The Darkness Crystal
Rare · Legendary Artifact
5.1PlayableRank 187 of 294
53.6%Rank 232 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 (5.1/10).
Why. A four-mana artifact that makes your black spells cost one less, exiles opposing nontoken creatures that die and gains you 2 life. For six mana and by tapping it, you can put a creature it exiled onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two extra +1/+1 counters.
Risks. It does not win the game on its own and is only worth it in a heavily black deck. The reanimation is expensive. Against a deck with few creatures it is weak.
In the draft. A mid-pack pick for a firmly black deck that will go long. Avoid it if black is only a second color.
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 : +1.6 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 46 of 74
- Black: rank 34 of 42
- Cost 4: rank 33 of 51
- Average pick: 4.8 (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 copy53.5 % · 13,972 games
- 2 copies53.4 % · 163 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks55.2 % · 3,177 games
- Next two weeks53.7 % · 2,053 games
- After that52.1 % · 827 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
- Kain, Traitorous Dragoon524 games · 54.0 % (instead of 49.7% expected)
- Dark Confidant680 games · 58.7 % (instead of 54.9% expected)
- Squall, SeeD Mercenary742 games · 56.6 % (instead of 52.8% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Warrior's Sword720 games · 49.3 % (instead of 53.3% expected)
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum850 games · 49.3 % (instead of 52.8% expected)
- Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus739 games · 51.3 % (instead of 54.6% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
20. Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
7.9
33. Jenova, Ancient Calamity
7.4
55. Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
6.9
75. Sephiroth's Intervention
6.6
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.