Giant-Sized Flying Ant
Common · Creature — Insect
5.6PlayableRank 136 of 276
57.6%Rank 75 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 more 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 (5.6/10).
Why. A 3/2 flyer with flash that taps or untaps a nonland permanent when it enters. Ambushing at end of turn gives value, and mid-combat it can tap an attacker or untap one of your blockers.
Risks. Only two toughness, so small removal or an aerial block handles it. The tap effect solves nothing permanently.
In the draft. A good blue common, solid in tempo or control decks. Happy mid-pack pick, best in decks that like to act on the opponent's turn.
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 : +1.8 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 26 of 91
- Blue: rank 29 of 42
- Cost 4: rank 32 of 52
- Average pick: 8.6 (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 copy56.9 % · 43,819 games
- 2 copies57.5 % · 12,010 games
- 3 copies56.7 % · 1,820 games
- 4 copies or more54.9 % · 295 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks58.7 % · 16,959 games
- Next two weeks56.7 % · 11,491 games
- After that58.9 % · 1,790 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
- Mole Man, Moloid Master606 games · 58.4 % (instead of 55.1% expected)
- Captain America, Super-Soldier1,570 games · 60.4 % (instead of 58.3% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu312 games · 49.0 % (instead of 54.3% expected)
- Gathering Place1,117 games · 52.5 % (instead of 56.8% expected)
- Training Compound556 games · 53.1 % (instead of 57.1% expected)
Where it is played
U/W · 44 %B/U · 35 %
Played in 15% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
8. Kang the Conqueror
8.7
12. Leader, Super-Genius
8.4
70. Spider-Woman, Secret Agent
6.6
72. Trickster's Stratagem
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.