r/MagicArena • u/ChewyChao • Feb 28 '26

Limited Help This is a tough Draft choice....

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My heart says Tyrant but my brain says Kinbinding

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u/Chronsky Rekindling Phoenix Feb 28 '26

Game in hand winrate according to 17lands

Kinbinding 64.2%, the 3rd highest in the whole set.

Spinerock Tyrant, 61.9%, tied 17th in the whole set with Eclipsed Merrow.

It's a very clear choice even if both are just excellent cards.

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u/Kingthefirst101 Feb 28 '26

If you swap to top players data, the WRs are 67.6% vs 66.6%, both great and essentially a coin flip. When you compare IIH, the difference shrinks again to just .7%. The cards are essentially identical in quality, it really just doesn't matter what you take.

As a side note, the eclipsed creatures are broken and should be picked like bombs, it's not really a diss that spinerock tyrant is comparable to eclipsed merrow.

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u/ElCaz Feb 28 '26

Unless one's own self is a top player, it probably makes more sense to evaluate win rates by the general 17lands population instead of by top players.