Excalibur II
Rare · Legendary Artifact — Equipment
2.0WeakRank 275 of 294
45.1%Rank 338 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).
Not good filler and often gets cut (2.0/10).
Why. A one-mana legendary Equipment that gets a charge counter each time you gain life. Each counter gives the equipped creature +1/+1.
Risks. It gains you no life itself: without lifelink or other life gain it stays without counters, and you still pay three to equip it.
In the draft. Only in a deck that already gains a lot of life. Otherwise it is filler you can pass.
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 : -5.7 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 64 of 74
- Colourless: rank 39 of 44
- Cost 1: rank 26 of 29
- Average pick: 8.1 (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 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
- Hill Gigas169 games · 52.7 % (instead of 45.9% expected)
- Valkyrie Aerial Unit225 games · 53.3 % (instead of 46.8% expected)
- Rook Turret278 games · 51.1 % (instead of 45.8% expected)
- Barret Wallace183 games · 51.9 % (instead of 46.7% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Hope Estheim190 games · 35.3 % (instead of 44.2% expected)
- Dreams of Laguna159 games · 41.5 % (instead of 49.7% expected)
- Suplex297 games · 43.8 % (instead of 49.2% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
259. World Map
4.0
273. Elixir
2.0
293. Lunatic Pandora
1.4
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.