Booster Pack Game

{Judging}gamma3:
Conservatory Researcher is a great mechanical match for the Innsari and magecraft makes a lot of sense as well. However, it doesn't quite feel like it's a good flavor match for the horror theme of Xicralta, though that would probably be less of an issue if there's art. 8/10

Catalogue the Find: This is gold! I love metalcraft for the Anaakar, and the flavor text really gets across the feel of "uncovering things no one should know" in a very clean and subtle way. As for the mechanics, it's a draw 2/draw 3 if set mechanic, which is good enough for a common. 9/10

Warbound Spirit: Your first new mechanic on a card. Fires of War is amazing, and my only nitpick is that I would love if it was life loss instead so it could match up with spectacle and fit black more there. Warbound Spirit is a great bear that gets buffed if you dealt damage to something and looks like a great pick for an Espectier deck. Another 9/10.

Violent Drain: Oh, so this is why Fires of War is damage. I like me some tribal revelations, and this card is no exception. Based on what I've seen, this is kind of weak (it could easily do 3), but I understand that with coalesce you were being careful. I especially love how you used lifelink here, as unlike most creature keywords on revelations, it affects both normal use and using it as a creature. 8/10, but only for being a bit too conservative. 

Burst Elemental: I haven't talked about obelisks yet (and I won't until we reach their introduction) but Burst here is a fantastic mix of both magecraft and the obelisks. I love how you can either have it ramp or take away that ramp in order to swing for lethal. 9/10

Aaka-Salom, the First Archivist: The only patron card in the pact and the source of the last mechanic in the pact. Look at you, being poetic there. Anyways, syphon seems a little limited but is great for the Anaakar, especially in conjunction with the much more flexible metalcraft. It even synergizes with building monuments in Innsari, which is great. Aaka-Salom himself is a sight to see, an absolute bomb to drop in these artifact decks. Not only does Aaka-Salom protect your built-up hoard, he also can use it to buff himself with syphon and becomes an absolute monster once metalcraft is online. 10/10 for sure here.

Overall: 8.8

lordpat:

Toxic Aberration: Feast being token scavenge is really neat, and I especially like that you used tech that canon magic hasn't used with scavenge (triggers whenever you activate that ability). I personally would have saved this tech for higher rarities, but I like how you used it here and I told you guys to be weird so I brought that on myself. A more personal gripe: I feel like this should really be a horror instead of a warrior. 8/10

Disturbing Faith: This should be a revelation, but I won't dock points because I forgot to include that. Overall, the concept is really neat, and I like how we see a bit of a bend into blue/red/maybe black here with hyperbolic (which was misspelled but again, no points lost here). What will lose points, however, is the typeline. This really shouldn't be tribal horror, as that's already covered by coalesce. I would have personally flavored this towards the Predipap and had it be a tribal insect. 7/10

Traverse the Rottenfields: Now THIS is a good use of tribal I would have loved to see more. This may be a bit busted with decayed tokens, but otherwise I love it so much. 9/10

Ethereal Avenger: Enrage was not something I expected here but I love it nevertheless. Makes playing with Enspectier a little more complicated than the "swing with everything aggro" playstyle associated with RWB normally. I love how Ethereal Avenger gets bigger after you enrage it, possibly leading up to a nasty swingback the turn after.  9/10

Abyss Dweller: A few points right of the bat. 1: This shouldn't be a giant. Giants are a race, not a descriptor. 2: Priest is not a type in MTG. I assume you mean Cleric here. Other than that... woah this is a card. The feast ability would be good on a vanilla alone, but the main card here is a win-con for these kinds of decks. Not only is that life loss dangerous, you also have to watch out for the life gain, which can give the Predipap player a lot of vitality. I'm all for the more control-y style of token play that this encourages. The downside to that is that it pretty much makes all of your tokens siege rhinos, and we all know how good siege rhino was... 8/10

Overall: 8.2

ameisenmeister:

Bindings of the Court: This should be a tribal enchantment - zombie aura in my opinion.

That is my only gripe with this card.

Beckon is a great mechanic, and I love decayed coming back as well, especially after how we saw it play back in Midnight Hunt. This is a 9/10 literally only because of the one gripe above. 

Accelerated Accretion: Same exact scenario as above. It should really be tribal, but otherwise is amazing. I love build a monument, as it's basically ramp amass and fits the Innsari very, very well. A tiny bit of me wished it made colored mana, but making it colorless is a great way to balance this otherwise very hard to manage mechanic. 9/10

Contorted Slabs: I'm assuming this would be part of a cycle, and dang do I love it. After the tapped tris, this is one of the most obvious land ideas for trilands at common. I half want these to have a land type so things can care for them, but that may be too much like gates, so aaaaa. 10/10

Predipap-Spawnsires: Other than feeling like these should be insects, this seems perfect. I feel like the trigger should be written slightly differently, but I have no idea how to write it myself, so I'll let it pass. 9/10

Overall: 9.25

{Winner}Congrats ameisenmeister !
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