Enablers
Sibsig Appraiser
Replace the creature’s card while putting another card into the graveyard. A renew creature or harmonize spell can make that graveyard card useful later.
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
One-pick Draft · Cards, plans & rules · Arena win rates (Premier Draft, Apr 8–May 14, 2025)
Released April 11, 2025
The ten-second pick check
4 questionsAsk them in this order.
Which spell can these colors cast?
Read an Omen’s own cost and twobrid options. Those rules can make a card useful in two colors; ordinary three-color costs still require all their colors.
Is the third color supported?
Choose actual fixing and count early sources before taking a clan payoff. A Devotee filters mana but does not increase how much you have.
What will pay the reuse cost?
Renew needs a graveyard card and target, harmonize benefits from an untapped creature, and sacrifice wants an expendable body. Count resources already in the deck.
Does this improve the next attack?
Mobilize and two-spell turns reward sequencing. An early creature or efficient answer can matter more than another expensive Dragon.
What job does this card do?
All 89 card notes →Look past the power level. Name the job before deciding whether it belongs.
Mana & fixing
Mardu Devotee
One mana buys an early blocker and scry. The once-per-turn conversion can help a red or black splash, but four lands plus this ability still produce only four total mana.
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Answers
Dispelling Exhale
Behold a Dragon when casting for the stronger tax. Destroying the chosen Dragon later does not reduce that tax; keep blue mana for the turn their important spell is likely.
21 answers →What matters in Tarkir: Dragonstorm
All mechanics →Begin with castable early turns
The five clans offer three-color payoffs, while enemy pairs connect two clans. Fixing must arrive before the splash card matters; the Devotees exchange one mana for one colored mana rather than ramping.
Learn endure and the set mechanics →Reuse resources at the right time
Mobilize tokens can become cards before the end step; traded creatures can provide renew counters; harmonize uses spare creature power. Keep enough resources to pay the specific cost.
Read each spell’s actual cost
An off-color Dragon may offer a useful on-color Omen. Twobrid can also fit two colors at a higher cost. Neither rule makes an ordinary three-color payoff free to splash.
Commons with strong Premier Draft results
Sibsig Appraiser: 59.5% GIH over 116,821 instances; Mardu Devotee: 58.4% GIH over 60,792 instances; Dispelling Exhale: 58.1% GIH over 94,198 instances. Games recorded 2025-04-08–2025-05-14. The all-dataset baseline is 55.0%. These are recorded Arena results, not a causal ranking or a promise for paper Draft.
Five three-color clan plans
Abzan (white-black-green) uses endure; Jeskai (blue-red-white) uses flurry; Sultai (black-green-blue) uses renew; Mardu (red-white-black) uses mobilize; Temur (green-blue-red) uses harmonize. Enemy-color pairs connect two clans, but choosing a third color still requires enough mana sources.
Before your event & where to play
Draft with friends
Event rules
Use three Play Boosters per player for ordinary Booster Draft, take one card per pick, and build at least 40 cards. Sealed starts from six Play Boosters.
Clan event pools
Event rules
Paper Prerelease uses five normal Play Boosters plus one clan pack. Arena Clan Sealed uses four normal packs plus two clan packs with different collation; its pool is not ordinary Sealed or the paper Prerelease pool.
Take with you
Outside strategy notes cannot be consulted during sanctioned drafting, construction or games. Brief prewritten notes may be reviewed between games; public Oracle lookup follows separate rules. Ask your organizer about devices and note use.