G is still great, but the best cards look slightly different. Scurryfoot is the common to play, while Ketradon is doing worse - in higher tiers people come prepared for your 6/6 dumb guy, so you can't rely on it as much as in lower tiers. Part of that prep - Bestow Greatness has great stats. 8/15 - ThreadSky

sierkovitz.bsky.social • 5 days ago

G is still great, but the best cards look slightly different. Scurryfoot is the common to play, while Ketradon is doing worse - in higher tiers people come prepared for your 6/6 dumb guy, so you can't rely on it as much as in lower tiers. Part of that prep - Bestow Greatness has great stats.

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sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

B has a slew of solid commons - removal, Wickerfolk, Pactdoll, Rat and Max Overdrive, which makes a great impression of Run Over (dare I say Throw from the Saddle?).

All B pairs look very playable, albeit with some caveats (you want to have Haunt the Network to start drafting UB).

9/15

sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

Red looks the weakest. But that opens up some potential. If PT players did their homework, they might avoid it. Gunner is by far the best R card at common, but Diver, Strike and Burner Rocket have solid numbers in top player group - if you can get those easily, you might do well.

10/15

sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

U is the tricky one. Best common is Bounce Off. Then we have Flood the Engine, Engineer and Thopterist which are solid+, but lots of U commons are just not that great.

U does exist mainly on uncommon level with some absolute stars (Refueler, Stock Up, Skyray, blue shell and Transit Mage).
11/15

sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

One outlier card in the set is Marshal's Pathcruiser. 3 mana is just such a great deal, and in a format where late game is important, a land is a neat thing to have. And if you can crew it to trade it off with something big, while preserving your creatures - you won big time.

12/15

nli10.bsky.social•2 days ago

I love one of these in splashy decks - I have two in the current draft but I don’t think I’m brave enough to stretch to that to fit in the UG snake and UG 3/5 vehicle (in double haunt Dimir)

sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

Generally - it seems that at high level all is possible*.

Yes - Dimir decks win less. But Dimir with Haunt the network already has 63% WR - more that generic GB or UG deck. Showing you how tightly packed are those decks. Finding open lane is better than trying to force Green.

13/15

sierkovitz.bsky.social•5 days ago

Of course finding an open G lane is still the best, but don't despair if you don't.

WB can be great. UR and BR decks can compete with G ones. Open artifact synergy lane is amazing. Look for those options and who knows, maybe it will compensate for you horrible standard deck choice!

14/15

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