Sources and methods
Cards and rules
Card identities, Oracle text, faces and imagery come from Scryfall. Rules explanations cite Wizards’ release notes, Comprehensive Rules and tournament guidance.
Products and pull rates
Contents and official category rates come from Wizards and WPN. A modeled per-card estimate, when available, is labeled separately from an official slot rate.
Prices
Sealed market prices use matched TCGplayer listings through TCGCSV; singles use Scryfall’s USD finish prices. An unavailable price stays blank. Retrieval and snapshot dates are shown beside the figures; prices exclude tax and shipping.
Deck plans
Human draft reviews inform strategic advice. Rules-based explanations are identified where they supply the reasoning. A strong card still needs a deck that can cast it and support its role.
Win rates
Only 17Lands’ public datasets are used. Card-in-hand win rates count drawn card instances, including multiple copies; they do not measure how often an individual card caused a win. Rankings require at least 100 instances and identify their format and date range.
Reading the dates
Each price feed and draft dataset keeps its own date. A guide’s writing date does not make an older dataset current. Release and event wording changes with the calendar; historical draft results keep their original format and dates.
Prices refresh daily. Public draft files are checked daily for first publication, then refreshed weekly while their format is live and preserved as historical snapshots afterward. New draft snapshots are published after validation; written strategy is revised when useful evidence appears, with its own review date. Updates and corrections are recorded in Changes.
Corrections
Report an error with the exact printing or product, what looks wrong, and what you expected. Corrections are checked against the underlying source before publication.