Average Picked At: 6.95 Total Times Picked: 123 Average Last Seen At: 6.00 Total Times Seen 654
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This makes creatures reasonably efficiently, and they even have a useful creature type. It isn’t exciting, but it does a decent job of making your board presence bigger.
Average Picked At: 11.79 Total Times Picked: 87 Average Last Seen At: 9.89 Total Times Seen 1150
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: So, I wouldn’t advise jamming a bunch of these into your deck in most cases (though, if you have Tetsuko Umezawa, things might get interesting). Still, it is a kind of okay two drop, and they do get better in multiples.
Average Picked At: 3.88 Total Times Picked: 24 Average Last Seen At: 3.85 Total Times Seen 76
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Most of the time, this format plays pretty slow and grindy, so a card like Squee, who really doesn’t stay dead no matter the situation, is actually pretty nice. He can block indefinitely if that’s what you need, and he can also be an obnoxious attacker. Now, as a 2/1, he isn’t going to be incredible at either of those things, but still. One note about Squee – he is especially good with Legendary Sorceries, as he can really help you make sure you control a legendary creature, as you always have access to one provided you drew him.
Average Picked At: 6.13 Total Times Picked: 23 Average Last Seen At: 5.48 Total Times Seen 111
Pro Rating: 0.0 Pro Comment: 5 mana for a blink/flicker effect is just not going to be worth it, and you’re not likely to have a planeswalker to take advantage of the other part.
Average Picked At: 5.14 Total Times Picked: 37 Average Last Seen At: 4.04 Total Times Seen 186
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Three saprolings at Instant speed for 4 isn’t too shabby, especially in a set that can pay you off significantly for them.
Average Picked At: 11.84 Total Times Picked: 31 Average Last Seen At: 8.37 Total Times Seen 431
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: If you have Artifacts, being able to hurl them at your opponent’s dome and creatures feels pretty good, but this format doesn’t have so many that doing that is really easy.
Average Picked At: 1.50 Total Times Picked: 16 Average Last Seen At: 1.47 Total Times Seen 17
Pro Rating: 5.0 Pro Comment: Obviously, this is a bomb, even in the absence of other Angels. A 5-mana 5/5 with those keywords will just take over the game. It attacks incredibly well if that’s what you need, and the lifelink creates a gap of 10 life between you and your opponent every time it hits them. Even if you’re behind, you also have a nice card, because it blocks incredibly well too. It is capable of killing most things in combat and gaining you life at the same time, and that’s nice.
Average Picked At: 3.53 Total Times Picked: 47 Average Last Seen At: 3.18 Total Times Seen 133
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: This is really efficient no matter which mode you use, with the 5-mana 5/5 version obviously being the more attractive one in most scenarios.
Average Picked At: 6.91 Total Times Picked: 34 Average Last Seen At: 5.30 Total Times Seen 242
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Garna is kind of hard to get serious value out of. You have to leave up significant mana, and then set up a situation where some of your creatures die to give you value, and while that’s not impossible, it comes up less often than you might think. It is nice that she comes with Flash and gives Haste to your whole board though, as sometimes she can also just represent a ton of damage out of nowhere, between her 3/3 body and whatever other creatures you play on your own turn.
Average Picked At: 12.47 Total Times Picked: 79 Average Last Seen At: 10.20 Total Times Seen 1255
Pro Rating: 0.5 Pro Comment: There aren’t enough Goblins in this set for this to be worth it. It can sacrifice itself to its own ability to help you ramp, but giving up a card for such minor ramp just isn’t worth doing in Limited.
Average Picked At: 10.27 Total Times Picked: 26 Average Last Seen At: 6.21 Total Times Seen 308
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: Symmetrical draw isn’t amazing, but you do get to take advantage of the new card before your opponent, which is nice. Howling Golem gets extra points for being an Artifact in this format too.
Average Picked At: 8.68 Total Times Picked: 107 Average Last Seen At: 7.16 Total Times Seen 866
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: The ETB trigger here is surprisingly solid. The life you gain and the cards you mill can be some really significant value on a reasonable evasive creature.
Average Picked At: 4.82 Total Times Picked: 17 Average Last Seen At: 3.70 Total Times Seen 70
Pro Rating: 3.0 Pro Comment: Like most two-color cycles of lands, these are some pretty nice fixing, and they’ll often come into play untapped.
Average Picked At: 9.19 Total Times Picked: 142 Average Last Seen At: 8.48 Total Times Seen 1040
Pro Rating: 1.5 Pro Comment: Two mana 3/1s tend to be kind of alright, and this one has a useful creature type.
Average Picked At: 4.61 Total Times Picked: 142 Average Last Seen At: 4.25 Total Times Seen 483
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: Even without Kicker, this has a pretty nice baseline as a two mana instant that gives -2/-2. That’s something you would play most of the time! The kicker upside is great though, as -5/-5 can take down even more stuff. It feels especially good to give up a Saproling with it.
Average Picked At: 5.12 Total Times Picked: 103 Average Last Seen At: 4.80 Total Times Seen 537
Pro Rating: 3.5 Pro Comment: Both modes on this are quite good, and can allow you to go wide in a hurry. In BG there are some significant Saproling/go wide payoffs too, which make it even nicer.
Average Picked At: 1.44 Total Times Picked: 27 Average Last Seen At: 2.24 Total Times Seen 36
Pro Rating: 4.5 Pro Comment: Kicking Josu Vess isn’t easy, but since he starts out as a 4-mana 4/5 with Menace, that’s perfectly fine. That’s an excellent creature you always play, so the fact that you can pay 10 in the late game to make 8 2/2 Zombies is great, especially because when Kicked he basically reads You win the game.
Average Picked At: 9.81 Total Times Picked: 90 Average Last Seen At: 7.92 Total Times Seen 943
Pro Rating: 2.0 Pro Comment: This is basically Black Divination, and that means having one copy of it in your Black decks is usually decent.
Average Picked At: 4.59 Total Times Picked: 39 Average Last Seen At: 4.33 Total Times Seen 183
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This certainly isn’t premium removal, 4 mana for 4 damage at Sorcery speed really never is. The Kicker here is nice, and you’ll sometimes pull that off, at which point it certainly will feel better. Doing 4 to the opponent too is pretty nice! You’ll find yourself unwilling or unable to kick it a decent chunk of the time, though.
Average Picked At: 7.67 Total Times Picked: 114 Average Last Seen At: 6.67 Total Times Seen 688
Pro Rating: 2.5 Pro Comment: This has decent stats and an okay historic trigger. Tapping stuff down can often really enable attacks you just didn’t have before, and that’s a good place to be in an aggressive deck.