Hidden Lair

Rare · Land

Pick rating

5.4PlayableRank 148 of 276

Observed strength

56.5%Rank 112 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).

A solid playable that rarely gets cut (5.4/10).

Why. A blue-black land that always taps for colorless, and for blue or black if it entered this turn or you control a basic land. It enters untapped and fixes both colors at no tempo cost.

Risks. Without a basic land it only makes colorless after the turn it enters. It matters only in a blue-black deck or a splash of those colors.

In the draft. Take it in blue-black or for a splash. Outside those colors it does not deserve a pick.

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.

Card in hand at some point in the game56.5 %(set average : 56.8 %)
Card in the opening hand56.2 %(set average : 55.6 %)
Card drawn during the game56.6 %(set average : 57.5 %)

Gap when it is drawn, against the games where it is not : +3.4 win-rate points

How often it ends up in the deck once drafted by a strong player (not a win rate)65.0 %(set average : 63.0 %)

Its place in the set

  • Rare: rank 49 of 60
  • Colourless: rank 10 of 35
  • Cost 0: rank 1 of 20
  • Average pick: 6.3 (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.

4,218 games55.2 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
1,310 games58.5 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
924 games54.5 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
694 games52.6 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
687 games53.6 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
619 games60.9 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
541 games50.3 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)
471 games47.1 %(all pairs : 54.8 %)

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.

Strong players (diamond and mythic ranks), card in hand56.1 %· 1,374 games
All players, card in hand56.4 %· 5,339 games

Win rate on the play and on the draw

Games on the play (the deck holds the card)58.3 %(set average : 58.6 %)
Games on the draw, so drawing from the first turn (the deck holds the card)51.4 %(set average : 53.6 %)

Win rate by number of copies in the deck

  • 1 copy54.8 % · 11,097 games
  • 2 copies56.7 % · 344 games

Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)

  • First two weeks57.1 % · 3,307 games
  • Next two weeks55.7 % · 1,804 games
  • After that52.6 % · 228 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

Cards it wins less with

Other cards of the same cost and colours

  • Gathering Place

    164. Gathering Place

    5.2
  • Gleaming Bastion

    165. Gleaming Bastion

    5.2
  • Training Compound

    173. Training Compound

    5.2
  • Castle Doom

    176. Castle Doom

    5.1

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.