats where this is a nice card.
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This is a neat design. Like all of these hybrid cards, you can play it in a whole bunch of different decks! Then, this is a creature that will often be a 3/1 or a 4/2 that nets you a card when it dies, and that is high enough power that your opponent can’t just ignore it completely. And sure, if its a 3/1 that means you’re getting a land back when it does die, but a card’s a card! The one kind of awkard thing is that lots of Obscura decks will have stuff they want in the graveyard, and this won’t let you do that. It could be a pretty sweet thing to sacrifice for Casualty in some situations too.
Pro Comment: This is a neat design. Like all of these hybrid cards, you can play it in a whole bunch of different decks! Then, this is a creature that will often be a 3/1 or a 4/2 that nets you a card when it dies, and that is high enough power that your opponent can’t just ignore it completely. And sure, if its a 3/1 that means you’re getting a land back when it does die, but a card’s a card! The one kind of awkard thing is that lots of Obscura decks will have stuff they want in the graveyard, and this won’t let you do that. It could be a pretty sweet thing to sacrifice for Casualty in some situations too.
Average Picked At: 2.13
Total Times Picked: 31
Average Last Seen At: 2.24
Total Times Seen 46
Total Times Picked: 31
Average Last Seen At: 2.24
Total Times Seen 46
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A three mana ⅔ with Menace and Lifelink is already about a 3.5, as you’re getting a lot for your investment. And you’re getting even more than that out of this, since it can give up creatures to let you Surveil 1, and the once you have enough going on in the graveyard, it can start drawing you cards. Getting 5 cards with different mana values in the graveyard is far from automatic, but it is impossible to pull off either.
Pro Comment: A three mana ⅔ with Menace and Lifelink is already about a 3.5, as you’re getting a lot for your investment. And you’re getting even more than that out of this, since it can give up creatures to let you Surveil 1, and the once you have enough going on in the graveyard, it can start drawing you cards. Getting 5 cards with different mana values in the graveyard is far from automatic, but it is impossible to pull off either.
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a sweeper that does 3 damage to everything, and you can make sure one of your smaller creatures won’t die to it, while ensuring one of your opponents larger creatures does. I think that means that, overall, this card has a pretty good recipe for you to benefit more from this sweeper than they do.
Pro Comment: This is a sweeper that does 3 damage to everything, and you can make sure one of your smaller creatures won’t die to it, while ensuring one of your opponents larger creatures does. I think that means that, overall, this card has a pretty good recipe for you to benefit more from this sweeper than they do.
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.0
Pro Comment: There are enough ways to gain and lose life in the format that this is a legitimate buildaround. The fail case is pretty rough though, since it can die to all kinds of cheap removal.
Pro Comment: There are enough ways to gain and lose life in the format that this is a legitimate buildaround. The fail case is pretty rough though, since it can die to all kinds of cheap removal.
Average Picked At: 1.40
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 1.13
Total Times Seen 16
Total Times Picked: 10
Average Last Seen At: 1.13
Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: You’ll usually be able to get the first mode going on this going the turn you play this, and that’s pretty good! The Cabaretti are definitely about going wide, so getting the second mode will happen regularly as well, but the third mode is less often. This will often impact the board right away. There will of course be times where Jetmir is just a 4-mana 5/4 too, but the potential to pump your whole board, and it being relatively easy to get the first part going makes this a great card.
Pro Comment: You’ll usually be able to get the first mode going on this going the turn you play this, and that’s pretty good! The Cabaretti are definitely about going wide, so getting the second mode will happen regularly as well, but the third mode is less often. This will often impact the board right away. There will of course be times where Jetmir is just a 4-mana 5/4 too, but the potential to pump your whole board, and it being relatively easy to get the first part going makes this a great card.
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