Limited Set Review: Dark Ascension – White
Welcome to my Limited Review, in this particular section i will be covering White as a whole, for the purposes of this i will only be doing Commons and Uncommons since they are most of the cards you will see passed around during drafting and sealed deck events such as prereleases and releases.
For the purpose of this review i will be using the following points system.
1 – Avoid this if you can
2 – Maybe can be useful here, depending on the situation
3 – Middle of the Road material
4 – 2 copies or more, always
5 – Always go for it if you got it.
With that in mind let’s begin.
#2) Bar the Door – 2/5, for a combat trick it’s not bad, but not desirable, i’d leave it unless you absolutely are going a weak toughness route.
#3) Break of Day – 3/5, Fateful Hour i feel is what saves this card from being a 2, sure the boost for +1/+1 is nice but when it’s a pinch it’s nice to have indestrucibilty on your side.
#4) Burden of Guilt – 2/5, Unless you go a control route avoid it, i mean sure enchanting a opponent’s creature is nice, since it only says enchant creature and all, still only draft when necessary.
#5) Curse of Exhaustion – 2/5, control spells like this make me wonder if limited is truly getting any good stuff these days, since innistrad’s arrival it’s seemingly getting more interesting, but more difficult as well.
#6) Elguad Inquisitor – 3/5, A solid body with lifelink, puts a extra creature on the battlefield, which is also rather nice, expect to at least see 2 of these pass through your draft, if your going white i’d recommend drafting 1 of them.
#7) Faith’s Shield – 3/5, Combat is something of White’s forte these days and while protection is nice, fateful hour is what gives the boost to the overall limited score of the card, protection for you and your entire team for the rest of the turn is quite handy in a pinch.
#8) Gather the Townsfolk – 4/5, Often or not 2 mana sorcery’s usually turn out to suck but when they put 2 1/1′s on the field and have fateful hour that allows for 5 1/1′s to be present, it makes it quite desirable honestly for this good draft card, i hope this is the first of many.
#9) Gavony Ironwright – 2/5, Fateful hour is the only thing that saves this from being a 1 on my scale, 3 mana 1/4′s are nice and all but at the uncommon level i’d rather be drafting Fiend Hunter from Innistrad instead, but a +1/+4 boost from fateful hour helps in a pinch.
#10) Hollowhenge Spirit – 3/5, Flash flyers often have a habit of being rather clunky, but it’s enter the battlefield effect seems like a great overall thing when something isn’t going your way.
#12) Lingering Souls – 5/5, probably the best uncommon of the color so far, 3 drop sorcery that brings out 2 1/1 spirits with flying, even without flashback it’s still super powerful, a must have for any white player.
#13) Loyal Cathar/Unhallowed Cathar – 3/5, 2 different creatures but the transformation happens when it’s dead, really and for 2 white mana it gives it that nice i’m just gonna keep attacking vibe regardless, the vigilance also helps here.
#14) Midnight Guard – 3/5, another middle of the road guy, sure he untaps every time a creature hits the board, 2/3′s though are nothing to scoff at in limited
#15) Niblis of the Mist – 2/5, 3 mana for a flying 2/1 is kind of a little over costed here, espically for it’s secondary ability of tapping a creature, at least it’s not a 1 here.
#16) Niblis of the Urn – 3/5, This is better honestly, a 1/1 flyer that when attacking can also tap a creature down, the more perfectly balanced of the 2 for this particular color.
#17) Ray of Revelation – 3/5, Probably one of the only spells worth drafting in white for this set, i mean if your drafting green/white humans go for it easily, it does deal with those nasty curses and such.
#19) Sanctuary Cat – 1/5, 1 drops in this format that are vanilla aren’t that desirable espically a 1/2 vanilla, thus why it’s kind of like a last resort pick here.
#21) Silverclaw Griffin – 2/5, 5 mana is a awful lot to spend in limited in white even for a 3/2 flyer with first strike, your better off spending the 5 mana on something more worthwhile.
#22) Skillful Lunge – 2/5, Combat tricks are nice and all, but they are getting old here, seriously.
#26) Thraben Heretic – 3/5, Something that deals with nasty graveyard creatures is excellent here, limited needed something like this to compete with the zombies of Innistrad as well as the other things here, even for 2 mana and a 2/2 it’s nice
Rares Good to Draft: Thraben Doomsayer, Increasing Devotion, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Rares i wouldn’t mind taking: Requiem Angel, Seance, Sudden Disappearance
Rares to Pass: Archangel’s Light
So that is all the white cards for limited, there shall be no pictures of the cards since it would make the article way too big, stay tuned for blue which should be tommorow at the earliest.
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