Dismal Backwater
Common · Land
5.6PlayableRank 130 of 271
56.5%Rank 90 of 274 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).
Good playable that always makes the cut (5.6/10).
Why. A blue-black dual land that enters tapped and gains you one life. It smooths out the colors of a blue-black deck at no real cost besides tempo.
Risks. It enters tapped, which can cost a turn in a very fast deck. Outside those two colors it adds nothing.
In the draft. Take it late for a blue-black deck, or as fixing for a deck splashing one of the two colors. Do not take it over a good spell.
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 : +3.7 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 23 of 90
- Colourless: rank 8 of 31
- Cost 0: rank 3 of 14
- Average pick: 8.6 (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 copy54.3 % · 78,301 games
- 2 copies54.8 % · 10,987 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks56.7 % · 26,778 games
- Next two weeks55.6 % · 14,404 games
- After that55.4 % · 2,183 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
- An Offer You Can't Refuse840 games · 49.9 % (instead of 47.9% expected)
- Zul Ashur, Lich Lord4,697 games · 55.1 % (instead of 53.3% expected)
- Aegis Turtle5,376 games · 52.0 % (instead of 50.2% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Scavenging Ooze1,845 games · 51.7 % (instead of 56.4% expected)
- Spinner of Souls2,366 games · 52.7 % (instead of 56.5% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
49. Soulstone Sanctuary
7.0
110. Rogue's Passage
5.9
138. Scoured Barrens
5.6
141. Tranquil Cove
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.