Top 10 Cards from Wilds of Eldraine

Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)

August 31, 2023

Justin

Wilds of Eldraine is truly wild. There are some massive bombs that are sure to dominate your next draft or sealed event. Read on to learn which bombs make the cut.

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Raymond Swanland

Here are the Top 10 cards from Wilds of Eldraine. Click here for limited ratings of every card.

Honorable Mention: Specter of Mortality (Rating: 8.8)

Specter of Mortality (Wilds of Eldraine #107)

Specter of Mortality shines with its capacity to transform battlefield dynamics through selective removal, dependent on a well-stocked graveyard, offering a spectrum of utility from a straightforward 3/3 flier to a strategic board-clearing asset, ensuring its value in diverse gameplay scenarios despite the occasional drawback of underutilizing its potent ability.

#10: Hylda's Crown of Winter (Rating: 8.8)

Hylda's Crown of Winter (Wilds of Eldraine #247)

This improved version of Icy Manipulator, even without affecting lands, stands as an immensely powerful pick for any deck due to its discounted activation cost on your turn and universal utility in locking down attackers, making it arguably the best first pick in the set, functioning effectively as a versatile removal spell with the added benefit of being colorless and the option for card draw, albeit seldom used given its inherent value.

#9: Faunsbane Troll (Rating: 8.8)

Faunsbane Troll (Wilds of Eldraine #203)

This card stands out by providing a 5/5 trample for four mana, with the added benefit of allowing you to sacrifice it to fight another creature, significantly enhanced by the synergy with re-enchanting, making it an exceptional build-around option that excels both in isolation and when integrated into broader strategies.

#8: Decadent Dragon (Rating: 8.8)

Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste (Wilds of Eldraine #223)

Decadent Dragon, a standout card with its 4/4 flying and trample for four mana, along with the added advantages of generating Treasure tokens and the ability to steal opponent's cards, offers tremendous value even without its Expensive Taste half, making it a highly desirable early pick that significantly enhances any deck, especially in red.

#7: The Goose Mother (Rating: 9.0)

The Goose Mother (Wilds of Eldraine #204)

The Goose Mother, reminiscent of Hydroid Krasis but unique in its execution, emerges as a formidable value engine and game-ending threat, delivering a scalable giant flier that not only generates Food tokens upon entry but also enables card drawing with each attack, ensuring its status as an exceptionally powerful bomb rare that provides immense utility and board presence for its mana cost.

#6: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (Rating: 9.0)

Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (Wilds of Eldraine #78)

Ashiok stands out as a bomb planeswalker in Limited, boasting high loyalty and versatility in drawing cards, generating and enhancing creature tokens, and presenting a rapidly lethal -7 ability, making them a central figure in gameplay that significantly advances board state and pressures opponents, even without the capacity to directly eliminate opposing creatures.

#5: Archon of the Wild Rose (Rating: 9.0)

Archon of the Wild Rose (Wilds of Eldraine #1)

Archon of the Wild Rose excels as a highly impactful card, offering a substantial payoff under similar build-around conditions but with a significantly higher floor—a four mana 4/4 flier, making it a standalone powerhouse. This card's ability to potentially grant flying and power/toughness boosts to your team amplifies its value, ensuring its effectiveness even without synergies, and positions it as a potential game-winner and one of the set's standout cards.

#4: Virtue of Persistence (Rating: 9.5)

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (Wilds of Eldraine #115)

Virtue of Persistence excels with its adventure side offering timely creature removal and life gain, while its enchantment side, if activated, pivots the game towards almost certain victory, combining immediate impact with a powerful late-game presence to stand out as one of the set's top cards.

#3: Virtue of Loyalty (Rating: 9.5)

Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty (Wilds of Eldraine #38)

Virtue of Loyalty offers transformative gameplay advantages by bestowing continuous power and toughness enhancements alongside permanent vigilance, while its instant-speed Adventure ensures utility and flexibility, marking it as a standout mythic in the set.

#2: Realm-Scorcher Hellkite (Rating: 9.5)

Realm-Scorcher Hellkite (Wilds of Eldraine #145)

Realm-Scorcher Hellkite stands out as a powerhouse, delivering immediate impact by eliminating threats upon entry and continuing to menace the battlefield with its potent attack capability, making it one of the set's top cards capable of transforming the game dynamic as soon as it's played.

#1: Gruff Triplets (Rating: 9.8)

Gruff Triplets (Wilds of Eldraine #172)

Gruff Triplets sets a new standard for board dominance, presenting nine total power across three trampling tokens that only grow stronger with each combat loss, transforming surviving tokens into overwhelming threats, and compelling opponents to find scarce effective responses, epitomizing green's ideal of overwhelming force and resilience.

Overall Top 10 Rankings

#1 - Rating: 9.8 - Gruff Triplets

#2 - Rating: 9.5 - Realm-Scorcher Hellkite

#3 - Rating: 9.5 - Virtue of Loyalty

#4 - Rating: 9.5 - Virtue of Persistence

#5 - Rating: 9.0 - Archon of the Wild Rose

#6 - Rating: 9.0 - Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

#7 - Rating: 9.0 - The Goose Mother

#8 - Rating: 8.8 - Decadent Dragon

#9 - Rating: 8.8 - Faunsbane Troll

#10 - Rating: 8.8 - Hylda's Crown of Winter

Honorable Mention: Specter of Mortality

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