Call the Mountain Chocobo
Common · Sorcery
6.2GoodRank 92 of 294
57.4%Rank 112 of 341 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.4%
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 (6.2/10).
Why. A sorcery that fetches a Mountain card into your hand, then creates a 2/2 green Bird token that gets +1/+0 whenever a land enters under your control. Flashback for six lets you cast it again: lots of value from one card.
Risks. Four mana for a sorcery that does little by itself. It only finds Mountains, so it is weaker without several red lands.
In the draft. A good red common, especially in a deck that makes use of lands. Take it as card advantage, not removal.
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 : +2.6 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 12 of 90
- Red: rank 13 of 42
- Cost 4: rank 19 of 51
- Average pick: 6.7 (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 copy55.6 % · 88,690 games
- 2 copies57.4 % · 35,314 games
- 3 copies57.1 % · 6,838 games
- 4 copies or more56.1 % · 859 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks58.0 % · 35,421 games
- Next two weeks57.6 % · 24,453 games
- After that57.0 % · 8,236 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
- Elixir261 games · 52.9 % (instead of 48.3% expected)
- Matoya, Archon Elder1,834 games · 55.4 % (instead of 52.2% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- The Wandering Minstrel1,275 games · 46.6 % (instead of 53.0% expected)
Where it is played
R/U · 76 %G/R · 71 %
Played in 17% of the decks of the set
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9.4
20. Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
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35. Seifer Almasy
7.4
64. Sorceress's Schemes
6.7
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.