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Murders at Karlov Manor Draft Deck Metagame

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Four Color (Non-red) card breakdown - 6 decks, 0.27% of meta

Creatures

3.5 Three mana for a 2/2 and a 1/1 is always a pretty good rate in Limited, so when you tack on this card’s ability to buff your detectives – albeit inefficiently – I think we’re talking about a very nice Common. 4.2 1x in 17%

4 Without the Adventure side, Kellan is a really good card. This format has plenty of artifacts for him to destroy – and they’ll be on both sides of the table – so you will often do something with the trigger, in addition to having a nicely statted flyer. The Investigate side is pretty nice too, though keep in mind you’re not always going to get much out of the ability to play an extra land. Still, it’s upside on a card that is already good, and obviously making a clue before you play Kellan makes for nice internal synergy. 4.6 1x in 17%

4 This has respectable stats, and the life drain effect is going to be easier than normal trigger in this format because of Disguise creatures. I like that it has an ability for the extreme late-game too. 3.6 1x in 33%

2.5 A three mana 3/2 that loots on ETB is decent, and looting with this more than once isn’t impossible. 3.2 1x in 33%

3 A two mana 2/2 isn’t what it used to be, but that’s the fail case here, and this has the upside of fixing your mana. Note, by the way, that it can grab this format’s dual lands, should you pick one up. 3.8 1x in 33%

3 A three mana ¼ flyer isn’t a disaster, and the Disguise upside here is pretty real. Drawing a card is always nice, and there’s plenty of incentive for putting things in the graveyard too. These hybrid Disguise costs also mean these are going to be playable in a wider variety of decks than just Blue-Black. 2.1 1x in 33%

5 This reminds me of Ishkanah, and that’s good company to keep. In black green, this will be a 6 mana 5/4 with Menace thar makes two 2/1s with Menace and reach more often than it isn't, and on rate alone that's a bomb. Throw in the ability to make more spiders every time it attacks, and the ability to give up tokens for value, and this might just be the biggest bomb in the set. 4.7 1x in 33%

5 A 4-mana 4/2 with flying, lifelink and ward 2 can do a ton of work, and if your opponent can’t find a way to deal with it quickly – something that is difficult thanks to Ward, it’s going to end up causing all kinds of problems for your opponent. The race will get completely out of control! You’re frequently just going to play this face up because of that. But it also has some really insane late game upside, where you play it face down and then turn it face up. The exile effect is reminiscent of Angel of Serenity, in that the stuff it exiles can go back to player’s hands. This means that you can do double duty with that type of effect. You can use it to remove stuff of your opponents – but for insurance, you can also exile some of your own graveyard stuff, so that if your opponent does find a way to kill the Vindicator, you’re going to get some cards back too. I think the whole package here is a bomb. 5 1x in 33%

3.5 This is a functional reprint of Thraben Inspector, which was amazing. Two pieces of material for one mana is awesome. 4.3 1x in 50%

2.5 There are lots of tokens in this set for sure, but destroying most of them isn't typically worth a card, and this won't have a target that often on turn two. The stat-line isn't really above rate these days either. 3 1x in 50%

2.5 A 4-mana 3/2 with Flying and Vigilance is sort of passable, so the Disguise upside here is a nice thing to have around. Tapping or untapping things isn’t always gonna be useful, but when it is, it can be pretty awesome. 3.3 1x in 50%

2.5 This fixes your mana well and sets up Collect Evidence 6 in the early game, and in the late game it's a passable creature. 3 1x in 50%

2.5 There’s nice fixing in this set, so casting Niv-Mizzet isn’t impossible, and once he hits your opponent X is fairly likely to be at least one, and it will often be two, and that’s going to generate some awesome value. The problem, of course, is casting Niv, and it is a bit of a bummer that after you work so hard to do that, he doesn’t do something right away – but at least he has protection from multicolored, which means plenty of the removal in the set can’t go after him. 3.6 1x in 50%

2.5 When one mana filtering is attached to a creature, it has performed pretty well, and this even comes with the addition of graveyard hate, something that certainly matters in the format. 2.8 1x in 67%
Instant, Sorcery

2.5 Two mana instant bounce spells are always decent enough, especially when you can use them in response to a combat trick or something like that, and tacking on Surveil is pretty nice. 3.2 1x in 17%

3.0 You won’t always end up in a deck that can make use of this, but you will do it often enough that this is a pretty powerful card, and one that you can take pretty early. Getting three cards back will just win you the game in many situations. It is Sorcery speed and certainly pretty clunky, but the upside is often worth it. 3.6 1x in 17%

4 When it comes to Limited, most of this card’s value comes from just being a sweeper. It can effectively let you exile one of the creatures you kill (or something else in the graveyard), which will matter sometimes, but the whole lobotomy effect thing doesn’t really matter in your typical Limited game. Sweepers are powerful, but really only worthwhile if you’re behind, making them kind of awkward cards, but still – they can win you the game from behind in a way basically nothing else can. 4.4 1x in 17%

1.5 This is really cheap, and cheap tricks are often real good for their ability to punch above their weight class – and this one even gives you a clue! But…there’s a problem. It doesn’t offer anything that can help your creature survive combat. Sure, your creature can always trade thanks to this, but it’s still going to feel close enough to a 2-for-1 to sting when you have to use it that way. It does work nicely with Suspect, but I don't think that's enough. 1.8 1x in 17%

3.5 So, this sweeper lets you loot a couple of times, and then it gives you some control over just how much damage you do. That seems quite strong to me, as you can choose a mana value that will hurt your opponent more than it hurts you most of the time, while still having the ability to just sweep the whole board, should you have a card with a high enough mana value. 4.2 1x in 17%

2.5 The Flotsam side helps you set up graveyard shenanigans and replaces itself, and the Jetsam side gives you a free spell. Neither are going to feel like the most efficient thing in the world in most cases – You have to pay 4 total mana to mill three and draw a card with Flotsam, and Jetsam isn’t usually going to give you back the mana you spent, and if either of this card was only one or the other it would be too narrow and mediocre. But, having both makes a big difference – that’s what is great about split cards. Both plays might be kind of meh, but the fact remains you have a card that does something useful and something early late, and most cards don’t have that kind of flexibility. 1.6 1x in 17%

3 5 mana to make a token copy of a permanent isn’t that great. Obviously, it’s highly dependent on what you copy, but when you’re evaluating a card like this you have to think about how often you’re getting that 5 mana worth of value and, there will probably be more times where you don’t get your mana’s worth. Still, when you cast this you’re going to get a copy of whatever the best permanent on the battlefield is – most of the time you’ll be going after creature, and that means you either have a copy of your best creature, or a copy of your opponent’s best creature. 4.4 1x in 17%

3 So, in theory you end up with three 5/5s that have additional upside when you cast this. In practice…getting more than one sounds like a bit of a challenge, especially because Green-White isn’t exactly graveyard-centric in this format. While Artifacts and Enchantments aren’t around, they aren’t everywhere in this set – artifacts will be especially hard to find in Green/White. But…I think you’ll be able to get two 5/5s out of this often enough, and occasionally get the full three, for it to be a card worth playing at the top of your curve. But, it is expensive and takes some work. 2.1 1x in 17%

3.5 Murder is still a pretty good Magic card in Limited. The double black can be a pain, but this is still premium. 3.4 1x in 17%

3.5 Three mana to destroy any creature at sorcery speed is already premium removal, so the fact that you can also sometimes put a counter on one of your creatures is some serious business. 3 1x in 17%

0.5 Even at one mana and with all these modes, this still feels like it won't do enough far too often. I think it's a sideboard card. 1.6 1x in 17%

3.5 This looks like a great common. Edicts tend to be at their best when your opponent has the fewest creatures. That usually means the early game. But thanks to collevt evidence here, this stays pretty good by the mid to late game, as getting rid of your opponents highest power creature will also mean their best creature loke 80 percent of the time. 3.4 1x in 33%

3.5 If you aren't collecting evidence, this is pretty darn clunky. And clunky is dangerous on a removal spell like this, since your opponent interacting can 2-for-1 you. Still, if you choose your spot carefully, this is likely to kill most opposing stuff, and the stats boost might also really improve your attacks. Combine that with the Evidence upside and I think this manages to just sneak into “premium removal” range. 3.7 1x in 33%

3.5 Uncounterability actually matters in this set because of all the Disguise creatures with Ward. –X/-X is never going to feel super efficient, but it’s an instant and it scales all game, so I think it’s premium. 3.2 1x in 33%
Enchantment, Artifact

2.5 A 4-mana 3/3 that makes a Clue is fine, and this will be a 4/4 Vigilance from time to time. 3.8 1x in 17%

3 What this gives you up front is fairly acceptable, and Green decks will certainly be capable of solving this. Once you do, buffing an attacking creature every turn is going to feel pretty good. Still, it doesn’t do a ton up front. 3.3 1x in 17%

0.0 // 3.0 You’re likely to have a few tokens around sometimes in Black-Green, but you’re really going to need to be able to get the Plant stuff going on Insidious Roots for it to be worthwhile. The good news is, Black-Green has a critical mass of “Collect Evidence” cards which will trigger Insidious Roots, but this still kind of asks a lot of you. You need a stocked graveyard, you need the things in your graveyard to be creatures, and you need to collect evidence. I think that’s doable, but still hard enough that this probably needs a build around grade. 2.6 1x in 17%

3.5 This can be really powerful. Obviously you need a decent number of multicolored cards, but that’s very doable in the format. This will net you a ton of cards in most decks. The main downside is the fact that you have to play this clunky 5-mana artifact and hope that you get to untap and start getting those cards. 0 1x in 17%

2.0 If you need fixing, these are fine. Some mana rocks are pretty big duds once you have enough mana or the mana that you need, but its nice you can throw these away to get some cards. 0 1x in 17%

5 This is an unblockable three mana 3/2 with all kinds of upside. Upside because it might actually grab you a creature you want to turn face up, and upside because it can bounce back to your hand and make a new body for itself even when you don’t have any other creatures around. 4.9 1x in 17%

0.0 / 3.5 The idea here is to play cards with Collect Evidence alongside this, and if you have enough of that going on – and enough creatures in your deck – this has the potential to be a fairly absurd engine, since it effectively gives you 2 cards every time you Collect Evidence. The problem is that this does absolutely nothing up front. Still, the upside is kind of insane, and I think accessible enough in some decks for this to get a buildaround grade. 2.6 1x in 17%

4 This is pretty great. Mind Control effects are incredibly strong, and even though this one weakenes the creature in most cases, you still remove an opposing creature and get a 1/1 death touch. I mean, imagine this was a 5-mana Sorcery that gives you a 1/1 death touch and destroys a creature – that’s basically what this is, and that’s amazing. The creature actually keeps any abilities it has too, so sometimes it will be better! Importantly, this can get you back ahead from behind. 4 1x in 17%

4 Its an Oblivion Ring stapled to a mana ramp Aura. 'Nuff said. 4.2 1x in 33%

4 This is an excellent Common. Even if it didn’t gain you 2 life, it’d be premium removal, and once you tack on that life gain we’re talking about arguably the best White Common in the set. Removing something and gaining life a the same time is one of the best ways to get back ahead from behind. 4.4 1x in 33%

4 This is a good removal spell, even without the creatures leaving your graveyard upside, and that means even if your deck has absolutely 0 ways to remove creatures from your graveyard, this will perform well enough to be included. And, most Black decks will be able to trigger the drain life effect on this at least a couple of times a game, and once you’ve done that you’re going to feel like you’ve really gotten there. 3.3 1x in 33%
Planeswalkers

5 All three of her abilities are pretty awesome. The +2 gives you serious card selection, and also makes her loyalty high enough that she won’t be easy to take down right away. Her +1 can protect her and/or pressure your opponent, and her -2 is basically Bone Splinters. Obviously enough, the -2 and +1 synergize with her triggered ability too. The +1 makes sure you have tokens, and the -2 exiles stuff, so you’re going to get some extra value out of that -2. 4.7 1x in 33%
Lands

3 This looks like a pretty solid source of fixing. You’re not always gonna want to tap your creatures to make mana, as that can be a very real cost, but at least this can also produce colorless mana normally, it has useful typing as both an artifact and a clue, and you can of course throw it away for a card. This means all your eggs aren’t in that mana-fixing basket, so it will almost never feel terrible, while still having the upside of shoring up your mana. 2.8 1x in 17%

3.7 1x in 17%

4.2 1x in 17%

2.5 This is another nice source of fixing, even if it does require you to jump through a few hoops. Being able to only tap a Clue or something once when you play it is nice. 2.5 1x in 33%

3 Dual lands always provide excellent fixing, and Surveil has extra synergy in the format. Green also has a few cards that can grab these because of their typing. 3.4 1x in 33%
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4 The most common play is going to be to turn it face up, give your opponent one of your permanents, and then attack with the Falcon to get it back right away. That way you draw a card without any real downside. But…the late game upside is interesting here, because by that stage giving your opponent lands often doesn’t matter, and at that point you can draw a ton of cards. It’ll also be sort of funny to give your opponent creatures that they removed using Auras and stuff like that. And…in addition to all of that, a three mana ¼ flyer is fine. Basically, it’s solid in the early and mid game, and game-breaking late. 3.9 1x in 17%

4 This is a good removal spell, even without the creatures leaving your graveyard upside, and that means even if your deck has absolutely 0 ways to remove creatures from your graveyard, this will perform well enough to be included. And, most Black decks will be able to trigger the drain life effect on this at least a couple of times a game, and once you’ve done that you’re going to feel like you’ve really gotten there. 3.3 1x in 33%

4 This is an excellent Common. Even if it didn’t gain you 2 life, it’d be premium removal, and once you tack on that life gain we’re talking about arguably the best White Common in the set. Removing something and gaining life a the same time is one of the best ways to get back ahead from behind. 4.4 1x in 33%

4 Its an Oblivion Ring stapled to a mana ramp Aura. 'Nuff said. 4.2 1x in 33%

4 This has respectable stats, and the life drain effect is going to be easier than normal trigger in this format because of Disguise creatures. I like that it has an ability for the extreme late-game too. 3.6 1x in 33%

4.0 This is great. Two mana for 4 damage is a great rate, and the exile upside actually matters sometimes. 4.5 1x in 17%

4.0 This whole cycle is very strong, and Conclave Cavalier is no exception! I mean, when all is said and done you pay 4 mana for 8/8 worth of stats across three bodies! This can very realistically generate a 3-for-1. The one downside is the mana cost, but the mana in this format is good enough that it isn’t that hard ot manage. 3.7 1x in 17%

4.5 This is an Uncommon, but its also a bomb. You have a very efficient creature to start with, and then it comes with an incredible +1/+1 counter payoff – and it’s a payoff that it can generate all on its own thanks to Adapt. Freezing creatures down is a huge deal, especially when you have a big Fish Octopus Crab that can now get in there thanks to tapping something down. It gets really insane if you find a way to put counters on it even after you adapt! 0 1x in 17%

5 This is an unblockable three mana 3/2 with all kinds of upside. Upside because it might actually grab you a creature you want to turn face up, and upside because it can bounce back to your hand and make a new body for itself even when you don’t have any other creatures around. 4.9 1x in 17%

5 5 mana for a 3/2 lifelink and a 5/5 trampler is an incredible rate. Tolsimir's ability to make stuff block the wolf can be pretty nasty too, but this card gets most of its value from giving you two very real bodies for a very low cost. 4.6 1x in 17%

5 All three of her abilities are pretty awesome. The +2 gives you serious card selection, and also makes her loyalty high enough that she won’t be easy to take down right away. Her +1 can protect her and/or pressure your opponent, and her -2 is basically Bone Splinters. Obviously enough, the -2 and +1 synergize with her triggered ability too. The +1 makes sure you have tokens, and the -2 exiles stuff, so you’re going to get some extra value out of that -2. 4.7 1x in 33%

5 A 4-mana 4/2 with flying, lifelink and ward 2 can do a ton of work, and if your opponent can’t find a way to deal with it quickly – something that is difficult thanks to Ward, it’s going to end up causing all kinds of problems for your opponent. The race will get completely out of control! You’re frequently just going to play this face up because of that. But it also has some really insane late game upside, where you play it face down and then turn it face up. The exile effect is reminiscent of Angel of Serenity, in that the stuff it exiles can go back to player’s hands. This means that you can do double duty with that type of effect. You can use it to remove stuff of your opponents – but for insurance, you can also exile some of your own graveyard stuff, so that if your opponent does find a way to kill the Vindicator, you’re going to get some cards back too. I think the whole package here is a bomb. 5 1x in 33%

5 This reminds me of Ishkanah, and that’s good company to keep. In black green, this will be a 6 mana 5/4 with Menace thar makes two 2/1s with Menace and reach more often than it isn't, and on rate alone that's a bomb. Throw in the ability to make more spiders every time it attacks, and the ability to give up tokens for value, and this might just be the biggest bomb in the set. 4.7 1x in 33%

5.0 Once Flash creatures get this big, flashing them in and killing something becomes much easier. Add the rest of the text on this thing and it clearly becomes a straight-up bomb, something it was already pretty close to being with key words and stats alone! The fact that she can make it so you don’t die for a turn will come up from time to time. There will be times where you flash this in to save you and maybe trade, and then put your life back up to 10 on your turn. That’s not the ideal scenario for her, certainly, you’d rather she stay in play – but she can do some good work in a variety of situations, and help you come back from the brink of losing. 0 1x in 17%

Boros	2548 matches	309 decks
13.86% of Metagame
Selesnya	1852 matches	225 decks
10.09% of Metagame
Orzhov	1813 matches	225 decks
10.09% of Metagame
Azorius	1542 matches	185 decks
8.30% of Metagame
Golgari	1268 matches	153 decks
6.86% of Metagame
Izzet	1217 matches	153 decks
6.86% of Metagame
Rakdos	1252 matches	151 decks
6.77% of Metagame
Simic	1000 matches	123 decks
5.52% of Metagame
Dimir	823 matches	102 decks
4.57% of Metagame
Gruul	771 matches	94 decks
4.22% of Metagame
Naya	643 matches	79 decks
3.54% of Metagame
Bant	598 matches	73 decks
3.27% of Metagame
Jeskai	395 matches	49 decks
2.20% of Metagame
Sultai	386 matches	47 decks
2.11% of Metagame
Mardu	393 matches	46 decks
2.06% of Metagame
Abzan	347 matches	45 decks
2.02% of Metagame
Esper	293 matches	36 decks
1.61% of Metagame
Temur	232 matches	29 decks
1.30% of Metagame
Jund	223 matches	26 decks
1.17% of Metagame
Grixis	209 matches	25 decks
1.12% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-black)	75 matches	10 decks
0.45% of Metagame
Mono Green	80 matches	9 decks
0.40% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-blue)	49 matches	7 decks
0.31% of Metagame
Five Color	61 matches	7 decks
0.31% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-red)	52 matches	6 decks
0.27% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-white)	34 matches	4 decks
0.18% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-green)	25 matches	3 decks
0.13% of Metagame
Mono Red	27 matches	3 decks
0.13% of Metagame
Mono Black	24 matches	3 decks
0.13% of Metagame
Mono White	16 matches	2 decks
0.09% of Metagame
Mono Blue	9 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame

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Four Color (Non-red) card breakdown - 6 decks, 0.27% of meta

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