Special Guests Limited Ratings

The AI ratings are gathered with from the MTGA Assistant deck tracker. Pro ratings are provided by Nizzahon Magic. The Pro ratings and comments are made before the set officially releases while the AI ratings are dynamically updated with new data all the time.

  • 5.0 The absolute best you can get.
  • 4.5 Incredible bomb, but not unbeatable.
  • 4.0 Good rare or top-tier uncommon.
  • 3.5 Top-tier common or solid uncommon.
  • 3.0 Good playable that always make the cut.
  • 2.5 A solid playable that rarely gets cut.
  • 2.0 A good playable, but is sometimes cut.
  • 1.5 Filler card but sometimes gets cut.
  • 1.0 Not good filler and often gets gut.
  • 0.5 Almost Unplayable and mostly sideboard material.
  • 0.0 Not playable at all.
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Ghostly Prison

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 2

This tax can really be a burden for your opponent, as it can make them choose between trying to race or developing their board. If you’re really far behind it isn’t nearly as useful, but at parity or if you’re ahead it can be nice enough.

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Fabricate

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0

Three mana tutors aren’t good in Limited. It’s like adding a tax of 3 mana to whatever your best Artifact is, and it isn’t like this format has a ton of Artifacts anyway.

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Show and Tell

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 0

This is great in Legacy and Vintage where you can put absurd stuff into play that your opponent has no hope of matching, but in Limited there’s a good chance you lose the game by casting this.

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Tragic Slip

AI Rating: 4.6
Pro Rating: 3.5

This is great in Legacy and Vintage where you can put absurd stuff into play that your opponent has no hope of matching, but in Limited there’s a good chance you lose the game by casting this.

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Victimize

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 3

If you have some fodder and a well-stocked graveyard, this can give you some pretty awesome value. The set up is real, though.

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Gamble

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0

2-for-1ing myself and hoping I don’t discard the thing I tutored is a good way to lose.

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Crashing Footfalls

AI Rating: 4.4
Pro Rating: 3

If you suspend this on turn one, there’s a pretty good chance you’re going to win that game. If you get it later in the game it can be pretty brutal though, as it takes forever to actually do its thing

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Tireless Tracker

AI Rating: 4.7
Pro Rating: 5

It spits out clues like crazy and grows throughout the game, it's a massive bomb.

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Drown in the Loch

AI Rating: 3.1
Pro Rating: 1.5

This format doesn't have a mill deck, and players can exile cards with one of the main mechanics, so I'm skeptical Drown in the Loch will work out here.

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Field of the Dead

AI Rating: 2.5
Pro Rating: 0

Not enough common or uncommon non-basic lands in the format to have any hope of getting this going.

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Stoneforge Mystic

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.5

There's some legit equipment in this format, and if you've got a couple, the Mystic is worth running.

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Brazen Borrower

AI Rating: 4.6
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Desertion

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 2.5

If you counter an artifact or creature spell with this, it feels awesome. If you don't, it's super inefficient.

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Morbid Opportunist

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 4

Drawing cards with this is exceedingly simple. It counts your creatures or your opponent's, so combat, removal, sacrifice. It all works.

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Port Razer

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 1.5

It's hard to take advantage of extra combat steps, and this creature is pretty inefficient.

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Scapeshift

AI Rating: 2.7
Pro Rating: 0

This is a combo enabler in 60-card formats. It's a nothing-enabler in 40-card formats.

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Mystic Snake

AI Rating: 2.3
Pro Rating: 3

Countering a spell and adding a 2/2 to the board -- all with one card -- is pretty powerful.

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Notion Thief

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 2

Stealing draws with this is sweet, but it isn't going to happen often enough for this to be the powerhouse it is in other formats.

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Desert

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 2

This has a useful sub-type in the format, can commit crimes, and the ability is actually pretty nice in general. It'll be worth using in some decks.

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Prismatic Vista

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 3

This is an evolving wilds that puts the land into play untapped, which is awesome.

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Swords to Plowshares

AI Rating: 4.3
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Ledger Shredder

AI Rating: 4.1
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Rat Colony

AI Rating: 4.3
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Relentless Rats

AI Rating: -0
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Kindred Charge

AI Rating: 3.9
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Sylvan Tutor

AI Rating: 1.1
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Toski, Bearer of Secrets

AI Rating: 4.6
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Frogmite

AI Rating: -0
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Sword of Fire and Ice

AI Rating: 4.9
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Secluded Courtyard

AI Rating: -0
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Hallowed Haunting

AI Rating: -0
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Soul Warden

AI Rating: 3.2
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Expropriate

AI Rating: -0
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Phantasmal Image

AI Rating: 3.9
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Damnation

AI Rating: 4.3
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Sacrifice

AI Rating: 3.2
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Maddening Hex

AI Rating: -0
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Unholy Heat

AI Rating: -0
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Collected Company

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 3

You definitely need to have a lowish curve to take advantage of this, because you need to hit two creatures when you cast it for it to be worth it -- but I think that'll be the case for most decks.

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Noxious Revival

AI Rating: -0
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Condemn

AI Rating: 3.7
Pro Rating: 2.5

This is narrow, but efficient enough to be worth it in most White decks -- provided you aren't really aggressive.

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Sphinx's Tutelage

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 0 // 4

This is a legit build around, as blue decks are often capable of drawing lots of cards. But you need a good control deck and lots of card draw to get there.

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Grim Tutor

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 0

This can grab the best card in your deck, but spending 3 mana and 3 life to grab that card isn't worth it in Limited.

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Goblin Bushwhacker

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 3

This adds a ton of damage to the board for very little mana.

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Embercleave

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5

Casting this usually breaks a game wide open with tons of damage and a creature getting run over, and casting it for 3 or 4 mana is very doable.

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Paradise Druid

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 3.5

Hexproof means you're going to get the mana boost almost every time, and producing mana of any color is great.

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Bloom Tender

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 3

The stat-line's tough, but the mana is nice. You shouldn't really expect more than two mana at a time in Limited, and in the early game it may just be producing Green.

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Akroma's Memorial

AI Rating: 4.9
Pro Rating: 3.5

It's expensive, but as long as you have a few creatures there's a good chance that they are more than threatening enough to turn the game around for you.

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Cavalier of Dawn

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 4.5

Casting this can be challenging, but once you do you get a 5-mana 4/6 with Vigilance that either upgrades your most useless permanent, or downgrades your opponent's best permanent. And in this format getting an artifact or enchantment from the graveyard to your hand will be pretty easy.

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Thoughtcast

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 1.5 // 3.0

If you are heavy enough in Artifacts this is a nice draw spell.

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Whir of Invention

AI Rating: 3.9
Pro Rating: 0

Even in an artifact set having the mana and artifacts to set this up, not to mention the artifact to tutor up, just won't happen.

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Bone Miser

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 1.5 // 3.5

The stat-line's bad, but this looks like a real buildaround for Black decks that have enough Cycling and discard.

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Lord of the Undead

AI Rating: -0
Pro Rating: 1.5

This set has Zombies, but not enough for this to be great, especially since it starts out as a Gray Ogre.

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Chandra's Ignition

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 4

It takes set up and it's a little bit risky since your opponent can destroy your creature, but this can work as a one-sided Wrath often enough to be pretty powerful.

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Galvanic Blast

AI Rating: 3.6
Pro Rating: 4

Shock is already great, and this will become a better Lightning Bolt in the late for many decks in the format.

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Pathbreaker Ibex

AI Rating: 4.8
Pro Rating: 2.5

This card is very swingy. Spending 6 on a 3/3 is brutal and will often mean your opponent has a great attack on their turn, and/or they can just kill it for two mana. But if you untap and attack, there's a pretty good chance you win. But you frequently don't have the time for that really scary turn.

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Chrome Mox

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 0

2-for-1ing yourself for mana isn't worth it in Limited, especially when this is only good early.

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Skysovereign, Consul Flagship

AI Rating: 5
Pro Rating: 5

This is a huge bomb because it Bolts something when it enters and attacks, while smashing in for 6 at the time. It really reshapes the board in a big way.

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Temporal Manipulation

AI Rating: 4.3
Pro Rating: 4.5

Even spending 5 mana on Time Walk is nuts. Taking an extra turn is one of the strongest things you can do in Magic, so it's well worth it.

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Fiend Artisan

AI Rating: 4.5
Pro Rating: 3

This tends to get pretty big, and while the tutor effect isn't always useful, when you have a bomb or utility creature to grab it can be backbreaking.

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Color Rating Breakdown
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