Stinging Vitriol
Rare · Sorcery
6.8GoodRank 60 of 280
53.7%Rank 181 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).
It wins less than its rating suggests.
Why this gap?
The pick rating is a prior: it is for choosing a card before there are results. The observed strength comes from real games, and the win rate of a card is stable from one week to the next. The gap often comes from a card that is easy to replace at the pick but very efficient once played, from a good archetype that carries it, or from a flaw of our rating: in a set that already has many games, the results are more reliable than the rating.
A very good rare of the format (6.8/10).
Why. A two-mana black-red sorcery: two damage to the opponent, and you see their hand to make them discard a nonland card of your choice. A decent way to strip their most dangerous threat before it lands.
Risks. It does not affect the board and gives you no card: a one-for-one trade. It loses value late in the game, when the opponent has emptied their hand.
In the draft. A tool for a very aggressive black-red deck. Take it later in the pack, and only if no removal spell is available instead.
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 : +2.0 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 34 of 64
- Multicolour: rank 17 of 54
- Cost 2: rank 19 of 82
- Average pick: 5.8 (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.
splash
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 % · 5,414 games
- 2 copies52.1 % · 376 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
- Command the Stage1,335 games · 56.0 % (instead of 50.0% expected)
- Ingris Stingerquill545 games · 58.9 % (instead of 53.5% expected)
- Sanctum Lurker606 games · 60.1 % (instead of 55.4% expected)
- Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage1,903 games · 54.9 % (instead of 50.8% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Clash of Elements415 games · 49.9 % (instead of 54.6% expected)
- Hapatra, the Desert Fang464 games · 50.2 % (instead of 54.9% expected)
- Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving213 games · 46.5 % (instead of 50.8% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
13. Stingcaster Mage
8.3
30. Master of Barbs
7.4
40. Solitary Cell
7.2
41. Vraska's Final Mercy
7.2
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.