Kastral, the Windcrested
Rare · Legendary Creature — Bird Scout
5.8PlayableRank 115 of 261
56.5%Rank 110 of 265 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.0%
How are these measures computed?
Pick rating. The pick rating estimates what a card is worth when you choose it, before there are results: it combines several signals (expert evaluations, the choices of strong players, characteristics of the card such as its cost and rarity) and was tuned on the results of decks of strong players. It is for comparing cards while you draft.
Observed strength. The observed strength is the win rate of the games in which the card was in hand at some point (opening hand or drawn), from hundreds of thousands of real games of online draft players since the set came out. The rank compares the cards seen in at least 1,000 games. It does not correct for the strength of the deck the card is played in, and a result stays uncertain for a card that is played little (about 1.6 points of margin at 1,000 games).
Good playable that always makes the cut (5.8/10).
Why. A five-mana 4/5 flyer that is a Bird itself. When one or more Birds you control deal combat damage to a player, choose: put a Bird from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield, +1/+1 counters on your Birds, or draw a card. It can take over a game if it survives.
Risks. It needs a white-blue deck with enough Birds for the counters or the return to matter. Five mana in two colors is demanding, and removal stops it.
In the draft. Very good in a white-blue Birds deck; with few Birds it is still a big flyer. Take it if you are in those colors.
Win rate of the card
Percentage of games won by the decks that play this card, depending on when it shows up, from the real games of the set.
Gap when it is drawn, against the games where it is not : +6.2 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 51 of 60
- Multicolour: rank 23 of 39
- Cost 5: rank 9 of 26
- Average pick: 3.0 (1 = taken first from a pack; the lower the number, the earlier players choose it)
Win rate by colour pair
Percentage of games won by the decks of each pair that play the card, with the number of games. The pairs are the two main colors of the deck: when the card has a color outside the pair, the deck plays it as a splash (marked “splash”). A pair that has an archetype in this set leads to its guide.
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Win rate: strong players and all players
Percentage of games won when the card is in hand; strong players are those ranked diamond or mythic online.
Win rate on the play and on the draw
Win rate by number of copies in the deck
- 1 copy52.7 % · 24,955 games
- 2 copies52.3 % · 1,979 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks56.3 % · 7,566 games
- Next two weeks56.7 % · 3,284 games
- After that54.9 % · 1,343 games
Win rate alongside other cards
Win rate of the decks that play both cards, compared with the one you would expect from what each card gets alone. At least 150 games together.
Cards it wins more with
- Kitsa, Otterball Elite1,025 games · 56.8 % (instead of 52.4% expected)
- Dawn's Truce499 games · 52.5 % (instead of 48.4% expected)
- Plumecreed Mentor9,510 games · 54.1 % (instead of 50.3% expected)
- Finch Formation9,658 games · 52.6 % (instead of 49.0% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Glidedive Duo1,629 games · 50.5 % (instead of 53.6% expected)
- Hunter's Talent2,008 games · 52.3 % (instead of 55.0% expected)
- Daggerfang Duo1,605 games · 50.4 % (instead of 52.8% expected)
Where it is played
U/W · 41 %
Played in 3.0% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
10. Season of the Burrow
8.5
64. Starfall Invocation
6.6
123. Driftgloom Coyote
5.6
165. Starseer Mentor
5.2
Intrinsic ratings: they do not take into account the cards you have already picked. They matter most for the first pick of the first pack.