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16 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
From now on, for each card thread I do, I'm going to include the Bo3 "Card Evaluation Metagame" graph from 17lands in the thread. But since it's hard to edit them into old threads, I'm just going to post all of the graphs for previous threads here. 1/3
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17 May
Short thread today about Start From Scratch. ALSA 7.21, making it the second-least-drafted lesson in Bo3. Also, I'm going to be taking a break from these threads until Thursday, because I have a lot of final essays/projects due this week. 1/x Image
Here's the Card Evaluation Metagame graph for Start From Scratch in Bo3. Looks like people have come up on it since the start of the format, but have dipped back down recently for whatever reason. 2/x Image
The same thing applies here as for when I talked about Mercurial Transformation: since SFS is a lesson, the only cost to it is the cards you pick it over. But unlike for Transformation, I don't see why people dislike SFS, when it looks like a reasonable card. 3/x Image
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16 May
Today I'm finally talking about Symmetry Sage. ALSA 7.85. I put this one off twice since I'm still not quite sure where I stand on it; I think there is a home for it, but I think that home is rare enough that I wouldn't call it underrated? Still interesting to talk about. 1/x
The ceiling of this card is as a one mana 2/2 flier: basically Delver of Secrets, right? It has a bit more upside, since it can give Fractals +2/+0 and such, but it's hard enough already to trigger it once every turn. But that ceiling is very good: Wind Drake for 2 less. 2/x
But of course, the problem is that you can't actually reliably trigger it every turn, and a 0/2 flier is basically irrelevant, useful only for chump blocks. And even if you have a lot of spells, the timing can often be awkward with whether you want to attack or block with it. 3/x
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15 May
I'm skipping Symmetry Sage again (I promise I'll get to it) to talk about Divine Gambit today. 7.66 ALSA, taken just above Defend the Campus, making it the second-least-drafted Mystical Archive card in Bo3 (Claim the Firstborn is the least). 1/x
I suspect this one being so low is partly due to its context in other formats. Not only was it not great in KHM, it was also ridiculed a lot for being another example of Wizards printing bad white cards, as it's even worse in constructed and Commander: 2/x
Part of what made it mediocre in KHM was the existence of Ravenous Lindwurm at common, paired with most white decks being aggressive. I actually liked it more than most, as I drafted many midrangey green white decks, but it was still mostly a 23rd card in my decks. 3/x
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14 May
I'm skipping past Symmetry Sage today, though I do want to talk about it later, because I really want to talk about Infuse with Vitality. ALSA 7.80, notably the lowest-picked Witherbloom card (as in, BG color ID). But I think it's actually quite key in some Witherbloom decks. 1/x
As always, let's start with the baseline of this card. It's a combat trick/protection spell, similar to Demonic Gifts in KHM: you help your creature kill the opponent's creature, and save it by bringing it back tapped when it dies. So how does this compare to Demonic Gifts? 2/x
In KHM, Demonic Gifts was best in elves as a way to get value off of triggers, like from Elderfang Disciple. And at first glance, it seems like this effect is much more awkward in STX, with not many triggers, and a lot of tokens and +1/+1 counters that lose value with Infuse. 3/x
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13 May
Short thread today about Mercurial Transformation. ALSA 7.94, making it the lowest-drafted lesson in Bo3 (next lowest is Start From Scratch, which is also underrated at ALSA 7.26; I'm surprised both are lower than Containment Breach actually). 1/x
My guess for why people don't like this card is that they see it as a sorcery speed bad combat trick, and therefore think it's unplayable. And to be fair, the effect *is* very niche, and is unplayable as an effect to put in your deck, but as a lesson that doesn't matter. 2/x
The power of a lesson is that you only get it when it's good. Just having Transformation in your lesson board will win you games you wouldn't otherwise, and the only cost of taking it is not having the other cards from its pack. It's much better than a card you wouldn't play. 3/x
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12 May
Today, I'm going to talk about my favorite underrated cards in STX: Reconstruct History. ALSA 7.94, taken just above Spell Satchel. This is another one that I already talked a lot about on Limited Levelups last week (), but I'm happy to say more. 1/x
First off, to explain what this card does, since it has a lot of words: it rebuys up to one each of an instant, a sorcery, an artifact, and enchantment, and a planeswalker. You don't have to have all five; most commonly this will just be two spells, and maybe an artifact. 2/x
On its surface, this looks like it's just a clunky draw spell that needs setup. And I don't generally likes clunky draw spells; I was low on Behold the Multiverse in Kaldheim, and I'm low on effects like Mentor's Guidance in Strixhaven. So why do I like Reconstruct? 3/x
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