I'm not the first to do my color-coded set review so you know how it goes by now.

I will say that I got the wedge I was most excited about doing. First of all, I'm a RUG EDH player and Temur has some goods that I can't wait to jam in 100 card decks. Also, "Temur" is the fifth stupidest-sounding name of all of the clans. All in all this is an exciting time for me, so let's get right down to it and talk about the financials this here set.

Surrak Dragonclaw

You don't want this guy as your Commander. I promise. I realize some of his abilities are good, and when they are on other creatures, sometimes you play them. I have Gaea's Herald in Nath and I have Spellbreaker Behemoth in Mayael. I understand.

But those abilities aren't so good you want them all the time. RUG EDH generals are all about value. You have Maelstrom Wanderer taking you to value town while he gives everything haste. You have Animar, Soul of Elements growing into a formidable threat while making your creatures cheaper. And then you have this slight upgrade on Sivitri Scarzam. Granting your creatures two abilities is good, but not good enough to build around, especially in a format where having your creatures countered isn't super common.

The real question is whether or not this big, bearskin-covered bag of mixed abilities is going to crack the roster in 75-card formats. I can't really say. He's expensive to summon but the format is likely to slow down quite a bit (or you're going to look really silly trying to hit six mana and flip morph dudes otherwise).

I can't predict what the needs of Temur will be in the future, but I almost don't have to. He's preselling on Star City for $15. There's no missing period in there, that's a $ followed by a 1 followed by a 5. That's what they charge for Clever Impersonator. This card has a 99.9% chance of being cheaper than that right away.

The $11 he is on eBay isn't any better. Don't pay $11 for this set's Emmara Tandris.

The Temur frontier is off to a rocky start. But you know what they say, sometimes you punch the bear and sometimes the bear punches you.

Avalanche Tusker

This has the opposite of evasion. Unlike a card like Taunting Elf, it doesn't even require them to assign all blockers to it, which would make it a formidable card with its six power. Instead, you get to call out a creature of theirs that wasn't planning on blocking. Unless it is tapped from using a relevant ability. Or it taps when you declare attackers. Or it has hexproof like some annoying utility creatures do.

No, this guy forces them to block with blocking creatures. I don't find that particularly compelling, but it could impact the game. I imagine this will be useful in Limited. I imagine this is unplayable trash in EDH. This is a bulk rare, folks. Star City wants $0.49. Don't give them that much.

Savage Knuckleblade

Ooooo. This I like. This guy is going to do some damage to some people with his knuckleblades.

He has what Temur creatures need to be. Let's review.

Aggresive Casting Cost to Power and Toughness Ratio - Check. This guy is practically a Woolly Thoctar which was a card that saw play with no abilities.

Triggers Ferocious - Just like Woolly Thoctar triggered Naya's need for five-power dudes, SK (I call him SK) has the requisite four power, sometimes more.

Has Lots of Abilities - Yes, yes, yes. Not only that, all of his abilities matter. If you don't think haste will matter late, you don't plan on using his blue ability to return him to your hand. You should plan on that.

He can swing for six (six! that's so many!), he can save himself and he can attack next turn after saving himself. This is a perfect aggro-control card. If there were a credible equipment to put on him, you could load up on mana dorks, counterspells and a few more beaters and just ride one dude to victory. Is he Troll Ascetic with a sword or Jitte good? I don't know, but I think he's solid.

Concerning price, he is sold out on SCG at $6 which indicates a lot of hype. Can a non-mythic relegated to a narrow color combination in the most-opened set ever rise in price so much that you're glad you paid $6? I don't know. Even eBay has this guy as a $20 playset. As good as this guy is, I think his price may be about right, rather than a steal. As much as I love this guy, I'm not speculating on his price, but if I want to play with them, I'm not going to wait around for too long for his price to get a ton cheaper.

Temur Ascendency

Admittedly I don't play much Standard. That doesn't mean I am divorced from the goings-on in Standard nor does it mean I forgot how to evaluate cards. It simply means I brew less around prerelease time than I used to.

I don't have a compelling reason for why I don't think this warrants an inclusion in Standard decks. It just "feels" off to me. I can't really articulate why it doesn't seem like it warrants a deck slot. It's going to get value turn after turn. It has a static ability that is relevant, especially in a color combination that wants to be very aggressive and stick one threat and ride it to victory. I just can't imagine running this in a Standard deck. What would you not run?

EDH is a different ballgame. The more I think about not wanting to cut something for this in Maelstrom Wanderer the more I begin to doubt if that's correct. First of all, Maelstrom Wanderer already grants your creatures haste. That shuts off a bit of this card in situations where MW (I call him MW) can be played or has been. But if you cascade into this with MW, you're drawing a card then and there. Afterward, you have a Glimpse of Nature in enchantment form. I'm not sold on him in MW. What about other RUG decks?

Animar is a different story, though. This card is absurd in an Animar deck, and warrants being one of your noncreature cards. But what does that mean for a card like this? It's $1 preorder from SCG (which means it's cheaper everywhere else) but you know what else is under $1? Deadeye Navigator. DEN is an $0.81 card that is a snap-include in EDH decks that can muster blue mana and it's so good it's on informal banlists at two of the shops where I play. Do you want to pay $1 for a card that is narrower and less good because it may see some EDH play? That's absurd.

Here's the thing - DEN is an $18 foil. So while there isn't a ton of money to be made on non-foils, getting foils for $2ish before the price is established seems like a no-brainer. This could end up a bulk foil, but EDH is likely to keep that from happening. You're not super likely to have the opportunity, though, and I wouldn't buy in for cash given my tepid feelings toward the card.

Trap Essence

At least it says "up to one creature" which means you can still play the spell if you don't have a creature to put counters on. Still, this is clunky, narrow and hard to cast. Bulk rare.

Temur Charm

I like this a lot. Is it going to be Boros Charm's improbable $4? Nope. I like these for free off of tables after drafts to buylist for $0.45.

Temur Banner

I think I am cutting Darksteel Ingot for this in EDH decks. Foils of this will be non-trivial.

Frontier Bivouac

Foils of this will be beyond non-trivial. Foils of this will be ridiculous.

Hooded Hydra

This is one of the best hydras printed lately. I am all about this guy in a lot of decks, not the least of which is Vorel the Hull Clade which relishes the two modes you can cast him, and it relishes doubling his counters with Doubling Season when you play him then doubling the number of snakes you get when he dies. Foils are pre-sold out at $8 which is a clue to you non-100-card-players.

See the Unwritten

This is Standard playable. Not only that, this is EDH ridiculous. I think you snap foils of this under $10 and you trade for any opened at the prerelease. I don't want non-foils at $5 given its unproven nature, but I can't wait to cascade into this with Maelstrom Wanderer or copy it with Riku.

Hardened Scales

Foils are sold out at $6. Sensing a pattern? This has been touted as a potential card in Standard, but these are a safe bet because EDH players are already salivating. While it's true DEN is an $0.81 non-foil now, it was in high demand when it first came out. I like this card a ton and it will see a lot of play somewhere. Get foils now.

Meandering Towershell

Ugh. If you find yourself having to use this to beat control, you should re-evaluate your whole life. Bulk.

Rattleclaw Mystic

I don't see this supplanting or even supplementing Sylvan Caryatid. I don't care how explosive its silly ability is one time, I don't think we want a slightly-better Druid of the Anima right now. This card is narrow, clunky and it's the buy-a-box promo, limiting its upside.

This is sold out at $5, but Pain Seer sold out at $12. Lots of people are bad at this. I don't know if this will be more appealing after rotation, but Caryatid outclasses this in every way.

Trail of Mystery

Man... I don't know. Are we getting a ton more morph stuff? There isn't enough to really justify this, is there? The ramp it provides helps you pay the ridiculous morph ransom these creatures cost, but that seems durdly. This doesn't give a boost to face-down morph creatures which are going to eat it to burn spells all day. I don't think this makes Standard's slowest strategy faster reliably enough to warrant an inclusion. Thumbs down.

However, this will shoot toward bulk, where its potential with future sets make it a card to watch. Be prepared to scoop an armload of these (the keyword here is "suspicious tech") but in all likelihood, this will be a dud in sealed pools and little else.

Seek the Horizon

This is the best-looking foil Seek they have printed, which gives it upside if you get in cheap. I'd trade for 100% of these I see but I am not in for cash unless I'm paying close to the non-foil price.

Savage Punch

Some neckbeard is going to collect foils of this, I can already tell. Make him give you $2 each.