Draft Deck Meta

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Draft Deck Metagame

Draft deck metagame only consists of decks with the maximum number of wins (3 wins in Traditional and 7 wins in Quick and Premier drafts).
Select an archetype to see the popular cards used in winning decks of that group.

Esper card breakdown - 259 decks, 2.69% of meta

Creatures

3.0 The BR deck is really about sacrificing stuff, as it often is – and you’ll have plenty of expendable things to sacrifice for value with the Chief, and there are other sacrifice synergies around too! It seems like a one drop that can really net you some serious cards in the mid to late game. 3.5 1x in 20%

1.5 Adding to the board and taking something away from your opponents’ hand isn’t a bad play in the early to mid game, though it does get less impressive late. It comes with the Artifact type too, which is a useful thing. 3.6 1x in 20%

3.0 A 4-mana 2/2 with death touch is not a great statline, but obviously being able to pick off 1 toughness creatures when your opponent has one is definitely going to feel pretty huge, and there will be a decent number of them lying around. Once you get to where you can kill X/2s, though, is where this thing can really get silly. Like the other Shrines in this set, this card is perfectly fine even if its your only shrine, and I’m glad they designed them this way, as opposed to the way we’ve seen them in the past. Because yeah, the fail case of a 4-mana 2/2 that can trade with anything and pick off X/1s is a pretty good floor, while the ceiling is pretty amazing. 3.4 1x in 21%

3.0 I don’t love the stat-line here, but if you can consistently generate 2/2 tokens with it, its going to feel pretty good. That said, a 5-mana 4/4 will frequently be an underwhelming attacker, so counting on it doing its thing more than twice is probably a little too optimistic. Now, this set does have a lot of Equipment and Auras – both things that this card also synergizes with, so maybe it will be a good attacker more often than I think – but it still has the not insignificant set-up cost that demands you have both an artifact and enchantment around in the first place. Which, while doable, does further limit a card that has a pretty ugly floor as a 5-mana 4/4. It is definitely going to generate some serious value in decks that really get there with it, but right now I’m not ultra impressed with this signpost Uncommon. 3.5 1x in 21%

3.0 This does enough to be a nice little one drop. Tapping a permanent won’t always matter, but there will be turns where doing that allows you to get a much better attack in. Meanwhile, being a one mana 1/1 Flyer in this set is better than normal anyway – both because of Ninjutsu and the plethora of ways that there are to modify creatures. Its also an artifact, and that’s a nice thing to have too. This seems like a Common that overlaps into tons of different Blue archetypes, and that’s great. 3 1x in 22%

1.5 // 3.0 A 4-mana ¾ is not a great stat-line these days, so you are going to want to be drawing a card off of this around half the time for it to be worth it. And…that’s not going to be automatic in every Black deck in the format, since this asks you to have both an Artifact and Enchantment. That’s certainly easier to do in this format than it is in most, but if you’re in say, UB Ninjas or the BG graveyard deck – that’s not something you’re going to be focused on. In a lot of ways, this is a BW gold card, because that’s the deck that has a whole bunch of reasons to get both an Artifact and an Enchantment in play. 2.6 1x in 22%

3.0 Ninjutsu for one is quite the deal, especially because it will be drawing you a card if you ninjutsu it in. After that, you’ll only get to loot when it hits the opponent, but that’s okay – the initial use of the card will allow you to set up a 2-for-1, and that’s pretty nice. It is sort of a more convoluted Elvish Visionary that comes with an additional power. 3.4 1x in 22%

2.0 This seems like a solid little Ninja if you’re in the market for those. The Ninjutsu is very nicely costed, though keeping in mind that you have to return a thing to your hand does make it seem a bit less efficient. And really, neither casting this the normal way nor Ninjutsuing it is going to make you feel like you’re doing a great job. Its solid, and Lifelink makes it a good creature to Modify. 3 1x in 24%

3.5 I like that the shrines this time around are creatures, as it is a lot easier to get value of them, and that’s certainly the case here. A 4-mana ⅓ with Vigilance that lets you pay one to make a 1/1 during your end step is a card that I would always be pretty happy with in Limited. Sure, the stat-line isn’t impressive, but cranking out a 1/1 every now and then is pretty nice. If you combine this with some of the other shrines, it is going to get particularly silly. It is probably ideal to wait to play this until you can use its ability in the same turn, that way you got something that added to the board either way. The stat-line does hold it back a bit, but I think this still might be something you take with a pretty high pick. 3.9 1x in 24%

2.5 Well, it looks like White got an Elvish Visionary! That’s always a pretty nice card in Limited – as adding something to the board and getting a card out of it feels pretty good. 3.7 1x in 25%

2.0 This has decent stats and repeatedly Scrying does make your draws better. Its also an artifact for the decks that care about that, and a relatively cheap flyer for Ninjutsu. 2.3 1x in 25%

3.5 This is a very good common. We have seen 4-mana 2/2s that Bounce a creature be very good in the past, and that’s what we have here as a base line. The Ninjutsu upside being tacked on means it can feel a little more like a Man-O’-War since you’re paying three mana, and being able to do it at instant speed may also enable you to break up an opposing block or something, which is pretty spicy. 3.5 1x in 25%

3.0 If you have 5 mana, you can cast it as a fairly reasonable body with Vigilance – and if you’re having problem finding mana in the early part of the game, you can Channel it away to find another land. And it even gains you some life! It isn’t that far from being a 5-mana 4/4 with Vigilance that has cycling for 2 mana. Flexibility like this really trumps the fact that neither half of this card would be amazing on its own. 3 1x in 27%

3.0 This gives you some reasonable value for the cost, and its also a great card to combine with Ninjas, since it is not only evasive, but it also has an ETB ability, so recasting it will give you another token, and that’s some nice value to get on top of whatever it is you did with Ninjutsu. 2.9 1x in 32%
Instant, Sorcery

2.0 Black often gets this kind of trick that returns a creature to the battlefield when it dies these days, and then tend to be alright, although I prefer it when they cost a single Black mana. Still, this one does actually increase your creature’s power, which means you can use it to help you take down the other creature in combat a little more effectively, and it will even gain you some life! Its useful against removal too, of course. But, its still situational enough that I’m not super high on it. 1.4 1x in 8%

1.0 We see cards with two modal effects like this a lot, and they are almost always underwhelming. It seems like you’ll always be able to do something meaningful with one of the modes, but it just doesn’t work out that way all that often. When you can use it as a trick to help your creature win combat, or help a creature dodge removal, or you rebuy an ETB ability it will feel good, but mostly this won’t give you a full card worth of value often enough. 1.1 1x in 8%

2.0 If you have enough Artifacts around and consistent access to Blue mana, this seems reasonable. If you are paying 1UU for it, then you’re not getting a very good deal – Cancel is just so much worse than Counterspell! There are enough Artifacts in this set, though, that I think this will be Counterspell often enough that I just want to give it a C. Counterspells have their problems in Limited – namely that you have to have the mana up at the right time – which in a way makes them very conditional removal – but when the mana you need to leave up is two or less, we see the Counterspells end up being fairly playable, and I think that’s what we have here. 1.2 1x in 9%

4.5 This looks quite good. A sweeper that just always blows everything up is generally a bit awkward in Limited, because there are so many situations where it doesn’t really work out the way you want it too. Awkward or not, though, wrath effects do reshape the board in a way basically nothing else can. This comes with the added upside of being a bit more customizable. Like, if your opponent’s creatures happen to mostly be Enchantments and Artifacts, and you don’t lose nearly as much, you can name those two for a much better effect than you would get if you just wiped the whole board. And there are lots of different choices you can make with it that allow you to come out ahead more than you would with a normal wrath effect – AND, in a situation where what you need is a complete reset button, it still has the very real upside of doing that. 4.8 1x in 10%

2.0 This type of effect tends to do alright, especially in decks with a sacrifice theme – which in this format will mostly mean Black-Red. It is sort of an Instant speed Tormenting Voice, in the sense that you give up two cards to draw two cards – its just that one of them is an artifact or creature in play. Using this in response to a removal spell, or to get rid of something expendable will always feel nice, but there are also situations where you can’t find a spot to use this because you just don’t have the resources to make it worth it. The life gain is a nice addition, but doesn’t power it up a ton. 1.2 1x in 10%

2.5 This has a really interesting design. I’m normally not big on this type of effect, as actually doing some damage to something often takes up some resources, so spells that can only remove damaged creatures are often not all that playable. However, in this case they lowered the mana cost to ONE, and they added a cantrip. At that point, we’re talking about a card that is certainly playable. Keep in mind that it does need a damaged creature to target, so it isn’t really the kind of cantrip you can cycle whenever you want. You won’t usually generate a 2-for-1 with this, because of the resources you gave up to damage the creature in the first place, but the cantrip pretty much makes up for that, and on occasions where you can get a 2-for-1, this will feel downright amazing. It is still a super situational removal spell, but it is priced to move, and I think you’ll end up playing the first copy in most Black decks. Playing more than that is probably asking for trouble due to its situational nature. 1.7 1x in 10%

2.5 Keep in mind, your opponent chooses what gets exiled when you use this. So, mostly, it will feel like a three mana edict effect, and those have waning value as the game goes on and your opponent is more and more likely to have something very expendable to give up. It can be pretty potent early. And, because you choose the option, you can at least choose the one that is the toughest for them to decide – for example if they have only one creature or one enchantment the choice is easy – but its also pretty easy if they only have two of one of them and so forth. The fact its an Instant means you can deploy it at the exact right time a little more easily too – but still. Its removal that you don’t really have enough control over. 1.6 1x in 13%

4.0 This is premium removal. Even if you always had to pay 4 mana for it, it would be premium – so the fact that it lets you decrease the cost all the way down to only 2 mana is really nice. It isn’t going to be easily splashable which is a little sad, but its still a great card. 4.4 1x in 14%

3.0 Drawing three and discarding two has you break even on cards with some pretty good card selection, while also maybe loading the graveyard. And if you have a random artifact you don’t really need in your current situation, this ends up feeling even more potent. I think Blue decks will usually play their first copy of this. 2.6 1x in 16%

4.0 This is a premium removal spell. The set has a ton of artifacts and enchantments that are also creatures, so even if those creatures aren’t tapped, you can kill them – plus the additional flexibility of taking down other permanent types in addition to creatures is quite nice. The additional upside will give you a 2/2 sometimes too, and when you’re doing that this will feel downright absurd! 3.7 1x in 17%

2.5 This is restrictive about what it can kill – both because of the 4 damage and the “attacking or blocking” restriction, but it will often feel reasonably efficient. I don’t quite consider something like this premium because of how restrictive it is, but I think you end up playing the first copy pretty often in your White decks 2.7 1x in 21%

1.5 Three bodies + Scry 3 for six isn’t the worst thing ever, but it also isn’t quite as impactful as I’d like a six mana spell to be. Those three bodies can help, but there are also plenty of board states where they don’t do a whole lot for you. 3.3 1x in 22%

2.5 This is much better in this format than it would be in your typical one. There are so many Enchantments around that that mode might actually be the one that is available to you the most often, and the fact it can take down large creatures is no small thing either. It isn’t quite premium, giving the restrictions and the cost, but it seems like a fine Common. 2.4 1x in 23%

3.0 Two mana for -2/-2 at Instant speed isn’t exactly premium, though it can kill a lot of stuff. And you can even use it combined with a block to take something down – though that’s always a little risky. That said, I think you’ll be able to do -3/-3 with this often enough that it sneaks into the lower B range. If it was always -3/-3 it would be a 3.5. And sometimes this will be even more than -3/-3 – though I think we have to accept the wide range of outcomes with this, and the fact that -2/-2 is probably going to happen a lot. 3 1x in 31%
Enchantment, Artifact

2.5 I never love effects that give the opponent a choice between two things – especially when the options are discard or sacrifice a creature, because there are many board states where doing one or the other is no problem for your opponent, and because they have a choice, that means chapter I and II won’t always feel that great. That said, there will certainly be times where it is “pick your poison” for your opponent and have they have no good option, and because you do it two turns in a row, you’re more likely to produce that situation than you might otherwise be. The creature you eventually get can be pretty tough, and Chapters I and II do make it pretty likely there’s at least a few creatures in the graveyard. 4.2 1x in 18%

3.5 There are enough Artifacts and Enchantments around that Chapter I and II are likely to provide significant buffs – since it counts itself, it will at least give something +1/+1, and that’s not too shabby – sometimes it will do a ton more than that. Once it becomes a creature it might struggle to be large – but probably not, as there are enough artifacts and Enchantments that her being a 2/2 is a pretty likely outcome, and considering your total investment, and how meaningful chapter I and II will usually be, you’re getting a pretty good deal – and sometimes she’ll be massive! 4.3 1x in 19%

2.5 When you have a target for Chapter I, this is going to feel pretty darn good. Unfortunately, Chapter II is practically meaningless, so the other two chapters really need to carry their weight. But yeah, if you hit something with Chapter I and then get Fragment of Konda two turns later, you’ll feel like you’re doing a pretty good job, as you’ll end up with 2 cards worth of value. However, when you can’t hit a thing with Chapter I, there is almost no reason to cast this, and that certainly hurts. This format does have lots of ways to modify creatures, so 4 power will probably show up reasonably often, but probably still not often enough for this to quite do the job consistently enough to be anything more than a 2.5. If you get a hit with Chapter I, it will feel like a 3.5 – if you don’t, it’ll feel like a 1.0 at best, so there’s a pretty big chasm there. 3.8 1x in 19%

4.0 This is the Uncommon premium removal that White often gets. These Oblivion Ring effects are always very nice, because they do the job efficiently, and they are also reasonably flexible. The fact your opponent can get the thing back is a bit of a bummer of course, but that downside is well worth it. You’ll almost never Channel this in Limited, but being able to blink a creature is useful sometimes. 4.2 1x in 20%

2.0 Like most of these saga-creatures, it is slow at adding to the board – so getting in the late game will sometimes be a bummer, but at least this one has some use right away, even late, as Scry 2 can help you dry what you really need to draw. The life gain can also help you survive the fact that you couldn’t add to the board right away too. Then, it becomes a 2/2 with First Strike, and that’s a creature is relevant all game long in most cases. While its a bit slow, the value this generates will feel nice – its spread out, but ultimately you get a 2/2 with First Strike that scries 2 and gains you 2 life, and that’s a pretty nice investment. 3.2 1x in 20%

3.0 Chapter I and II will very likely enable attacks you didn’t have before, and that’s a pretty big deal. Especially because this eventually adds meaningfully to the board by giving you a 2/4 Flyer. It will be a bit of a bummer to play on a completely empty board, but that won’t be happening that often. This looks like a good Common to me, one you can first pick sometimes. 2.9 1x in 21%

4.0 While it of course doesn’t add to the board immediately, Chapter One will make it a lot harder for you opponent to punish you for that being the case, so you are very likely to still be in a decent position by the time you untap and get Chapter II, which will either draw you FOUR cards, or let you scry 2 and draw 2 – both of those outcomes are pretty great. The creature it transforms into always won’t be that imposing - and in some cases it may not be able to stick around very, but it is likely to be able to do something at least, and I think that’s acceptable after what you got from Chapter II. 4.6 1x in 24%

3.5 This is premium removal. The fact it shuts down blocking, attacking, crewing vehicles, and activated abilities is great. This format does have more ways to blow up Enchantments than normal, but it also has more payoffs for Enchantments than normal, so its probably a wash. 3.8 1x in 27%

2.5 Having colorless fixing at Common is pretty nice, and could definitely help decks splash a third color, and the fact this can only give you a counter once its done its job in fetching you a land is pretty solid. 3 1x in 27%

3.0 So, looting a couple of times is decent card selection, though like with a lot of these, you’re going to kind of wish you were adding to the board right away, instead of having to wait a couple of turns. As is this case with most of these creature-sagas, you get great value for your mana – in this case, a two mana ⅔ Flyer that loots twice – but the trade off is that you have to really wait for it. Still, Chapter I and II are the kinds of things that are at least useful all game long, so this isn’t one where you really need to play it early or you’re going to be disappointed. 3.4 1x in 27%

4.0 Now, this is a Saga that turns into a creature! Chapters I and II are nice references to Umezawa’s Jitte, and once it transforms into a creature, it is a nice reference to Toshiro Umezawa. But even apart from the fun references, this card seems quite good. Chapters I and II give you options between the different modal Jitte effects, and they are pretty spicy. On some boards this will allow you to outright kill two creatures with the first two chapters – on boards where you can’t do that, this will often allow you to attack with a creature who couldn’t before – and on eboards where you can’t do either, gaining a few life isn’t a bad consolation prize, especially because it turns into a reasonable creature in the end. 4.4 1x in 28%

2.5 Giving us a one mana saga like this is pretty interesting! You obviously get insane value for the investment of one mana, as you drain 2 life and get a 2/2 with Menace that gives vehicles Menace! This is going to feel like a pretty good turn one play, and even in the late game this can do some work. The life drain helps you survive until it becomes a creature, and its great that as soon as it transforms you can send in a vehicle in that is hard to block. Having to wait for the body a couple of turns is going to be a little frustrating, though. 3.8 1x in 30%

3.5 This is a more powerful take on this type of removal than we usually get. Usually, the bummer with this type of Blue removal spell is that you simply lock down a creature and it doesn’t untap – you don’t stap activated abilities and static abilities – but you actually do with this, and that’s a massive upgrade. Its nice that it can even turn off Equipment – as sometimes that will be worth doing. 3.2 1x in 32%

3.5 Wow, this is really good for a Common! 4 mana to kill a creature and give +1/+1 to one of your creature’s is a great deal. Now, the downside here is that your opponent could blow up whatever you target in response, which will be backbreaking, so it is sort of like a Black Fight spell, in the sense that you need to pick your spot carefully – when you do though, it will feel amazing. If you’re worried your opponent will kill your creature, you can also stick it on an artifact. Its also an Enchantment, which this format cares a lot about – this will be premium removal for any deck, but the BW deck can get even more mileage out of it. 4.1 1x in 33%
Planeswalkers

4.5 If you’re paying 6 for a planeswalker, he’d better be good! And Mordenkainen is. The best Limited planeswalkers are the ones that can do at least two of the three following things: Draw you cards, protect themselves, or act as removal. Mordenkainen does the first two of those. His +2 gives you some powerful card draw and card selection that rapidly raises his loyalty. And, his -2 creates a token that can protect him. Now, it is a little annoying that you have to make sure you have at least one card in your hand all the time for the token to not die, but the upside is that you can also make it significant larger. Two cards in your hand makes it a 4/4, and that’s just going to happen a lot, especially because he draws you cards! If you managed to get to his ultimate, he’ll then draw you a whole bunch of cards, and it is hard not to lose at that point. Mostly, you’ll probably alternate between +2 and -2 with him most of the time, and that will be plenty to win you the game. 4.9 1x in 0%

5.0 You can either straight up pay 5 mana for her as a 5 loyalty planeswalker – or pay 4 mana and 2 life to play her as a 3-loyalty planeswalker. Both options are fairly appealing. Her +1 does a good job of protecting her and disrupting your opponent, and her -X can also do a good job of that. Her ultimate is also quite good, as decreasing the cost of all of your spells and being able to tap her notebook to draw a card is awesome. She can get to that ultimate pretty quickly if you pay all mana for her, too. She won’t always be able to stick around, but it does seem like her +1 and -X will do a pretty good job of making that happen. 4.9 1x in 0%

2.5 This definitely feels like it needs the right deck to really excel. If you aren’t in one of the artifact-heavy decks in the format, you just won’t be that impressed with this. His +1 is faithless looting at worst, and that’s nice, but if you can’t use his static ability or his -2, or take advantage of his ultimate, you really won’t want to play this. This format does have plenty of Artifacts with activated abilities – mostly Equipment and stuff – so the static ability will be nice, and his -2 can really protect him effectively if you have enough Artifacts. But yeah, probably need a build around grade here. The good news is, there’s enough artifacts around that he will probably never be a complete dud, and he has a ceiling as a bomb. 4.9 1x in 2%

4.0 This has a really neat design. Its triggered ability makes it so that your opponent can’t damage it on their first turn after you play it, and its other abilities are pretty nice! Typically, you’re probably going to play it and use the +1, since you won’t have any fear of Katio dying on that next turn, and then you can start making Ninjas to protect the planeswalker too! If you play this on turn three, it will really take over the game. However, in the later game, its abilities look increasingly unimpressive. I don’t quite think its a bomb since it won’t help you out a whole lot if you’re at parity or behind. Instead, its just a really good card. 4.9 1x in 5%

5.0 We finally know who The Wanderer is after first seeing her in War of the Spark! This time around, she packs a lot more power – which makes sense. She’s a Mythic Rare this time, and she was Uncommon last time! The fact she has Flash is quite powerful, especially because her +1 is the kind of thing that will make a lot of creatures just wreck another creature in combat. A stats boost plus First Strike has a tendency to do that – you can basically use her as a combat trick on your turn, or use her on your opponent’s turn. You can of course also her other two abilities immediately and at Instant speed that first turn, which is amazing. You can kill an attacker or make a 2/2 to block a 1/1 or something. So uh, yeah. She’s insane. She’s a 4-mana planeswalker who can pretty much do it all – she can kill stuff and protect herself – and that’s usually enough to be a bomb in Limited. 4.9 1x in 5%
Lands

3.0 Like Mech Hanger, this is another nice utility land where it is worth running despite the fact that it may make your mana base a little worse. This produces mana for you when that’s what you need, and then when you’re in need of some extra gas, you can sacrifice this. You’re typically going to be able to draw a single card pretty easily, and drawing 2 with it is also going to happen a fair bit. That’s some very nice upside. 2.8 1x in 7%

2.5 Coming into play tapped is definitely a downside, but the ability to name a color is great. I do think the dual lands are slightly better, as they always tap for two colors you probably need, and this will only ever tap for one, but if you need fixing, this is fine. 3.1 1x in 25%

2.5 Like always, these provide some very nice fixing, and its nice to see them at Common, as it will make splashing a third color pretty simple. Fixing is great, even if you aren’t going three colors – a dual land really helps your mana base in a two color deck. 2.4 1x in 34%

2.5 Like always, these provide some very nice fixing, and its nice to see them at Common, as it will make splashing a third color pretty simple. Fixing is great, even if you aren’t going three colors – a dual land really helps your mana base in a two color deck. 2.3 1x in 34%

2.5 Like always, these provide some very nice fixing, and its nice to see them at Common, as it will make splashing a third color pretty simple. Fixing is great, even if you aren’t going three colors – a dual land really helps your mana base in a two color deck. 2.5 1x in 36%
Top Rated Cards

4.5 As is the case with all the cards in this cycle, it is tricky to cast, but very powerful, and it is possible this is the most powerful of the bunch. Stealing an opposing permanent is one of the most powerful things you can do in Magic, as you remove whatever your opponent’s best artifact or creature is and add it to your own board. Untapping it might seem like a little thing, but frequently your opponent’s best thing will be tapped down, so getting it and being able to block with it right away actually matters. 5 mana is a very reasonable price for doing this – the problem is the quadruple Blue cost, which is usually tricky to assemble in Limited. That said, this is certainly powerful enough to take very, very early. Provided you keep it in mind and Blue is open, you should be able to draft fixing and lean a little extra into Blue so that you have a greater-than-normal chance of getting quadruple Blue mana in your deck. You probably need about 12 Blue sources to feel secure about it. While this is certainly hard to cast, I do think it is doable enough in this format, and the card is powerful enough, that it sneaks into the lower bomb range. 4.5 1x in 5%

4.5 This is very reminiscent of Scavenging Ooze, and that’s great company to keep. You won’t always have stuff to exile with it early, and it will definitely do a lot more work in the mid to late game – but in those situations it will really take over the game, especially because you have the ability to move it around to other creatures. I think this is a bomb, it will grow throughout the game and be a significant problem whether it is a creature or Equipment. 4.7 1x in 5%

4.5 This looks quite good. A sweeper that just always blows everything up is generally a bit awkward in Limited, because there are so many situations where it doesn’t really work out the way you want it too. Awkward or not, though, wrath effects do reshape the board in a way basically nothing else can. This comes with the added upside of being a bit more customizable. Like, if your opponent’s creatures happen to mostly be Enchantments and Artifacts, and you don’t lose nearly as much, you can name those two for a much better effect than you would get if you just wiped the whole board. And there are lots of different choices you can make with it that allow you to come out ahead more than you would with a normal wrath effect – AND, in a situation where what you need is a complete reset button, it still has the very real upside of doing that. 4.8 1x in 10%

4.5 This 3-mana 3/3 has a ton of upside. If you can manage to cast an Enchantment you’re going to end up with 6/6 worth of stats that is very difficult to block, and that even drains your opponent when you play Enchantments! It is definitely kind of a build around, as it really needs Enchantments to excel, but because it has such a reasonable baseline you can even play this in a deck with only one Enchantment and feel pretty good about it. And..this set has a lot of Enchantments, so getting enough of them in your deck isn’t a very big ask. 4.8 1x in 13%

5.0 You can either straight up pay 5 mana for her as a 5 loyalty planeswalker – or pay 4 mana and 2 life to play her as a 3-loyalty planeswalker. Both options are fairly appealing. Her +1 does a good job of protecting her and disrupting your opponent, and her -X can also do a good job of that. Her ultimate is also quite good, as decreasing the cost of all of your spells and being able to tap her notebook to draw a card is awesome. She can get to that ultimate pretty quickly if you pay all mana for her, too. She won’t always be able to stick around, but it does seem like her +1 and -X will do a pretty good job of making that happen. 4.9 1x in 0%

5.0 Like its brethren, this legendary dragon is a bomb, although I think it might have the worst stat-line of the bunch – but that’s only compared to completely absurd Dragons! A 5-mana 5/5 with Flying and Deathtouch is obviously a great rate, and can end the game on its own – and if your opponent ever kills Kura, you’re going to get some sweet value. It will probably make the most sense to make the creature token, as this gives you an immediate board presence that will also be a headache for your opponent. Basically, you are paying 5 mana here for two 5/5s at least, and the token might be even bigger! The land ability is something you will only do on very rare occasions, where maybe getting the right land lets you cast another bomb or something. 5 1x in 1%

5.0 A 5-mana 5/5 with Flying and Menace is efficient and incredibly difficult to block. So, your opponent better kill it! But..if they do, you just get to reanimate the best creature in a graveyard! Now, that creature probably isn’t quite as good as Junji, but it still super powerful none the less. The discard effect is generally going to be less good, but if your opponent is low on life, or you don’t have a creature to bring back, you’ll choose that option. 5 1x in 3%

5.0 This whole cycle is great, of course. Every card in it is a highly efficient flyer with a powerful death trigger. Basically, they are pick your poison type cards. If your opponent can’t kill them, they probably win the game just by attacking, and if they do kill them, you get a choice between two powerful effects. Here, you get a 5-mana 5/4 with Flying and Vigilance – that would at least be a 4.0. THen, when it dies you have two great options. If your board isn’t well-developed, you’ll probably go with putting nonland permanents on to the battlefield, and if your board is well-developed you’ll pump your whole board. The latter is probably going to be more powerful most of the time, but the fact that you have an option that will do something even on an empty board is great. 5 1x in 3%

5.0 We finally know who The Wanderer is after first seeing her in War of the Spark! This time around, she packs a lot more power – which makes sense. She’s a Mythic Rare this time, and she was Uncommon last time! The fact she has Flash is quite powerful, especially because her +1 is the kind of thing that will make a lot of creatures just wreck another creature in combat. A stats boost plus First Strike has a tendency to do that – you can basically use her as a combat trick on your turn, or use her on your opponent’s turn. You can of course also her other two abilities immediately and at Instant speed that first turn, which is amazing. You can kill an attacker or make a 2/2 to block a 1/1 or something. So uh, yeah. She’s insane. She’s a 4-mana planeswalker who can pretty much do it all – she can kill stuff and protect herself – and that’s usually enough to be a bomb in Limited. 4.9 1x in 5%

5.0 So, a 6-mana 6/6 with Flying and Ward 3 is probably a 4.0 at the very worst. Its just a massive creature, and one that you will basically always have to spend significant mana to kill, since the things that can kill a 6/6 in Limited usually cost 4 or more mana in the first place. But then, when your opponent does kill this thing, you get a nice trigger that can either set your opponent back on the board, or get you some spells back from the graveyard. The latter effect will give you a 3-for-1 if you have enough Instants and Sorceries. 5 1x in 5%

5.0 He might be expensive, but Jin-Gitaxias definitely gives you your mana’s worth. Because he counters instants and sorceries, it is going to be very hard for your opponent to kill him, which means you’ll usually be able to untap and take advantage of the fact that he gives you copies of your own instants, sorceries, and artifacts. This format looks like it has enough of those things – especially Artifacts – that you don’t really need to build around Jin-Gitaxias, although he does get even better if you have a bunch of those things. Either way he’s a bomb. 4.9 1x in 5%

5.0 So, even if you don’t have the capability of paying for the five-color ability (and you probably won’t be able to), Kyodai is very powerful. A 4-mana 3/3 with Flying and Flash is already like a 3.5 – those stats are good and allow you to ambush plenty of creatures. The fact it also grants indestructibility to something else is pretty awesome, and could really allow you to generate some serious blow outs that will ultimately result in a 3-for-1. You can of course also use it to protect a permanent for removal. You may not always be able to take advantage of that ETB ability, but when you can its going to be awesome. 4.8 1x in 6%

5.0 This new Umezawa is very powerful. Adding a card selection and drawing effect to every ninjutsu is a great payoff, and Satoru would be a very strong build around if that’s all that was going on here, but all of your cards gain ninjutsu too, so it isn’t even a build around! So yeah, now you get a huge effect when you ninjutsu things, one that certainly trumps any sort of downside that comes with having to bounce a creature to your hand. There’s some upside there too – because you can rebuy ETB abilities or even cheat a creature into play for way less mana! 4.4 1x in 8%

5.0 So, this is a two mana 0/4 that lets you know what the top card of your library is at worst. That’s..not exciting, but not entirely unplayable either. If you manage to Reconfigure the Chip though, you end up with the very powerful ability to play lands and cast spells from the top of your library – and that’s the kind of thing that will just generate insane value for you. The downside is you lose the 0/4 who is actively adding to the board, but there’s a good chance that onc eyou Equip this, you’ll be able to add a ton to the board on your next turn, and that will help you overcome that. It is a bit clunky – as paying two to play it and three to reconfigure it is a bit slow, but I think there is some pretty impressive upside here. If you’re allowed to untap with this Equipped to something, its going to be tough for you to lose the game. 4.9 1x in 9%

Selesnya	12133 matches	1468 decks
15.27% of Metagame
Dimir	10970 matches	1344 decks
13.98% of Metagame
Golgari	6806 matches	834 decks
8.67% of Metagame
Rakdos	6728 matches	824 decks
8.57% of Metagame
Orzhov	5506 matches	667 decks
6.94% of Metagame
Boros	4032 matches	492 decks
5.12% of Metagame
Simic	3526 matches	429 decks
4.46% of Metagame
Azorius	3419 matches	421 decks
4.38% of Metagame
Bant	2887 matches	356 decks
3.70% of Metagame
Abzan	2832 matches	354 decks
3.68% of Metagame
Gruul	2867 matches	351 decks
3.65% of Metagame
Izzet	2545 matches	318 decks
3.31% of Metagame
Sultai	2379 matches	289 decks
3.01% of Metagame
Esper	2153 matches	259 decks
2.69% of Metagame
Grixis	1284 matches	158 decks
1.64% of Metagame
Naya	1313 matches	158 decks
1.64% of Metagame
Mardu	1310 matches	157 decks
1.63% of Metagame
Jeskai	880 matches	110 decks
1.14% of Metagame
Jund	861 matches	105 decks
1.09% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-red)	651 matches	79 decks
0.82% of Metagame
Mono Red	586 matches	77 decks
0.80% of Metagame
Temur	545 matches	66 decks
0.69% of Metagame
Mono Green	483 matches	60 decks
0.62% of Metagame
Mono White	315 matches	38 decks
0.40% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-white)	312 matches	38 decks
0.40% of Metagame
Mono Black	279 matches	33 decks
0.34% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-green)	268 matches	33 decks
0.34% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-black)	277 matches	33 decks
0.34% of Metagame
Mono Blue	215 matches	25 decks
0.26% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-blue)	193 matches	23 decks
0.24% of Metagame
Five Color	129 matches	16 decks
0.17% of Metagame

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