Whiplash Wordsmith // Vicious Verse
Common · Creature — Vampire Sorcerer // Sorcery
4.0WeakRank 246 of 280
49.4%Rank 258 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 good playable, but is sometimes cut (4.0/10).
Why. A 3/3 for four that enters prepared. If you cast the second half (one black or red mana), the opponent takes 1 noncombat damage and the creature gains flying and haste this turn.
Risks. You need five mana in total to do everything the same turn. Otherwise it is an ordinary 3/3, and 1 damage is too small to matter outside that use.
In the draft. Black-red filler. Take it when you are short on four-drops, not before.
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 : -2.4 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 67 of 81
- Multicolour: rank 50 of 54
- Cost 4: rank 35 of 37
- Average pick: 10.4 (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.
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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 copy51.2 % · 10,432 games
- 2 copies51.8 % · 2,880 games
- 3 copies52.0 % · 479 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
- Eardrum Rattler2,720 games · 53.4 % (instead of 48.4% expected)
- Darklight Phoenix426 games · 54.0 % (instead of 49.5% expected)
- Grim Repriser4,674 games · 53.9 % (instead of 49.5% expected)
- Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving429 games · 52.7 % (instead of 48.7% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Terminal Criticism160 games · 40.0 % (instead of 47.3% expected)
- Face Yourself683 games · 44.2 % (instead of 49.7% expected)
- Konstrari Annex782 games · 46.3 % (instead of 51.6% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
1. Chandra, Torch of Defiance
9.4
12. Aerid Konstrari
8.4
27. Curse-Marred Demon
7.5
37. Darklight Phoenix
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.