Draft Deck Meta

Wilds of Eldraine Draft Deck Metagame

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Sultai card breakdown - 27 decks, 1% of meta

Creatures

3.0 Giving up food to hurt your opponent can definitely have a place, and even be a win condition, and the base line of the card as a three mana 3/2 that makes a food isn’t a disaster 3.3 1x in 22%

3.0 Like most of the Common adventure creatures, both sides of this look super underwhelming, but they do in fact often result in a 2-for-1, so it’s better than it looks 2.4 1x in 22%

3.5 This has two-for-one potential, though it isn’t always going to be accessible. You need a board of some sort to turn Desperate Parry into a full card, but there are a number of ways you can. For example, you can triple block something and then use the Parry to make it so all your stuff survives and they lose their creature. Then you get a serviceable flyer later 1.6 1x in 26%

2.0 Two mana 3/1s tend to be solid for aggro decks, and getting a Food when this goes down is nice upside to have 3.1 1x in 26%

3.0 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 2.8 1x in 26%

4.5 This is great. Sure, Puny Snack isn’t the best removal spell in the world, but when it’s attached to an efficient creature who also spits out a Food token, it doesn’t really matter. Generating a 2-for-1 with this is going to be really easy, and it’s probably going to be one of the better Uncommons in the entire format 4.3 1x in 30%

4.0 A two mana 2/2 that makes a Food on ETB is already a solid playable – especially because this happens to be a Food itself, giving it even more upside and synergy. The activated ability will not be something you are always able to find the time to use, but there will also be turns where this thing animates a couple of foods and really makes your opponent’s life difficult. Note, by the way, it can animate other noncreature artifacts too. While Food is going to be the most typical thing it will animate, there are some other cards in the format it can turn into 4/4s too 4.2 1x in 30%

4.0 Playing this on turn three will often let you power out a 5 or even 6 drop on turn four, which is no joke. The loot effect is nice too, because it means when you don’t have something to power out with the mana Troyan produces, you can start digging for exactly that. And, looting for one mana is a pretty nice effect in Limited anyway 1.5 1x in 33%

3.5 As with most of these, if you take the adventure away, we’re talking about a playable card. A 4-mana 2/3 flyer that forces your opponent to discard is exactly that, and in the earlier part of the game the fact that this bounces a spell is pretty nice. That effect normally isn’t that impressive, mostly because you would go down a card for tempo alone, but because you have the Coven to play later, that isn’t true in this case. That makes the effect a heck of a lot more powerful 3.4 1x in 33%

3.0 I always love a big ol’ green creature that gains me life when it ETBs, because it allows slower decks to stabilize. If this always cost 7 it would be overcosted, but because Bargaining this looks so doable, it will often cost 5 and you won’t have to give up much to make it happen. Red-Green and Blue-Green will both always want at least one copy of this 3.4 1x in 37%

4.0 A three mana 3/3 that makes a Food is already close to a 3.0, so her other abilities are pretty amazing to have. Giving up food for cards is a very good deal, and sometimes buffing your creatures with Food is nice too. Keep in mind that the buff effect is only sorcery speed, while the draw a card effect is not. In the later stage of the game, you can look at this as a 5-mana 3/3 that draws you a card and you lose 1 life, which isn’t too shabby either. This looks like an excellent signpost Uncommon overall, with a great baseline and a very powerful effect on the game 3.6 1x in 37%

2.5 A restricted Sorcery speed bounce effect isn’t amazing, but you’ll usually have something you can bounce with this early. Usually, a bounce effect is card disadvantage, but because you get a big vanilla creature out of this later, that isn’t really the case. While it doesn’t quite deliver the two cards of value that make some adventures really strong, this does do a whole lot for a single card 2.7 1x in 37%

3.0 This has decent stats, it offers decent ramp, and it offers decent fixing. None of the things it does are very exciting, but ramp does seem like a real strategy in Green 3.2 1x in 37%

2.5 This feels like a two drop you want one of in every Green deck, simply because it provides main deck hate against permanent types that are very common in this format. You won’t always have something to get Bargain going, but at least the fail case is a Bear 1.9 1x in 44%
Instant, Sorcery

3.5 Even without the enchantment part, you’d always play it in your black decks. Exiling something for 4 at instant speed is just always going to be good. When you also get this to scry, it will feel amazing 3.9 1x in 11%

2.0 One green mana to search up a basic land is a borderline playable, especially if you’re playing more than two colors. The upside of animating a land means it can add to the board sometimes too 2.5 1x in 11%

3.5 So, this is mostly a 4-mana instant speed removal spell that can take down creatures or planeswalkers. The card’s two other effects won’t come up often enough to matter a ton, but they are both strictly upside. Sometimes being able to cast this for a reduced cost will make a difference, and less frequently, the ability to exile additional copies of something will make a difference too. You do get information about your opponent’s deck no matter what, and that doesn’t hurt 4.6 1x in 11%

3.5 I would already be interested in having one copy of this in every Black deck without Bargain. This type of card just always does a great job of helping you win long games by giving you back your two best creatures from the graveyard. So the fact that this can effectively reanimate something small when you do bargain it is pretty amazing. You still probably don’t really want more than one of these because they are so bad early, but I’d value that first copy pretty highly 3.6 1x in 11%

3.5 So, this is another Green removal spell that doesn’t result in your creatures taking damage. Even if you have 0 enchanted creatures, you can have one thing take part in the effect, and if you do have enchanted creatures, you’ll be able to take down almost anything. It also puts you in less danger if you are able to choose multiple creatures, because a blow out is a lot harder for your opponent to produce when multiple creatures are doing the biting 3.5 1x in 15%

2.0 This is a nice take on the usual Black card raw spell we get. If you don’t bargain, we’re talking about an instant speed draw 2 lose 2, which is playable in all but the fastest of formats. If you have something expendable to bargain, you’re looking at a card that lets you see a ton of cards for the cost – up to six of them, which is dang impressive. It helps you load the graveyard too. Now…it is still a card that doesn’t really impact the board, and you won’t always want to Bargain it, so it isn’t amazing or anything 2.2 1x in 15%

4.0 Even without the Faerie upside this is an instant speed removal spell that scales all game long. If your deck has 0 Faeries you would always play it, but it does get far better if you do have some faeries around, as it becomes incredibly efficient. Heck, you can pay one to give something -3/-3 when you have a Faerie. There are enough faeries in black that setting this up for the extra value isn’t hard, and the baseline card is already really good 3.6 1x in 19%

2.5 4 mana to bounce something and draw a card is usually playable. It lets you break even on cards while setting your opponent back a little. With bargain in the mix, this moves up another notch – probably to the point where the first copy is something you feel decent about having in all of your Blue decks 1.9 1x in 19%

2.5 5 mana Sorcery speed removal isn’t anything special. It’s just too expensive and clunky for that to ever be the case. This can go after two card types and it does upgrade your board a tiny bit, but overall it still seems a little too slow to be anything special 3.1 1x in 19%

2.0 A three mana 1/1 that rampant growths is a solid enough card, and ramping does look fairly viable in this format. This can also give you food when you reach the part of the game where more lands doesn’t do you any good 1.9 1x in 19%

2.0 This will never let you trade up, and that’s one of the best things to do with removal spells. With this, you’ll kill something that cost the same or less. Getting that Food helps, but you don’t even always get it. 3.8 1x in 22%

1.5 A draw spell that adds to the board sounds attractive. It’s too bad that the thing it adds to the board is so insignificant though, and it makes me think this is probably a little bit too clunky to be something that always makes the cut in your Blue decks 2.4 1x in 30%

4.0 Without Bargain this is premium removal, with it, it’s one of Black’s best commons. It can deal with so much when you Bargain, and there’s plenty of fodder around 4.3 1x in 33%

3.0 It effectively gives +1/+1 to the thing you fight with, and a stats boost always makes fighting a little more appealing. Now, it does have some significant downsides. Namely, that if your opponent has any way to interact in response you probably get wrecked – whether it’s a removal spell or a combat trick on their creature – and that means you get yourself 2-for-1’d. So you have to pick your spots with this, especially because it’s a Sorcery 3.5 1x in 41%
Enchantment, Artifact

5.0 This is amazing. The adventure side is an excellent premium removal spell, and would be a B all on its own. Then, this removal spell turns into a value train in the late game and will definitely win you the game within a few turns 4.9 1x in 7%

1.5 None of these modes is going to feel very efficient, but they do all do…something. Picking of a small creature will probably feel the best, but tapping things is certainly nice on the right board state, especially if you have a payoff for tapping something. Then it can of course do the Food thing. Still, the ability is expensive enough that having the mana around to actually use it isn’t guaranteed, and it isn’t like any of these modes is really going to make you feel like you’re getting there 2.3 1x in 7%

3.5 This looks really good to me as it delivers so much value for the cost. You get to add to the board up front, then you get some food, and then you get a very real permanent buff 4.1 1x in 11%

0.0 This has some serious potential. Turning all your food into mana can be pretty silly, especially because this has a pretty strong effect you can pump all that mana into. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t give your stuff trample, so there will be lots of situations where the buff doesn’t quite accomplish what you need it to. On top of that, add to it the fact that you really need a lot of Food in the first place and probably some other things to spend all that mana on – AND the fact that this doesn’t really add to the board at all and well…I think we’re talking about a pretty bad card. There are way better thing you can do with Food. 1.4 1x in 11%

3.5 This is an interesting design, one that is really hard to wrap one’s head around without actually playing with it. But my instinct is…it seems pretty good. Exiling things is always nice, and making your opponent recast them does give you some nice tempo. So, the fact that this also draws you a card when they play those things from exile is going to generate a ton of value. In short, this can really let you pop off a big turn by exiling several things, and if that wasn’t enough to get you there, it will generate some nice value. 4.1 1x in 11%

1.0 A 4-mana Threaten isn’t amazing, but as usual, if you can sacrifice the thing that you steal we’re talking about a potentially powerful card. But the apple’s other two effects aren’t particularly good either 2.7 1x in 11%

2.5 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 3.4 1x in 15%

3.0 This has been a nice Limited card every time we’ve seen it. It feels good to outright kill something with it, but it feels even better to put it on a creature that doesn’t die because the Aura usually does enough to make that creature irrelevant while it also starts quickly pressuring your opponent’s life 3.7 1x in 15%

3.0 This effect at two mana is nice, especially because this comes with some nice insurance most versions of it don’t. One of the big downsides of Aura removal is that if your opponent sacrifices or bounces their thing, it feels horrible. In this case, if you have 1 mana up, it’s going to feel a lot less horrible. So, this really gets around that downside in a significant way, and it’s efficient – so overall, I think this is actually Blue premium removal. Something we don’t see a whole lot of 3.2 1x in 19%

1.5 Scry 2 on turn one doesn’t sound like a bad idea in a lot of situations, although using up a whole card to do it definitely isn’t appealing. However, the fact you can cash this in for a card and life later means you don’t use up a whole card. Still, in a format without a big artifact theme, these artifacts that have tiny effects have been fairly underwhelming 2.2 1x in 19%

2.0 This is pretty solid every time we see it. It’s not going to be as good here as it would be an artifact-heavy set, but it replaces itself and does an okay job of fixing your mana 2.8 1x in 19%

2.5 Making it so this draws all on its own is a pretty big deal, because it means it’s never entirely useless. Then if you have enough big spells in your deck – something Red/Green and Blue/Green both want to do, this will turn into a pretty awesome value engine 3.8 1x in 22%

3.0 This will be one of the absolute best things you can ever sacrifice to a Bargain card as you end up netting a bunch of cards and getting a bonus effect. Most decks in this format will have enough cards with Bargain to make this worth playing. The downside is, of course, that it does stone nothing when you can’t sacrifice it 3.3 1x in 30%

3.0 This offers nice fixing and ramp at a very efficient rate. It lets you play three mana things on turn two which is always nice. It does only Enchant forests, which comes up sometimes, but this is still a pretty great way to get a mana advantage early. It does get worse later in the game when mana is less meaningful, but that early game upside is enough for this to be pretty good 3.8 1x in 48%
Planeswalkers

5.0 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 5 1x in 7%
Lands

4.0 This one transforms into a really beefy creature when you need it to. Even without the attack trigger I would love this, but hating on the graveyard and getting a Food makes this thing even more amazing 4.4 1x in 7%

3.0 This looks like a very nice land. Sure it enters tapped, but unlike a lot of utility lands we see, this one can produce colored mana so it isn’t a liability for your mana base. And that’s great, because the late game ability this has is pretty big. Getting back an Adventure late is going to be something that really helps you grind out a long game, since you often get a card that gives you impressive value when you do. You don’t really want more than one, but I think most decks will have enough adventures to make that first copy pretty nice 4 1x in 19%

4.0 This is the beefiest of all the creature lands in this set, and it does not disappoint. A 5/5 trampler is an imposing presence virtually all game, and this can even buff one of your other creatures! It might take longer to get going than the other 4, but once it does get going, it is certainly the one in the cycle that is the most imposing 4.2 1x in 22%

1.0 Mana filter lands usually aren’t very good in Limited. It’s just really costly to have to tap two lands for one mana, and that’s effectively what happens when you need to filter using a land. The fact that Prophetic Prism and that Scarecrow are in the set probably also means that the demand for this will be even lower, as those two can filter your mana and you only have to tap one land to do it. Crystal Grotto is usually a 1.5, and with better Common colorless fixing around, this will probably drop down to a 1.0 2.3 1x in 37%

2.5 As usual, this provides nice fixing. Makes it pretty easy to splash a single card if you have one Evolving Wilds, since it effectively gives you two sources of your splash color 3 1x in 41%
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4.5 This reminds me a little of Diregraf Horde, and that’s very good company to keep. You pay 5 mana here for at least 5/6 worth of stats across two bodies. And sure, one of those bodies can’t block, but that’s still completely insane! Especially because should you have any other Rats around, the Witch buffs them too. And…I think it’s safe to say you’ll have at least one other one a huge chunk of the time when you play her. This may just be the best Uncommon in the set. 3.8 1x in 4%

4.5 Either side of this would be good on its own. So stapling them together is pretty awesome. If you need a one drop, Elusive Otter can do the job pretty well, and if you draw it late you can put a bunch of counters on your stuff first. 4.3 1x in 7%

4.5 It is effectively a 4-mana 5/5 with Trample, something that will give your opponent pause on most boards, and it comes with the ability to shed the Role that is attached to it to fight something. As a 4/4, the Troll is likely to be able to take something down on most board states. If you wait to play it on 5, it will often feel like a 5-mana 4/4 that just kills something, and that’s quite strong. If you can get some more auras on the Troll – something that is very doable in this format – it can even do it more than once, at which point it will feel truly absurd 4.7 1x in 7%

4.5 A three mana 3/3 that hates on the graveyard isn’t bad, and the fact Skitter churns out Rats is pretty nuts. Even if they can’t block, they give you the ability to pressure your opponent and they provide excellent sacrifice fodder. 4.8 1x in 7%

4.5 Obviously, the idea is that her food token can help set her up later in the game, and the format has plenty of other Food around too – so, casting the Poisoner and giving something -2/-2 until end of turn really isn’t going to be that difficult. You do need to spend extra mana to gain that life usually, but that type of turn is still going to feel powerful. 4.9 1x in 11%

4.5 Lagoon Breach is removal, even if it is situational, and then the whale is certainly beefy enough to trade for something, so we’re talking about a 2-for-1 here. And it is pretty much always an imposing board presence 4.5 1x in 15%

4.5 This is great. Sure, Puny Snack isn’t the best removal spell in the world, but when it’s attached to an efficient creature who also spits out a Food token, it doesn’t really matter. Generating a 2-for-1 with this is going to be really easy, and it’s probably going to be one of the better Uncommons in the entire format 4.3 1x in 30%

5.0 This is really strong, even on its own. Looting on attack is a powerful thing as we just saw in Lord of the Rings, and this also feels kind of like Connive, another strong mechanic from the recent past. Basically, this improves your card quality while growing on its own, and then there’s the fact that it lends the ability to other Faeries too. I think you’ll have another Faerie in play often enough when you play the Messenger that it will have an immediate impact on the board, and that combined with it’s ability to snowball makes it a bomb 4.7 1x in 4%

5.0 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 5 1x in 7%

5.0 This is amazing. The adventure side is an excellent premium removal spell, and would be a B all on its own. Then, this removal spell turns into a value train in the late game and will definitely win you the game within a few turns 4.9 1x in 7%

5.0 The Adventure side gives you a full card, and the creature side usually will too. Sometimes more, because if you trade and get to cast an Adventure we’re talking about a 3-for-1 here. I can’t imagine you normally want to play this on turn two, as a creature, although I suppose if you’ve got a really nasty curve out it can do the trick. But even treating this as a 4-mana 3/2 that draws you a card sounds really good, and you can obviously divide up when you cast the two halves to make it feel even better and if you always have the mana available when it dies, it will just keep coming back 4.7 1x in 7%

5.0 It isn’t quite Hydroid Krasis, but it does a pretty good impression. It scales all game long and becomes even more of a flying threat – that also pumps out an increasingly impressive amount of food, which you can not only use to gain life, but also draws cards. As long as you pay at least 2 for X, the Goose Mother is always going to give you some permanent value and a very efficient body, and if it’s left unchecked it will draw you a ton of cards too 5 1x in 7%

5.0 If you can exile two things and pick off a bunch of stuff with this it’s going to feel pretty good, especially if it hurts your opponent more than it hurts you. Then, this will have the upside of allowing you to sweep the board of everything apart from the Specter, which is an absurdly powerful effect 4.7 1x in 11%

5.0 6 mana for three 3/3s is already a pretty nice rate – it adds a ton to the board and makes removal look bad, but things get even sillier thanks to this death trigger, which will make your other triplets larger and larger,a nd because they have trample that isn’t something your opponent can just ignore. The biggest downside here is the triple green as in limited it can sometimes be hard to produce that exactly when you need to 5 1x in 19%

Golgari	3820 matches	464 decks
17.21% of Metagame
Rakdos	3385 matches	418 decks
15.50% of Metagame
Boros	2624 matches	321 decks
11.91% of Metagame
Dimir	1861 matches	224 decks
8.31% of Metagame
Orzhov	1812 matches	222 decks
8.23% of Metagame
Selesnya	1805 matches	218 decks
8.09% of Metagame
Gruul	1642 matches	201 decks
7.46% of Metagame
Izzet	1178 matches	144 decks
5.34% of Metagame
Simic	713 matches	84 decks
3.12% of Metagame
Azorius	656 matches	83 decks
3.08% of Metagame
Abzan	574 matches	69 decks
2.56% of Metagame
Jund	347 matches	41 decks
1.52% of Metagame
Naya	247 matches	29 decks
1.08% of Metagame
Sultai	224 matches	27 decks
1.00% of Metagame
Temur	180 matches	23 decks
0.85% of Metagame
Esper	175 matches	22 decks
0.82% of Metagame
Mono Red	141 matches	17 decks
0.63% of Metagame
Bant	127 matches	16 decks
0.59% of Metagame
Grixis	130 matches	15 decks
0.56% of Metagame
Mardu	108 matches	13 decks
0.48% of Metagame
Jeskai	71 matches	9 decks
0.33% of Metagame
Mono White	65 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Black	67 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Blue	65 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Green	52 matches	6 decks
0.22% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-white)	27 matches	3 decks
0.11% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-red)	9 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-blue)	9 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame
Colorless	8 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame

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