Sean Maitland believes Scotland are starting to realise their potential thanks to a host of “X factor” players.
The winger says the likes of Finn Russell, Stuart Hogg and new centre Huw Jones have the talent to unlock any defence, with the latter scoring a brace against Australia and providing an assist for Maitland's try during Saturday's narrow 19-16 win over Argentina in his first two Test starts.
Vern Cotter's men have one final autumn international against Georgia next week before they turn their attentions to the Six Nations but Maitland is already excited about what lies ahead.
"X factor players you would probably call them," the Saracens back said when asked about the likes of Russell, Hogg and Jones.
"I think our back line, the cohesion and the synergy, is getting top class. Hopefully we'll have Duncy [Duncan Taylor] coming back from injury soon so there is going to be a lot of competition in our midfield and our back three as well so it's only going to be healthy for Scottish rugby.
"I'm sure Vern will have some difficult decisions coming up for the Six Nations."
Argentina's Matias Orlando scored the opening try 10 minutes into the second half at Murrayfield on Saturday before Jones produced a stunning off-load to put Maitland in for a try in the corner.
With the scores locked at 16-16, skipper Greig Laidlaw smashed a penalty against the post before getting another chance and knocking over the winning kick in stoppage time. Maitland, however, paid tribute to Jones for providing the spark Scotland needed.
He said: "Our outside backs didn't really see too much ball. It's was just one of those games where you only get a few chances and Huw made something out of nothing.
"He had the vision to see me on the outside and get me in for a little lollipop try so it's always good to get over the line and score. The conditions were really difficult. We always knew it was going to be one of those tight games but we hung in there.
"In the first half we lost a lot of ball to the conditions. But we played better in the second half."
The win now moves Cotter's side above Argentina in the world rankings and up to eighth. That could prove crucial to Scotland's 2019 World Cup hopes but it also restored belief after they lost to a similarly late kick against Australia the week before.
"We've talked about the Australia game all week and how we respond to setbacks," Maitland said.
"The big thing was not to panic when Argentina scored. There was plenty of time on the clock and we were only a converted try behind. The main thing was that Greig got the boys around him and made sure we just started again.
"We composed ourselves really well. There are always momentum shifts throughout a game and after the try it came back to us. We started hammering their line and it's good to finally come out on the other side of a tight game."
Cotter could give some of his fringe men the chance to impress against the Georgians at Rugby Park next Saturday. After that, the New Zealander will have five games left to shape his Scotland legacy before handing over the reins to Gregor Townsend and Maitland admits his players are determined to give him a positive send-off.
"Everyone is a bit gutted that Vern's leaving but that's footy," he said. "It's a business at the end of the day and we want to leave him on a high. We've developed our own brand under Vern of how we want to play the game and we're improving game by game."