The Watcher in the Water LTR 0075 · mythic
The Watcher in the Water · {3}{U}{U} · Legendary Creature — Kraken · The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent. · Power / toughness: 9/9
- Price
- from $2.407 printings
- Win rate
- 41.8% GIH 1,348 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 563 wins in 1,348 card-in-hand instances.
1,333 distinct games · 569 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.
17Lands file dated Aug 30, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Draft data
−13.8 pp vs 55.6% average · 1,348 instances
Premier Draft · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · average from 980,485 games
#247 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.9 on average (13,486 packs).
37 of 38 blue cards · 2 of 2 blue mythic cards.
7,705.3 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 38.4% · 450 instances
● Drawn later 43.4% · 898 instances
In hand 41.8% · 1,348 instances
Unseen in deck 45.1% · 1,400 instances
−3.3 percentage points when drawn
Compared with blue cards
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
Blue–Black UB45.6% ◌270 instancesBlue–Red UR43.3% ◌319 instancesWhite–Blue WU40.0% ◌190 instancesBlue–Green UG32.2%90 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (41.8% · 1,348 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Hithlain Knots1,575 games with both in the deckLórien Revealed1,440 games with both in the deckCaptain of Umbar1,334 games with both in the deckHow 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 2% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | draft · set · jumpstart · jumpstart-v2 | $2.40 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · draft · set | $3.21 |
Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 3,570 packs (0.03%) · 1.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 179 packs (0.56%) · 18.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 1,343 packs (0.07%) · 2.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 119 packs (0.84%) · 22.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 140 packs (0.71%) · 8.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 22.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a jumpstart-v2 · Modeled · About 1 in 75 packs (1.33%) · 21.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Booster | Common or foil | 33% | Main set and booster-fun foils |
| Draft Booster | Rare or mythic rare | Regular cards in this group; no separate share published | Draft and Set Booster mythic printings |
| Set Booster | Ten other Magic cards | 100% | Other Draft and Set Booster printings |
| Set Booster | Guaranteed rare or mythic | Regular cards in this group; no separate share published | Draft and Set Booster mythic printings |
| Set Booster | Guaranteed traditional foil | 100% | Main set and booster-fun foils |
| Collector Booster | Foil main-set rare or mythic | 14.3% | Main set · mythic |
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR ↗ · Sep 22, 2023
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Chris Cold, LTR 75 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR · Sep 22, 2023
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗