Let’s try something new. The full contents of Amonkhet were released to the public on Friday after the close of a wildly successful two weeks of previews. Now that everything has been released to the wild I poured through the full set and picked out my favorite cards and gave them high school yearbook style superlatives—e.g., Most Likely to Become a Rock Star. Check out which cards I thought made the grade from useful categories like Most Likely Common to be First-Picked to somewhat less useful categories like Most Likely to Fail the Five Trials.
Most Likely to be Lavinia of the Tenth‘s Favorite Angel
Most Likely to be Brought Up by Star Wars Nerds
Most Likely to be Designed 10 Years Ago
Most Likely to Have the Playtest Name “Are You My Mummy?”
Most Likely to Blow You Out in Draft
Most Likely Gideon
Most Likely to go in the Modern Event Deck
Most Likely to be Altered to Look Like Your Cat
Most Likely to be Banned in Modern
Most Likely to be Inconsistently Translated into French
Most Likely to Infringe On Your First Amendment Rights
Most Likely to Go Into the Standard Dredge Deck I’m Building
Most Likely to Let You Down for Not Being Astral Slide
Most Likely to Always Be Able to Attack
Most Likely to Be Better Than You Thought
Most Likely to Be Ba-roken
Most Likely to Pander to Nicol Bolas
Most Likely to be the Best Pick in the Five-Color Cycling Deck You Insist on Forcing
Most Likely to Brrrraaaaiiinnnnnssssssss…
Most Likely to Remind You of This Scene from “The Mummy”
Most Likely to Cost Way Too Much Money
Most Likely Never to Be Played (I Couldn’t Help Myself)
Most Likely to Be Last Picked
Most Likely to Elicit Puns from Luis Scott-Vargas
Most Likely Common to be First Picked
Most Likely Crop Member to Fail the Five Trials
Most Likely to Cheat Eldrazi Into Play in Standard
Most Likely to Non-Bo with Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Most Likely to Destroy Heart of Kiran
Most Likely to be the Best Card in an Underwhelming Sealed Pool
Most Likely to Result in Judge Calls
Most Likely to Become a Meme, Apparently
Most Likely to Make You Mis-evaluate Your Draft
Most Likely Split Card to be Played at the Pro Tour
Most Likely to Be the Most-Played Card in the Set
Most Likely to be Worthless Until Saffron Olive Features it in a Video
What We Learned is a weekly feature here at Hipsters of the Coast written by former amateur Magic Player Rich Stein, who came really close to making day two of a Grand Prix on several occasions. Each week we will take a look at the past seven days of major events, big news items, and community happenings so that you can keep up-to-date on all the latest and greatest Magic: the Gathering community news.