Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: It is surprisingly easy to get two 2/2 Zombie tokens out of this, and that’s good for the investment, especially because it also loads your graveyard for your other purposes, scries, and gains you some life.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This ETB trigger is pretty nice! There are lots of good Enchantments in this set, including Sagas which throw themselves in the graveyard, so getting something back with the Storyteller isn’t that hard to set up. People often overrate how good putting something on top of your library is – keep in mind that it is just card selection, and not card advantage. That doesn’t make the Storyteller bad, just not as good as some might think.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This can tuck a huge number of permanents in this set and it does it really efficiently, basically amounting to being premium removal.

Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: In the early game, this will effectively be a discard spell, and then in the later part of the game, Kroxa gets to Escape from the graveyard and come back as a huge creature who triggers that discard spell when it comes into play, and then again any time it attacks. One nice thing about the discard effect is it punishes your opponent if they don’t discard a nonland, and they often won’t want too, but that damage can really add up once Kroxa sticks around on the board.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This isn’t the most efficient card-draw spell ever – for 5 mana you end up drawing only two cards. It tries to make up for that by having Escape, but in a typical game you’re not going to have the time or resources to do it more than once anyway.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This gives a really nice stats boost for the cost, though it does come with some quite significant upside. If you’re an aggressive deck, slapping this on your one or two drop can often win you the game – but of course you’re going to get 2-for-1’d and Lightning Bolted if your opponent has an answer. This tends to be worth it in those aggro decks, but not really anywhere else.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is a great Common payoff for the 4-power deck, as it often will be a ¾, and in a set with lots of Auras, trample is pretty nice! Note by the way that it counts itself when looking for 4 power, so if you have suited him up with an Aura that allows him to have 4-power, it will still get the boost.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Another nice Escape creature, the Chimera offers the ability to trade as a result of its high power, and then it can just keep coming back and threatening the opponent as a 5/2.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This has good defensive stats, you’ll play it in more controlling decks.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: Like a lot of graveyard hate in this format, Tymaret overperforms. He can really mess up the game plan of the many decks in the format that rely on their graveyard, while giving you some pretty efficient stats.

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This might seem like it does 3 kind of minor things -- but I think it is a pretty reasonable inclusion in White decks in this format. Searching up a Plains gurantees you will hit your 3rd land drop, a 0/4 defender is unexciting, but it does add something to the board, and 2 life is unexciting too. But, if you look at this with all the parts together, it is basically Wall of Omens that gains you 2 life, for the same mana cost, and that’s something I want to play, especially in less aggressive White decks.

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: This is an unbeatable bomb. It gives you a huge hexproof creature up front, which will usually be enough to keep you alive long enough to get to the next two chapters. Chapter II makes it so your whole board can probably get in on the next turn, and then Chapter III steals your opponents’ best permanent. So, this is basically a 3-for-1 that tends to do 10+ damage to your opponent.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: These give great fixing while also improving your draw a little bit. That makes it well worth the fact it comes into play tapped.

Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: 1 to play and 3 to equip is too much for this stats boost in most cases.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This card really overperforms. It might have some underwhelming stats to begin with, but the ability to gain Vigilance and Lifelink in the mid-to-late game turns out to be pretty good, as it makes it hard for your opponent to race you, and you can even keep it back to block!

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is a two-drop that is often a 4/3, and that’s not too shabby. It is an especially good place to stick an Aura, as the boost it will get on the turn you play it will be awesome.

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This either gives you a flexible and very efficient removal spell, or a hasty elemental token. I think more often than not, you’ll want the removal option here – it isn’t the most efficient thing at only two mana – since it does 2, but that’s the least efficient it gets! At 3 mana you are doing 4 damage, and at 4 mana you are doing 6! This will be capable of taking down almost anything, and it does it at a discount. The other mode isn’t as attractive in most cases, but sometimes your opponent’s shields will be down, and you can make the Elemental token and win the game. The X damage part doesn’t let you hit players, but if that’s what you’re interested in doing, that Elemental token can help with that.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This has okay stats and an ETB ability that will frequently allow you to make an attack you couldn’t before. He’s not bad.

Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This card is a trap. People look at it and think it will be a worthwhile win condition in a control deck, but setting up is way too hard, the resources it asks for basically put you behind the eight-ball, even as a control deck. You’d much rather just be adding to the board and using your graveyard resources to do so.