Molten-Core Maestro
Rare · Creature — Goblin Bard
7.5Very goodRank 26 of 266
59.7%Rank 33 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).
One of the very best rares of the format (7.5/10).
Why. A two-mana 2/2 with menace. With Opus, each instant or sorcery puts a +1/+1 counter on it, and with five mana or more you also add red mana equal to its power.
Risks. Without instants and sorceries it is a plain 2/2. It dies easily if you do not grow it early.
In the draft. A good red pick for a deck with many instants and sorceries. Take it at a middling pick otherwise.
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 : +6.9 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Rare: rank 18 of 60
- Red: rank 3 of 32
- Cost 2: rank 8 of 69
- Average pick: 1.9 (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 copy56.3 % · 31,677 games
- 2 copies58.9 % · 1,398 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks60.4 % · 8,880 games
- Next two weeks59.5 % · 4,373 games
- After that58.2 % · 2,525 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
- Choreographed Sparks316 games · 52.8 % (instead of 48.7% expected)
- Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost1,180 games · 58.7 % (instead of 55.4% expected)
- Ancestral Anger1,960 games · 56.6 % (instead of 54.4% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Ennis, Debate Moderator1,241 games · 51.7 % (instead of 55.1% expected)
- Forum of Amity2,761 games · 54.0 % (instead of 56.9% expected)
- Titan's Grave2,149 games · 52.9 % (instead of 55.7% expected)
Other cards of the same cost and colours
9. Hardened Academic
8.6
21. Traumatic Critique
7.7
34. Molten Note
7.3
58. Pursue the Past
6.7
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.