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Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales Draft Deck Metagame

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Izzet card breakdown - 2 decks, 66.67% of meta

Creatures

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 50%

2.5 A 6-mana 4/6 Flyer with Ward 2 seems…kind of okay. There’s not much in the format that can kill it efficiently between it’s size and the Ward tax, and obviously this body is good at attacking or blocking. The Scry 2 is a nice additional effect to have, but I do feel kind of like I should be getting a little extra something here, especially on an Uncommon. I think having one of these at the top of your curve in Blue seems like a good idea, though. 3.3 1x in 50%

3.0 This looks pretty good to me. Tapping opposing blockers is always really good, and while paying mana for it isn’t ideal the fact that the Sentry becomes a 4/4 when you do it helps offset that downside. Blue-White has some other cards that involve tapping and getting paid off for it too, making paying that mana all the more appealing. It also doesn’t hurt that simply the threat of activation makes your opponent play the game differently. They have to account for the Sentry when thinking about how they are going to attack on their own turn. 2.5 1x in 50%

4.0 A 4-mana ¾ Flyer is a nice starting point, and if you can get the ability on it to trigger even once, Talion will feel completely insane. Now, you won’t always be able to make that happen, but if you choose “2” for example, there’s a pretty good chance Talion will get triggered at some point. If you have information about your opponents hand it gets even better. But yeah, we’re talking about a great baseline and a completely insane ceiling 4.6 1x in 50%

2.0 This offers you some decent ramp early, and a mediocre body with an expensive activated ability late. Notably, he can ramp into himself, if you cast the adventure and then him and a 4/3 with Reach on turn three isn’t too bad. 2.6 1x in 50%

3.0 A 3 mana ⅔ with Menace is passable, and you can augment one of your creatures with this on an earlier turn – or the same turn, if you have happen to have four mana. It just seems like plenty of value to get out of a single card, and it even seems reasonably efficient 3.2 1x in 50%

3.0 There is a chance you miss with Free the Fae. You have a pretty good chance of not missing, especially in Blue/Red and Blue/Black, but this isn’t the kind of effect that will only miss on rare occasions. I think expecting it to wiff entirely a third of the time is reasonable. When you can get a card out of it it’s going to feel pretty good, especially because you also get a reasonable flyer. A creature with these two keywords goes great with the various Role tokens in the set too. 3.5 1x in 50%

3.5 This is a powerful spell payoff, and it has high enough toughness to be difficult to deal with and attack through. It is a little sad it can’t give itself a Sorcerer Role, but upgrading all your other stuff seems pretty good to me. I think this will feel like an impressive engine, even in a Blue deck with like five spells you’ll be running this. 2.9 1x in 50%

1.5 Unfortunately, putting an instant or sorcery on top of your library from your graveyard isn’t a great effect all on its own. In fact, it’s card disadvantage. You go down a card and don’t get one back. This makes up for that some by also giving you a creature, I’m not really blown away by it either. We’ve seen cards with this same instant or sorcery trigger do pretty well, but most of the time they don’t have a restriction on how many times they can get buffed in a turn. Basically, both sides of this are fairly weak and not very impactful 1.8 1x in 50%

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 2x in 50%

3.5 This effect is really powerful, even when limited to once per turn. If your deck has enough instants and sorceries in it, this will end up drawing you an extra card on many turns and that’s just crazy. This gets even better if you use draw effects or other things to manipulate the top of your library, as you increase your chances of getting that card on top. I like the high toughness here too, as it means Johann is an engine that isn’t super easy to kill 3 1x in 100%

3.0 This doesn’t quite give you two cards, but I think it gets close enough, even with Croaking Curse being Sorcery speed. It lets you downgrade a creature and up your ability to attack, and then you get a decent creature on a future turn 2.1 1x in 100%

4.0 You’ll often be able to pick off something small with the Adventure, and that means you’re talking about a potential 2-for-1. Then you get a 2/2 Flyer that can become a real problem of an attacker, especially when you leave your mana up, because your opponent has no idea exactly how big the Familiar is going to be 3.5 1x in 100%

2.5 This has almost reasonable stats, and reducing the costs of spells has some extra weight in this format thanks to Adventures, in addition to the fact that it just plays well in any Blue/Red deck. 1.8 1x in 100%
Instant, Sorcery

4.0 This is premium removal. It would be without Bargain. With it it’s even better, as it can become a one mana deal 3. Sure, you do have to give something up, and sometimes that something will have to be real, but this format has a variety of tokens and other expendable things with these types, so Torch the Tower isn’t going to be that hard to get it to do 3 for a very low cost. 4.3 3x in 0%

2.0 This is a nice Tormenting Voice variant. Even without the Role token this card is usually in the D+ or C- range, especially in a format with some graveyard stuff and a spell deck, and that’s true in this format. Actually adding to the board while digging deeper into your deck is going to feel pretty nice. You probably don’t desperately want more than one of these, although perhaps if you’re in the spell deck going deeper than that first copy might be worth it 2.2 1x in 50%

2.0 This is Cancel when you don’t Bargain it, and Counterspell when you do. 1 mana may not seem like much, but the chasm between those two cards is massive. The fact this has double blue in the cost really matters too, as Limited mana bases aren’t good enough for you to consistently be able to leave up two Blue mana for this. 2 1x in 50%

4.0 An instant speed X damage spell is pretty sweet. It scales all game long and can kill pretty much anything, provided you have the mana – or the permanent to Bargain 3.9 1x in 50%

2.0 Seeing two cards for one mana tends to be a nice rate, and this will be especially good in this format’s spell deck, but running the first copy of this seems decent in most Blue decks. It is true that you only have so much space for cards that don’t impact the board, but this is efficient enough that it will make the cut a decent chunk of the time. 1.7 1x in 50%

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 50%

3.5 The base form of this card is mediocre, but if you can just get it to do 3 damage you’re talking about premium removal. That’s not a huge ask at all, especially in Red decks in the format, and that also means it has a really high ceiling. Basically, this has a bad floor, but it will almost never be that bad, and I think that means it does enough to be premium removal you take highly 2.9 2x in 50%

2.0 Instant speed Divination isn’t too shabby, though it doesn’t add to the board and that can always be a problem in Limited. 2 1x in 100%
Enchantment, Artifact

0.0 To make Fraying Sanity work you usually need some other mill around, and while there’s a little bit of that in this format, there isn’t enough to support this 1.5 1x in 50%

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 50%

0.0 This doesn’t do much in Limited. Sure, if your opponent happens to only have one land that can produce one of their colors and you stick this on it, it can be pretty hilarious, but most of the time that’s not going to happen to them. Replacing itself just isn’t’ enough these days, it needs to actually…do something too, and this just won’t 1.5 1x in 50%

1.0 For this to do anything, the creature you put it on generally already has to be good, and when an Aura needs that from you it gets a lot worse. If you have a lot of flyers this isn’t a bad role player, but most of the time you won’t play it 2.8 1x in 100%
Planeswalkers
Lands

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 50%

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 50%
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3.0 A 3 mana ⅔ with Menace is passable, and you can augment one of your creatures with this on an earlier turn – or the same turn, if you have happen to have four mana. It just seems like plenty of value to get out of a single card, and it even seems reasonably efficient 3.2 1x in 50%

3.0 This looks pretty good to me. Tapping opposing blockers is always really good, and while paying mana for it isn’t ideal the fact that the Sentry becomes a 4/4 when you do it helps offset that downside. Blue-White has some other cards that involve tapping and getting paid off for it too, making paying that mana all the more appealing. It also doesn’t hurt that simply the threat of activation makes your opponent play the game differently. They have to account for the Sentry when thinking about how they are going to attack on their own turn. 2.5 1x in 50%

3.0 This doesn’t quite give you two cards, but I think it gets close enough, even with Croaking Curse being Sorcery speed. It lets you downgrade a creature and up your ability to attack, and then you get a decent creature on a future turn 2.1 1x in 100%

3.5 The base form of this card is mediocre, but if you can just get it to do 3 damage you’re talking about premium removal. That’s not a huge ask at all, especially in Red decks in the format, and that also means it has a really high ceiling. Basically, this has a bad floor, but it will almost never be that bad, and I think that means it does enough to be premium removal you take highly 2.9 2x in 50%

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 2x in 50%

3.5 This is a powerful spell payoff, and it has high enough toughness to be difficult to deal with and attack through. It is a little sad it can’t give itself a Sorcerer Role, but upgrading all your other stuff seems pretty good to me. I think this will feel like an impressive engine, even in a Blue deck with like five spells you’ll be running this. 2.9 1x in 50%

3.5 The adventure side here is the kind of thing you probably only use in the later stage of the game when it allows you to reload your hand. It’s not a great idea to use it when you still have a bunch of cards so it isn’t the kind of card where you cast your adventure early and then get the creature later. Although, you can use it to make the Elemental easier to cast. But I don’t think you should give up some real cards to make that happen. That’s okay though, because it seems reasonably easy to reduce the cost of the Elemental to something decent even if you don’t load your graveyard with Stoke Genius 3.6 1x in 50%

3.5 This effect is really powerful, even when limited to once per turn. If your deck has enough instants and sorceries in it, this will end up drawing you an extra card on many turns and that’s just crazy. This gets even better if you use draw effects or other things to manipulate the top of your library, as you increase your chances of getting that card on top. I like the high toughness here too, as it means Johann is an engine that isn’t super easy to kill 3 1x in 100%

4.0 This is premium removal. It would be without Bargain. With it it’s even better, as it can become a one mana deal 3. Sure, you do have to give something up, and sometimes that something will have to be real, but this format has a variety of tokens and other expendable things with these types, so Torch the Tower isn’t going to be that hard to get it to do 3 for a very low cost. 4.3 3x in 0%

4.0 An instant speed X damage spell is pretty sweet. It scales all game long and can kill pretty much anything, provided you have the mana – or the permanent to Bargain 3.9 1x in 50%

4.0 A 4-mana ¾ Flyer is a nice starting point, and if you can get the ability on it to trigger even once, Talion will feel completely insane. Now, you won’t always be able to make that happen, but if you choose “2” for example, there’s a pretty good chance Talion will get triggered at some point. If you have information about your opponents hand it gets even better. But yeah, we’re talking about a great baseline and a completely insane ceiling 4.6 1x in 50%

4.0 This seems really strong, so much so that I wouldn’t have been shocked if it were a rare. There are a lot of Adventures in this set and doubling them is huge. Your normal deck will have more than enough adventures to take advantage of the chancellor. The one downside the card has is its fairly inefficient stat-line, but honestly, given how strong this is, that hardly matters 2.1 1x in 50%

4.0 You’ll often be able to pick off something small with the Adventure, and that means you’re talking about a potential 2-for-1. Then you get a 2/2 Flyer that can become a real problem of an attacker, especially when you leave your mana up, because your opponent has no idea exactly how big the Familiar is going to be 3.5 1x in 100%

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 50%

Izzet	17 matches	2 decks
66.67% of Metagame
Rakdos	8 matches	1 decks
33.33% of Metagame

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Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales Draft Deck Metagame

Izzet card breakdown - 2 decks, 66.67% of meta

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