Long-Bodied Grey Dog

The stats aren't good, but it offers colorless fixing so you'll use it sometimes.

Old Thrush

Two mana for a 1/2 flyer that gains 2 life is almost passable, so the fact this can fix your mana too makes for a solid Common.

Troop of Ponies

It takes them a turn to do it, but they offer passable stats and great fixing.

Belladonna Took

There aren't a ton of ways to make multiple tokens in a turn in this format, so she'll mostly just gain you a life here and there. Every now and then she'll give you an absurd turn, though.

Bilbo's Gambit

This is technically card disadvantage, but the tempo is often worth it. Being able to give them a Treasure when you really don't want them to recast the spell you bounced (or anything else) is nice upside, but this'll never be card positive.

Bofur, Reliable Guardian

The adventure is a great way to blank removal and it's nice in combat too, and the creature has a useful creature type (dwarf) and a useful super type (legendary). It's going to start lots of good Storied curves in the format early, and give you close to 2 cards of value later in the game.

Celebrate the Mountain-king

This can remove pretty much anything while also digging you deeper in your deck and potentially building out your board. It's also splashable and has good synergy for UW.

Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills

This is a solid two drop, and once you get your enduring story his tax effect will slow your opponent down in a big way.

Dwarven Provisioner

This is one mana cheaper than this activated ability usually is, and that's pretty relevant since 2-mana 2/2s that make you pay 5 to give everything +1/+1 have themselves been good cards in the past.

Dwarven Shortsword

It's not that impressive on rate, but it's an Equipment and a Dwarf, and you're going to be in the market for that in the RW color pair.

Eagle of the Great Shelf

This can definitely hit hard in the air when you have a nice board, but if you have a nice board you probably just want to attack with that stuff instead of spending big mana on a card that delivers no immediate value.

The Eagles Are Coming!

This is a tricky one. It has an incredibly high ceiling when you have a well built-out board, but it's not always worth it to bounce a bunch of your stuff to get 4/4s back. Like, that's not always worth the mana. It gets better if you're really good at going wide, but it also does nothing on it's own.

Esgaroth Garrison

Recruit on a card that likes it when you're going wide is pretty sweet, and this'll often be reasonably imposing in the mid-game.

Fíli the Pathfinder

The floor is 4-mana for two 2/2s. You'd play that card every time, and it has absurd upside where it buffs everything (including itself) and it can also crank out even more dwarves without too much difficulty.

Gleaming Splendor

This is for Commander players. It's awful in Limited. Getting a treasure back doesn't make up for you spending three to give your opponent a card they paid nothing for.

Iron Hills Blacksmith

A two mana 1/1 with double strike is a good baseline, and this even comes with some equipment to slap on it and make it into a formidable attacker right away.

Kíli the Resourceful

This is going to draw lots of cards in RW, and getting a free equip every now and then is nice too. It's not the best at combat, but that's okay when it can generate this many cards.

Lake-town Lookout

One mana for a 1/1 + Recruit is good, even if you never get them both at the same time.

Lake-town Toymaker

This trigger is nice, but most of the time you won't be able to get this the turn it comes down, since you spent 4 mana on this and drawing an extra card is a lot harder.

Magnificent End

This is super inefficient unless it's killing a tapped creature, and the fact that it can kill creatures with more than 5 toughness is a pretty big bummer.

Moment of Glory

This is a nice card to discard to Recruit, and buffing your whole team is great when you're Recruiting.

The Mountain-king's Return

It's going to be really easy to have something for Chapter II, either because you have a few cards in your graveyard or you discarded the card when you Recruited with Chapter I. This generates about two cards of value for a very low cost.

Ori, Keeper of Songs

This is a mediocre three drop, but it's legendary in a set and a color where that matters.

The Queen of Dale

You'll often be able to recruit once with her -- since if your opponent wants to deal with her they usually have to use a noncreature, and if she's allowed to stay on the board she'll generate lots of value.

Roads Go Ever, Ever On

This gives you a 2-for-1 for only two mana, makes sure you don't miss land drops, and gives you a really nice attack with the last chapter. It's pretty incredible for the cost.

Settle the Wreckage

This is back-breaking when your opponent walks into it. It feels like an absolute bomb when you can pull that off, but we have to account for the times where it also doesn't do much since it can only go after attacking creatures.

Stone by Sunlight

The first mode is a removal spell that is a little narrow, but it always trades up. The second mode meanwhile can save lots of creatures and even help you get storied.

Thorin's Last Stand

The second mode will often have a target in this format, and while it's not efficient, having a secondary meaningful mode on an Inspired Charge-like effect is a big deal, since you no longer have the massive downside of it being useless except when it wins you the game.

An Unexpected Party

The Adventure mode starts to feel efficient when you pay 3 or more for X, and obviously you want to name Dwarf with the Enchantment. That does make this a little less good in non-Dwarf decks though, since you won't be able to name a creature type that is quite as optimal.

Velvetwing Butterflies

It's an inefficient creature with an underwhelming highly situational adventure. Neither side is worth the mana or a card.

Vow to Erebor

It's a passable combat trick that will occasionally do something amazing with Equipment.

Bilbo, Luckwearer

Just the creature side of this is a pretty nice card, and sometimes you'll be able to do something amazing with the Adventure.

Bilbo, Thief in the Night

This will often only let you cast one extra thing, but that's plenty. It also makes Adventure creatures cheaper from exile.

Bilbo Baggins, Burglar

Confusticate and Bebother

You're overpaying a bit for either mode, but having them together is a big upgrade. Being able to leave up 3 mana and counter something if the situation arises -- and cast it as a draw spell if the situation doesn't arise -- is pretty nice.

Elrond, Moon-Reader

His own activated ability is a pretty great late-game value engine, and this format has enough other activated abilities around for you to draw a card here and there.

Elven Raft-Steerer

The stats are bad and the landfall trigger is only useful situationally.

Elvenking's Harper

If you need a two drop this can do the job, but not very well. It's understatted and has a clunky activated ability.

Enchanted River's Grasp

This gets like 99% of the way to removing a creature and that's pretty great for 3 mana.

Fateful Discovery

This is certainly powerful -- but you can't play a 5-mana card that never adds to the board. You're going to need to draw 3+ cards with this for it to feel worth it, and you just won't get there, especially in Blue. Casting this is going to lose you the game a big chunk of the time.

Gandalf, Wandering Wizard

A 5-mana 4/5 with Ward 3 is kind of playable, and his activated ability is nice to have access to in the late game.

Great Gilded Boat

Recruiting on attacks is great, and means that you can trigger this the turn you play it. It's also a pretty good creature to do the attacking with on later turns. This is going to let you recruit on most turns, and that's very powerful.

Lakeshore Apothecary

This kind of creature rarely works out in Limited. It starts with bad stats and only grows when you do something that you're likely to do 3-5 times a game -- and you have to do it in the right order for it to ever matter. At least it's not a 3-mana 2/2 or a 4-mana 3/3.

Lake-town Mariners

The Adventure rebuys enters triggers and landfall triggers, and the creature is passable enough. If you can get a card of value out of the instant, you'll feel pretty good about things.

Long Lake Nuisance

I'd be pretty happy with a 4-mana 3/1 flyer that looted when ti enters. I'd be really happy with a 4-mana 3/1 flyer that makes a 1/1 token. This is kind of both of those at the same time (though not quite). Either way, it's a great rate for what it is.

The Lord of the Eagles

If your deck has a decent number of flyers -- especially flyers with relatively high power -- this is going to be a nice card for your deck. If your deck doesn't have a decent number of ways to enable this though, it's awful.

Master's Councillors

The baseline here is acceptable and it's ability to grow helps it stay relevant for much of the game.

Mirkwood Meditator

I'm not happy with a 3-mana 2/4 or a 3-mana 4/2 -- and this is both.

Most Decrepit Old Bird

This isn't too shabby on turn one, but it gets especially good when you cast Speak Secrets first -- both because it's likely to give you a card back and because it helps set up threshold. Bad news is there's not a dedicated "instant and sorcery" deck in this format, but I think it'll still work well enough.

Old Fat Spider Can't See Me

This is basically a Divination with upside. The first two chapters can be pretty good -- but also entirely relevant. But still, this generates a 2-for-1 and the first two chapters are likely to buy you the time to draw those cards at a minimum.

Plunder the Trollshaws

This is great with Recruit, and generates a 3-for-1 over the course of the game even when you don't go that route.

Ravenhill Flock

It seems exciting since it grows every time you do something that you do on every turn, but it starts out far too inefficiently and grows way too slowly. It's almost like it's not on the board at all for a couple of turns.

Riddles in the Dark

This'll give you a 2-for-1 most of the time while also giving you some graveyard value, and if you're really good at mind games it might play even better.

Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll

You can only play this if your deck has a ton of landfall and/or cards with "enters" triggers, because otherwise this basically does nothing.

Sound the Trumpets

I like adding Recruit to a Counterspell, but this only does it when you are countering something super inefficiently, and the baseline is still Cancel, which is usually a 1.5

Thranduil's Decree

This is a crazy swingy card. 6 mana for Counterspell is awful, but if you counter a permanent you get your mana's worth back. It has a really high ceiling and a very mediocre floor.

Uncover the Moon-Letters

This doesn't do anything on it's own and that's a bad place to be at 4 mana, and there's no guarantee you just have noncreature spells ready to go to start drawing with this.

Uneasy Partings

We see this kind of card in every set, and it's always quality removal -- but just shy of premium.

Wizard's Staff

Mostly all you're getting here is double prowess which is cool and all, but the set also doesn't actually have that mana Wizards so it's super expensive to Equip. Every now and then you might double another trigger which is fun, but most of the time this won't do enough to warrant a spot in your deck.

Along the Crooked Way

This adds a little something to the board while getting you back your best creature, and then it has even more upside on future turns between potentially getting more Amass triggers and using the activated ability.

Azog, Moria's Ruin

This is at it's best when you destroy something expendable with it, draw a card, and then get a body back. However, it has an additional mode where it can remove an opposing creature. It's not always useful since you give them something back, but in a pinch this is still a removal spell.

Bilbo's Deadly Slice

The double black is a significant downside. It's hard to splash and Limited decks have bad mana in general, so sometimes it gets stuck in your hand. Still, it can deal with anything pretty efficiently.

Crude Bent Blade

This lets your opponent sacrifice tokens to it, and that's a pretty big downside in this set. Still, it has an immediate impact on the board and is a decent Equipment on future turns.

Desolation Prowler

This is a great two-drop that can stay relevant all game thanks to it's activated ability, and it is one of the cheapest ways to enable Ferocious.

Down, Down to Goblin-town

This is great disruption especially because it adds to the board. Chapter III and IV are also better than they look, as they can have a real impact on a race. This will feel like a 2-for-1 most of the time.

Dreaded Bat-Cloud

The floor on this card is pretty awful, but I don't think it'll be that hard to run this out for two mana in the mid to late game. Obviously it's not insane when you do that, but it's going to feel pretty good on a double-spell turn.

Front Porch Sentries

This causes more problems in combat than you'd think, since it can threaten to generate 2-for-1s if your opponent has an X/1 in play and can even trade up for three drops.

Gathering of Darkness

This will generate a 2-for-1 most of the time while also working great alongside goblin and graveyard payoffs.

Gnashing of Teeth

This would be quite good with just the first mode, so the fact you can sometimes use it to sweep away a bunch of little guys is pretty great.

Gollum, Silent Slinker

He's kind of a 5-mana 4/3 with menace that puts a counter somewhere. That's not terrible, but it's not something you're excited about either.

Gollum the Abandoned

Hs ability to come back from the graveyard represent some real inevitability, and the format has enough fodder for this to actually be a legitimate win condition sometimes -- in addition to just being a good, aggressive turn two play.

Great Fierce Bee

It's been a long time since a 3-mana 2/2 with no "enters" or "dies" trigger has been worth playing in Limited. It's just too inefficient, and the Scry trigger doesn't do much to overcome that.

Great Ugly-Looking Goblin

This is better than it looks because it can fill two separate spots on your curve. But man, the creature side is especially underwhelming.

Head of the Hunt

Because of Flash, it's not that hard to manufacture situations where this triggers that first time. It can even Flash in and block something to generate a 2-for-1, and that's kind of the floor here. If left unchecked he goes completely wild.

Inside Information

It's a little slow and clunky to be sure, but this can give you lots of value even with only an investment of a few mana. If you're really far behind it might be dangerous, but getting a bunch of free cards can often offset putting your life total in the danger zone.

The Master of Lake-town

By the mid-game it's pretty likely this represents a 2-for-1, and because of his mill ability it's not impossible that he becomes a 3-for-1. He's pretty mediocre early, though.

Nighthowl Pursuer

This is a pretty scary one drop for BG decks which are going to have some nasty curve outs courtesy of this guy and some other cheap Wolves.

Rage into the Valley

This is pretty close to being a 3-mana 2/2 that draws you a card when it enters, and that's often a very good card.

Ravening Warg

This two drop can trade for anything and it'll sort of feel like it has lifelink once you get Ferocious.

Reverent Howl

Three-mana to draw two in Black is a playable card in some formats, and this has the added upside of being a mediocre combat trick. It's not always worth using that way, but having access to it when the right situation arises is nice.

Rhovanion Rampager

This is very difficult to come out ahead against, since even with 0 counters on it, it dies into Amass 3, which is worth a card. The Rampager's ability to gobble up creatures and get even bigger isn't always optimal, but there's enough fodder and other stuff that making it bigger will be worthwile sometimes.

The Sackville-Bagginses

This is a pretty good sacrifice outlet, but you're not always going to have something to give up on turn two, when you have to run this out sometimes.

Stir Up Trouble

There's enough fodder in this format for this to be a good removal spell.

Stony-Voiced Goblins

A 2-mana 1/1 who forces discard is always a nice Common in Limited, and this one has a useful creature type and is good sacrifice fodder in a format with lots of outlets.

Supper for Spiders

This just asks for too many things to line up correctly for it to be playable. You need a bunch of creatures to die at the same time and those creatures have to have abilities that are actually relevant once they become Food, because just turning those cards into Food alone isn't worth it.

Balin, Loremaster

The stats are bad for sure but it's ability to rummage can really help you find gas in the later game, and it might even dole out some damage.

Bombur, Gentle Dreamer

Even without any downside this wouldn't be an insane card these days, so the fact that it won't untap without an enduring story can be a problem.

Bothersome Noisemaker

Just one trigger from this feels good, and there's a real chance that you can really go off with it.

Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern

This is a solid removal spell up front, and chapter II will have a target a reasonable chunk of the time in this format. Throw in some extra mana and you have an excellent Uncommon.

Dáin Ironfoot

This gives you 2/3 of what you need for an enduring story, and the two things it gives you work really well together. The Equipment can change your board immediately, and once Dain Ironfoot can join in the attack you can devastate your opponent.

Desert Were-Worm

This is really tough in a format where you can virtually never be mono-colored. A 6-mana 6/5 is kind of what you're hoping for, and the other upside on it is hard to take advantage of.

Desolation of Smaug

The dragon part barely matters in this format, so this is mostly a 4-mana sweeper that kills small stuff. That can work out well in the right deck, but there are lots of awkward spots with such a symmetrical card too.

Dori, Bearer of Friends

This would be a solid Common in any set, but in a format with payoffs for Dwarves, artifacts, and legendaries, it's going to be one of Red's best Commons.

Dwarven Mauler

This can maul opponents early, and it maintains some degree of late-game relevance since you can always suit it up on the cheap.

Gandalf, Spark Starter

This enters trigger will usually at least give you a 2-for-1, and while his body is pretty bad for the cost, the fact he delivers such good value up front makes that matter a lot less.

Getaway Barrel

Even in a format with a reasonable number of ways to sacrifice this, it takes way too much mana and set up to be worth such a random effect.

Glóin the Mighty

You won't always be able to do something with the Adventure -- although when you can, it will feel amazing to also get a 4/3 out of the same card.

Goblin-town Flunkies

This gives you two bodies on turn two most of the time, and that makes these great sacrifice fodder in addition to just being a decent rate.

Gundabad Opportunist

The stats certainly aren't good but this gives you a card of value up front most of the time, and the 4 power can allow this to trade up. Of course, the flip side is the 2 toughness means it has to trade down sometimes too.

Iron Hills Stalwart

This has almost passable stats and it's enters trigger will actually be relevant in RW -- either because you stick the Equipment on this big creature to make him even better, or because moving an Equipment somewhere else gives you a good attack.

Last Light of Durin's Day

This is two mana to do nothing in 99% of Limited games. And no, Mountaincycling doesn't save it.

The Misty Mountains Cold

You need other treasure in your deck for this to really go off most of the time, but that's certainly doable sometimes.

Misty Mountains Raider

You can trigger this the turn it comes down, and that's important because if it had to do the attacking it would be way worse to have to wait a turn. As is, it'll feel like an "enters" trigger most of the time -- and it has some snowball potential too.

Óin the Brave

He's a cheap legendary dwarf and that itself has some real value in the format. While he is never an imposing creature, his ability to rummage can help smooth out draws late, making him more relevant late than most two drops.

Pinecone Strike

This is great removal even without the artifact token part, and that's good, because that effect will either not have a target or give you negigible value most of the time.

Ragged Short Spear

If you're in the market for Equipment this is a fine one to use, especially because it gives you a decent enters trigger.

Smaug, the Great Calamity

You're overpaying for both effects, but it's also a single card that can generate a 2-for-1.

Smaug's Fury

This is a pretty mediocre trick because it's more than one mana and not useful outside of combat.

Snowslope Hunter

This is a great way to cash in armies and other expendable bodies.

Stone-Giant of High Pass

The fail case is a 2-for-1, and if your opponent doesn't deal with the Giant before you untap, he can attack and make another Boulder -- and then chuck both of them at your opponent's dome or at their best creatures. Either way, that's very difficult to come back from.

Thorin, Mountain-king

This format has enough Equipment lying around for this to be a 4-mana creature that destroys something when it enters a huge chunk of the time.

Tidings of War

This delivers pretty solid value thanks to Flashback, potentially generating 2 bodies for you over the course of the game. If you get it when you have 5 mana, casting it all at once isn't terrible either.

Attercop

It's a two-drop that stays pretty relevant thanks to Reach and Deathtouch, and it can swing as a pretty decent 3/2 in the early game.

Bejeweled Warg

If you can run this out on turn two it's pretty difficult for you not to get at least one trigger, and if you can do that you're going to be pretty happy. It is less exciting when the board is clogged up late, but because of it's trigger your opponent still has to account for it.

Beorn, Reluctant Host

The Adventure is rarely useful and the creature is an underwhelming French vanilla.

Beorn the Fierce

Even without any other actual bears in your deck, the fact he comes down and gives something +2/+2 and trample is pretty great -- it'll often give you a big attack you didn't have before. Throw in the huge body and the ability to do that again on future turns and things get really silly -- especially if you have some other bears in your deck.

Beorn's Hospitality

We've seen many incarnations of this card and it's always surprisingly mediocre. The problem comes from the fact that spending turn two on something that doesn't add to the board for awhile is bad -- and it's also harder to actually have creatures to put counters on since you took a turn to not play a creature.

Boughside Wanderers

This is kind of what you want at 6 mana -- a sizable creature that can help you dig for more gas.

Cantankerous Keepers

Obviously you only want this in UG, but in that deck this will often be cheap and draw you at least a card when it enters.

Dancing from Dark to Dawn

It takes a turn to get going, but this powerful Enchantment makes it so that basically anything you draw gives you amazing value. Your lands now make 2/2s and your creatures now put counters on stuff.

Down in the Valley

This is pretty good fixing that'll also usually spit out a couple of 1/1s and give you a final effect that can really give you a big turn.

Galion, Elvenking's Butler

This attack trigger isn't always all that good -- it works nicely on tokens and the like, but sometimes you just don't have a second creature that benefits so much from it, and in the meantime this is a kind of hard to cast 4-mana 4/4, which isn't that exciting.

Gigantic Big Bear

It's expensive to be sure, but it's worth the mana. While it doesn't have evasion, it hits super hard and is difficult to take down outside of combat.

Guardian of the Halls

This is a mediocre two drop with a super expensive ability. It does mean it is decently relevant early and late, but in the mid-game it's really not.

Little Bear

These stats are bad and the enters trigger is rarely relevant, especially if you don't have a bear to target.

Mirkwood Pathmaker

This is just a vanilla creature but it scales as the game goes on. It's good in Elf decks because they like lands, as well as in the BG deck which likes high power.

Nasty Little Rabbit

This is a low-risk high-reward card. It only costs one, so you can basically never get blown out, and if it stays on the board it's going to grow pretty quickly.

The Notary Hobbits

The mana boost here is impressive -- even with no other halflings around they can produce 9 mana on the next turn. And you get three bodies from this, so the floor isn't insanely low. The bad news is in Limited you don't regularly have something to sink all this mana into.

Old Fat Spider

This is expensive, but it's also huge and hard to block. But what really makes it a quality card is that the fail case is typically a 2-for-1, since your opponent has to let you draw a card if they remove it.

Ordinary Bear

It's just stats, and that's not a great place to be these days. But at least it has 4 power.

Part in Friendship

This reads as a pretty powerful card at first, but keep in mind it's 5 mana for a card that does nothing on it's own, and even when it does do something what you get for your efforts is far too random.

Quarrel

An instant speed bite effect always makes for a quality removal spell, but choose your spots carefully.

Radagast of Rhosgobel

This discount + flash can be pretty strong...sometimes. Probably is you need the creatures for this to actually do something and even when you do there are lots of situations where the discount + Flash just don't matter.

Through the Forest Gate

Even in a landfall set this is basically 8 mana for a card that does nothing.

Troll Negotiations

This is a bit more than I'd like to pay for this effect, as if you aren't careful you can get blown out -- and that's all the more likely when you have to spend 4 mana. Still, it'll let your creature kill most stuff while also making it better on future turns.

Warg Tactics

The second mode is a playable card in aggressive formats since it's not too bad in combat and can blank removal too. I think giving this a Plummet mode helps make this a fairly maindeckable card.

Wargling

This is a nice two drop that can remain relevant thanks to his ability to grant trample to the whole board.

Wilderland Scrounger

The trigger here is amazing, but a 5-mana 3/6 that doesn't do anything immediately is a pretty big risk -- so having to also jump through the Ferocious hoop on the next turn to get something meaningful out of this is pretty obnoxious.

Wood Elves

This can ramp your mana and double your landfall triggers in a turn whiel also ramping your mana and having a useful creature type.

Woodland Weavemaster

This is so all in on Elf stuff that it really needs a build around grade because of how bad it will be in other Green decks. In an Elf deck though, it can be a reasonable card in combat that can also help you ramp out more Elves.

Bard, King of Dale

He's insane with Recruit and other effects in the set, but his baseline is pretty bad.

Bard the Bowman

This is a nice payoff for drawing an extra card, and you'll be able to do a fair bit of that with Recruit.

Bard's Company

This'll regularly be instant-speed in a UW deck, and that's pretty nasty since it buffs everything and might even make an extra body. And it can just keep helping you go wide while buffing everything.

Bifur, Melodic Rider

This'll give you two counters when you have an enduring story, and that's a nice return on the investment.

Bolg of the North

This is a big body and most of the time I think you'll be able to cash something in to be a removal spell, and even get an Army back.

Bolg's Company

You can't always produce or use the mana, but this does have the potential to give you explosive starts.

The Chief Warg

4-mana 3/3s are pretty mediocre, but if you can trigger this the turn it comes down that more than makes up for it.

Chief Warg's Company

This is a token engine that costs very little mana, although you do need a turn to get the first return on the investment.

Dáin's Company

If you're in RW you're likely to draw a card with this enters trigger, and that's an excellent card.

Duskwatch Hunter

This is a pretty nice card on rate alone since it can put the counter on something else, but it's also a good way to get Ferocious on turn 3 by putting the counter on itself.

Dwalin, Weaponmaster

The baseline is good and honing your Equipment even once is pretty good upside.

Eagle's Rescue

This buff is super risky and not enough to offset the chance of getting 2-for-1'd. It can come back, but only for another hefty investment and only if you have a 1/1.

Fearsome Goblin Pair

This gives you your 3 mana worth of value and works great with sacrifice effects.

Goblin Plate Mail

This'll feel fine on two, and if you already have a big army it can give it a great buff. It's also two pieces of material that can be sacrificed.

The Great Goblin

These stats make it really vulnerable, but if you're in Black/Red this handing out a Shock and drawing you a card is not farfetched.

Large Bear

This hits hard and can do it out of nowhere, and it's not terrible on defense either.

Mirkwood Nurturer

The idea is to bounce a land and replay it for a landfall trigger. It can also rebuy "enters" triggers, but neither of those are things that line up consistently.

Nori, Teller of Tales

This attack trigger keeps it relevant longer than most two mana 2/2s and it's a good card to set up enduring story curve outs.

Patient Instructor

This would be a pretty good rate in any set, but in a format with plentiful "draw two" payoffs and "go-wide" payoffs, it's likelyt o play even better.

Silvan Reveler

She can ramp your mana while digging you deeper in your deck, and in the late game you can just keep bringing her back at which pint she becomes a bit of an engine.

Smaug, Wicked Worm

Your opponent isn't guaranteed to have an artifact -- but if they have even one, you're going to feel like you're getting a great return on your investment. And the fail case here is still a huge Dragon.

Thorin Oakenshield

This is an aggressive two drop that lets you track Storied from early on, and Ward 1 to everything can be painful for your opponent if you can get it going early enough.

Thranduil, Sindarin Liege

If you have time to cast this and then play it as a creature, you're already getting at least a 2-for-1 and this also turns into an Elf army.

Thranduil, the Elvenking

There are some cards in this format that Thranduil can borrow the abilities of, but it's more likely you trigger his legendary Elf ability. He'll just feel like a hard-to-cast vanilla a little too often.

Thranduil's Company

You need a land to get it going, but that's pretty doable -- and just one trigger is going to make playing this worth it. If your opponent doesn't kill it it's likely to go off even more.

Tom, Bert, and William

This is a big body and that activated ability is often worth using -- and your opponent can't get rid of it entirely in most cases.

The Arkenstone

Even without the adventure this buffs your board in a pretty real way while also drawing you more cards -- and those two effects work pretty well together. It's also nice that if you're in White, you can cast it if you have it in your hand and nothing else to do with your mana.

The Black Arrow

This set has a decent number of X/1s, but I still worry that this enters trigger won't do enough to make up for how bad of an equipment this is.

Dwarven Mattock

This is going to be great in the Dwarf deck as it offers a good buff at a very nice rate.

Giant's Boulder

If you need fixing or artifacts this can do a mediocre job of that before becoming mediocre removal late.

Glamdring, Foe-hammer

If you can't cast Gleam of Death this is a 0.0, as a cost reduction for this much mana normally isn't worth it. If you can cast Gleam, you have a chance at generating a 2-for-1 up front and then the discount might actually matter -- but it's still asking for an awful lot.

Key to the Side-Door

This set does have enough legendaries that it's concievable you can draw some cards with this, but even with that in mind it doesn't feel like it does enough.

My Precious

You're reall leaning on Allure of Power here to make this card worthwhile, and there's enough fodder for that to be possible. The Equipment side can be good in the exact right spot, but the biggest problem is that it's only good if your creature is already good.

Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver

It takes a lot of mana to play this and then equip it, but the buff is pretty legit and once you start making treasure this Equip cost looks a lot less painful.

Sting, Bilbo's Sword

This can do a lot of damage out of nowhere, but I don't like how reliant it is on your opponent's board, and it never buffs toughness so as a combat trick it's less than desirable.

Thrór's Map

This is some nice colorless fixing that also helps you with Storied. What really seals the deal is the fact that you can loot with it later in the game, helping it stay relevant, especially in UW.

Well-Worn Spatula

This gives you exactly what you deserve for the cost -- a solid but underwhelming Equipment -- but there's enough upside to using Equipment in this set that it's a nice little Common.

Elven Passage

This is good fixing and it can double landfall triggers -- and might even give you the land untapped if you're in the elf deck.

Elvenking's Halls

This whole cycle gives you a nice way to fix your mana and in the late game they have a solid little effect, even if it's only the kind of effect you use when you don't have any other mana for.

Goblin-town

This whole cycle gives you a nice way to fix your mana and in the late game they have a solid little effect, even if it's only the kind of effect you use when you don't have any other mana for.

Hobbit Hole

This is another source of fixing and double landfall triggers, and you can even cash it in for a creature sometimes.

Iron Hills

This whole cycle gives you a nice way to fix your mana and in the late game they have a solid little effect, even if it's only the kind of effect you use when you don't have any other mana for.

Lake-town

This whole cycle gives you a nice way to fix your mana and in the late game they have a solid little effect, even if it's only the kind of effect you use when you don't have any other mana for.

The Lonely Mountain

This might enter tapped sometimes, but having a land that can spit out tokens is excellent, especially in RW.

Mirkwood

This whole cycle gives you a nice way to fix your mana and in the late game they have a solid little effect, even if it's only the kind of effect you use when you don't have any other mana for.

Plains

Island

Swamp

Mountain

Forest