Fanged Flames
Common · Sorcery
6.2GoodRank 100 of 302
56.1%Rank 111 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).
Good playable that always makes the cut (6.2/10).
Why. A two-mana sorcery that deals four damage to a creature or planeswalker, and exiles it if it would die. Efficient removal that handles most creatures, in red.
Risks. It is a sorcery, so it cannot respond mid-combat. It cannot hit players, and four damage is not enough for the biggest bodies.
In the draft. A very cheap common removal. Take it fairly high if you play red.
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 : +0.3 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 15 of 80
- Colourless: rank 30 of 85
- Cost 2: rank 35 of 86
- Average pick: 4.3 (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 copy55.9 % · 129,848 games
- 2 copies55.4 % · 33,466 games
- 3 copies55.8 % · 5,365 games
- 4 copies or more53.5 % · 520 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks56.1 % · 46,315 games
- Next two weeks55.5 % · 20,830 games
- After that57.0 % · 7,910 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
- Meltdown155 games · 54.8 % (instead of 47.8% expected)
- Urza's Incubator602 games · 53.7 % (instead of 47.1% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Buried Alive159 games · 37.7 % (instead of 50.2% expected)
- Kami of Jealous Thirst3,911 games · 49.2 % (instead of 53.9% expected)
- Spymaster's Vault2,796 games · 51.2 % (instead of 55.1% expected)
Where it is played
G/R · 59 %R/W · 53 %
Played in 22% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
11. Kozilek's Command
8.5
39. Wastescape Battlemage
7.3
51. Propagator Drone
7.0
69. Basking Broodscale
6.6
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.