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Akal Pakal, First Among Equals LCI 0044 · rare

Akal Pakal, First Among Equals · {2}{U} · Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. · Power / toughness: 1/5 · "These lost children of Aclazotz are misguided, but perhaps there can be reconciliation of our ideals without war."

Akal Pakal, First Among Equals · {2}{U} · Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. · Power / toughness: 1/5 · "These lost children of Aclazotz are misguided, but perhaps there can be reconciliation of our ideals without war."

Price
from $0.254 printings
Win rate
62.3% GIH 16,199 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 10,090 wins in 16,199 card-in-hand instances.

15,942 distinct games · 5,614 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

62.3%when drawn (GIH)

+7.0 pp vs 55.3% average · 16,199 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games

#17 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 1.8 on average (9,782 packs).

4 of 41 blue cards · 2 of 7 blue rare cards.

Taken at pick1.86,682 picks
Makes the deck84.7%6,682 picks with known usage
When played58.1%31,468.1 matchesBenched 53.1%
3,497.9 matches
When drawn62.3%16,199 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 65.1% · 6,579 instances
● Drawn later 60.4% · 9,620 instances

In hand 62.3% · 16,199 instances
Unseen in deck 54.6% · 21,167 instances
+7.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with blue cards

Win rate when drawn62.3%16,199 instances4 of 41
Opening hand65.1%6,579 instances3 of 41
Drawn later60.4%9,620 instances4 of 41
In the deck57.9%37,520 instances5 of 41
Without seeing it54.6%21,167 instances19 of 41
Improvement when drawn+7.7 pp16,199 instances / 21,167 instances2 of 41
When benched53.1%3,497.9 matches41 of 41
Makes the deck84.7%6,682 picks with known usage4 of 41
Pick (last seen)1.89,782 packs4 of 41
Taken at1.86,682 picks4 of 41

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Oltec Ingenuity WU65.2%5,218 instancesPirates' Plunder UR62.6%4,270 instancesRiver Herald Expedition UG61.5%626 instancesEchoes of the Dead UB61.4%1,982 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (62.3% · 16,199 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Brackish Blunder+3.4 pp16,119 games with both in the deck · 3,413 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 94% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023

Collect

4 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LCI 0044 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.26
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.33

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 75 packs (1.33%) · 14.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 2,260 packs (0.04%) · 1.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 113 packs (0.89%) · 27.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 823 packs (0.12%) · 3.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 69 packs (1.45%) · 35.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Draft BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Set BoosterMain-set rare or mythic100%Main-set rare or mythic
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterWildcards100% per positionWildcards
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic85.3%Rare

Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Ryan Pancoast, LCI 44 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗