Special Guests Limited Ratings
Ghostly Prison
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Fabricate
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Show and Tell
AI Rating: 2.5Pro 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.
Tragic Slip
AI Rating: 4.6Pro 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.
Victimize
AI Rating: 4.3Pro 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.
Gamble
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating: 0
2-for-1ing myself and hoping I don’t discard the thing I tutored is a good way to lose.
Crashing Footfalls
AI Rating: 4.4Pro 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
Tireless Tracker
AI Rating: 4.7Pro Rating: 5
It spits out clues like crazy and grows throughout the game, it's a massive bomb.
Drown in the Loch
AI Rating: 3.1Pro 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.
Field of the Dead
AI Rating: 2.5Pro Rating: 0
Not enough common or uncommon non-basic lands in the format to have any hope of getting this going.
Stoneforge Mystic
AI Rating: 3.6Pro 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.
Brazen Borrower
AI Rating: 4.6Pro Rating:
Desertion
AI Rating: 4.3Pro Rating: 2.5
If you counter an artifact or creature spell with this, it feels awesome. If you don't, it's super inefficient.
Morbid Opportunist
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating: 4
Drawing cards with this is exceedingly simple. It counts your creatures or your opponent's, so combat, removal, sacrifice. It all works.
Port Razer
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating: 1.5
It's hard to take advantage of extra combat steps, and this creature is pretty inefficient.
Scapeshift
AI Rating: 2.7Pro Rating: 0
This is a combo enabler in 60-card formats. It's a nothing-enabler in 40-card formats.
Mystic Snake
AI Rating: 2.3Pro Rating: 3
Countering a spell and adding a 2/2 to the board -- all with one card -- is pretty powerful.
Notion Thief
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Desert
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Prismatic Vista
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating: 3
This is an evolving wilds that puts the land into play untapped, which is awesome.
Swords to Plowshares
AI Rating: 4.3Pro Rating:
Ledger Shredder
AI Rating: 4.1Pro Rating:
Rat Colony
AI Rating: 4.3Pro Rating:
Relentless Rats
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Kindred Charge
AI Rating: 3.9Pro Rating:
Sylvan Tutor
AI Rating: 1.1Pro Rating:
Toski, Bearer of Secrets
AI Rating: 4.6Pro Rating:
Frogmite
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Sword of Fire and Ice
AI Rating: 4.9Pro Rating:
Secluded Courtyard
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Hallowed Haunting
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Soul Warden
AI Rating: 3.2Pro Rating:
Expropriate
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Phantasmal Image
AI Rating: 3.9Pro Rating:
Damnation
AI Rating: 4.3Pro Rating:
Sacrifice
AI Rating: 3.2Pro Rating:
Maddening Hex
AI Rating: 2.8Pro Rating:
Unholy Heat
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Collected Company
AI Rating: 4.3Pro 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.
Noxious Revival
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating:
Condemn
AI Rating: 4.2Pro Rating: 2.5
This is narrow, but efficient enough to be worth it in most White decks -- provided you aren't really aggressive.
Sphinx's Tutelage
AI Rating: 3.6Pro 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.
Grim Tutor
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Goblin Bushwhacker
AI Rating: -0Pro Rating: 3
This adds a ton of damage to the board for very little mana.
Embercleave
AI Rating: 5Pro 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.
Paradise Druid
AI Rating: 4.3Pro Rating: 3.5
Hexproof means you're going to get the mana boost almost every time, and producing mana of any color is great.
Bloom Tender
AI Rating: 4.3Pro 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.
Akroma's Memorial
AI Rating: 4.8Pro 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.
Temporal Manipulation
AI Rating: -0Pro 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.
Fiend Artisan
AI Rating: 4.5Pro 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.
| Card | Pro Rating | AI Rating | APA | Picked | ALSA | Seen |
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ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
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2 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 3.50 | 2 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Sorcery
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0 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 3.50 | 2 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Sorcery
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0 | 2.5 | 8.00 | 1 | 7.00 | 4 |
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ss-mythic|Black|Instant
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3.5 | 4.6 | 2.00 | 1 | 3.00 | 2 |
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ss-mythic|Black|Sorcery
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3 | 4.3 | 3.00 | 1 | 3.00 | 1 |
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ss-mythic|Red|Sorcery
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0 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 5.50 | 2 |
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ss-mythic|Green|Sorcery
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3 | 4.4 | 2.33 | 6 | 2.07 | 14 |
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Tireless Tracker
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5 It spits out clues like crazy and grows throughout the game, it's a massive bomb.
ss-mythic|Green|Creature — Human Scout
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5 | 4.7 | 1.67 | 6 | 1.50 | 8 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Black|Instant
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1.5 | 3.1 | 6.33 | 3 | 6.00 | 5 |
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ss-mythic||Land
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0 | 2.5 | 8.00 | 1 | 5.50 | 4 |
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ss-mythic|White|Creature — Kor Artificer
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0.0 // 3.5 | 3.6 | 5.00 | 1 | 3.00 | 13 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Creature — Faerie Rogue
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4.6 | 2.00 | 3 | 1.80 | 5 | |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Instant
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2.5 | 4.3 | 3.00 | 2 | 2.00 | 7 |
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ss-mythic|Black|Creature — Human Rogue
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4 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 1.00 | 1 |
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ss-mythic|Red|Creature — Orc Pirate
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1.5 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 2.00 | 1 |
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ss-mythic|Green|Sorcery
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0 | 2.7 | 7.50 | 2 | 6.67 | 3 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Green|Creature — Snake
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3 | 2.3 | 8.50 | 2 | 3.75 | 13 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Black|Creature — Human Rogue
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2 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 2.00 | 2 |
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ss-mythic||Land — Desert
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2 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 2.00 | 1 |
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Prismatic Vista
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3 This is an evolving wilds that puts the land into play untapped, which is awesome.
ss-mythic||Land
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3 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 1.29 | 7 |
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ss-mythic|White|Instant
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4.3 | 3.00 | 1 | 2.00 | 10 | |
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ss-rare|Blue|Creature — Bird Advisor
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4.1 | 3.50 | 4 | 3.67 | 10 | |
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ss-mythic|Black|Creature — Rat
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4.3 | 3.00 | 1 | 2.50 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|Black|Creature — Rat
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 3.00 | 1 | |
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ss-mythic|Red|Sorcery
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3.9 | 4.00 | 1 | 4.00 | 1 | |
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ss-mythic|Green|Sorcery
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1.1 | 12.00 | 1 | 12.00 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|Green|Legendary Creature — Squirrel
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4.6 | 2.00 | 1 | 1.80 | 5 | |
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ss-mythic||Artifact Creature — Frog
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 3.00 | 1 | |
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ss-mythic||Artifact — Equipment
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4.9 | 1.17 | 6 | 1.17 | 6 | |
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ss-mythic||Land
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 4.00 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|White|Enchantment
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 2.50 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|White|Creature — Human Cleric
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3.2 | 6.00 | 1 | 3.00 | 3 | |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Sorcery
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 3.50 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Creature — Illusion
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3.9 | 4.00 | 1 | 3.50 | 2 | |
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ss-mythic|Black|Sorcery
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4.3 | 3.00 | 1 | 3.00 | 1 | |
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ss-mythic|Black|Instant
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3.2 | 6.00 | 2 | 5.25 | 5 | |
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ss-mythic|Red|Enchantment — Aura Curse
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2.8 | 7.25 | 4 | 5.28 | 22 | |
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ss-mythic|Red|Instant
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 7.00 | 1 | |
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ss-mythic|Green|Instant
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3 | 4.3 | 3.00 | 2 | 3.33 | 3 |
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ss-mythic|Green|Instant
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-0 | 15.00 | 0 | 4.00 | 3 | |
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ss-mythic|White|Instant
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2.5 | 4.2 | 3.33 | 3 | 2.45 | 11 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Enchantment
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0 // 4 | 3.6 | 5.00 | 1 | 5.00 | 3 |
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ss-mythic|Black|Sorcery
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0 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 6.00 | 1 |
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ss-mythic|Red|Creature — Goblin Warrior
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3 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 4.75 | 4 |
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ss-mythic|Red|Legendary Artifact — Equipment
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5 | 5 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 |
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ss-mythic|Green|Creature — Elf Druid
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3.5 | 4.3 | 3.00 | 3 | 3.27 | 11 |
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ss-mythic|Green|Creature — Elf Druid
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3 | 4.3 | 3.00 | 2 | 3.33 | 4 |
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ss-mythic||Legendary Artifact
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3.5 | 4.8 | 1.75 | 4 | 2.18 | 11 |
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ss-mythic|Blue|Sorcery
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4.5 | -0 | 15.00 | 0 | 2.00 | 6 |
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ss-mythic|Black|Green|Creature — Nightmare
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3 | 4.5 | 2.67 | 3 | 2.10 | 10 |
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About Limited Ratings
- 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.
AI Limited ratings are gathered with data from MTGA Assistant, while Nizzahon Magic provides the Pro ratings. The key difference is that the Pro ratings and comments are made before the set officially releases, while the AI ratings dynamically update with new data. It would be best to use the Pro ratings as guidance as sets are released and the AI Ratings a couple of weeks after release. Here is an explanation of how we score the cards: