Karai's Technique
Uncommon · Sorcery
6.2GoodRank 60 of 190
57.2%Rank 90 of 184 by win rate, card in hand · set average: 57.7%
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 (6.2/10).
Why. A white-black sorcery that can give a creature +3/+3, give another creature -3/-3, or do both. It can kill a small creature and win a combat with a single card.
Risks. It needs two specific colors and is a sorcery, so it can't react. Sneak lowers the cost but requires returning an unblocked attacker.
In the draft. A good uncommon for white-black decks. Take it at a mid pick.
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 : -1.3 win-rate points
Its place in the set
- Uncommon: rank 30 of 55
- Multicolour: rank 13 of 33
- Cost 3: rank 11 of 46
- Average pick: 4.4 (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
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 copy57.8 % · 16,060 games
- 2 copies58.6 % · 4,856 games
- 3 copies61.3 % · 679 games
Win rate since the set came out (card in hand)
- First two weeks58.1 % · 6,758 games
- Next two weeks58.0 % · 3,054 games
- After that54.1 % · 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
- Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos563 games · 56.0 % (instead of 54.2% expected)
- Northampton Farm561 games · 57.9 % (instead of 56.7% expected)
- Splinter, Radical Rat2,319 games · 58.9 % (instead of 57.8% expected)
- Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals890 games · 57.3 % (instead of 56.2% expected)
Cards it wins less with
- Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order642 games · 52.5 % (instead of 56.6% expected)
- Henchbots869 games · 49.8 % (instead of 53.7% expected)
- Armaggon, Future Shark1,354 games · 56.4 % (instead of 59.9% expected)
Where it is played
B/W · 48 %
Played in 12% of the decks of the set
Other cards of the same cost and colours
12. Koya, Death from Above
8.0
26. Agent Bishop, Man in Black
7.2
29. Tainted Treats
7.0
31. Karai, Future of the Foot
7.0
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.