Harsh Annotation
Uncommon · Instant
1.9WeakRank 261 of 266
50.0%Rank 299 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).
Not good filler and often gets cut (1.9/10).
Why. A two-mana instant that destroys any creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, so you trade a big problem for a small one.
Risks. The opponent keeps a flying token, a real drawback especially if the destroyed creature was not very threatening. This removal is less clean than it looks.
In the draft. Cheap removal for a white deck, worth taking if you lack answers. It is best against big threats.
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 : -1.9 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Uncommon: rank 100 of 100
- White: rank 32 of 32
- Cost 2: rank 68 of 69
- Average pick: 9.4 (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 copy52.5 % · 8,321 games
- 2 copies47.7 % · 751 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks50.7 % · 2,415 games
- Next two weeks52.3 % · 992 games
- After that50.3 % · 597 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
- Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette543 games · 52.5 % (instead of 48.9% expected)
- Grave Researcher // Reanimate540 games · 55.2 % (instead of 52.1% expected)
- Ark of Hunger819 games · 58.2 % (instead of 55.5% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares476 games · 48.7 % (instead of 54.0% expected)
- Living History900 games · 49.2 % (instead of 54.2% expected)
- Potioner's Trove727 games · 46.8 % (instead of 51.1% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
9. Hardened Academic
8.6
11. Informed Inkwright
8.4
30. Silverquill Charm
7.4
34. Molten Note
7.3
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.