Along the Crooked Way
Rare · Enchantment
6.0PlayableRank 69 of 188
51.6%Rank 149 of 179 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.5%
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.
Good playable that always makes the cut (6.0/10).
Why. A three-mana black enchantment that, when it enters, returns a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Each time a creature card leaves your graveyard, you amass Goblins 1. For two mana including one black, your Goblins and Orcs gain menace until end of turn.
Risks. It does nothing without a creature in the graveyard and stays slow. It does not touch the opposing board, and menace only helps your Goblins and Orcs.
In the draft. A value card for a slow black deck with creatures worth replaying. A late pick, unless you have Goblins.
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 : -2.5 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 29 of 53
- Black: rank 16 of 27
- Cost 3: rank 19 of 46
- Average pick: 4.2 (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 copy53.9 % · 8,749 games
- 2 copies47.0 % · 370 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks52.7 % · 2,972 games
- Next two weeks46.5 % · 501 games
- After that50.5 % · 293 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
- Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend663 games · 53.4 % (instead of 49.8% expected)
- Inside Information416 games · 53.6 % (instead of 50.2% expected)
- Guardian of the Halls585 games · 54.2 % (instead of 51.0% expected)
- Dáin Ironfoot499 games · 58.9 % (instead of 55.9% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Iron Hills Stalwart493 games · 48.5 % (instead of 51.4% expected)
- The Chief Warg1,074 games · 50.4 % (instead of 52.6% expected)
- Smaug's Fury617 games · 49.3 % (instead of 51.5% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
24. Rhovanion Rampager
7.3
27. Down, Down to Goblin-town
7.2
32. Chief Warg's Company
7.0
36. The Master of Lake-town
6.9
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.