Zero Point Ballad
Rare · Sorcery
7.2GoodRank 38 of 261
57.8%Rank 59 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 very good rare of the format (7.2/10).
Why. A flexible sweeper: you pick X to destroy low-toughness creatures while sparing your bigger ones. At X of six or more you also bring one of the destroyed creatures back under your control, which can flip a lost game.
Risks. It also kills your own small creatures and costs you life equal to X. It is a sorcery and gets expensive when you need to go big.
In the draft. Take it in black control or big-creature decks. Worse in aggressive decks that want to keep their creatures.
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 : +5.3 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 25 of 60
- Black: rank 5 of 42
- Cost 1: rank 5 of 33
- Average pick: 1.9 (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.
splash
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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 copy54.9 % · 25,737 games
- 2 copies54.9 % · 581 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks57.4 % · 7,170 games
- Next two weeks58.2 % · 3,426 games
- After that57.6 % · 1,230 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
- Alpharael, Stonechosen277 games · 56.3 % (instead of 50.2% expected)
- Illvoi Infiltrator2,091 games · 57.0 % (instead of 53.8% expected)
- Scour for Scrap1,361 games · 56.3 % (instead of 53.1% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Starfield Shepherd1,531 games · 52.3 % (instead of 56.0% expected)
- Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar1,181 games · 53.0 % (instead of 56.0% expected)
- Focus Fire2,188 games · 52.7 % (instead of 55.6% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
57. Tragic Trajectory
6.7
109. Embrace Oblivion
5.8
122. Hylderblade
5.7
128. Hullcarver
5.6
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.