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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts Limited Quiz
Answered: 0/20
Accuracy: 0
Accuracy: 0
Average Picked At: 9.50
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 5.45
Total Times Seen 74
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 5.45
Total Times Seen 74
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This is kind of cool, as it sort of makes it so your powerstones can tap to cast nonartifact spells. However, this is another instance where you use up a card for a mana discount, and cards are a massively important resource in Limited – using one just to help you cast spells is suboptimal, and this is a little too particular for me to like it very much
Pro Comment: This is kind of cool, as it sort of makes it so your powerstones can tap to cast nonartifact spells. However, this is another instance where you use up a card for a mana discount, and cards are a massively important resource in Limited – using one just to help you cast spells is suboptimal, and this is a little too particular for me to like it very much
Average Picked At: 8.85
Total Times Picked: 53
Average Last Seen At: 6.48
Total Times Seen 383
Total Times Picked: 53
Average Last Seen At: 6.48
Total Times Seen 383
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: It is surprisingly hard to set up this kind of mana ramp in Limited. This can get your mana going incredibly fast provided you have some early creatures, but that’s far from guaranteed, and then by the mid-to-late game it has waning usefulness
Pro Comment: It is surprisingly hard to set up this kind of mana ramp in Limited. This can get your mana going incredibly fast provided you have some early creatures, but that’s far from guaranteed, and then by the mid-to-late game it has waning usefulness
Average Picked At: 12.57
Total Times Picked: 21
Average Last Seen At: 8.17
Total Times Seen 430
Total Times Picked: 21
Average Last Seen At: 8.17
Total Times Seen 430
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: 0 mana artifacts are exciting for constructed, but they aren’t nearly as good in Limited because what you get is usually a card that isn’t worth an entire card – and that’s definitely what Bone Saw is. Especially in a set without any real equipment theme. Playing this will feel like you took a mulligan
Pro Comment: 0 mana artifacts are exciting for constructed, but they aren’t nearly as good in Limited because what you get is usually a card that isn’t worth an entire card – and that’s definitely what Bone Saw is. Especially in a set without any real equipment theme. Playing this will feel like you took a mulligan
Average Picked At: 3.67
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 3.08
Total Times Seen 27
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 3.08
Total Times Seen 27
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 2.0
Pro Comment: This format has enough big monsters in it that I think Altar of Dementia has a bit of potential – plus you can use it to mill yourself, and some decks in this format are interested in that. There is also a pretty legitimate sacrifice deck in the format that could use this an outlet. It won’t work in most decks, but it has some buildaround potential
Pro Comment: This format has enough big monsters in it that I think Altar of Dementia has a bit of potential – plus you can use it to mill yourself, and some decks in this format are interested in that. There is also a pretty legitimate sacrifice deck in the format that could use this an outlet. It won’t work in most decks, but it has some buildaround potential
Average Picked At: 5.08
Total Times Picked: 39
Average Last Seen At: 3.97
Total Times Seen 195
Total Times Picked: 39
Average Last Seen At: 3.97
Total Times Seen 195
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Because this is a noncreature spell and an artifact that replaces itself, it is going to be very playable, as multiple decks in this format care about that stuff. It also fixes your mana of course, though it is a bit clunky if you’re just using it for those purposes
Pro Comment: Because this is a noncreature spell and an artifact that replaces itself, it is going to be very playable, as multiple decks in this format care about that stuff. It also fixes your mana of course, though it is a bit clunky if you’re just using it for those purposes
Average Picked At: 8.86
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 5.07
Total Times Seen 69
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 5.07
Total Times Seen 69
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad in most Limited formats, but I think the fact that this deck has many high-mana things to ramp into, coupled with the fact that you can accelerate into the Lotus itself with powerstones, actually makes it playable.
Pro Comment: This is pretty bad in most Limited formats, but I think the fact that this deck has many high-mana things to ramp into, coupled with the fact that you can accelerate into the Lotus itself with powerstones, actually makes it playable.
Average Picked At: 9.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.95
Total Times Seen 46
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 4.95
Total Times Seen 46
Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: Two to play and two to equip for this bonus is probably a 1.5, but this format actually has some stuff going on that makes this interesting. While you can’t go full on Thopter-Sword combo, the format does have a lot of 1/1 creature tokens. So, sacrificing this to something in the Black-Red deck, and then making a creature token one way or another means you get it back and at that point you’ve gotten some nice value – and you can even sacrifice it again if you have the means.
Pro Comment: Two to play and two to equip for this bonus is probably a 1.5, but this format actually has some stuff going on that makes this interesting. While you can’t go full on Thopter-Sword combo, the format does have a lot of 1/1 creature tokens. So, sacrificing this to something in the Black-Red deck, and then making a creature token one way or another means you get it back and at that point you’ve gotten some nice value – and you can even sacrifice it again if you have the means.
Average Picked At: 8.00
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 5.39
Total Times Seen 29
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 5.39
Total Times Seen 29
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: You won’t ever gain enough life with this for it to matter, and you’re certainly never using that ability.
Pro Comment: You won’t ever gain enough life with this for it to matter, and you’re certainly never using that ability.
Average Picked At: 2.91
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 2.23
Total Times Seen 27
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 2.23
Total Times Seen 27
Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: If you can have this trade and get you an artifact back, you’re going to feel pretty good about it – and that isn’t an insanely tall order. It obviously gets better if you can trade other artifacts and get back value, and if you can combine it with sacrifice effects – which this format has – it gets even sillier. Basically, this is a 3-mana 3/2 with fairly attainable 2-for-1 upside.
Pro Comment: If you can have this trade and get you an artifact back, you’re going to feel pretty good about it – and that isn’t an insanely tall order. It obviously gets better if you can trade other artifacts and get back value, and if you can combine it with sacrifice effects – which this format has – it gets even sillier. Basically, this is a 3-mana 3/2 with fairly attainable 2-for-1 upside.
Average Picked At: 2.14
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.18
Total Times Seen 12
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 2.18
Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is pretty powerful! A 6-mana 4/4 flyer is right around a 2.0, and this has the massive upside of gaining counters when you cast colored spells. This format doesn’t hve a huge multicolored theme, so most of the time you’ll just be gaining one counter at a time, but that’s plenty on a Flyer. You won’t really find yourself ever using the ability to remove counters, but that doesn’t matter – the rest of the card is plenty strong.
Pro Comment: This is pretty powerful! A 6-mana 4/4 flyer is right around a 2.0, and this has the massive upside of gaining counters when you cast colored spells. This format doesn’t hve a huge multicolored theme, so most of the time you’ll just be gaining one counter at a time, but that’s plenty on a Flyer. You won’t really find yourself ever using the ability to remove counters, but that doesn’t matter – the rest of the card is plenty strong.
Average Picked At: 9.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 5.98
Total Times Seen 67
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 5.98
Total Times Seen 67
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is mostly just a three mana rock that can tap for one mana of any color. And that’s passable in a format with a bunch of artifact and ramp stuff going on. You can use a bunch of powerstones to make it better than that of course, which is some decent format-specific upside, but this still isn’t that impressive.
Pro Comment: This is mostly just a three mana rock that can tap for one mana of any color. And that’s passable in a format with a bunch of artifact and ramp stuff going on. You can use a bunch of powerstones to make it better than that of course, which is some decent format-specific upside, but this still isn’t that impressive.
Average Picked At: 4.83
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 3.32
Total Times Seen 40
Total Times Picked: 6
Average Last Seen At: 3.32
Total Times Seen 40
Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: In most games of Limited, it is hard to keep the Crawler at a reasonable size,. It is nice that your card draw effects really hurt your opponent though, and this format does have a card draw deck in the Blue-Black color pair, so this is pretty good, though not really something I want to take very highly.
Pro Comment: In most games of Limited, it is hard to keep the Crawler at a reasonable size,. It is nice that your card draw effects really hurt your opponent though, and this format does have a card draw deck in the Blue-Black color pair, so this is pretty good, though not really something I want to take very highly.
Average Picked At: 4.20
Total Times Picked: 44
Average Last Seen At: 3.17
Total Times Seen 150
Total Times Picked: 44
Average Last Seen At: 3.17
Total Times Seen 150
Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This looks amazing in this format, because most decks are going to have 7+ artifacts, and some will have even more! This makes your artifacts easy to cast while adding a very real body to the board – that makes it a heck of a lot better than something like Cloud Key.
Pro Comment: This looks amazing in this format, because most decks are going to have 7+ artifacts, and some will have even more! This makes your artifacts easy to cast while adding a very real body to the board – that makes it a heck of a lot better than something like Cloud Key.
Average Picked At: 5.00
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.94
Total Times Seen 17
Total Times Picked: 3
Average Last Seen At: 3.94
Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 4.0
Pro Comment: This is a lot of mana of course, but it is also quite the reset button, as it rids the board of all permanents apart from lands, and it even exiles them! The effect is almost unrivaled in its ability to change the state of the game, and power stones make it more doable. All that good stuff out of the way, it does still have the very real problem of being bad in situations where you’re ahead of your opponent or at parity – but it is just about the best thing you can do when you’re behind.
Pro Comment: This is a lot of mana of course, but it is also quite the reset button, as it rids the board of all permanents apart from lands, and it even exiles them! The effect is almost unrivaled in its ability to change the state of the game, and power stones make it more doable. All that good stuff out of the way, it does still have the very real problem of being bad in situations where you’re ahead of your opponent or at parity – but it is just about the best thing you can do when you’re behind.
Average Picked At: 2.60
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 2.40
Total Times Seen 16
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 2.40
Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is a big monster that you can definitely ramp into, and in the majority of games you can probably use the land destruction effect to hurt your opponent more than it hurts you. Though, if you and your opponent are in completely different colors, it is going to hurt you both equally. The effect is often negligible when you play this creature, though. And yeah, A 7/10 is some business, but it also doesn’t come with evasion or anything. There are definitely some commons and uncommons in the set that have prototype that are just better if you’re in the market for ramping into artifacts.
Pro Comment: This is a big monster that you can definitely ramp into, and in the majority of games you can probably use the land destruction effect to hurt your opponent more than it hurts you. Though, if you and your opponent are in completely different colors, it is going to hurt you both equally. The effect is often negligible when you play this creature, though. And yeah, A 7/10 is some business, but it also doesn’t come with evasion or anything. There are definitely some commons and uncommons in the set that have prototype that are just better if you’re in the market for ramping into artifacts.
Average Picked At: 1.00
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 1.50
Total Times Seen 4
Total Times Picked: 2
Average Last Seen At: 1.50
Total Times Seen 4
Pro Rating: 4.5
Pro Comment: Making it so you can’t lose and your opponent can’t win is pretty oppressive, and the Angel can even help you win the game with its 4/4 flying body. The downside of the card is always the massive mana investment coupled with the fact that it dies to a whole lot of stuff, and while the latter is still going to be true, the mana will be easier to come by in this format than normal. If she sticks around, your opponent just can’t win – obviously – and that’s enough for her to get into the lower bomb range. She doe still die to a lot, and gives you absolutely 0 value in situations where your opponent untaps and kills her, and that keeps her from being completely absurd. But she’s still great
Pro Comment: Making it so you can’t lose and your opponent can’t win is pretty oppressive, and the Angel can even help you win the game with its 4/4 flying body. The downside of the card is always the massive mana investment coupled with the fact that it dies to a whole lot of stuff, and while the latter is still going to be true, the mana will be easier to come by in this format than normal. If she sticks around, your opponent just can’t win – obviously – and that’s enough for her to get into the lower bomb range. She doe still die to a lot, and gives you absolutely 0 value in situations where your opponent untaps and kills her, and that keeps her from being completely absurd. But she’s still great
Average Picked At: 12.20
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 6.31
Total Times Seen 99
Total Times Picked: 5
Average Last Seen At: 6.31
Total Times Seen 99
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: Yeah, this is too narrow. It is a sweet sideboard card in constructed of course, but there aren’t decks that are just all about leaving their mana up and interacting with you on their turn. Against most decks this will do very little.
Pro Comment: Yeah, this is too narrow. It is a sweet sideboard card in constructed of course, but there aren’t decks that are just all about leaving their mana up and interacting with you on their turn. Against most decks this will do very little.
Average Picked At: 13.97
Total Times Picked: 29
Average Last Seen At: 8.94
Total Times Seen 510
Total Times Picked: 29
Average Last Seen At: 8.94
Total Times Seen 510
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This isn’t good in Limited. You need to be a draw go style control deck to really make this gain you life that matters, and that just doesn’t happen in Limited. This will frequently do nothing or close to nothing.
Pro Comment: This isn’t good in Limited. You need to be a draw go style control deck to really make this gain you life that matters, and that just doesn’t happen in Limited. This will frequently do nothing or close to nothing.
Average Picked At: 8.29
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 4.94
Total Times Seen 76
Total Times Picked: 7
Average Last Seen At: 4.94
Total Times Seen 76
Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: This does basically let you draw a card for three mana, even if that card is always a land. Still, that does give you card advantage and even thins out your deck and helps you fix your mana. Powerstones make it more likely you can use this too, but there will still be a whole lot of times where you just don’t have the time or mana to use it.
Pro Comment: This does basically let you draw a card for three mana, even if that card is always a land. Still, that does give you card advantage and even thins out your deck and helps you fix your mana. Powerstones make it more likely you can use this too, but there will still be a whole lot of times where you just don’t have the time or mana to use it.
Average Picked At: 10.55
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 6.64
Total Times Seen 109
Total Times Picked: 11
Average Last Seen At: 6.64
Total Times Seen 109
Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This format doesn’t have very good fixing, so you’re almost never going to be able to utilize this to win the game and uh..that’s all this can do.
Pro Comment: This format doesn’t have very good fixing, so you’re almost never going to be able to utilize this to win the game and uh..that’s all this can do.
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