Crabomination
Rare · Creature — Crab Demon
8.7BombRank 8 of 302
64.2%Rank 5 of 298 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).
One of the 10 best cards of the set (8.7/10).
Why. Six mana for a 5/5 that exiles the top card of the opponent's library, a random card from their graveyard and a random card from their hand. You can cast one of those spells for free: usually a second big effect on top of the body.
Risks. It is expensive and you have to survive until then. If all three cards are lands or useless spells, you only get the 5/5. The opponent can still save a removal spell for the body.
In the draft. A very good top-end finisher in black, worth taking fairly high. With an artifact of mana value 2 or more to sacrifice, emerge makes it cheaper, but you will not always have one.
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 : +12.5 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 2 of 78
- Black: rank 1 of 42
- Cost 6: rank 1 of 9
- Average pick: 1.8 (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.
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 copy56.1 % · 35,165 games
- 2 copies60.9 % · 1,972 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks63.7 % · 8,784 games
- Next two weeks64.0 % · 5,098 games
- After that64.0 % · 1,923 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
- Wight of the Reliquary1,947 games · 58.9 % (instead of 54.3% expected)
- The Creation of Avacyn1,021 games · 54.7 % (instead of 50.2% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Nyxborn Unicorn2,540 games · 53.0 % (instead of 57.4% expected)
- Ral and the Implicit Maze2,038 games · 54.4 % (instead of 58.1% expected)
- Hexgold Slith2,502 games · 54.1 % (instead of 57.8% expected)
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.