Nimble Thopterist
Common · Creature — Vedalken Artificer
5.0PlayableRank 179 of 271
55.4%Rank 131 of 273 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 55.7%
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).
A solid playable that rarely gets cut (5.0/10).
Why. A 3/2 for four that comes with a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Two bodies for one card: one attacks, the other flies.
Risks. The 3/2 is fragile and the Thopter does little damage. No ability that swings a game.
In the draft. A solid mid-pack blue card. It fits any blue deck, and artifact-heavy ones even more.
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 : +1.7 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 41 of 91
- Blue: rank 19 of 37
- Cost 4: rank 19 of 41
- Average pick: 7.7 (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.
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 copy54.4 % · 115,308 games
- 2 copies54.4 % · 35,900 games
- 3 copies54.6 % · 5,636 games
- 4 copies or more56.2 % · 712 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks55.8 % · 51,349 games
- Next two weeks54.5 % · 21,970 games
- After that55.3 % · 7,855 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
- Guidelight Matrix8,777 games · 53.9 % (instead of 52.0% expected)
- Daretti, Rocketeer Engineer1,799 games · 52.1 % (instead of 50.3% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Swiftwing Assailant2,738 games · 48.7 % (instead of 52.9% expected)
- Chitin Gravestalker5,646 games · 49.2 % (instead of 53.2% expected)
- Aatchik, Emerald Radian2,066 games · 52.0 % (instead of 55.8% expected)
Where it is played
B/U · 59 %U/W · 56 %
Played in 19% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
2. Mu Yanling, Wind Rider
9.3
27. Captain Howler, Sea Scourge
7.5
40. Oildeep Gearhulk
7.1
183. Waxen Shapethief
5.0
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.