Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: Two +1/+1 counters is pretty nice! But a two-mana 2/1…isn’t, and by the time you play your 5-drop and make this a 4/3, it isn’t like it will be unbeatable. There will also be times where you can’t grow until well beyond that turn.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: There are creature lands in this format, but they are all rare, so the fact this buffs them and makes their activated abilities cheaper doesn’t come up a whole lot. It can reduce the cost of any lands ability and there are a couple at lower rarities that it definitely makes better and that will come up sometimes, but mostly, this is a 4-mana 3/3 that can help load your graveyard and ramp your mana. And…that’s pretty nice, but nothing really impressive.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A 4-mana 4/4 with Vigilance is pretty close to a 3.0, and the upside here is pretty neat. Haste only matters for a single turn obviously enough, so you can find a way to play the adventure half of something one turn, play Galefang with Haste on the next turn, and then cast the creature side of your adventure on the next turn. It won’t always line up that way of course. This will have Haste reasonably often but it’s far from automatic

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Temporarily exiling something with Chapter 1 can be used to get an opposing creature out of the way for a bit, and it can also be a slow way to blink something, but the fact that Chapter 1 and 3 are basically part of the same effect makes the value this can generate pretty low. Chapter 2 isn’t bad, but I think the whole package here seems pretty medium. I think the best way to use this is to cast something with Bargain after Chapter II, that way you permanently rid yourself of an opposing creature. While you can certainly make that happen, when it doesn’t line up that way, it seems very mediocre

Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: A three mana 3/3 with Haste is probably good enough to be a 3.0, so the fact that he has this sweet Celebration trigger is nice upside to have on an already good card. One cool thing about him is that you can play him and then another permanent that turn to have him do his Dragon thing immediately.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: While it isn’t quite removal, stunning a creature for three turns will feel like it is sometimes. Scry 2 combines nicely too, because you can use it to find whatever it is you desperately need, now that you bought yourself some time. The Blue/White deck in the format likes tapping things too, so getting some additional value here isn’t impossible.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is an interesting take on this type of effect since the creature gets to return with a buff. Unfortunately, when we see this effect completely absent of an upfront power boost, it hasn’t really played super well. It does work well against removal, but not working that well in combat is a an issue.

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This has somewhat passable stats, and it has an ability that is useful, albeit expensive. Tapping things does bring some extra value in this format, but three for the effect is kind of brutal. I miss the days of Master Decoy

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: That ETB really is powerful, as the gap in life between you and your opponent becomes 6, and that can drastically alter a race. Then this big body can attack and block reasonably well

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: So, this is a tutor, and it’s almost always a good idea to look at them with serious skepticism in Limited. The average power level of cards in your deck is lower than in 60 or 99 card formats, so tutoring is already inherently weaker, but the fact most of them also don’t impact the board at all is also a huge liability. If you get the Bargain on this one going it can effect the board, effectively grabbing whatever your best 4 or less card is from your deck and casting it. That gives it a better floor than most tutors have, but it does take some set up. It can still tutor up something else, but most of the time grabbing something you can’t use right away is just going to be the worst play

Pro Rating: 2.5 // 5.0
Pro Comment: Stun counters and tapping are featured heavily in this set, including on the UW signpost Uncommon, so actually getting these abilities going is doable. And you’ll have to, because otherwise she’s just a hard-to-cast 4-mana ¾. I do think she probably needs a build around grade, because even your typical UW deck isn’t going to have so many tap effects for this to really get going. Although, I guess even if you just have like…two, you’re going to feel pretty good, as triggering this ability only a single time is more than enough for her to feel amazing. At that point you’ll have paid 5 for a ¾ and a 4/4 that can still threaten to do way more

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A three mana ⅔ with First Strike is already a fairly nice card, especially in a set with a lot of Auras, and this will have double strike sometimes. Celebrating is pretty doable, but also not something that will happen every turn

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This can have a huge impact on the game, and its modality means you can always choose only the things that hurt your opponent more than they hurt you. There will be situations where…none of these modes works that well for you, though. Like if you’re behind for example, these are all likely to hurt you more than they hurt your opponent. That probably just makes it a 2.5. There will be games where it feels far better than that grade implies, but there will be just as many where it’s significantly worse

Pro Rating: 1.0 // 3.5
Pro Comment: White has lots of expendable enchantments in the form of Role tokens, and Black-White in particular is interested in getting Enchantments into the graveyard and getting value out of them, so getting a few tokens out of this isn’t farfetched. However, I also don’t think it’s going to be automatic. This probably needs a build around grade. Your typical deck will probably struggle to make even one token with the Knight, but some decks will turn it into a real engine.

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This looks like a very good rate to me – it is basically a better version of a three mana 2/3 that puts a +1/+1 counter somewhere, and that card is usually quite good in Limited. I think this is one of Green’s best Commons

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: One mana to make your opponent discard and lose 2 life is an acceptable rate, and after that point the Nightmare is great fodder for cards with Bargain. It’s definitely a role-player, but something you probably want one of in Black if you have a few cards that Bargain

Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This can hate on the graveyard quite effectively, and in a pinch it can replace itself. It’s a sideboard card.

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: This looks amazing. You’re not exactly going to trigger the pay life effect, but the +1 and -2 are both so good that it doesn’t really matter. The +1 is a great card draw effect, especially because it will help grow the two 1/1s that the -2 makes. And that -2 is good on its own too, as having Ashiok come down and make those two bodies will often do enough to keep Ashiok around for a while, especially because those tokens are just going to grow every turn going forward – and they do it during combat so it will happen quickly. The ultimate is kind of an afterthought here, mostly because you will want to get real cards with the +1, so the mana value of the cards you exile won’t be that high, but there will be situations where you look at the board and just using Ashiok’s +1 twice to exile two expensive things, and then fire off the -7 will make sense. So, it is upside on a card that is already nuts without it. The total package here is an insane bomb

Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: 4-mana 2/2 flyer do not fair well in Limited. This is mostly because there are multiple one mana spells in each set that can deal with them, so paying FOUR often results in a huge tempo hit. The ability here is nice, especially if you can cast multiple spells, but triggering it is far from automatic and even when you do sometimes it won’t do anything. I don’t think this makes the cut very often