Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: In some formats, this would be a candidate for one of Green’s best commons, but this isn’t that format. Gray Ogre stats are rough in a format with tons of efficient creatures, and ramping isn’t really something you find yourself doing a ton in the format

Pro Rating: 5.0
Pro Comment: This usually comes down and kills a very relevant creature while also bolting your opponent, and then you’re pretty likely to have the largest creature on the table. The one bummer here is the triple Red, but its still a bomb

Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This is very slow and very clunky. Being able to pay 4 to shock something every turn is nice, but having to discard a card to untap it definitely isn’t.

Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: You can play this in your main deck if you’re desperate, as there are enough targets between the two modes, but it is still better out of the sideboard.

Pro Rating: 1.5 // 3.5
Pro Comment: This is pretty hard to cast in a format that is pretty fast, but this is very likely to pull you ahead if you can cast it, since you’ll generally put not only Gishath but some other dinosaur into play right away, and that’s hard for the decks in this format to punch through. Most decks can’t really swing it, though, so I think you need a buildaround grade here

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: A 3-mana 3/3 with Menace is a nice card for sure, and if you’re the beat down, the other two abilities are great too, as they really make it hard for your opponent to survive the onslaught. The bad news is that sometimes you have to play this when it hurts you more than your opponent, but even in those situations you can find a way to trade it off

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: Three Vampire bodies with lifelink is pretty sweet, and the format has lots of nice ways to buff your vampires, which always goes great with lifelink

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This isn’t great. It does have decent stats, and if you put counters and such on it, it does get better. But you’re still talking about a card that really isn’t that impactful for about 90% of the game. It can be alright on turn one, and then on like turn 12 it can use its ability, which is powerful, but good luck getting to that point in the game.

Pro Rating: 1.0
Pro Comment: We see cards like this a lot, and they are basically never worth it in Limited. It often results in being a super situational removal spell, and you don’t want that

Pro Rating: 0.0
Pro Comment: This costs at on of mana an doesn’t really do much, so you don’t want to play it! Sure, you might get some treasure, but you’ll never get the alternate win condition to trigger

Pro Rating: 1.5
Pro Comment: This is harder to set up than it looks at first. Its easy to imagine scenarios where its just massive, and those things do happen, but one awkward thing about it is that it isn’t really a Flash creature that actually ambushes stuff, because most creatures die during combat. So the usual way this works is that you make a couple of trades and then you flash it in at the end of your opponents’ turn and get a reasonably efficient creature. But there are plenty of turns where it is just a 1/1 or a 2/2, and while a 2/2 is passable, it certainly isn’t special

Pro Rating: 0.5
Pro Comment: This is a sideboard card like it usually is. Your opponent won’t have enough spells to make this worth it, especially because you need things to line up just right! You have to have your single Blue mana up, your opponent has to play a noncreature spell, and they have to be unable to pay the two mana

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: This is better than it looks. This format is very aggressive, so two drops and life link are better than normal, and it sports a useful creature type! It isn’t hard to enhance your vampire’s stats in this format, and the Soldier is a great way to do that.

Pro Rating: 2.0
Pro Comment: This doesn’t do a great job of blocking things in this format, since there are so many cheap Common creatures with evasion, and that’s kind of what you would want this card for. Explore is still nice value of course, but neither outcome feels that great

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This is a nice Explore payoff, though it is honestly less impressive than either of the Uncommon ones!

Pro Rating: 2.5
Pro Comment: This has decent stats, and it generally feels alright to trade it off and get a Treasure

Pro Rating: 3.0
Pro Comment: She generates treasure for you when she attacks, which effectively makes her a 3/2 with Haste, and the threat of sacrificing the treasure to bump up her power often makes her hard to block. If she is allowed to attack more than once, she does build you a pretty impressive advantage

Pro Rating: 0.0 // 3.5
Pro Comment: This card isn’t really playable if you only have one, even in a Vampire deck. However, as soon as you have more than that, you really have something. A 3-mana 2/2 isn’t great of course, but a 3-mana 2/2 that draws you 1-3 cards is pretty darn good, even if what you’re drawing is just more mediocre creatures! They get an extra boost as a result of their useful creature type, which definitely comes up.

Pro Rating: 3.5
Pro Comment: This format has a lot of cheap creatures, so a card like this would normally be at a bit of a disadvantage, since paying 5 to kill a two drop is brutal – but like most cards that make Treasure in this format, this is better than it looks. You get two mana back, so the card is really more efficient than it looks.