Boosted Sloop DFT 0190 · uncommon

Take it when

Put discard rewards on the battlefield, then use looting and cycling to grow evasive attackers and turn excess cards into damage without abandoning the curve.

What to take next

Deploy a discard payoff before Boosted Sloop, then declare one or more of your attackers. Sloop loots even if it stays home, producing one attack trigger and a discard event for your payoffs.

Wrong pick

Boosted Sloop triggers for your attack, not an opponent's, and only once for that declaration. Cycling a payoff away does not leave it in play to reward later discards.

Mana & splash

Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.

Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.

Marauding MakoPlay this before looting or cycling to turn discarded cards into counters. Cycling the Mako itself replaces it but gives up its future growth; make that choice from the board and mana available.

Scrounging SkyrayDiscarding cards grows a flying threat, whether the discard comes from cycling or a loot effect. Its own cycling is a fallback when the creature is unhelpful, not a way to grow itself on the battlefield.

Magmakin ArtilleristDiscard effects turn into damage to each opponent while it is in play. Cycling the card instead deals one through a separate trigger before the cycling draw; it does not leave an engine behind.

One-pick Draft

It loots once when you declare one or more of your own attackers, even if Sloop stays home. It does not trigger for each attacker or for an opponent's attack; discard payoffs reward the loot.

Sealed vs Draft

It loots once when you declare one or more of your own attackers, even if Sloop stays home. It does not trigger for each attacker or for an opponent's attack; discard payoffs reward the loot.