Nadu, Winged Wisdom
Rare · Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard
8.4BombRank 13 of 302
60.6%Rank 16 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 very best rares of the format (8.4/10).
Why. A 3/4 flyer for three mana, already very solid. Whenever one of your creatures becomes the target of a spell or ability, you reveal the top card: a land goes onto the battlefield, anything else goes to your hand. At most twice per turn for each creature.
Risks. You need effects that target your own creatures to use the ability, and opposing targeted removal gives you a card but Nadu still dies. It needs green and blue.
In the draft. Take it as an excellent flying body in green-blue, with a bonus if you have ways to target your own creatures.
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 : +8.2 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 6 of 78
- Multicolour: rank 3 of 39
- Cost 3: rank 3 of 75
- 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.
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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 copy55.7 % · 32,379 games
- 2 copies59.3 % · 1,532 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks60.4 % · 8,602 games
- Next two weeks60.4 % · 4,253 games
- After that59.9 % · 1,623 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
- Nesting Grounds2,779 games · 56.5 % (instead of 53.1% expected)
- Archway of Innovation174 games · 50.6 % (instead of 47.3% expected)
- Eladamri, Korvecdal1,004 games · 57.4 % (instead of 54.1% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Shattered Landscape2,140 games · 51.7 % (instead of 55.4% expected)
- Ugin's Labyrinth447 games · 49.7 % (instead of 52.8% expected)
- Solstice Zealot1,869 games · 54.7 % (instead of 58.0% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
30. Signature Slam
7.5
31. Six
7.4
70. Brainsurge
6.6
73. Invert Polarity
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.