Cruel Calculations
Rare · Sorcery
6.8GoodRank 56 of 280
A very good rare of the format (6.8/10).
Why. A sorcery that draws cards equal to the number put into target player's graveyard from their library this turn, and you can target yourself. With surveil, your draws come from your own graveyard fills, in a very specialized deck.
Risks. Without a way to fill a graveyard the same turn, it does nothing. It is a three-mana sorcery with no board effect, well below the level of the set.
In the draft. Avoid it in most decks: you need to chain surveil or mill effects in the same turn. Take it only in a specialized deck that is already built.
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 : -0.4 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 31 of 64
- Blue: rank 7 of 39
- Cost 3: rank 12 of 73
- Average pick: 9.4 (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 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
- Dark Matter Manipulator194 games · 61.9 % (instead of 49.5% expected)
- Hapatra, the Desert Fang167 games · 57.5 % (instead of 50.7% expected)
- Apex Witchstalker374 games · 54.3 % (instead of 49.4% expected)
- Rank Rat183 games · 53.6 % (instead of 48.8% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Countersculpt186 games · 37.6 % (instead of 51.1% expected)
- Protege's Awakening224 games · 39.3 % (instead of 50.6% expected)
- Break Under Pressure180 games · 43.3 % (instead of 50.6% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
8. Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
8.7
15. Chandra, Chill of Compliance
8.2
16. Seasoned Cryomancer
8.1
50. Vraska, Soul of Stone
7.0
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.