Archaic's Agony
Uncommon · Sorcery
5.6PlayableRank 127 of 266
56.1%Rank 144 of 319 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.3%
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 (5.6/10).
Why. A five-mana sorcery that deals X damage to a creature, X being the number of colors of mana spent (Converge). Excess damage exiles that many cards from the top of your library, which you may play until the end of your next turn.
Risks. In a two-color deck it only deals 2 damage for five mana, which is very weak. It needs three colors to be good.
In the draft. Take it only for a three-color red deck. Otherwise avoid it.
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 : +5.4 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Uncommon: rank 43 of 100
- Red: rank 15 of 32
- Cost 5: rank 12 of 27
- Average pick: 8.2 (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 copy54.3 % · 31,445 games
- 2 copies54.6 % · 4,646 games
- 3 copies54.0 % · 367 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks57.5 % · 9,640 games
- Next two weeks56.4 % · 5,858 games
- After that53.9 % · 3,084 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
- Professor Dellian Fel881 games · 60.5 % (instead of 55.9% expected)
- Fractalize491 games · 54.6 % (instead of 50.4% expected)
- Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth1,265 games · 58.2 % (instead of 54.6% expected)
- Glorious Decay409 games · 52.3 % (instead of 48.9% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Practiced Scrollsmith2,515 games · 53.1 % (instead of 56.7% expected)
- Expressive Firedancer3,527 games · 50.4 % (instead of 54.0% expected)
Where it is played
G/R · 44 %R/U · 28 %
Played in 6.8% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
31. Splatter Technique
7.4
48. Stress Dream
7.0
70. Lorehold, the Historian
6.6
97. Artistic Process
6.0
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.