Average Picked At: 1.67 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 3.71 Total Times Seen 10
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This kills a massive percentage of the creatures in the format quite efficiently, and it exiles them too! It is definitely premium removal.
Average Picked At: 1.40 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 1.33 Total Times Seen 5
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: He’s absolutely massive, but getting his cost down to something reasonable is a pretty real hurdle. If you’re in a dinosaur deck this is going to be the most doable, especially because there is ramp and cost reductio in that color pair.
Average Picked At: 6.60 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 5.90 Total Times Seen 60
Average Picked At: 6.50 Total Times Picked: 8 Average Last Seen At: 5.84 Total Times Seen 52
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Like always, this provides some pretty nice fixing – even better than the format’s tap lands. Even if you’re a two color deck, it improves your mana significantly.
Average Picked At: 13.80 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 11.45 Total Times Seen 114
Pro Rating: 0.0 Pro Comment: This doesn’t do anything but damage the opponent, and cards that only do that are very rarely worth it in Limited. And this one is also incredibly situational. 99% of the time, this won’t do enough damage to your opponent to be worth the investment.
Average Picked At: 3.00 Total Times Picked: 1 Average Last Seen At: 3.50 Total Times Seen 2
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This gives you a lot of value no matter what happens. Any of the following can happen: You get a 3-mana 4/3 that gives you some card selection. You get a 3-mana 3/2 that draws you a card. Or, you get a 3-mana 2/1 that draws you two cards. Yeah, I’d sign up for any of those.
Average Picked At: 8.00 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 6.86 Total Times Seen 12
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: If you’re in an aggressive Pirate deck, this can be a pretty nasty thing to play on turn 4, assuming you played pirates turn 1-3. In that type of situation, it immediately changes the board state in a very real way. On its own, it does attack as a 5/2 attacker too, which isn’t the worst.
Average Picked At: 8.00 Total Times Picked: 8 Average Last Seen At: 7.40 Total Times Seen 66
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is a very good Common. Sure, 3-mana to draw 2 isn’t anything special, but three mana to draw three is actually pretty insane in Limited, and by the mid-game it isn’t that hard to have the Blessing going. It has a decent floor and an amazing ceiling.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 0 Average Last Seen At: 6.27 Total Times Seen 23
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: These provide you with good fixing. If they are in your two colors or they help you splash, you are pretty interested in them.
Average Picked At: 2.00 Total Times Picked: 1 Average Last Seen At: 2.00 Total Times Seen 1
Pro Rating: 4.0 Pro Comment: This has great base stats and its Enrage trigger is very powerful. It really puts your opponent in a bind in many situations. If they can’t take it down in combat, they are put in a situation where they just have to stop attacking or they have to take 5 damage a turn. That said, it isn’t that hard to deal with by the time it comes down. If you have some ways to damage the Tyrant yourself it gets pretty spicy.
Average Picked At: 9.80 Total Times Picked: 5 Average Last Seen At: 8.43 Total Times Seen 74
Pro Rating: 1.0 Pro Comment: You’re only going to end up playing this if you have a ton of creatures with Enrage. Otherwise, its pretty much unplayable. +3/+0 and Trample is a nice boost, but it isn’t the kind that allows your creature to survive combat any better than it already could.
Average Picked At: 4.00 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 5.40 Total Times Seen 18
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is pretty bad in the early game, as it is just a Gray Ogre. However, once you have the Blessing, it turns into a nightmare for your opponent. Not only can they not block it, but it has hexproof! So it represents some very real inevitability.
Average Picked At: 2.00 Total Times Picked: 1 Average Last Seen At: 3.43 Total Times Seen 8
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is excellent removal. This format has no shortage of powerful small creatures, and Baffling End gives you a great answer for them. It is also pretty nice it gets rid of the creature entirely, as most of the time by the time they can maybe deal with Baffling End, a 3/3 Trampler isn’t that relevant.
Average Picked At: 8.33 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 7.10 Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: Remember that tutoring something up and putting it on top is way worse than putting it in your hand. However, tacking that on to a Gray Ogre, along with the Pirate payoff this gives you is pretty nice.
Average Picked At: 12.00 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 8.12 Total Times Seen 13
Pro Rating: 0.5 Pro Comment: This isn’t even that great as a sideboard card, as graveyard stuff in this format isn’t a major theme.
Average Picked At: 4.67 Total Times Picked: 3 Average Last Seen At: 4.50 Total Times Seen 16
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This is a decent counter spell. Three mana is a touch more expensive than I would like, but the fact you get a treasure back softens the blow.
Average Picked At: 6.50 Total Times Picked: 2 Average Last Seen At: 4.70 Total Times Seen 20
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: A 4-mana 2/4 with Deathtouch is already kind of a decent card, and when you get the City’s Blessing going, this feels pretty close to Shadowmage Infiltrator. Your opponent is going to be unable to interact with this in any way where they really come out ahead.
Average Picked At: 15.00 Total Times Picked: 0 Average Last Seen At: 5.00 Total Times Seen 7
Pro Rating: 0.5 Pro Comment: This is mostly just a 4-mana 2/2 with Flash. Even with a useful creature type, that’s not near good enough. It does have some uses, as tokens are around in the format, but the situations where you can actually utilize the Cutpurse to steal a token are few and far between. It could be worth siding in in a situation where your opponent has a ton of tokens, but that’s about it.
Average Picked At: 7.57 Total Times Picked: 7 Average Last Seen At: 6.95 Total Times Seen 67
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This is much better than it looks. Getting the city’s blessing going quickly is quite easy, so this is often a 3/3 by the mid-game.
Average Picked At: 8.33 Total Times Picked: 6 Average Last Seen At: 7.35 Total Times Seen 72
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: This is a nice little two drop that is tough to block effectively in the early game. It is pretty nice with Pirate payoffs too!