Pinnacle Starcage
Rare · Artifact
4.0WeakRank 228 of 261
47.4%Rank 282 of 287 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).
A good playable, but is sometimes cut (4.0/10).
Why. A three-mana sweeper: on entry it exiles all artifacts and creatures with mana value 2 or less, yours included. For eight mana it can put them into the graveyard and create a 2/2 Robot token for each, but that is very expensive.
Risks. The sweep hits your own small cards. If the opponent destroys the artifact, everything comes back. The activation costs eight mana.
In the draft. Only in a white deck of big creatures, against an opponent full of small cards. In a normal deck, let it go.
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 : -2.8 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 54 of 60
- White: rank 41 of 43
- Cost 3: rank 54 of 64
- Average pick: 6.5 (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 copy49.7 % · 3,356 games
- 2 copies48.6 % · 109 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
- Mouth of the Storm236 games · 58.5 % (instead of 50.8% expected)
- Harmonious Grovestrider183 games · 58.5 % (instead of 51.2% expected)
- Scout for Survivors346 games · 53.5 % (instead of 46.8% expected)
- Dual-Sun Technique290 games · 53.4 % (instead of 47.2% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Oreplate Pangolin186 games · 36.6 % (instead of 48.2% expected)
- Zookeeper Mechan218 games · 43.6 % (instead of 49.6% expected)
- Lumen-Class Frigate242 games · 45.5 % (instead of 51.0% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
2. The Seriema
9.3
6. Cosmogrand Zenith
8.8
17. Haliya, Guided by Light
8.0
41. Banishing Light
7.0
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.