Sandbenders' Storm
Common · Instant
4.2WeakRank 238 of 281
52.6%Rank 222 of 279 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 56.2%
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 good playable, but is sometimes cut (4.2/10).
Why. A flexible four-mana instant: destroy a creature with power 4 or greater, or Earthbend 3 for a hasty land creature. It adapts to whatever your opponent is doing.
Risks. The removal mode only hits big creatures, and the Earthbend mode is just a body, not real removal. Four mana is a lot for a middling effect.
In the draft. A fair playable in a white deck. Take it after your unconditional removal, as a second or third piece of interaction.
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 : -2.2 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Common: rank 73 of 91
- White: rank 36 of 40
- Cost 4: rank 39 of 52
- Average pick: 9.5 (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 copy54.9 % · 35,504 games
- 2 copies53.6 % · 4,401 games
- 3 copies50.0 % · 270 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks54.0 % · 10,700 games
- Next two weeks52.8 % · 4,292 games
- After that53.1 % · 2,702 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
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se164 games · 53.0 % (instead of 44.9% expected)
- Yue, the Moon Spirit1,186 games · 55.6 % (instead of 51.6% expected)
- White Lotus Hideout1,411 games · 53.9 % (instead of 51.1% expected)
- Yuyan Archers3,403 games · 57.7 % (instead of 55.4% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Flexible Waterbender1,224 games · 49.8 % (instead of 52.6% expected)
- Ember Island Production676 games · 48.7 % (instead of 51.5% expected)
- Trusty Boomerang194 games · 46.4 % (instead of 49.1% expected)
Where it is played
G/W · 25 %
Played in 7.3% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
24. Appa, Steadfast Guardian
7.6
29. Aang, the Last Airbender
7.4
43. Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements
7.0
81. Hakoda, Selfless Commander
6.4
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.