Wizard's Staff
Rare · Artifact — Equipment
4.4WeakRank 152 of 188
A good playable, but is sometimes cut (4.4/10).
Why. A cheap Equipment that gives prowess to the equipped creature and makes each of its triggered abilities trigger one more time (attack, prowess). Equipping a Wizard costs only one mana. In a deck full of noncreature spells, it doubles a lot of value.
Risks. Without creatures that have triggered abilities and without enough spells, it does almost nothing. You have to pay two mana and then equip it, which is slow against an aggressive opponent.
In the draft. A synergy-deck gamble, not a card you take early. Only consider it if you already have creatures with attack triggers or lots of noncreature spells.
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 : -3.6 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 47 of 53
- Blue: rank 22 of 28
- Cost 2: rank 49 of 55
- Average pick: 8.2 (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 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
- Elvenking's Halls228 games · 45.2 % (instead of 38.0% expected)
- Guardian of the Halls158 games · 44.9 % (instead of 38.5% expected)
- Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing228 games · 42.5 % (instead of 36.1% expected)
- Gandalf, Wandering Wizard383 games · 40.7 % (instead of 35.0% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- The Mountain-king's Return191 games · 38.2 % (instead of 42.7% expected)
- Sound the Trumpets243 games · 35.8 % (instead of 38.9% expected)
- Long Lake Nuisance428 games · 39.0 % (instead of 40.4% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
20. Bilbo, Thief in the Night
7.4
26. Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
7.2
47. Master's Councillors
6.6
51. Plunder the Trollshaws
6.5
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.