Rust Harvester

Rare · Artifact Creature — Robot

Pick rating

7.6Very goodRank 24 of 261

Observed strength

58.2%Rank 50 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).

One of the very best rares of the format (7.6/10).

Why. A one-mana 1/1 menace artifact creature. Its ability lets you deal damage to any target by exiling an artifact card from your graveyard, and each activation makes it bigger.

Risks. It needs artifact cards in your graveyard, which fills slowly, and the ability taps it, so it waits a turn. With 1 toughness it is very fragile.

In the draft. A niche card, to take mid-pack in a red artifact deck. Outside that deck, pass it.

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.

Card in hand at some point in the game58.2 %(set average : 56.0 %)
Card in the opening hand58.1 %(set average : 54.8 %)
Card drawn during the game58.2 %(set average : 56.8 %)

Gap when it is drawn, against the games where it is not : +5.6 win-rate points

How often it ends up in the deck once drafted by a strong player (not a win rate)84.0 %(set average : 62.0 %)

Its place in the set

  • Rare: rank 18 of 60
  • Red: rank 5 of 42
  • Cost 1: rank 4 of 33
  • Average pick: 2.5 (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.

7,499 games55.8 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
6,299 games56.1 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
3,243 games54.6 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
2,653 games54.6 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
333 games49.2 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
323 games59.1 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
300 games52.3 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)
271 games52.8 %(all pairs : 55.3 %)

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.

Strong players (diamond and mythic ranks), card in hand57.7 %· 2,281 games
All players, card in hand58.7 %· 9,818 games

Win rate on the play and on the draw

Games on the play (the deck holds the card)57.8 %(set average : 57.6 %)
Games on the draw, so drawing from the first turn (the deck holds the card)52.8 %(set average : 53.0 %)

Win rate by number of copies in the deck

  • 1 copy55.2 % · 20,758 games
  • 2 copies58.0 % · 1,050 games

Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)

  • First two weeks58.4 % · 6,213 games
  • Next two weeks59.4 % · 2,694 games
  • After that58.4 % · 911 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

Cards it wins less with

Other cards of the same cost and colours

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    22. Devastating Onslaught

    7.6
  • Kavaron Harrier

    100. Kavaron Harrier

    6.0
  • Plasma Bolt

    113. Plasma Bolt

    5.8
  • Slagdrill Scrapper

    162. Slagdrill Scrapper

    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.