Dark Matter Manipulator
Rare · Creature — Human Warlock
7.4Very goodRank 29 of 280
57.6%Rank 66 of 271 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.2%
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 very good rare of the format (7.4/10).
Why. A one mana 1/2 that mills three cards on entering, then gets +2/+0 for every seven cards in your graveyard. In a graveyard deck it becomes a late game threat.
Risks. Alone it is a weak 1/2: you need to reach seven cards in the graveyard. Milling your own library has a long term cost.
In the draft. A pick for a black graveyard deck. A mid-pack pick, worse without other ways to fill the graveyard.
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 : +3.8 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 11 of 64
- Black: rank 4 of 39
- Cost 1: rank 5 of 22
- Average pick: 5.1 (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 by number of copies in the deck
- 1 copy55.5 % · 9,298 games
- 2 copies57.4 % · 683 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
- Cruel Calculations194 games · 61.9 % (instead of 49.5% expected)
- Fblthp, Knows the Way624 games · 61.1 % (instead of 56.0% expected)
- Transformative Commons1,195 games · 58.8 % (instead of 55.9% expected)
- Vinelasher Adept1,330 games · 58.6 % (instead of 55.7% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive783 games · 50.8 % (instead of 54.9% expected)
- Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving260 games · 49.2 % (instead of 53.0% expected)
- Hexhaven Battalion560 games · 52.9 % (instead of 56.5% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
23. Lich's Relic
7.6
49. Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
7.0
118. Mabel, Bitter Recluse
5.8
212. Blessed Ghoul
4.6
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.