Salt Road Skirmish
Uncommon · Sorcery
4.8WeakRank 196 of 271
54.8%Rank 167 of 274 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.0%
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 (4.8/10).
Why. A four-mana sorcery that destroys a creature and creates two 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens with haste, sacrificed at the next end step. A true unconditional removal spell with a little bonus damage.
Risks. It is pricey for removal and slow. The tokens don't stay, so the bonus is small.
In the draft. Take it in a black deck: unconditional removal is valuable. The token bonus helps an aggressive deck.
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 : +1.7 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Uncommon: rank 68 of 100
- Black: rank 15 of 34
- Cost 4: rank 26 of 44
- Average pick: 4.8 (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 copy54.4 % · 37,612 games
- 2 copies53.9 % · 3,621 games
- 3 copies52.0 % · 171 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks55.3 % · 11,564 games
- Next two weeks55.0 % · 4,488 games
- After that55.8 % · 1,702 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
- Watcher of the Wayside646 games · 55.4 % (instead of 52.8% expected)
- Great Arashin City3,057 games · 57.5 % (instead of 55.2% expected)
- Dragonfire Blade1,323 games · 54.0 % (instead of 52.0% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Rugged Highlands3,590 games · 51.2 % (instead of 54.2% expected)
- Frontier Bivouac2,198 games · 51.0 % (instead of 53.9% expected)
- Narset's Rebuke2,624 games · 51.5 % (instead of 54.0% expected)
Where it is played
B/R · 28 %B/W · 25 %
Played in 7.5% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
19. Revival of the Ancestors
7.9
25. Neriv, Heart of the Storm
7.6
27. Scavenger Regent // Exude Toxin
7.5
31. Fangkeeper's Familiar
7.4
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.