We haven't seen a lot of UW fliers lately but this is a big upgrade to Favorable Winds if the mana isn't a big issue.

A pretty interesting rate for self-bounce which also has some use against a reanimated Troll of Khazad-dum. Probably the most maindeckable lesson.

Death trigger makes this inherently a lot worse than Thraben Inspector. I expect I'll prefer Shambling Ghast for this slot but you could run this if you think you'll need more ways to spend mana.

Totally reasonable 1-of in Starfield Shepherd decks.

The ward alone might make this stronger than Enigma Drake, although you'd want to have some access to lessons if this is in your deck. Not sure if counting other permanents matters much.

I'm not sure if we're getting these on Arena right away. While they can obviously do a lot to set up combos, fair decks might consider a package of singletons if the effects can be strong enough to offset the lost card.

I've thought in the past I might play Careful Study, though in the decks you'd play both, this is arguably worse. We don't have High Tide but you can generate mana through Utopia Sprawl, Wolfwillow Haven, or Ancient Tomb for that matter.

Probably the best source of repeated earthbending for the unfair uses. Note that the land returns tapped so even if you trigger this multiple times in a turn you can likely sacrifice it only once, unless you're doing stuff with Zuran Orb.

If you do want allies this is a good rate. Not sure if the payoffs exist.

Very interesting effect in black sacrifice decks which are fairly supported in the format. It needs to survive a turn but if you make one copy your opponent's probably not getting rid of these. Note that you can immediately sacrifice the token to get the surveil and a death trigger.

While this can be a fair card I imagine it's most interesting if you have some way of making a huge number of tokens and use Ashnod's Altar to convert them into cards.

Pretty solid 1 drop with bounce synergies. Flying and vigilance make it a good thing to buff and the death trigger will help you recover if they can remove it.

This will definitely cause problems for some decks out of the sideboard. If you can force them to react to your threats it will do a lot more than if you just pay the upkeep for several returns.

I'm not sure if we're getting these on Arena right away. While they can obviously do a lot to set up combos, fair decks might consider a package of singletons if the effects can be strong enough to offset the lost card.

Not sure this is a viable combo piece unless Channel gets unbanned. I suppose Ashnod's Altar could work and maybe KCI will come to Arena someday.

Creatures that can come back indefinitely are worth looking at, but 3 mana feels like a lot.

This looks like a solid option in green decks that ramp or just play a longer game. Gets dinged a bit for being a cantrip you don't want to cast on turn 1 if at all possible.

Reasonable sideboard option for mono-red. Better than Meltdown at dealing with Myr Enforcers and more resilient than By Force against counters.

An interesting one. You need a lot of things to line up to make this work: - A board where you're even or ahead, - The ability to benefit from both players playing a few lands out, - Cheap, ideally instant-speed interaction to react if your opponent breaks it by casting several spells

This could help with the Standstill plan. I don't know if it's generally good enough for midrange in a format where the main appeal of green is the ramp.

Solid rate for this effect if you're playing some type of green midrange. Best if your permanents can initiate trades with your opponent's cards somehow.

Note that you can put the trigger on the stack multiple times if you can sacrifice multiple clues, which could be a useful way for Cat/Oven to ramp.

Assuming you hit a castable card this does 2 and you could go bigger with Seething Song, free spells, etc. I don't know if this is quite maindeckable in the current meta at least outside of a dedicated cascade deck.

I'm not sure if we're getting these on Arena right away. While they can obviously do a lot to set up combos, fair decks might consider a package of singletons if the effects can be strong enough to offset the lost card.

Coming to the free removal spells, Fireblast has a long history of removing opponents who are at 4. We've gotten a lot of burn options in the last year or so between Chain Lightning, Boltwave, Galvanic Blast, Burst Lightning, etc. I'm not totally sure which I'd be playing in non-madness red. I do think you want to maximize Amped Raptor so maybe this is a bad enough hit to leave out.

Lance Says: "this card seems nuts"

Lance Says: "I think that this would be good in a deck that could want 5-8 copies of Lavaspur Boots, like hammer or something else"

Free is always a cost worth looking at but this just doesn't seem necessary to me. Madness decks much prefer Lightning Axe and I really don't like how this is almost a sorcery. Perhaps useful for DRC/Violent Urge?

We've had storm payoffs for some time but have struggled to build the mana engines outside of Channel. Along with Dark Ritual there's definitely potential although access to Manamorphose would be ideal. In "fairer" things to do, there used to be an Extended deck called All-In Red that was focused on casting rituals to land a 5 drop creature as early as possible, in a format where people weren't running a lot of interaction to handle just a big creature. I could see something like that with Ancient Tomb working if a turn two... Eomer?? is a big enough threat. Maybe Breaching Dragonstorm.

Probably just better than Ponder and Brainstorm in a format where land fetching always costs a mana. We have a density of these effects in the format, but the question is always what do you do with all the selection?

This is a really wild one to have. Against aggro it will often get 2-3 creatures so it's not really even card disadvantage as it gives you an enormous mana advantage. Very difficult to play around at instant speed. Speaking of Stock Up I'm a little worried UR tempo/control will have too easy a time catching up against an aggro start.r

We've had storm payoffs for some time but have struggled to build the mana engines outside of Channel. Along with Dark Ritual there's definitely potential although access to Manamorphose would be ideal. In "fairer" things to do, there used to be an Extended deck called All-In Red that was focused on casting rituals to land a 5 drop creature as early as possible, in a format where people weren't running a lot of interaction to handle just a big creature. I could see something like that with Ancient Tomb working if a turn two... Eomer?? is a big enough threat. Maybe Breaching Dragonstorm.

Could be good in certain matchups if you're trying to go something like t2 Baleful Strix t3 Stock Up. 4 life or 4 mana just feels like a huge cost against aggro though.

Not really aware of anything in the format this enables. The rate is not awful to maindeck this if there's e.g. some artifact/enchantment with counters you'd otherwise have trouble with.

It definitely feels like this should have some application between Land Tax, Aftermath Analyst, maybe lifegain payoffs, and just generally being a 0 mana artifact. Interesting to see where this goes.