Armor Wars
Rare · Enchantment — Saga
6.0PlayableRank 100 of 276
48.2%Rank 267 of 273 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.8%
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 four-mana red-blue Saga that draws for each artifact, cheapens your artifacts, then deals damage to the opponent. It only works in a deck full of artifacts.
Risks. It also draws the opponent a card on chapter one, and does nothing for your board. Without artifacts it is nearly a dead card.
In the draft. Avoid it in almost every deck; only a very specific artifact deck should look at it, at the very end of the pool.
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 : -0.4 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 40 of 60
- Multicolour: rank 25 of 44
- Cost 4: rank 21 of 52
- Average pick: 7.4 (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.
splash
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 copy49.1 % · 3,591 games
- 2 copies47.7 % · 220 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
- Arc Reactor182 games · 48.9 % (instead of 38.3% expected)
- Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man417 games · 56.1 % (instead of 49.3% expected)
- Machinesmith Automaton2,206 games · 48.6 % (instead of 43.3% expected)
- HYDRA Assault Robot2,432 games · 49.9 % (instead of 44.8% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Loki, God of Mischief240 games · 39.6 % (instead of 49.9% expected)
- A.I.M. Labs233 games · 42.1 % (instead of 48.1% expected)
- Wiccan, Rising Magician456 games · 43.6 % (instead of 49.0% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
3. Avengers: Under Siege
9.1
7. Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
8.8
8. Kang the Conqueror
8.7
12. Leader, Super-Genius
8.4
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.