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Phoenix Down

Uncommon · Artifact

Pick rating

4.8WeakRank 203 of 294

Observed strength

52.2%Rank 273 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).

A solid playable that rarely gets cut (4.8/10).

Why. A one-mana artifact that later puts a creature with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped. In a long game it replaces a dead creature with value.

Risks. You pay two more mana, tap it and exile it for a slow effect that does nothing for tempo. The second mode is very narrow, exiling only Skeletons, Spirits and Zombies.

In the draft. Play it in a grindy white deck with good creatures worth returning. A late pick; it does nothing in a fast deck.

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 game52.2 %(set average : 56.4 %)

Card in the opening hand50.7 %(set average : 55.2 %)

Card drawn during the game53.4 %(set average : 57.2 %)

Gap when it is drawn, against the games where it is not : -2.2 win-rate points

How often it ends up in the deck once drafted by a strong player (not a win rate)36.0 %(set average : 62.0 %)

Its place in the set

Uncommon: rank 76 of 110
White: rank 34 of 43
Cost 1: rank 20 of 29
Average pick: 9.0 (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.